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Welcome to our ~~Friday~~ Monday ritual! I want to hear about all the bullshit you had to put up with last week! This week, I'm setting a reminder to make this post again on Friday!
A lot of people at my workplace are getting frustrated and ranting at how bad it is. Certainly, whenever we have to do something taxing and repetitive for 3+ hours, those thoughts do slip into my brain.
But I'm free. I ride my bike 20 minutes to work, I am full-time with health insurance and the ability to take a surprising (for working-class American standards) amount of time off. I am getting to the point where I understand more about the store than most of the people above me. I don't expect to be able to turn that knowledge into a business plan, but I'm putting over $1000 a month in the bank, I have a finger on the pulse of what people are consooming, and this job will ride out any recession until I can pay off most of a mortgage (pending).
I do feel kinda bored and I think I want to switch departments, but it doesn't make me feel nearly as "stuck" as other jobs did. Also there's a handful of people here that I can openly talk about radical politics with.