Re: Member Announcements Thread
Wow. If you're losing a job, that's the way to do it!
Didn't you say this was going to happen a lot sooner though?
why didn't you tell the rest of us this was happening so we could all loot our local borders?
My local borders is still open. I didn't even realize it was a borders until like last Christmas.
Because they were only closing about a third of the superstores. They're keeping the Borders Express stores and Waldenbooks and about 400 superstores open. Apparently, too, despite our store raking in the cash, we fell under the cut and thus were one of the ones to close. I mentioned it about when we found out, which was in...March. March, I think. I have to share with you some of the stuff that my boss posted about today, too. The store itself was empty as all get go, but they were still clearing out fixtures.
Was anyone wondering what today was like?
1. I received a phone call asking me about various kids' books. I thought about saying we had them and I would put them on hold for the customer.
2. I counted at least 45 drive-bys.. you know, cars driving by to see if we were open!
3. Four people came in the first set of doors, but then left before trying to come through the 2nd set of doors!
4. Twelve people came in and talked to me. Questions ranged from "You guys closed?" to "Is this all that's left?" My personal favorite was the women who, even after I stated that we were closed, said, "BUT I wanted to look at magazines." I tried to further explain the whole 'closing' thing, but she simply stated again how, "SHE JUST WANTED to look for magazines."
Apparently, too, someone hit a fire extinguisher when they were moving fixtures. I'm still working on stealing the picture of that and getting it to somewhere that I can share it with people, heh.
