Should I quit my new Dollar General job? Iām 1 week in and already thinking of quitting, and that has NEVER happened to me with a new job.
Quit job?
Yes
No
Remaining time: 1 day 20 hours
My reasoning for wanting to quit below the cut:
The store is a mess literally all the time, the sales floor is usually cluttered to some degree while the break room and backrooms look like a bomb went off inside.
Thereās only one bathroom for employees (they had to close off the customer bathrooms due to excessive shoplifting) and thereās only one key to the bathroom that regular employees are allowed to use (managers and key-holders have their own copies, because of course they do). This system just sucks in my opinion.
Thereās no door to the break room. Customers can deadass just walk past and see some underpaid shmuck crying over their microwaved burrito at any point, unless of course thereās a metric fuckton of boxes in the way, which seems fairly common so far.
Thereās no intercom system and no walkie talkies. If something happens, I have to scream at the top of my lungs for the manager, or drop everything to go lookin for them, unless I want to try calling their number and risking getting in trouble for using my phone on the job.
They are aggressively anti-union. One of the training videos was straight up anti-union propaganda, and it only took a quick search online to find evidence of DGās union busting efforts, some of which have been illegal.
Thereās only one computer we can clock in on, and itās the same computer we use for transactions, so youāre having to wait until the current transaction is done and/or make the next customer wait until youāre clocked in before they can get checked out. Itās awkward and just annoying as hell.
Apparently theyāre deadass on OSHAās naughty list of companies that are frequent offenders. Yikes.
Weāre supposed to talk and be social with customers, and my introverted ass doesnāt want to do that all the time, especially not for such dogshit wages. Honestly it just seems like a very extroverted job, and I can already feel the burnout setting in.
One of my coworkers is a teenager working 3 jobs, which is in and of itself a red flag in my opinion.
Looking online, all I can find is how terrible a company DG is to work for and how scummy their business practices are.
Honestly I can probably think of more, but I donāt feel like it right now.
Hereās the very few pros I can think of:
The bar is so fucking low, my manager deadass said she doesnāt care if I show up to work high as long as Iām not actively hitting a dab pen in the store or parking lot where someone could be a Karen about it. She literally said I can hit a dab pen on the clock so long as I do it hidden behind the storeās dumpster. Not planning on doing that, but it just goes to show how little they give a fuck.
The manager and key holder said theyāre willing to accommodate me however possible because most of their employees are teenagers at the moment (which also feels like a red flag ngl) and theyāre desperate to retain a functioning adult somehow.
Iām making about $12 an hour, which isnāt great where I live (definitely not enough to support oneself but I still live with my parents so thatās not a problem for me), but itās better than nothing.
Hope yāall donāt mind the unusual post, I just want some other opinions on the matter.
Putting my IHNMAIMS oc, Metradora-1 (or M-1 for short) into the Digital Circus because I can. A couple notes on her in this AU:
Sheās a medical android (hence the cartoon doctor avatar) who entered the circus by plugging herself into the computer the circus is on, and can leave at any time. Or, she can upload a digital copy of her software to stay in the computer while the original her is free to do as she pleases, just like the humans, except the digital copy can use the WiFi to send the original her data about whatās happening in the Digital Circus.
She retained all her memories including her name; her software blocked Caine from altering her memory files. Caine doesnāt know how to feel about that.
Speaking of Caine, he finds her both fascinating and intimidating, which is totally understandable.
Her skills mostly pertain to human biology, but sheās got some understanding of psychology as well, and sheāll try and figure out whatās wrong with all the humans.
Has little interest in the adventures, but will participate to observe how the humans react to them.
Might crash out at Caine if she finds out how much stress heās been causing the humans.
Yeah thatās pretty much the closest thing to terror sheās ever experienced. She wasnāt even programmed to be able to feel terror, that just kind of happened. She didnāt like it.
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M-1: āAre any of you struggling to manage stress?
I wonder how aliens will react to our communal grooming instinct? Like when you see something stuck to your homieās clothes/skin/hair and itās driving you nuts and you just gotta be like āhold still, lemme get that for you real quick.ā
One time when I was a kid, I had a science teacher with a snake as a class pet, and said snake was almost done shedding. There was one little bit of dried skin stuck to its face and I was like, āwould it hurt him if I pulled that off?ā And the teacher said, āyes it actually could, itās probably still attached to living skin if it hasnāt come off yetā and I was like āoh, sorry,ā and he said, āthatās okay, you were just wanting to do the primate thing.ā And damn, thatās such an accurate descriptor.
Anyways I hope aliens donāt mind me/my descendants having the urge to pluck stuff off of them. If they ask, weāll have to tell them itās a trait we evolved to survive ticks.
Sometimes you might feel the urge to help someone in a certain way, and sometimes they really don't want to be helped in that way, either because it would not help them (or even hurt them) or because they would rather do it themselves (for various reasons).
It's important to realize that sometimes you're going to be a primate and they're going to be a snake, and it needs to be okay if they do not want their skin pulled off at this time.
Snake shed info is mostly not true - it varies but small flakes are usually long disconnected and just stuck by dryness the same way human sunburn does - you can pick it off by grabbing and just letting the snake move by itself. Mostly you should only do it if they don't shed it themselves for a while cause it usually get rubbed off after a bit.
That makes sense, I guess the teacher was just concerned because I was a kid who wasnāt used to working with reptiles and this snake had just recently gotten done shedding, so he wanted to wait a bit before trying to remove any remaining pieces. Thatās good to know though, Iām planning on having a pet snake someday and itās nice to know Iāll get to do the primate thing as long as Iām careful!
I wonder how aliens will react to our communal grooming instinct? Like when you see something stuck to your homieās clothes/skin/hair and itās driving you nuts and you just gotta be like āhold still, lemme get that for you real quick.ā
One time when I was a kid, I had a science teacher with a snake as a class pet, and said snake was almost done shedding. There was one little bit of dried skin stuck to its face and I was like, āwould it hurt him if I pulled that off?ā And the teacher said, āyes it actually could, itās probably still attached to living skin if it hasnāt come off yetā and I was like āoh, sorry,ā and he said, āthatās okay, you were just wanting to do the primate thing.ā And damn, thatās such an accurate descriptor.
Anyways I hope aliens donāt mind me/my descendants having the urge to pluck stuff off of them. If they ask, weāll have to tell them itās a trait we evolved to survive ticks.
So my girl(a snake) is a bit āØspecialāØ so she needs help shedding(most of the time, weāre working on it) so I basically just have to pet her for a while until she gets it. For some fuckn reason she refuses to actually shed and will wait for me to need to step in(example: itās been weeks) before it gets stuck. I donāt do her eye caps btw and so that takes her a lot longer.
Almost every time Iāve made her do it herself she scrapes off her new scales along with her old ones unfortunately.
Some have called "they pay me in woims" Sluggo's catch phrase. It's not. He said it once, and folks on Bluesky loved it so much they say it all the time, especially in response to the Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller account. Here's the original "they pay me in woims" from February 22, 1978:
And, another mention of woims from September 13, 1949:
And the Woims Wednesday (aka Woimsday) image that gets posted almost every week because of the popularity of the word:
Watching the Spanish dub of TADC for hearing comprehension reasons, and oh my god I love the casting choice for Caine. Doesnāt sound like the English voice exactly, but heās captured the āØessenceāØ so far. Canāt wait to see his rendition of the office crash out.
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