A former coworker of mine would call the holiday season 'racists season', since all the racist fucks would come out of the woodworksand say horrific things. Looks like its racist season has official begun, had some old wretch and her large adult son flip out about my name tag (I have a very Latino name) after saying it a bunch of times and then go through a speedrun of the usual shit, focusing on my name, 'you speak English well' before flipping out about some nonsenical conversation that prevented me from offering 'good service', I didn't speak to anyone before addressing them it was weird af and then while they left they started the 'we can't understand you' bs. A few customers later some old lady rants at me about the usual 'I don't know what's going on, all they do is hire illegals' while storming off since her return went poorly.

Anyway, I caught up with another former coworker since I'm on the job hunt (don't want to stick around for racists season if I don't need to) and I found out I'm apparently blacklisted at the local college between some whistleblowing I did at my old school and probably my tiny bit of student organizing. That's good to know, I thought such things only lasted 6-12yrs or so.

I did manage to find some teach English place online I may look at since I actually have a TESOL cert I never used. I absolutely need to get out of this job, I'm lucky to have it, but holy shit if its not a recreation of clerks its every 5th customer is a retailhell story.