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Honestly in store retail is a fucking nightmare of work that only exists because customers are careless and lazy. Customers will upend an entire table of folded clothes like pigs rooting through the brush for forage and SOMEONE has to fix it. It can take hours to fold and reorganize a section of clothing only for some shithead to come fuck it up again in 2 minutes.
it really really is, thankfully I was mitigated from most of the clothing stuff (working in electronics, then housewares, etc, only having to fold sometimes) but it was still fucked. I hated every second of it. And doing the online order fulfillment, which was honestly the best work in retail because you're just going around looking for shit all day and not bothered by people, was still intensely frustrating because you'd have to literally check everywhere for things sometimes because people just put shit wherever. Every time I was given an order for an item that was in the back room, it was like, fuck yes because I wouldn't have to go digging for it
Being expected to pretend to be happy being an over-worked and grossly underpaid flesh-automaton is the most demoralizing part of the whole thing.
It's part of why I quit working and had a mental breakdown until I got on disability.
my first girlfriend was like that.. when we were first dating we used to go ShopKo because there was nowhere really to go and it was air conditioned, but she pulled clothes off the rack, held them up to herself, then threw them on the floor one after the other to my horror. I immediately picked all the clothes up and started putting them back on the rack, while she laughed at me. Then she saw how disgusted I was and she never did that again.
We should RETVRN to storefronts where you can see 1 (1) of every item so you know what is available and then you put in your order. Or you just put your order in in advance. The supermarket experience of poring over rows of identical packaging is a marketing hellscape that harms both customers and workers.
like literally just kiosk screens outside (or an air conditioned waiting place idk)
they can literally put cameras in the bins if they need to "see" the produce or whatever, if it's groceries, or just like idk fuck em what you get is what you get. it's less of an issue with household goods that are essentially identical
man, add to my complaints about wasted hours, the number of times I've had to painstakingly figure out how to put stuff back into a box, because some customer wanted to look inside, and if I don't put it back just right it'll be obvious it was tampered with and nobody will buy it