#retail posting

[insomniac-arrest]

The service industry is like living in a parallel world, you're busy when everyone else is free on the weekends or night time, you're working the hardest when everyone else is resting or playing on the holidays

You see your family after everyone else is back at work, there is is no Christmas break, there are no weekends, it's time formed in the shadow of "real" life, life lived in the invert

[fruity-boy-bruno]

Poll I thought of at work while seething

[sugarpsalms]

hi how's everyone's night going, because here we just had to deal with a man trying to abduct women out of the work parking lot

[thelunareclipse]

if i hear last christmas one more time i might explode

[shayberri789]

My friend is doing a quick survey about cashier's being allowed to use chair's at work. He's intending to present the results to his boss and hopefully convince them to let the cashiers use chairs. I know that people on here are very pro-chairs so I was hoping some of yall might consider filling this out?

It takes less than I minute, I just filled it in myself. You won't need any personal information it's entirely anonymous.

I'd appreciate it if yall could reblog this! I don't have a large following and not enough people will see this otherwise. Thanks!

Edit: thank you everyone!! My friend now has over 200 responses that's amazing! Keep sharing and filling it, since he won't be presenting it for a little while still, but I just wanted to let yall know that we are both very grateful to you all!

Edit two: Holy shit. In a week we jumped from 200 to over 1000. That's wild. Thank you guys so much. The survey is still open, I'll disable reblogs when it closes. We're kind of curious to see if it hits 2k responses. When I offered to post here, I did not expect to get even a third of the responses we have, and my friend and I are doing the digital equivalent of staring at each other in disbelief and pointing. What the fuck. Y'all are amazing

Edit 3: check the comments!

[sparkylurkdragon]

The other day I was at the retail job, and a little girl was Very Curious about my cane! She asked what it was, and I explained to her that it was to help me walk because I got sick. When her mom noticed her touching my cane, she said, quite gently but firmly, "No no. Don't touch [their] cane. Remember, it's like touching [their] actual body."

I did not actually mind it much because Little Kids Being Curious, but it was very good parenting, I thought, and I thanked the mother.

[northern-passage]

i thought there was a call to boycott the entirety of black friday and cyber monday?

i think there are people on tumblr & twitter that are advocating for a full boycott (which is good), but specifically with BDS & according to their website they're just calling for a targeted boycott against puma, HP, and marvel for black friday and cyber monday (along with the other targeted companies)

personally, i'm also boycotting starbucks (for their treatment of unionized workers) as well as a few of the other companies not listed in the immediate full boycott list.

as of 11/22 on their twitter, this is what they shared:

1. Consumer boycott targets - The BDS movement calls for a complete boycott of these brands carefully selected due to the company's proven record of complicity in Israeli apartheid.

2. Divestment targets - The BDS movement is pressuring governments, institutions and investment funds to exclude and divest from as many complicit companies as practical, especially weapons manufacturers, banks, and companies listed in the UN database of business involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise, as well as the WhoProfits and AFSC Investigate databases of companies enabling the occupation. Below we give some of the targets we are campaigning against.

3. Pressure (non-boycott) targets - The BDS movement actively calls for pressure campaigns against these brands and services due to their complicity in Israeli apartheid. We have not, on strategic grounds, called for a boycott of these brands and services, instead we strategically call on supporters and institutions to mount other forms of pressure on them until they end their complicity in Israeli apartheid.

4. Organic boycott targets - The BDS movement did not initiate these grassroots boycott campaigns but is in support of them due to these brands openly supporting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

ultimately the companies listed under the first category you absolutely should be boycotting 100%.

and i'm not going to tell you to not also boycott black friday, especially since it coincides with the temporary 4-day "truce." like i said, i know there are groups that have been advocating for a full boycott this weekend along with protests; there were hundreds today, from Washington, DC, to Massachusetts, to California, to Florida... i shared the creator's day because they do that every other month or so on itch.io anyways & i wanted to link the BDS information alongside it. they may update in the future as well and call for more targeted boycotts as the holidays ramp up so i suggest bookmarking the website or following them on twitter, and look for a campaign near you to get involved directly.

BDS has also called for a global day of action on November 29th, which includes intensifying all targeted boycotting campaigns.

[every-sanji]

[nando161mando]

You don't say!

[jacarandaaaas]

uhhh I’m bored so hot take: this fandom constantly reduces luisas character down to be only her trauma🧍‍♀️

[fruity-boy-bruno]

I should be allowed to behead people who set their stuff down on the check out counter and walk away actually. WE HAVE CARTS WE HAVE CARTS YOURE NOT THE ONLY FUCKING PERSON IN THE STORE WE HAVE CARTS. IT MAKES THINGS MORE DIFFICULT FOR EVERYONE ELSE HERE YOU ASSHOLE

[sugarpsalms]

Best thing that's ever happened to me at this job is one time a person came up to me and said they were looking for a book. No further info provided (common), so I was like... 'ok, is it fiction or nonfiction?' They asked what the difference was (also common), and I was like 'well nonfiction is true stories, fiction is made up'. This didn't help them, as they said they weren't sure if it was made up or not, so I fell back on my last option of 'ok can you describe the story to me?' Which... they could, but what they described, with startling clarity, was the basic premise of Warrior Cats

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Posts will resume soon, but for the sake of time and my own sanity I won't be doing the effect anymore. I'll still try to remove as much background noise as possible though.

[sleepimali]

Grumpy Grapefruits 🍊💢

Tag yourselves, I'm smile muscle grapefruit.

Stickers here :)

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

here's a fun little definition to help people understand what inflation is, please follow and reblog for more

/credit: Lily Orchard

[kabumek]

if only for a night, let me ease the nightmares... soothe the troubled mind. 🌠