She Shines!

Gots me a new modem after getting kicked offline during the thunderstorm the other night, so on with boring you all to tears. And exhausting myself with work and it's strange new trend in us giving away money that we apparently don't have.

In the last few weeks we have made less money in sales, but our backback ratio has been through the flippin' roof, with people dropping off enormous box-loads, sometimes trash bags, filled with CDs and DVDs to sell back, all for money. And all desperate and anxious and testy about it too. Some days I process about 500 pieces, and not only to I have to ring them all up but I have to type them all out to the police department the next morning, and we don't have the man-power to bag and tag them as they come in, nor a place to put them, considering that this is what we have been averaging a day. Either the economy is killing them out there, or people really are dumping their stuff onto hard drives and getting rid of the physical element. It's wearing a lot of us down, not just the process but the sight of people coming through the door no longer with small bags of DVDs to sell, but whole families lugging tubs and crates on rollers, standing in line behind each other, and me not being able to pee for hours.

Are all of you getting rod of your DVD collections as well? And your CDs too? I mean this has been going on for awhile, but never to this extreme, like it's been in the last few weeks. And it was all people like this one girl today who was crying for every cent she could get on her DVDs because she needed money to buy her asthma inhaler at the pharmacy today.

Are we getting this desperate, people? And furthermore, will I have bladder problems when I'm older processing it all?