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When I was in retail, someone decided to drain the main vein in the changing room. We had this asshole assistant manager and this really cool assistant manager, the asshole tried to pawn it off on her and she basically told him to go fuck himself and went home.
Worst part is we had publicly available, well labeled and clean bathrooms the person could have used, so its not like it was out of desperation. Either a mental health emergency or someone forcing their fetish onto strangers.
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Haven’t really worked food service but working retail (Costco) made me want to [REDACTED] myself and everyone around me
Once at a Waffle House in Florida I had a waitress that said she gets to work whatever shift she wants now because she did overnights for more than twenty years.
overnights at a Waffle House in Florida for twenty years
Jesus Christ I bet she saw some shit.
At that point is it some shit, or all the shit?
Woman’s had to have seen things that would make the dark corners of the internet shiver
braver than the troops
Extremely literally
There are Russian afghan vets who have witness less than she has.
Deffinitly been involved in more shootings than most of them.
They need to give her VA benefits just for that.
If you do the waffle house night shift for 20 years you deserve to be retired on a full pension.
And a whatever-you-like-front property
Retail is infinitely worse. At least I get to feel good about myself and what I do working in food service. Getting called chef ain’t bad
yea the food is overpriced (what isn’t these days?) but at least i’m feeding people (for money)
I feed literally hundreds of people every day. Me! That’s kinda cool
it really is :)
im not a chef though the people calling me that are mistaken
Wish we could tag cuz yours would definitely be chef
But i’m not a chef I’m just a cook 😔
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yes chef
Why would you continue to do that? What’s in it for you, with retail?
Honestly? Nowadays because it’s really fuckin easy to do some subtle and sometimes not so subtle agitprop face to face if you’re careful.
Can confirm. Me and another comrade would slip Communist Party leaflets everywhere at my last job (a big-box grocery store with needlessly psychotic management)
AFAIK no one higher-up knows it was us
That’s as good of a reason as any.
I did it for 10 and would still be doing it if the upper managers didn’t fuck up their budget somehow and needed to cover their asses… (and probably cause I spent the better part of 10 years insinuating that some of the upper management were a bit on the sexpesty side with an eye towards the “sweet young thangs”)
I loved the actual work, it clicked for my special kinda of broken brain, the coworkers were cool and it was a paycheck.
I’m considering getting a job in retail, largely because I’ve never done it before. Mostly I just like something that isn’t repetitive and rushed to the point of being soul-crushing. I don’t understand people who can do something for decades if it doesn’t float their boat and doesn’t pay well.
Don’t you work in ag? Not the most glamorous thing either but one of the most interesting jobs I ever had was in that sector.
My spouse started a small farm years ago as her job. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough money in it for both of us to be at the farm to do farm work so I’ve gotta to find a paycheck elsewhere while still doing some of the farm work.
Also, I’ve found over the years that I’m really just not that in to it. I could probably tolerate it if the money situation was okay but since it isn’t, my anxiety about money just slowly starts to build until my chest starts hurting all the time and I can’t sleep for crap.
Another thing I’ve learned about myself is that I really, REALLY, need to be able to separate “work” from “not work” or I’ll get all weird. And living/working on a farm makes that difficult.
I preferred food service. I enjoyed keeping up with orders and it’s nice to feed people.
Retail is just droning lights and pacing. It is so boring and unengaging.
And music on a very tight loop in my case, for an entire season at a time
8 straight hours of Christmas music is literally psychological torture. I still get a little bit of anxiety every time I hear a Christmas song.
At least Noriega got Van Halen.
Having only worked retail, this thread is honestly reassuring. I’ve always tried to avoid food service and mainly apply for retail, but considering my preferred work style that was a huge mistake.
this is wholly accurate
I’ve worked both.
This is accurate.
I usually close for retail, its still an easier job than being a substitute teacher. No having to typically deal children with weapons nor obvious signs of abuse that you gotta report for nothing to be done, ineffective education you just gotta nod at and get yelled at for not being a demigod fixing 200yrs of issues in one afternoon, petite bourgeois sanctimonious asshole teachers, not to mention catching 1 of every contagious disease like Nurgle’s Pokemon. Still fucking sucks since there’s so much fucked up stuff in other ways, its comparing Hellraiser vs A Serbian Film.
Would rather continue to live off disability than work either ever again lol. Unless I can get back into working with kids or maybe some sort of like entry level office thing I’m probably just going to keep subsisting on the government’s teat. Maybe theres some other low impact thing that ND people can actually do out there. But only working with kids gets my passion and drive going anyway so.
Would rather continue to live off disability than work either ever again lol.
same, even though I haven’t managed to get on disability yet (will find out by early next year). I am never working a dog-shit job again. I would rather be completely homeless and destitute.
Depends on boss and your own temperament. I’ve had shitty bosses as a line cook and as retail store manager - out of the two I’d pick a shitty retail boss. Shitty kitchen bosses get in your face and shit too much.
Solidarity on the line is way stronger and if bosses push too hard we can just do a line smoke break until they cool off. That was always cool
I worked at a pizza place for 3 years and couldn’t last 4 months in a Ralph Lauren store.
Worse thing I remember is a guy completely out of his mind and SCREAMING at me because, his words: “how is it possible that I can’t try these underwears in the fitting rooms?!!??!”
He reported me to my manager when I said he just can’t due to sanitary reasons, then told me “at least you could have one pair of underwear on some sort of hanger so people can try it and it’s not unsanitary because it’s just one pair and nothing can spread”
Never again I will work in retail.
Worse thing I remember is a guy completely out of his mind and SCREAMING at me because, his words: “how is it possible that I can’t try these underwears in the fitting rooms?!!??!”
He reported me to my manager when I said he just can’t due to sanitary reasons, then told me “at least you could have one pair of underwear on some sort of hanger so people can try it and it’s not unsanitary because it’s just one pair and nothing can spread”
Dare ye enter his magical realm?
Godspeed to you retail workers. My brand of ADHD makes foodservice chaos click with me, but simultaneously keeps me from focusing enough to ever be a chef. Coffee is my strong suit, but some of the customers (the briefest taste of retail) had me looking up the Unalive Hotline in the bathroom on particularly bad days.
