TheDailyWoo - 880 (11/28/14) Black Friday Memories

0:03 welcome everyone Adam the woo

0:03 here what you're looking at is Highway

0:05 192 that leads from CMI Florida to St

0:09 Cloud Florida St Cloud Florida would be

0:11 that way CMI Florida That

0:14 Way Orlando International Airport is

0:17 right over

0:18 there a lot of people departing Orlando

0:21 International which is about 15 miles

0:24 that way going home after a very joyous

0:28 Thanksgiving going back to their home

0:30 after eating lots of turkey they've done

0:33 their Duty now they're going to go home

0:35 and they're going to sleep well or maybe

0:39 they slept well yesterday after gorging

0:42 themselves with delicious green bean

0:44 casserole and mash

0:46 potatoes and

0:49 stuffing and

0:51 turkey and what else do you eat oh look

0:55 there's a plane see it right there

1:03 see you thought I was I was joking about

1:03 there being an airport right there but

1:05 right there barely off in the

1:08 distance you can see that plane of

1:11 people

1:12 leaving and going back to their Hometown

1:15 here's my van it's the only van in the

1:18 parking

1:18 lot of

1:21 this area I'm trying to think of the

1:24 word I'm at a I'm at a loss for words

1:27 this retail

1:28 establishment that that I actually used

1:30 to work at it's now a school it's called

1:33 the Zenith career

1:36 center but at the turn of the century I

1:39 can specifically remember

1:42 Y2K I was working here when 2000 hit Y

1:47 2K used to pull my car in here I worked

1:50 here for 5 years pulled my car in got

1:53 out of the car walk through those doors

1:56 walked to the back punched a time clock

2:00 this was a Kmart that eventually became

2:04 a big K which was basically Kmart's

2:06 version of trying to compete with

2:08 Walmart super centers Kmart was being

2:11 annihilated by the Walmart company Kmart

2:14 needed a new game plan they decided to

2:17 change from Kmart to Big K add a grocery

2:20 store aspect in but yet they never tore

2:23 down the old buildings they took the old

2:24 facades and just resurfaced them and

2:27 added in a grocery department and that's

2:30 what I did for 5 years I worked in here

2:33 I was a sporting goods manager I was an

2:35 overnight stock crew manager I was a

2:38 grocery manager at the turn

2:41 of the century is around that time frame

2:46 right inside those

2:48 doors and it's crazy to

2:51 think that all that is just a memory all

2:53 the time spent in there all the work

2:56 done all the customers that I helped and

2:59 a p

3:00 and made their retail dreams come true

3:04 all that is just a faint memory in my

3:07 mind and in the grand scheme of things

3:09 very unimportant and what else in the

3:12 grand scheme of things is unimportant

3:14 talking about Black Friday today is

3:17 Black Friday and it really isn't that

3:19 unimportant actually is a pretty joyous

3:22 occasion for a lot of people here in

3:25 America which actually leads me to a

3:27 point is Black Friday just an American

3:30 tradition here in the good old us OFA or

3:33 is it a worldwide

3:35 phenomenon that's my question to

3:38 you you

3:40 sir I want to know what your thoughts

3:43 are on Black Friday it's my second

3:45 channel daily blog channel it's the

3:48 daily

3:49 woo that's me right in front of this

3:54 Zenith career

3:56 center when they changed over from K

4:00 to Big K I worked here with my roommate

4:03 one of my really good friends we lived

4:05 together we hung out together and we

4:08 work together right inside of here we

4:12 were working 70 75 sometimes 80 hours a

4:17 week transferring this store from Kmart

4:20 to Big K crazy to think of all those

4:23 memories that happened right inside of

4:25 here actually right in front of here

4:27 were all these children toys that you

4:29 insert AC quarter

4:31 in you put a quarter in your kid gets on

4:34 there and rides a pony or a train or a

4:38 motorcycle I'm a big boy now I'm riding

4:40 a motorcycle you know what's very

4:42 interesting those were all located right

4:44 in here and I read this article online a

4:47 long time ago maybe even in before the

4:50 internet days back when magazines were

4:52 very very popular I read an article

4:54 somewhere that the most bacteria you can

4:57 touch or your child can touch is

4:59 actually on those motorized quarter

5:01 machines and the reason for that the

5:04 people that own them never clean them

5:06 and a person making little bit more than

5:08 minimum wage inside of here is not going

5:10 to take the initiative to take a warm

5:12 rag or some Lysol and come out here and

5:14 clean off those kids toys so when your

5:17 kid is nestling his mouth and his tongue

5:22 on those things I'm riding this daddy

5:24 I'm riding it I love it I love riding

5:27 this motorcycle just think of all the

5:29 other kids that have slobbered on there

5:32 and never has been cleaned off so I

5:35 found that article very interesting and

5:37 I have a new outlook on those I'm

5:39 definitely not a germaphobe by any

5:41 stretch of the imagination but you will

5:43 not catch me making out or kissing or

5:46 licking my tongue across any children

5:49 toys that you can insert a quarter in

5:52 and they shake you all around in front

5:55 of a Kmart or a Walmart or any other

5:57 sort of retail establishment fun fact of

6:01 the day where were the front doors right

6:04 there it's now been converted into a a

6:07 school by the Oola Educational Center

6:11 but right through here is where I walked

6:13 in every day 40 plus hours a week I'd

6:18 walk in

6:19 here right down this hallway of course

6:22 it wasn't a hallway then it was actually

6:23 just a huge open area I'd walk all the

6:26 way to the back I'd hang a left go go

6:29 back to the Sporting Goods Department I

6:32 was actually a sporting goods manager

6:33 for a while I was a bunch of different

6:35 quote unquote manager positions and that

6:38 is a

6:40 comical kind of a comical title that

6:44 they gave me cuz really they would give

6:45 me a 30 cent raise sometimes 50 cent

6:47 raise maybe a dollar raise which put me

6:51 to like eight bucks an

6:52 hour which isn't horrible but it's not

6:55 great considering for a dollar less

6:57 being a normal employee I did not have

7:00 to take the flak and the abuse from

7:02 corporate and management that you do by

7:05 getting a dollar raise so if you're

7:07 working 40 hours a week they give you a

7:08 dollar raise you're getting $40 extra a

7:11 week before taxes so really you're

7:13 getting like 28 bucks 30 bucks extra a

7:16 week to take all this bombardment and

7:19 all this responsibility on your

7:21 shoulders and you cannot control what

7:23 other people do so either way you're

7:25 going to get yelled at your stress level

7:28 goes through the roof just just for a

7:30 couple extra bucks man just talking

7:33 about it drives me insane what else

7:36 drove me insane was people that would

7:39 come into the

7:40 store and they were very meanhe hearted

7:43 and abusive it takes a very rare breed a

7:47 very confident very patient group of

7:50 people to work retail if you have never

7:53 actually worked retail I know there's

7:55 different types of retail there's a

7:57 service industry retail there's also

7:59 servers which I have a huge respect for

8:02 but this particular Vlog I'm talking

8:04 about corporate retail in the form of

8:06 grocery stores in the form of retail

8:09 stores like Walmart Kmart Target wind

8:12 Dixie Publix any sort of grocery store

8:15 area takes a

8:18 very certain kind of fantastic person

8:22 I'm talking to you my retail friends to

8:25 do that type of job for a lifetime if

8:30 you will there are some lifetime people

8:33 who work

8:34 retail and this is a huge shout out to

8:38 you on this Black Friday cuz Black

8:41 Friday is the worst I do not work in

8:44 retail anymore so I am now a normal

8:48 person and you if you have never worked

8:51 retail I cannot tell you how offensive

8:55 and annoying and ridiculous we are when

8:58 we go into a store store yelling and

9:00 screaming and taking the people who work

9:04 retail jobs and pretending that their

9:06 job is menial it's a very

9:10 underappreciated job so if you've never

9:13 worked retail remember that when you go

9:15 anywhere and you talk to someone they

9:18 are not below you they are actually

9:21 helping you they are trying to do their

9:24 Duty and give you the product that

9:27 you're looking for they're going in the

9:28 backro they're looking just because the

9:30 sale item is out of stock it's not the

9:33 employees

9:35 fault I deal with that a lot and I my

9:40 sympathy goes out to everyone who is

9:42 working retail today on this

9:46 Black Friday I am one of you trust me

9:52 I've been there you can feel the passion

9:56 and the somewhat anger in my soul

10:00 when it comes to working retail so I

10:04 love all my retail friends my retail

10:08 vicarious family out there this retail

10:12 establishment has closed this particular

10:14 Kmart is gone but back in the day I

10:17 remember coming here on Black Friday to

10:19 work arriving at 3:00 a.m. the doors

10:22 opened at 5:00 2 hours before the doors

10:24 would open there would be a massive line

10:26 of

10:27 people waiting to get the new new toy

10:30 the new electronic thing and most of

10:32 them were very rude so my retail

10:37 friends this one goes out to you retail

10:41 friends we love you you make the world

10:45 go

10:46 around and if you go in screaming and

10:49 yelling at a retail associate that makes

10:52 you a

10:55 clown all right have a great Black

10:57 Friday hopefully you guys got a lot of

10:58 good stuff

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11:27 Friday hope you guys have a great

11:28 weekend see you guys bye

TheDailyWoo - 880 (11/28/14) Black Friday Memories

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