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Management has no sense of humor.
Anyways, here's my emergency eyewash station bestie that I drink from when the water has been turned off to the break room in 90F°+ weather 💛
(His name is Speakman, and he's a national treasure)
No tasteless jokes at work today please.
I got a new job selling phones (which will be my second time doing that yay) and I'm currently working in a department store. When I tell you I am staring dead on at my notif bar waiting for that start date 🫠. Legit so tired of having people not know how to use a gift card or swipe a debit card, I can't respect the elderly in these conditions
Yeah…tonight is a “place 5 pain relief patches on various parts of my feet an ankles” kind of night. Hopefully my new work shoes come in soon because DAMN it’s getting hard to walk in my current ones. Just walking the 10 minutes from the train to my work location, then walking around running errands after work before heading home was a *struggle*. Gotta love chronic leg pain + working retail so you’re literally standing on your already terrible feet all day 😑
Also…it is really weird to walk around the apartment with these patches on my feet ngl
Today is only day 1 of 3 open-close shifts in a row, I’m already so exhausted 😭😭
Me, laying in pain on the couch after a very long and labor intensive shift, wondering why I’m putting so much effort into a job I’ve been trying to leave for the past few years
my mom when I faint from heatstroke: oh my god baby are you okay?! come inside, I’ve got ice water for you, do you need to go to the hospital?!
my employer when I faint from heatstroke: oh I'm so sorry you had to witness that, valued customer! just pop her in the freezer for five minutes, she’ll be fine. also that’s coming out of your break time:)
this is the tenth day in a row I've had a shift...7 hours every single fucking day!! and im scheduled to work the rest of this week until saturday!!! my paycheque is gonna be great but im literally about to die im so fucking so tired. probably gonna call in sick, honestly fuck work and fuck this “staffing shortage”
Is it possible to become sick from working too much asking for a friend
I'm starting to wonder why I even got that English degree because I'm stuck in a hellish retail limbo forever.
I don’t shop on holidays, period. And my friends give me shit for this, because they don’t understand--if everyone would do their goddamn shopping beforehand (and actually anticipate their own needs) some poor bastard wouldn’t have to be working at the grocery store on Christmas Eve. I haven’t worked retail for years, but I still remember the last time I was stuck working Christmas Eve at the grocery store, where the phone kept ringing an hour after we closed, every time someone asking “Are you still open?” whilst I tried to balance my till and make the deposit.
So no. Don’t ask me to stop for *cool whip*, *ice*, *cigarettes*, *wine*, or anything else, because I WILL. NOT. be shopping. It’s not like holidays suddenly snuck up on you, you knew it was coming. Fill the car with gas beforehand.
People always gloss over how mentally damaging it can be to work in retail. I fucking hate that whenever I say “I could never work in retail again” someone has to reply “You snowflake millennials can’t take a starter job because you have to INTERACT with other people” No. Fuck you. I’ve worked as a planetarium host. I’ve worked as a public speaker. I’ve worked as a tutor and as a student teacher. I can work with people. I can work with crowds. Retail was fucking different. Retail was being treated as a subhuman. Retail was being treated so poorly that you have anxiety attacks before work. Having to work retail was a factor in my last suicide attempt. If I hear you say one fucking word about retail workers playing the victim I will personally break every bone in your body. Fuck You.