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    I have my wife and two daughters, plus our little doggo. Wife works for the Hilton Corp. her job is done. She’ll be filling out UI paperwork tomorrow. Youngest girl is a junior in HS, plays the trumpet in band and is on the softball team. Her school year is done, until November they are saying. Oldest daughter is in her freshman year of college and her classes are done until November too. She is coming home.

    Six months ago I changed careers and got in to retail. I am a manager at a supercenter Walmart to be exact. So my job is super secure right now. All of us salaried managers are now working 12 on 12 off six days a week! Sales are BONKERS! Last Friday we did three days in a row of $550k per day. Those are Black Friday numbers! Our associates and management are likely to see some great bonuses if the home office doesn’t decide to restructure shit.

    Work has been a zoo. It’s a mixed bag of crazed customers doing their idiotic shit and awesome customers behaving decently and thanking us for what we are doing. Today I almost got punched by a customer because I wouldn’t let my guys pull out pallets of water to the floor until we were ready. We have to organize things or customers just bum rush the items. He started to film me while I was telling him to wait, then he just ran in the back room receiving area to film all the water in the back. Saying, “this guy won’t sell me water”.
    After a little while we finished setting up and were ready to bring it out. I found the guy in the store and told him to come back and he would be the first in line to get two cases of water. He then told me that he had posted the video on Snapchat and that one of his friends commented, “bro that’s my boy Javier, he’s cool don’t fuck with him” lol no idea who that was.

    So basically that has been my week. I know people are scared but does anyone else love the chaos? I fucking love it. I’m glued to the news lol. I don’t really live in fear of anything so I have faith that things are going to work out in the end.

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    • You're lucky to have this useful job right now. But many of today jobs are useless in this time of crisis.
      Be safe.      ekael
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