After a decade of holiday seasons you would think that we'd have the ebbs and floes of retail down pat and have a pretty good idea how the humans operate right? Nope. Every year brings a new pattern and this year was no different. I take notes every year and they don't apply the next. Weird. A preliminary look at our December numbers would suggest that we're (at least temporarily) somewhat removed from the worst of the recent retailing nosedive experienced by most in late 2008. The FBW was off slightly (as compared to 2007 which to be fair was a perfect storm December – 5 weekends and a Wednesday Xmas day) The FBE will match last December's solid totals making it a growth month. Well done boys and girls.
We had two customer complaints in +/- 6000 transactions during the month of December. Hard to argue that (but seriously Dropkick – you can't call people crybaby's even if they are). Graham spent New Years with his girlfriend and 2 gay couples and was called a sexist pig on his first shift back. A connection? I wonder. Ought-nine's opening blog entries are Joe's fascinating “What I watched” list and the Kris(t) Child's favourite comic book movies from 2008. That some set of kohonies you're sporting there Dropkick – I sure don't have the nerve to put Speed Racer on my list.
I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how we're going to get all of our shifts covered in the FBW. Everybody keeps bailing on me. Damn you all and your “schoolin'”! They aren't any jobs out there anyways for love of Pete. Just give up now – it'll save you thousands of dollars too.
I'm gonna throw out an off-the-top-of-my-head '08 top ten DVD releases out too (I realize some are 2007 movies but I don't get out much). In no particular order.....
The Fall
Before the Devil....
Michael Clayton
Edge of Heaven
Assassination of Jesse James
No End in Sight
Deep Water
In the Shadow of the Moon
The Band's Visit
Gone Baby Gone
H.M. Speed Racer
Best to all in 2009.
Jenny G./K-Doll - get the hell back here as soon as you can.
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hey, i said "you're acting like a child"
which he was. Yuppie scum be damned!
shoulda called him a baby though,
I can take shifts!
oh i also don't go to the cinema much, unless it's for a comic book movie, a new Charlie Kaufman film, a new Darren Aronofsky film, a new P.T. Anderson film, a herzog, a To, a Miike, your moma's new film, or porn.
are you drinking at work again?
I AM THE DRINKING!
I AM DRINKING!
i'm on the brute squad...
you ARE the brute squad!
oh wait what was the other complaint?
check this,
EAST END = NO COMPLAINTS
smooth moves all over the beaches, like The Big Sleep was sprayed all over that
They might not complain at the East-end but they are surely not all the sharpest o folk. Tonight I had a short phone exchange that went like this:
*ring ring*
Tom: "Hello, Film Buff"
Cunstomer: "Hello Film Buff!
(smugly enjoying his own wit)
T: "Yeah....... hi"
C: "What time do you close tonight?"
T: "Ten"
C: "Ten o'clock?"
T: "............Yes sir, o'clock.....of the clock....sir?..."
C: "Thankyou" *slam*
I had to stick a straw in my carotid artery to I.V me some espressos and then listen to devo for an hour and twenty inorder to recover.
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