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he nightmare before Christmas for many peo-
■ pie is the cute movie about Jack Skellington spread
ing Christmas joy. For everyone in the retail in
dustry however, the real nightmare is Black Friday.
Clackamas Community College student Maisey Ortega
said of Black Friday, “It’s the shittiest day of your life.”
Ortega, who works at Footlocker in the Clackamas Town Center, re
members one lady who came into the store to return a pair
o f shoes for her daughter. Her daughter’s dad bought
the wrong size and the lady didn’t have a receipt.
The lady started cussing, up a storm and the
employees almost had to call security. “She
did it all in front of her daughter,” said
Ortega. The problem was resolved
and Ortega said they returned
J ie r the shoes for the store’s
original price because custom
ers were coming into the sore.
Picking up socks from the
floor in Fred Meyer was not
the job for Summer Walston.
After dodging stilettos, get
ting her hand squashed by a
pair of giant boots and a cart,
bashed into her head, Walston
said, “F’ the socks.” Rescuing one pair
of socles was not worth losing her fin
gers, so Walston moved on to other duties.
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Once the coast was clear I was able to safely return to the donut table.”
Children’s toys always seem to bring out the worst in people, even grandma.
While volunteering to restock the unwanted merchandise at Fred Meyer, Jes
sica Stalling saw two elderly women yelling at each other. Stalling said, “See
ing as they were older and hopefully mature women I didn’t see
any need to keep an eye on the two. ladies. Well, I was wrong.”
A few aisles oyer, Stalling heard a shriek and ran back to the
ladies. What she found was one lady’s glasses were crook
ed and the other on the floor against a gift table holding a
toy for dear life. Witnesses of the WWE granny style said
the lady on the ground pushed the other lady’s face and
that lady rammed her shopping cart into the other lady,
knocking her to the floor. Both ladies said the other tried
to steal the toy from them. What toy was this?. A Pillow Pet.
Former retail worker John Rozzelle said of working on Black
Friday, “I blocked most of those memories.” Rozzelle did remem
ber one time he was stuck in the lamp aisle for two hours help
ing a customer when he should have been covering the whole store.
Retail workers also have lots of advice for Black Friday shoppers. In
grid Meza, another CCC student, said, “People should know what
the sales are and what they want when Black Friday shopping.”
Ortega said, “Don’t bring your kids! Be aware of
your surroundings and remember
that the employees are people
too. Black Friday all in all is
just barfy for everyone.”
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Amy Neelands, a former Fred Meyer em
ployee, had to open doors at 5 a.m. All the other
doors had several managers to assist in opening the
doors, except hers. As she opened the first set of doors, peo
ple outside threw the doors open and shoved past her. Nee
lands said, “I. couldn’t get past these people until they were all inside.
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