#i only know retail

[doodlemeariver]

I have to watch as four tied-down metal beasts vore all sorts of masochist ripped prior presidents, some being so tattered the beast spits them back up just to swallow them again.

In addition: The thrusting of the cards in and out of the reader just for it to ask to read it again.

me, as i force a dollar bill into the self-checkout machine: thats right…..good boy……vore president washington

[doodlemeariver]

I swear to FUCK!

*kicks over trash bin* WHO THE FUCK DECIDED THAT POP QUIZES SHOULD BE WHAT WE START RETAIL WORK!?

*Spoilers, my job*

[vlasdygoth]

kaz!

[doodlemeariver]

This is how I end up the favorite employee.

Had a delivery guy tell me “I snapped at another place and had to take my chill pills” and tell me about his day being rough due to his mother passing. “I was loopy from the meds so sorry if I don’t remember anything”, he said the day after. I had told him he is a friend because it seemed right to keep the mood hopeful, and I do mean it just based on how he is nice to my coworkers.

Another guy has become a usual customer because I convinced him I knew the store better than my coworkers. In all reality I just did it so he’d stop yelling at a new hire. He’s nice now to everyone, and informs us if some of the shelf stackers are slacking on removing bad produce.

I don’t know how I became so emotionally numb. I blame Fremont street and being overworked+underpaid+illegally not given long enough breaks.

[deus-ex-mona]

kthn 🤝 lxl “it has to be you; apart from you, no one else would do”

[verdantglow]

Some facts about the Retail Hell AU fic I’m writing so far:

- It’s SmallEtho focused because of course it. I’ve got the brain rot bad & don’t think I’d even be able to focus on another pairing or gen at the moment.

- But the secondary ship is established, healthy, happy shadowbeans. (Because in this house we love Lizzie.)

- Everyone is bisexual & polyamorous. Because I said so. (& because there aren’t enough fics in this fandom where characters are multisexual; lots of strictly gay headcanons & I wanna shake that up.)

- Except Scott. He is my monosexual exception, he gets to be The Full Gay.

- There are A Lot of other pairings in this AU as well, some of which we’ll get glances of throughout this fic, but I might write some one shots focusing on other pairings after I finish this fic if I’m still vibing with the AU.

- I am having so much fun brainstorming with my fiancé, they are totes on board with helping work out world & plot details, & we literally spent most of last night just talking about this.

- I currently have somewhere between 2 & 4 chapters thoroughly outlined, coming in at ~4000 words. This includes chapter one & a few(?) chapters that take place about 2/3s of the way through. Still gotta outline at least like. 4 or 5 chapters in between & then 2-4 more to finish the fic off.

- I am a little nervous at how much of a beast this is turning out to be.

- To prevent my usual mo of ‘have vague plot, write & post two chapters, not know where to take it, get overwhelmed & abandon work,’ I’m probably gonna hold off on posting it until I have the detailed outline completely finished & at least a few chapters of buffer. I genuinely have no idea how long this will take, as I have never done this much planning for a fic or ever finished something this long.

- But yeah I’m really hype about it & can’t wait for it to be at a point for sharing!

[radarsteddybear]

On my way out of work today the guy in charge of production underneath the owner pulled me aside to tell me that I'm doing a fantastic job, that I'm "killing it," that everyone's so glad to have me around, that I'm so pleasant (I'm literally just giving everyone a cheerful hello as I/they walk by in the morning (or whenever we first see each other over the course of the day)...which is what everyone does there. I'm just mirroring everybody), and that everyone has such good things to say about me and never anything bad 💜💜💜 Which is just. I never imagined that a workplace could be so lovely? Even when I said in the interview that part of the reason I wanted to work there was because it seemed like such a nice place to work, I didn't think it was going to be this nice. Because this is not the first time that someone has gone out of their way to tell me that people have been speaking kindly about me behind my back.

While part of me kinda wishes that I'd started working here ages ago (or even to begin with), I am really glad that I didn't get this job until I'd (largely) figured out how to cosplay as a normal human being, lol. Because I definitely went through a way-too-long phase where I felt really weird and uncomfortable about things like saying "hello" to acquaintances when I pass by, and, as it turns out, just doing it consistently makes it feel super easy and not weird at all! Wild! (Of course, the teachers at the school I used to work at weren't exactly friendly themselves...and, like I said before, I mirror.) I'm also getting a lot better at talking to other adults, lol. Of course, it helps that I'm actually spending my time with other adults rather than second graders and that most of the other clerks usually have something to talk about at some point throughout the day. But it's nice to know that I can, in fact, jump in and participate in conversations rather than just smile and nod (I am such a quiet person in real life). And it's nice that I've got this figured out enough that I'm not making bad impressions and setting bad precedents for myself.

[bunnyb34r]

This is a weird question but retail workers at the mall... what makes you decide who gets the cute paper bags and who gets the shitty little plastic bags? Like large heavy orders aside... what's it take to get a cute paper bag without having to ask for it?

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Anyone have any experience working for DoorDash, Uber Eats, or the likes of them? How is it, and which one is best?

[hwsforeignrelations]

RANT

[howlingwolf23]

So there's this post about how customer\employee relationship has gotten worse since Covid. And I do believe that but it's also like that but in other areas, it has also become more of this "me vs everyone" in areas we might not have noticed yet.

A big one for my city is driving.

I live in a small college town so the occasional bad drivers from out of town was no surprise but that was usually the number one complaint of "stupid out of towners" or "damn college kids" don't know how to drive around here.

But post Covid? Holy shit! It seems like it has gone mad!

Nobody goes when the light goes green because so many red light runners. And i don't mean that usual prick, last second, squeezing in.

No.

I mean the light has been red for several beats, it has been green the other way for a beat and half where even the slow trucks\sunday drivers\slow reaction people can be half way into the intersection and there is still a red light runners coming through.

So now everyone waits like 2 or 3 solid seconds before moving just in case that asshole is around and guess what? there usually is.

On top of that, I have seen someone do this, in front of a cop. Fucker did nothing. Not even a flash of the lights warning.

Or people in the wrong lane but they need to turn, they are one just lane over, so they will just turn anyways even if there is already cars in the turning lane, even if their is 1 line to turn on to.

Or the road merges, everyone knows this road goes from 2 to 1 lane so zipper merge but not this asshole, they have to gun it to get 1 more car length ahead in bumper to bumper traffic just to slam on their brakes and turn at the first street.

People flying through school zones, not even slowing down, just keep doing the regular speed limit.

Pedestrians too, just walking anywhere they like, crossing the road like there's no cars on 3 lane wide roads, just walking, taking their time as cars have to slow down, sometimes stop or on smaller, residential streets, just walking in the middle of the road and refusing to move left or right for traffic.

It's just madness sometimes driving through town, and that's ignoring the other major issues you'll see when driving through the town.

I think it's 2 parts, 1) people got used to the more empty streets and now feel like they, personally, own the streets, and others are now invading their space 2) something about Covid just really did a number on everyone, not sure if it was the isolation that made people forget to be kind\general rules of society or if it the Mask Wars that started the "us vs them" mentally people seem to have post-covid.

[doodlemeariver]

I hope i am sending a message for those who give my job those damn Christian pamphlet booklets.

Every time someone gives me one, I wait until they turn towards the door and I rip it up in the “no one is looking” moment.

I’m not going to church because they already say I’m going to hell. I may help you with all due respect, as any human being deserves respect and a moment to be heard, but once the convo is over, I am not forgiving god for how he treated a lot of people rn.

[satari-raine]

Forever a turtle, but life update:

Got a job! It's a retail position at a local thrift store chain, which is a tiny bit disheartening for some dumb personal reasons, but it's certainly something - overall, though, it's a good thing. Hopefully it'll help get my finances back in order and a sense of routine again. It'll be a bit rocky at the start, catching up on bills and getting used to retail again, but it's something.

Just wanted to say a genuine thank you to those that helped out and gave well wishes during me rambling on here for a few months. It meant and still means a lot to me, it really does. Hope you all are doing well, too, as always. Rooting for you.

[bugeyedfreaks]

Do you own a lot of merch? If so how do you keep them from getting too dusty, whats the best way to keep them and saving space etc

I guess I own a… reasonable amount? 😆 When it comes to little toys and figurines, currently I only have a few of them on display (in a temporary little collection while I find something new to display stuff on), mostly dedicated to some of my Mojo stuff:

...I still need to fix the Mo Mojo statue, it's been ages (he got busted up in the mail, weh). 😫

But yeah, a lot of it isn't on display or anything, they're mostly in storage (not, like, a storage locker or anything... just in some plastic boxes/bags in my closet, haha). Actuallyyyy, as an example, I was cleaning up today and found some of the smaller things I used to have on display trapped in a Ziploc prison:

...which I guess could also look like crime scene evidence or illicit drugs.

I also just have a lot of practical merch, like clothes, jewelry, hair ties/clips, keychains for my purse and keys, stationary, makeup bags, etc. Oh yeah, and a bunch of media like magazines, books, DVDs, CDs., etc. Everything's just stored like you'd normally store that kinda stuff. Nothing fancy. One of these days maybe I'll try to get everything PPG-related that I own together and see how much junk I've actually collected, but yeah. I'd say it's like a medium amount. I am nowhere near Lenny Baxter levels of merch (nor would I wanna be!).

[marsixm]

im so frustrated w myself all the time but i don’t think its easy to go thru everything i went thru and come out normal. to come out the same. its a long process. i need to calm down

[egregiousderp]

Had to stop for a moment at work thanks to the sudden realization that thanks to the Mouse Droid fic, it’s canon that Eli Vanto is exactly Tarkin’s type, and that makes his promotion process So Much Funnier in Thrawn.