Day 23 : Massive re-arrangement

Day 23, 11/28/2025
Massive re-arrangement

This morning of Black Friday was…. Boring…
I’m deadass… I was bored this morning.
Barely anybody asked me for help. We did a lot of price tagging… but by this i mean we only did this.
No shelves filling no re-arranging, just price tagging.
I took my lunch break then i went in the dvd section to take some pictures of movies i would like to see. While i do so, someting happens in the music section, i don’t give much attention to it.
After my break is finished, i go back to work. Before i do so, Mathew tells me ‘’You normally got my number on your Note, so if you got anything you need help with, call me’’.

When i arrive around our table, i see there’s one of the Lag folk guitars on the table. I don’t really mind it and think it was like a customer reservation. But it wasn’t this. You’ll see, it’s related to the sound i heard in the music section earlier during my break.

I help more people after my lunch break.
At some point i tried to help a woman that had a voice so deep she sounded like a man… probably because she also smelled like she smokes 500 cigarettes a day.
At some point a woman ask me for help for a CD, and it only available for delivery. It’s my first time and….. I go get Mathew because i don’t understand shit. He comes and he tells me how to do delivery requests infront of the client. I valid the command and she thanks us.
Mathew goes back to finish his meal.
I help more people, or try to help, cause yea i’m not successfull everytime.
I strangely (and thankfully) had only 1 single request for books today (i mean, one where we had the book and i had to go find it). It was an old lady searching for pokemon mangas and i found this right away.
Otherwise the weirdest request of the day for me was someone asking for a book named :
‘’Fantastic creatures and wizards gay inspired’’
I swear to god, when the woman that was looking for this book showed me the picture of the tittle,
I tried my f**king best to keep a straight face, to not look disturbed or surprised, or about to fall on the floor in laughters.
What the f**k is this book about and why would someone need to read that.

At some point i tried helping a woman, and i somehow summoned Mathew that pin pointed the exact position of the CD she was looking for.
After helping the customer he tells me about the Gemma on the table (the Lag folk guitar) :

Mathew : So you’re probably wondering why is this Gemma on the table. Right ?
Well what happenned is that i was doing some price tagging and i hear some *imitating box opening noices* and so i rush in the direction of the sound and i find a man opening one of the Gemma.
I tell him ‘’Sir, if you want to try the guitar, you can use the displayed one’’.
And he replies to me in an angry tone : ‘’Yeah you guys don’t know how to tune guitars, this one is totally out of tune’’.
I tell him ‘’We don’t always have the time to tune them’’.
And so he says : ‘’I’m gonna show you how its done’’ and he tears off the fabric protecting the strings in the box.
Then he starts tuning the guitar but like not cautiously at all, he was turning the tuning gears like a bull and then VLAM! Theres a cheville that flies off.
I say to him : ‘’Well goodjob !’’ and he decides to help me find the cheville.
I try to look in logical spots like close to the plot, but he decides to looks under the vinyls boxes and…
BLAM! there’s a whole box of vinyls that falls over.
I crack the f**k out and tell him : ‘’OKAY THANK YOU SIR I WONT NEED YOUR HELP NO MORE’’ and he goes away.
And so that’s why there’s a Gemma on the table, because some idiot decided to show me how a guitar is tuned on one with unused strings.

Me : Damn to the yum. Some people think in another way.

Mathew : Oh ! Some people don’t think at all. And on the way, we still haven’t found the cheville so he risks a 200€… wait… *looks at the Gemma price* 149€ if we can’t find it bac…. What’s that ?

*I see the cheville next to the dvd pyramid*

Me : OH ! HAHA !!!

Mathew : I just had to speak to summon it.

And so he puts it in the box for later. While he helps multiple clients i go fill the shelves in the dvd section with all the new arrivals that he price tagged.
After this, someone comes and asks for pianos and stuff, and he hesitates between one that is on the other side of the pile and one on the face of the pile. And Mathew says outloud :

Mathew : Agh i should probably re-arrange it all.

And so that’s what he started to do. And when i finished to fill all the dvd shelves with all the price tagged dvds, i came to help him. We moved everything that was on the plot. I normally took some pics for a before and after. I hope i will still have them when i post this.

At some point, Mathew tries to remove some twin based piano stands and he’s crouched down in between the stands and a pile of 10 synthetizers. He removes one and the second falls on him. He gets pushed back and his back lands on the pile of synthetizers, and to my horror, i see the pile move… A LOT. I rush to stop it from falling, i run, i get ready to sacrifice myself for more than 2490€ worth of synthetizers. And… the pile stops moving before i put my hands on it.
It didn’t fall thankfully.
And then :
Mathew : Help !!! I can’t move.

I see him under the 2 heavy weighted twin based piano stands and i go to help him.
He nicknamed the stands ‘’assasins’’ from now on.
At some point he helps a client and i wait for him to finish since he was the brain of the whole operation. And then i hear :

??? : Yeah yeah, i’ll- i’ll ask an employee if they still have those.

I’m looking down not really caring about this man.

??? : Excuse me sir, can i have some informations about the Switch 2 ?

I look up, and i try my f**king best to not react.
I see a policeman, in full uniform, with the bullletproof vest and the gun and all that shit.
And so i lead him to the Switch 2.

Policeman : I wanted to know if you have enough of these, the one with supermariokart world ?

Me : Well i’m gonna tell you this, lemme scan it *bip*

Policeman : *looks at my Note screen* I wanted to know if you had enough cause i want to come back tomorow to buy one of these but if you don’t have too many maybe i’ll try buying one today.

Me : *Note charging a lot* i think we’ll have enough of these. Btw the wifi today ain’t doing too nice.

Policeman : No need to worry.

Me : Ahh ! Oh well we have more than enough of these, we got 21 of hem.

Policeman : Oh nice, well then i’ll come tomorow. Thank you very much.

Me : You’re welcome, have a nice day.

I can’t lie, i find it heartwarming that this policeman is ready to pay probably half that he makes for the pleasure of his son (he mentionned his son but i don’t really remember how). Thanksfully the switch is on promotion but still its at 459€, and policemens in France aren’t paid well because i think the minimum wage law doesn’t really applies on them since they get fed and can sleep in their station. Some shit like that.
Anyway.
After this surprising interaction, we fisnish to move everything.
We put all 3 displayed synths in a stair like formation, and it looks so clean.
We end up making everything 10 times more accessible for everybody.

We were proud of ourselves cause it was also looking 10 times cleaner.
After this, i go check the string of the Gemma, and i realise that it isn’t damaged.
I tell Mathew :

Me : I looked at the string and i think it is totally fine if we don’t change it, it isn’t damaged, its just the cheville that flew off.

Mathew : Well it would be better if we did this then.

So we do that, then i tune the G string (the one that ‘’broke’’).
I strum then i realise the guitar is out of tune. So i decide to tune it.
I tune the low E. Done
I tune the A. Done
I tune the D. Done
I tune the G. Already done but its even more doner.
I try to tune the B. I struggle a little to get it right.
I realise the tension in the fretboard untuned everything.
I re-tune the low E. Done
I re-tune the A. Done
I re-tune the D. Done
I re-re-tune the G. Done.
I tune the B. Done
Now the High E.
I turn the tuning gear, there’s barely any pressure so i’m confident it won’t fly off.
I turn…
C#... Not yet…
I turn…
D… Almost…
I tu- SHABAM the E strings breaks and slams into my face.
I say :

Me : Oh shit. I’ve done a mistake Mathew.

Mathew : Oh, its alright.

Me : I didn’t feel the pressure, i was too confident sorry.

Mathew : Nah don’t worry it wasn’t a good quality string anyway.

And so i look at the broken string and… i realise something :

Me : Oh ! No shit it broke ! It’s too short. It didn’t break actually, it just untied itself due to the pressure.

Mathew : These thing are kinda mass produced so it isn’t impossible.

Me : Yea, i mean the High E string is just optional fr. *starts playing some stuff* yea it isn’t that needed *sarcasm*.

He passes me an High E string and i start changing it.
I try by hand and it slips.
I hate folk tuning gears, my Telecaster gears are so much better in their design.
Mathew go gets a tuning lever.
He places it and i use a string cutter to hold the string in place.
He moves the tuning lever. He then realise the string isn’t placed in the nut :

Mathew : Agh, Salopart de Corde ! (bitchass string) Pardon. (Sorry)

Me : Don’t insult it, it could break again.

Mathew : Yeah i shouldn’t insult this wonderfull guitar *input a little bit of sarcasm here*

Then i come to the moment where i have to tune by hand.
A client come and ask Mathew for a JoJo bizares adventure Vinyl.
While he help her i tune the guitar MORE cautiously this time.
I tune the low E. Done
I tune the A. Done
I tune the D. Done
I tune the G. Done
I tune the B. Done
I try tuning the high E string :

-G
-A#
-C
-C#
-D
-D#
-D##
-D###
-Eb
-E !!!
Me : AHHHH AH !!! I DID IT !!!

Mathew : Goodjob, now let’s put it back in its box.

We put it in its fabric/plastic protective bag.
And then i realise it exactly the end of my shift, and so i tell him ‘’Cya tomorow’’, he replies, then i put on my coat and i go.
In the car i explain to my mom and my bro what happenned during the day.
When we arrive home, i sit down on the couch then i feel some weight in my hoodie front pocket :
Me : Wait… OH HELL TO THE NAH !!!!!!! HELL TO THE F**KING NAH !

Mom : What ?

Me : I… forgot to give back Leo’s Note.

Mom : Well Goodjob !!!

I try to call Mathew from the note but the app doesnt detects his note since he is like 25 kilometers away, and so my mom calls Cultura from her phone and she gives it to me.
I wait.
A song plays in my ear.
‘’Welcome to cultura, the place where creative people find their joy’’
Song plays.
‘’Reminder that our stores are openned from Monday to Saturday from 9 am to 7 pm non-stop’’
I get a lil annoyed.
‘’If you want to call the direction, press 1’’
Gets interested.
‘’If you want to call the PCE, press 2’’
Gets even more interested.
‘’If you want to call the DVD/GAMING/MUSIC section, press thre--’’
I press 3 instantly.

Mathew : [name of the city] Cultura Hello ?

Me : Hello, herm, its Alex, the stagiaire, hum, just wanted to tell you that… I forgot to give back Leo’s Note.

Mathew : … Ahh ! Well that’s a problem.

Me : I’m so sorry it skipped my mind.

Mathew : Well Leo arrives around 9am so it kinda a big deal. We’ll figure it out.

Me : Again, sorry for this, i’ll give it back tomorow.

Mathew : Okay. À dewmain. (cya tomorow in french, with some strong quebec accent. He likes to imitate Quebec peoples).

Me : Cya.

And so, i decided in some ways to punish myself, and to help Leo, that i will start my shift at 10am instead of 11am. Its so stupid i do my first big mistake right before my last day.
Anyway. It’s 23:28 (11:28 pm) and i’m waking up earlier tomorow so… I shoulda went to sleep already.
Goodnight.

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