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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: 24/7 For Holiday Season of 2009 ? | |
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Has anyone heard if certain stores are going to again be open
24/7 in the days just before Christmas, or for the ultra PC crowd, in the days just before the Winter Soltice Celebration ?? Ken |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: | |
| Yes there are stores that will be open 24/7. Macy's has no idea that we are in an economic recession. | |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:43 pm Post subject: | |
| Great way to get yourself mugged. | |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:44 pm Post subject: | |
| I would think that considering the economic situation, it would make more sense to operat during the hours that customers actually shop, but that's just me. | |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:53 pm Post subject: | |||
But that would make sense! And we all know what Macy's thinks about making sense! |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:48 am Post subject: | |
 Iam not a night person..
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:45 am Post subject: | |
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yes !!! MAYcylady, what are you thinking ????
does anyone know what time the stores openings are for BLACK FRIDAY ????? the managers MUST know already. i mean, it's really only 5 weeks away, and the schedule coming out on friday will be only 3 weeks before thanksgiving. anyone know ?? macy insider ?? MLB ?? frankone ??? i'm thinking it will be 4 or 5. it was 5 a.m. last year, right?? 
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:46 am Post subject: | |
| I don't do night shifts. I'll quit first. | |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:15 am Post subject: | |
I saw a schedule VERY briefly, we open @ 5am-11pm DAT. What stores are going to be open 24/7? There was some talk about it last year and nobody wanted it but you know whatever we want and/or don't want, Macy's is only concerned about the "suits" and not us, the one's that actually make the store happen! 
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:59 am Post subject: | |
| Last DAT we had tons of associates working the opening shift. I remember I came in 3-11:30 and I was the ONLY one in my department after 7:15. I was so pissed, I couldn't see straight. It won't happen this year. I'll call in sick. | |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:30 am Post subject: | |||
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:29 pm Post subject: | |||||
and our store usually has the employees park off-site and take a shuttle bus to the store. This is a royal pain in the ass. The mall expanded parking last year with a 5 story parking structure and we still have to park a mile down the street. Which means instead of leaving the house 10 minutes early, now it's anywhere between 1/2 - 1 hr. early depending on how many shuttles they've got running. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: | |
| That is crazy. What if you need to leave work in a hurry? | |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:29 am Post subject: | |||||||
Can't you just pretend you don't work there and park in a regular spot? I don't do shuttle busses. |
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If you're opening, they actually have mall cops at all entrances. Unless you have a mall pass, you won't be let in. Later on, you might have trouble getting a parking space. It's BAD. I remember a couple of years ago 3 days after Christmas, it took 45 minutes to get out of the parking lot. Nothing moves. |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:32 am Post subject: | |||
you are screwed. plain and simple. our store had the shuttles years ago for our may store and the lord and taylor in our mall. after 2 years it was a bust. we just ignored it and parked close to the door like everyone else. they just couldn't control it. it DID make you late. very late. |
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they also used to block off all driving entrances to our mall on the other side and wouldn't let employees in to FORCE them to park in the outer lots. but again, they couldn't control it on our side cuz it is a HUGE wide open parking lot where you can enter anywhere. |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:39 am Post subject: | |
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thanks for the store opening hours, by the way.
i'll be telling my manager not to bother to schedule me for anything earlier than 9:30 cuz i won't be in any earlier. if i am scheduled earlier i still won't be in till 9:30. end of story. so dont' plan on ME being in early. or plan #2 is to tell her i will be going out of town for thanksgiving (which is true). i really don't feel like driving over an hour home late that nite to be to work on friday. ooh, gee. cough, cough.  sorry bout that. i think i'm coming down w/ something and it might hit me on november 27. uh. swine flu. yeh, that's it. 
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:38 am Post subject: | |
Yeah, I was reading on the internet that Swine Flu is a fool proof alibi. Just don't say that you got tested for it, b/c most places aren't even doing that anymore. I think I have it right now. 
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:32 pm Post subject: | |||
Actually when Macy's first started this a few years back at the hyper busy Queens Center Mall location, the first thing that I thought of was how dangerous this was. Fast forward to 2009, and in an era of dwindling credit, cash is used for more often, and you will have all these stores open round the clock right before Christmas. For the stores that were open 24/7 in 2008 did they at least limit the number of open entrance ways, and have a good security pressance ? |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:43 pm Post subject: | |
| I know when Macy's did it for Herald Square in 2007, there were actually people shopping at 4:00 AM (I know I was on Christmas Eve.) People were walking out the door with shopping bags of merchandise and eating McDonalds. Last year, there were more sales associates than customers. Herald Square will be repeating it this year. It is against my religion to work any overnight shift other than inventory night. | |
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My daughter has it this week. It's some nasty shit. The cough is awful; I thought she was gonna cough up a lung. The tamiflu that her doctor prescribed was $66! |
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Of course not! Why would Macy's want to protect their employees? |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:36 am Post subject: | |
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ouch. i hope she feels better, BELL.
i read that the cough is very bad. drink up those fluids. i'm sure if i call out, my manager or whoever answers the damn phone at macy*s will tell me i need a doctor's excuse. but if i'm really sick, i ain't going out in the cold weather to sit in an office for 45 minutes. sorry. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:39 am Post subject: | |
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and i have to add also: that i love to read all the newspaper articles about people going to work sick. that they should stay home and NOT get everyone else sick, etc.
everytime i read that i feel like writing in to say, "well, i guess you don't include macy*s when you are talking about employers, because they practically demand you to come in if you truly are not dying. they don't care if you are sick. they think everyone is faking it". i swear i'm gonna do it. if i see another article, i swear i will do it !!!! |
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