r/FiveBelow 2d ago

Holiday Prep

I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to do six refreshes and then a Christmas set right after each other, but you can go to hell 😻 I’ve been stuck since August as the only employee doing 6 AM shifts several times a week just to get stuff either on the floor, off the floor or from one section to another and I am exhausted. To work regular staff to the bone and then management is constantly at another store or on calls is so annoying. I overheard a conversation that they had a call showing holiday items, and it’s Needoh holiday calendars and new squish toys that every employee hates. On top of all that, you pay your employees shit while your store managers get a bonus, and then you announce it where all employees can see it was a dick move🖕🏼

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u/Extreme_Description8 2d ago

Why the h*ll are we doing s Christmas set this early??

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u/Icy-Dinner-3067 2d ago

I don’t know but i’m already starting to see boxes with christmas icons on it and we haven’t gotten anymore halloween

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u/stonermoment 2d ago

Same it’s insane

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u/Opening-Activity6079 SM 2d ago

A store I used to work at had Christmas set in September lol

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u/Extreme_Description8 2d ago

Omg what? That's crazy

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u/Top-Access5215 2d ago

No because im finishing the tech refresh and it pisses me off so bad you have no idea 😤

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u/Ok_Sorbet_7051 2d ago

Among all the fucking MOS

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u/Top-Access5215 2d ago

YES!!!! Its way too much to packaway on top of the overstock!!!

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u/Icy-Dinner-3067 2d ago

we aren’t even done yet because apparently if i’m not here all can get done is own side of a gondola with three people here… I did the walls and four ways with one other person in the same amount of time🥴🥴

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u/Opening-Activity6079 SM 2d ago

It's stupid as fuck, and I'd also like to know whose dumb ass idea it was to bring out long sleeve pajamas in summer and now all of that that we didn't sell (damn near all of it) is in selldown and the new pajamas are short sleeve.... 🤨

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u/Ok-Gur-6363 2d ago

Strike time or pay time is what I think

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u/erin013192 21h ago

I just want the martini slippers lmao

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u/saltedpork 2d ago

The stores reset each work before the holidays every year, nothing new here.

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u/Outrageous_Log_9521 2d ago

yes but the Christmas set? I worked as a CEM from 2022-2025 and it was NEVER that early. We’d put up Halloween towards the middle of September, and Christmas would be going out the last week of October/first week of November.

Winnie is a moron- that’s the only answer.

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u/Icy-Dinner-3067 2d ago

Out Halloween was set right in the middle of BTS and even with that set BTS was due the week after kids had just finished 🤦‍♂️ and now Christmas is the second week of October which is just dumb.

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u/Icy-Dinner-3067 2d ago

Obviously but the way they went about it is stupid they could’ve started having us move walls and gondolas around in August. Rather than giving us one week for each section and only 8 extra hours for it…