I know most of us don't have any real control of our lives or the direction it heads in, but goddamn if there ain't a large portion of white 40+ dudes in manager positions at places like this that take their job way too fucking seriously.
Imagine waking up every day and thinking this shit matters. Drinking the corporate kool-aid so much that you actually start espousing shit like "we're providing an invaluable service to the community." Yeah, I'm sure the black, working-class neighborhood that was here before they were all evicted and their housing razed really values having a place that charges $12 for "natural" peanut butter.
Yeah the gm of 22 years was just forcibly retired by corporate and we got a new like buddy buddy gm and literally nothing has changed. Had a shift last week that was just me and one other person I went through all the stages of grief and ended up feeling just so tired and beaten down it was like I was experiencing nirvana
love it how customers think we run the mega-corp store as a collective co-op, have price raising meetings in the back, and try to screw them over constantly so we can bring home a bigger chunk of the profits. i guess they really do believe the U.S. has turned communist
I had one person tell me that "you're killing yourselves"not because we didn't carry the product she was looking for but because it was too expensive. I was like "yeah I've been thinking about it" and she said not like personally like the company. Didn't even notice or care 🙃🙃
Working in retail has made me want to guillotine regular ass people
It's what made me a Stalinist. Oh the Soviet Union only had one kind of bread? Stuff is rationed so everyone gets a fair amount? No customers complaining about product, stock, or prices because they understand a committee decides those things in Moscow and I have zero control over it? Sign me up.
Have you ever heard the expression... "The customer is always right?" I said look in the back. I know you have it. Look in the back. :grillman:
If I was planning the economy, I'd be rolling out my Five Year Plans to abolish retail as much as possible. It takes maaaad labour hours, nobody enjoys it, and it's easily worked around with modern techniques.
Your name is important.
It's what :maybe-later-kiddo: will want to know when reporting you to the manager.
I saw "this is where you belong" on the hiring sign outside a golf store and my lord that was a kick in the gut
