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theres-whump-in-that-nebula · 2 years ago

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When a customer jumps to wild conclusions about your motives when you forget to do something you always have trouble remembering to do; because your checkout routine was disrupted and/or ran very, very long; and still makes a fuss over it when you are willing to, and actually do, fix the issue, scolding you for it throughout…

Over (at the absolute highest) five dollars off on a two-hundred dollar purchase. Wow.

I mean, yeah, I fucked up; but it was an honest mistake, I felt gutted bad about it, and ultimately I corrected the error, so I’m good right?

I wish she hadn’t walked out before I could apologize formally though. I don’t like hurting people.

#retail hell #this happened awhile ago but d a m n #I won’t give specifics but it ended with me working through tears for the rest of the day and my nose running all over my inner mask so…#that was fun #not to mention the fact that she basically voiced one of my intrusive thoughts JUST as I was starting to not think so much about it #and just behave normally around people with a decent sense of awareness about stuff #in fact that was the very first time I wasn’t thinking about it #I won’t say it’s just women but I will say this:#I have yet to be talked to with the “I’m putting you in time-out “ voice by a man #maybe it’s because women see me as a young person who could be their teenage daughter and feel enough of a sense of camaraderie with me #that they are comfortable yelling at me as if I am a member of their family #or they could just be rude and hostile toward retail employees in general #I’d rather not assume things though #some days I wish I had a formal diagnosis for my Weird Brain Stuff so I could explain that #I have nothing against you; I’m half-aware and running on fumes 24/7 #my short term memory sucks ass #I set my designated store mask somewhere when I got home a week ago and now I can’t find it #I lose my stylus(es) at least once a month #I have to ask my coworkers what they said fifty times over because my brain shakes itself like an Etch-A-Sketch when I go to do the thing #it is literally pathetic #neurodivergent problems #not being believed is something else istg

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