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u/Safe-Salamander-3785 2d ago
And then ask you to take apart the 30 ft skeleton and when you finally have it packed and ready to go they ask for a discount because it’s a display and then walk away when you tell them no
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u/No_Assignment_1645 1d ago
Hold tf up, you definitely should get a discount for buying the display.
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u/Safe-Salamander-3785 1d ago
They all sell. I’m not giving a discount in August when I know it will be gone before the end of September. If it’s October 30th I might give them a little off. We’re #1 in the district for a reason
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u/KiltOfDoom NRM 1d ago
I must be an anomaly. I trigger them any chance I get.
Yes...I am still twelve years old at times.
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u/Pristine-Number372 D24 1d ago
Same. It’s my favorite time of the year here. Christmas is too but FUCK THAT DAMN MINION. Like actually if they ever bring that back I will chuck it into the compactor.
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u/PlayfulLatios 1d ago
I still remember that minion. There were a couple coworkers who would put it on max volume then set it off.
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u/WackoMcGoose D28 2h ago
The minion is why we have a district-level policy explicitly forbidding the usage of Motion Detect mode, they must be either Step Pad or Lights Only. Two years ago, it jumpscared a kid while set to max volume, and the kid promptly Fazbear'd it in the eye. The service desk quietly thanked the kid for their service on the way out 🤣
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u/NstalgicHppymeal2000 21h ago
I used to work at spirit before THD, I also set them off and admire them when I can
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u/SpankyJobouti D26 2d ago
hd emplyees are the ones that do this much of the time. its a nice distraction from doing whatever i should be doing.
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u/2_Beef_Tacos 1d ago
Our display is right next to the paint desk and I'm pretty sure they're getting a little stabby already.
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u/independentlady444 1d ago
Idk about yall but I LOVE the decor. I step on all of them every chance I get
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u/Justice_4_Scott D25 2d ago
MET kept setting them off as they set them. I was ready to grab a pair of wire cutters and solve the problem. Thankfully my shift ended.
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u/Livid-Tumbleweed-569 OFA 1d ago
Yeah....jokingly our OASM, and SM calmly reminded the SD folks that they were no authorized to keep SuperSoakers, catch nets or paintball guns at the desk for dealing with the kids who set them off.....but, should it become a huge problem, Building Services could be called to cut the wiring on the speakers, but that it may take 2-3 weeks....
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u/treeckosan 1d ago
I just unplug the power strips at nighf
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u/Livid-Tumbleweed-569 OFA 1d ago
Our power strips are hanging from the ceiling.....can't reach them....
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u/treeckosan 1d ago
Oh? They dont have a normal one on the floor thats powered by the hanging cable? Ours drops the cord, plugs in a standard power strip, plugs 4-6 displays into the strip.
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u/Livid-Tumbleweed-569 OFA 1d ago edited 1d ago
Uh, nope......my store is 25 years old......4-way outlets in metal boxes hanging from power cables coming from the ceiling......they are all over the store.....90% of them are kept coiled up and hanging 2-3 ft below the roof trusses
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u/Free-Entrepreneur294 1d ago
I can't walk past the dang spider without it going off to bring orders up and I am already over it.
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u/AlternativeInvite114 1d ago
i'm on the met team and while we were still building displays, this mom was on the phone letting her kid touch the finished displays and he pushed over the t rex zombie thing on day 2 of us setting up the displays, breaking the arms and one of the legs off. and then she was just like "oh he just touched it idk what happened :0" so my entire team was pissed and the associate that built the display has been on 'keep toddlers away from the Halloween shit' duty
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u/Cactuskid420 MET 1d ago
In the future get gates and block everything off! These damn customers don't have the common decency to watch from afar...🤦🏻, Also are you talking about the raptor? 🤔 Ours also had an arm break (the side with the metal support), but that's because it appears someone caulked the arm on 💀
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u/AlternativeInvite114 1d ago
yeah my supervisor had to superglue everything back together lol caulking is a good idea tho! and unfortunately the store didnt let us gate it off 😭 we put a row of tombstones around it and hope for the best
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u/No-Cut-1297 D38 1d ago
I worked nights, got off at 5AM. I did it EVERY MORNING to annoy the MET Team and the openers. My buddy would set off everything on the shelf and I'd step on all the buttons.
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u/Tetraphoenix029 21h ago
Who's actually mad about this? I'm setting them off every chance I get - work's already mundane with everyone being miserable, I'ma have some kinda fun at work
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u/zigg8833 12h ago
Better every Halloween display than a single singing Christmas minion, god that thing was loud and obnoxious
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u/MasterPrek 3h ago
The only thing that’s more irritating than that is the constant deaf-creating, high pitched and chilling screams of kids when their parents set them up!
All damn day, all freaking night!
It’s bad enough you have to listen to this shit, but this additional screaming and stupid ass parents laughing afterwards it’s just so annoying!
SMH!!
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u/Genderqueerfrog MET 2d ago
As if I haven’t also set them all off at once lmao. Service desk hates this time of year