#and I’m in no position to complain

[sophisticatedswifts]

Fun fact that I learned today: Gmail has been sending some of my emails from Ticketmaster to the “promotions” folder, which means I don’t get notifications for them

Another fun fact I learned today: I was taken off the waitlist for five shows (across two cities) in the past and had no idea until today

[foldingfittedsheets]

I worked retail for a long time and people really do treat you like shit sometimes. But between selling sex toys, mattresses, and jewelry I can say definitively I got treated worst selling mattresses.

All three of my jobs were in sales but selling sex toys we were allowed to put people in their place, and in jewelry people didn’t want to misbehave in a fancy setting. But people at the mattress store had no problem yelling at me, hitting on me, or insulting me to my face.

For a while I was managing my own store for the company. I ran a small location and had struggling employees placed with me for rehabilitation. If their numbers improved they could go back to bigger stores. If not, they got fired.

So this meant I was the manager of problem employees. At one point both of my people had a foot out the door. The company was going downhill and changed computer systems and they were fed up. Consequently, they made a ton of mistakes, because they just didn’t care about the job or learning the new systems.

I strolled into work on what was essentially my Monday to a shit show. Deliveries scheduled without product, wrong things on orders, poor expectations of the process, you name it. I spent the entire morning getting yelled at for mistakes that weren’t mine.

The final straw came when a man called furious that his moms bed for her nursing home had a delivery window he couldn’t accommodate. This wasn’t a huge disaster since we still had time to deliver it before she moved. I ran him through the options and he just kept screaming at me. Not for a solution but because I was there and he was frustrated.

My heart filled with malice and a cold fury. A calculating part of my brain had a realization in that moment that I could stay a punching bag or I could strike back.

I quavered my voice delicately, taking in a shaky, warbling breath like I was trying not to cry. “Sir,” I quivered through fake tears, “I don’t know what you want from me! I told you what I can do, I didn’t make this mistake I’m just trying to fix it!” My voice broke pitifully on the last syllables, sounding in all ways like a sweet innocent person being yelled at who’s just trying her best, really!

It was like I’d doused him with cold water. My emotional act was the realization that he was screaming at someone who was just doing their damn job, and he was being an asshole. He hastily made an excuse and hung up.

I had a third employee covering with me from another store that day who heard everything. When I hung up, I looked over to see them watching me with an awed expression. “Did… did you just pretend to cry?”

“I absolutely fucking did,” I said with feeling, “and I’d do it a thousand more times. If that’s what it takes for someone to realize they’re behaving like a fucking prick, they deserve it.” The employee looked at me like I was their hero.

The man called back, apologizing profusely, having magically arranged his schedule to accommodate delivery. He came in later that week with an apology Starbucks gift card. I was gracious in my acceptance.

I pulled it a few more times before leaving the company. I felt no shame in the ruse. If someone behaves so poorly that it’s plausible their behavior would drive someone to tears they deserve to feel absolutely wretched about it.

[marimbles]

i miss carpisuns sometimes </3

[musicalmoritz]

“ADA Dazai” this, “PM Dazai” that

Shut up

We are never gonna see Bar Lupin Dazai again😔

[lemonemenom]

Definitely annoyed at how illogical this position is to dress Jim’s wounds

not cause Jim’s an idiot who keeps getting injured that would be illogical

[leviiackrman]

I am fighting for my life to be mentally stable and it’s not working

[the-lonelyshepherd]

your thing about fanon lottienat kinda validated my theory that fanon lottienat is just jackienat but worse

OGH yeah honestly….

like. jackienat is right there. they have a shitton of parallels that are exactly what makes lottienat cool as well, just without some of it but in place you get like. actual punk and popular but also actually nuanced. because it’s an actual big part of the characters!! like the opposites factor!! idk i think jackienat should be more popular it would be cool

[words-writ-in-starlight]

im so nosy I wanna know what the book is called so badly...

Okay, I don’t want to put the author on blast because I believe they have a Tumblr and it’s not their fault that their debut novel blew up and probably…shouldn’t have. But if you really want to know, here is a link to my StoryGraph, which is where I review books and keep track of what I’m reading. The book in question is the most recent one rated below a 2, which are generally the longest reviews I write by a large margin.

[theamazingannie]

I think it’s funny that I made a whole post talking about how I hate that they do so much tell not show in PJO and make the kids hyper aware of everything and then the next episode’s first scene was literally exactly that

[lewmagoo]

the Anxiety threatens to swallow me whole today

[deepseawave]

obsessed w the tags on ur last reblog

Omgg, thank you haha, it was a quality post so I just had to appreciate it in full force 😂❤️

Can‘t believe someone would actually enjoy my yapping :,D

[doyeons]

so do other ppl who’ve been single for their entire lives feel the urge to maul someone when they have to listen to friends who’ve definitely been in many relationships complain abt how they’re going to die alone or am i just overreacting

[femininomen0n]

djats isn’t a good adaptation but it is a pretty good show independent of the og book and i’ve made my peace with that 😌

[movedto-clifflix]

live footage of me rn . can barely move my shoulders are killing me n im tired 👍🏻

[poirot]

anyone here read agatha christie and wants to let me know what they thought about ‚a haunting in venice‘ (or any of the other kenneth branagh christie adaptions)

[reporpoisedphantasies]

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