I'm looking for this too. I saw this thread today, but the photo is gone, unfortunately.

http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,359027.msg1246124.html#msg1246124

I had a very nice Quarterback with a lot of rust inside I think it was. So he went into an oxyclean bath for just a couple minutes to get it out. His symbol lost all it's color, now it's just white! And it happened so fast!

I worked in a fabric store for only six months, and after the first two months, I stopped caring about the company's bottom line. I did try to stop things like big scams still (even more disheartening: my boss allowed two scammers to rip us off repeatedly for hundreds of dollars at a time, though we warned her otherwise). Because it was my job, I did my best, but I stopped trying to push "above and beyond" because there was no point in it. Life doesn't reward you just because you work hard. Your employers do. In an ideal world, karma would come around and help out, sure, but in a company you know is rotten? Nope.

One of my co-workers and fellow managers was given an assessment for a raise. She passed said assessment with flying colours. Full marks. Worked her butt off to get high marks, and was working unpaid overtime, hoping they would see her effort and reward her. They did. They gave her a pat on the back: a raise of five cents to add to her already-too-low wage of $8.25, and told her that the store's shrink was too high for them to give her anything better. When she protested that our shrink was so high because we didn't have enough staff to walk the floor and prevent shoplifting, the GM and corporate both shrugged and said "tough toenails, that's the rule".

So if a company expects you to prevent theft, but doesn't give you the resources or means to prevent theft, and then continues to punish you because they didn't provide you with the means of preventing the theft, you get pretty bitter, pretty fast. They spent more money trying to keep employees from stealing on the job than they did on preventing blatant shoplifting.

About a month into having started working there, all employees were suddenly required to carry store-provided, clear plastic tote bags to and from work; all employees had to have their bags checked by management before they were allowed to exit the store for break or to go home; these costs could have been relegated to hiring more people on per shift to prevent shoplifting and shrink, and instead they put it towards making our employees feel like they were criminals. And most of our employees were already working another job on top of this one. Several quit, and went to work for our competitor when they opened a store down the road, because they didn't treat their employees like garbage.

I also worked at a big fabric store, I applaud your commitment. I workd there for only three weeks before it wasn't worth it to me. I was in college and was working for pony money essentially, and I would come in every evening to hear my manager talk about how this was going to be the best job I ever had and I should drop out of college to stay there and maybe some day I'd be a manager like her.  In the same breath she would berate other employees. She must have thought I was particularly special or something, she took me into the back room and showed me a chart. On it was employee hours. Every month she and the other two managers were challenged to reduce staffing hours. Each got an extra $1000 monthly bonus if they reduced the number of staffing hours- so if they could go from 6 employees getting 25 hours to 6 employees getting 23 hours a month they got $1000 each, while the employee lost hours which was like gold- hours of work time is how you feed your family. So maybe the manager gets $1000, employee can't afford lunch this week.

We also had bag and coat searches coming to and from our shift. And there is a prevailing problem where many retail stores when they actually DO need you to work will cap you at part time cut off and re-distribute the money onto future checks. So maybe you worked 60 hours during the holiday- your paycheck is for 29 hours and the next 31 hours are spread around like grains in the wind to avoid being paid overtime. Wage theft is real.

I am very happy that I have moved on to bigger opportunities.

I used to collect everything too! G1-G4 and one of everything, duplicates if they were slightly different.  Shelves of Newborn Cuties, G2 Babies, and Big Brothers abound. But I realized I didn't like how it looked and there was no reason to buy stuff if it looked bad on the shelf. Inevitably, I don't love the look of a bunch of G3s on the shelf. I pared way down to just my favorites and halved those- half on display, half in a box somewhere until I rotate.  I think G1 as a whole together just looks so much nicer. Then, I arrange by year (and set). I find there is often a commonality in color usage by year, so arranging them that way helps the color flow and look more organized.

I've been meaning to get the rearing pose stand so I can recast that but I lose every auction with one I bid on somehow.  Maybe I'll pick up a saddle pony and borrow it's saddle.

It seems like it would be easy to make reproductions, but I've never had a full saddle, so I'm not much help there.

 Having Munchy on 4/20 is very clever.   I love her always have!