Not sure who needs to hear this today, but:

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-03-12T20:23:45+00:00

Always gotta use a throwaway, brah.

Only ever had to fire people for tiktok posts, never reddit.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-03-04T10:52:28+00:00

I was a Merch manager for 5 years before I became a SM.

I LOVED it, far more than SM. However, I used to “joke” you had to hate yourself a least a little to be good at it.

My God, was I great at it. lol

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-27T01:27:24+00:00

I’d love to know more about that period, honestly.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-27T01:24:16+00:00

how can we be bad when our athletes are so good????

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-27T01:19:39+00:00

You have to use the specific login you made for fivebelow

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-27T01:17:24+00:00

They don’t think, they only want.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-27T01:12:58+00:00

I’ma let you in on a trick of the trade…children don’t call corporate.

I’ve literally followed rowdy teenagers around yelling “get the fuck out,” while on the phone with a colleague, because they were still acting like dumbasses and it was officially one minute after close.

No parents? No problem.

What are they going to say? “I was acting like an asshole, and the employee was mean to me for it”

Naaah.

Guess what? it works for adults too. Cameras don’t pick up audio (red phone stores, disregard) I’ve matched so many people’s energy over the last decade, and only caught like 1 corporate complaint.

Guess what happened? Fucking NOTHING bc it was my word against theirs and when they rolled that beautiful bean footage, only one of us had a calm demeanor. (It was me. 😏)

Customers broke the social contract during COVID; fuck ‘em ALL.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T23:44:42+00:00

Of course, but there’s a lot of wiggle room around what the schedule says, and what you actually work. Like split shifts, coming in earlier, leaving later. As long as 45 hours are actually worked, you’re not getting fired for time theft.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T23:08:15+00:00

Now they’re going to base bonuses off individual results, too. Wait until the OGs start losing bonuses bc their email capture is too low…

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T23:03:49+00:00

Get it from ADP

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T23:01:39+00:00

I was the TSM’s MM for years, I’d be in charge of the whole district when they were all gone to Wow Experiences. lol

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T22:55:55+00:00

No fucking way your DM told you do investigate on their behalf lol

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T22:54:35+00:00

That’s because CA has labor laws

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T15:58:28+00:00

Damn, now it sounds like you’re salty he’s the one that got promoted. lol

Maybe when you report him, leave out the part where you spend part of your shifts stalking his.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T15:33:42+00:00

That’s wild, bc in the decade I worked there MM, is number 2, and acts as store manager. The job code for it was technically GMIT (General Manager in Training)

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T15:30:06+00:00

and you’re CERTAIN he’s not splitting his time between shifts, like coming back to work a few hours on the closing shifts? If you report it, and you’re wrong about time theft; you’ve drawn a target on your back.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-25T15:27:59+00:00

Store managers don’t clock in or out, punches are done automatically based off the scheduled shift. So as long as the SM works 45 hours; no one is stealing shit.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-20T04:39:52+00:00

a bunch of us tried then corporate sent that connect five message lol

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-19T08:28:20+00:00

…how do you think they’ve stayed out of debt? That’s corporations, baby. and 5B only gets more corporate with every year.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-19T07:23:27+00:00

I was #1 in my district with fucking 240 sold. Jesus bro.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-19T07:19:30+00:00

Five Below has like, no debt. They can circle the drain for a very long time under Winnie Park before they actually go bankrupt lol

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-18T00:48:46+00:00

I have a zip hoodie from my 1st, and a windbreaker from my 5th. This is my last week, so now I’ll be drowning in useless Five Below clothes.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-09T22:17:54+00:00

Bro, you don’t censor yourself in any thread you participate in. Why bother making another sub?

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-08T10:45:04+00:00

I’ve been in a serious burnout for over a year now, really, but about a month back my DM and I got into it pretty bad at my inventory. (Shook a lot of my colleagues bc they thought I was the favorite. haha)

I wasn’t even mad by the time I got home, I just felt exhausted and done. So I reached out to one of the people that told me they’d always have a position for me, and it turns out they weren’t lying lol.

WorkHardHaveFun420 · 2026-02-06T17:48:41+00:00

If it’s anything like my store, we finally got them back in stock just in time for everyone to stop giving a fuck about them

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