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[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Why would you continue to do that? What's in it for you, with retail?

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

That's as good of a reason as any. chavez-salute

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] kingspooky@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haven't really worked food service but working retail (Costco) made me want to [REDACTED] myself and everyone around me

[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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