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it’s the middle of the night and i am now ready to start The Task!

right after i watch this short video

I work retail, and have for many years now. I’m not an easily fazed person and have a Talk No Shit, Take No Shit mentality. However, I also have a pretty intense anxiety disorder on top of other mental health issues and when I started 6+ years ago there were some customers who got to me.

So, to all the workers facing Karens and Kens out in the wild, here’s my advice - cry.

If you have the type of relationships with your coworkers and managers that will support you, don’t try to hold it in. Cry like the overworked, underpaid peon you are.

Nothing terrifies an asshole Karen like the indisputable proof that their actions/words are affecting you as a real live person. They feel perfectly entitled to cuss out a cashier over a wrong order/no cash policy/ face mask mandate but when that person starts to cry and asks them why they’d say such mean things? A whole other story, my friend.

There’s no way to make that situation look good to the manager they demanded to speak with, either. My manager literally got a security guard fired for being so verbally abusive he made one of her employees cry.

This strategy has multiple benefits -

1. You’re not standing there trying to pen up your emotions, crying is a great physical release for negative emotions and you may very well feel somewhat better afterwards.

2. The person who precipitated the situation is forced to not only see you as a person with feelings, but also has to confront the fact that their abuse has consequences beyond themselves.

3. It can actually give your higher-ups leverage to address these situations. ‘They yelled at my employee’ is one thing, but ‘They yelled at my employee until they were in tears’ is a waaaaay worse offense. A good manager can use that. Hell, it can get a security guard fired!

tl;dr: We live in a capitalist hell but we can work the system and cry at work to shame awful customers

amarguerite

ellatholmes

if you're a writer i wish u a very plot/story/character epiphany

incandescent-creativity

toastbutteregg

strangegirlsclub-deactivated202

wrap it up covid I wanna be in an interactive science museum

evilvarric666-archive

My hobbies? Uhhhh sensations mostly. Textures and patterns. But yeah mostly I just am really into like, experiences. Occasionally I dabble in thoughts.

satyriconmp3

i am in severe distress. i am vibing. i am king of the world. i am bored. i am lost at sea. i am making coffee. i am foraging in the forest. i am making tea. i am chasing pigeons. i am napping in a chair

strawbwebbie

rynoook

a quick sherb i drew for a friend 📖🥀

parkchanwoohoo

I don’t fucking care if it’s manipulative, if your gf larps as an elf while talking to your relative who’s undergoing chemo, you’re allowed to humiliate her in front of her friends by larping as Naruto

alex-fa-ch

If nothing else at least it’s funny

mayanangel

whoever made this deserves an award

fangirltothefullest

This is so funny

uovoc

the best part about sci-fi stories told from the point of view of an artificial intelligence is that you can have omniscient first-person narration and it fuckin slaps

uovoc

oh yeah, also the fact that the narrator will go “Unlike humans, I of course am always 100% rational” and then proceed to do something completely unhinged

crookedkingdom

cannot stop thinking about "if soulmates do exist they're not found. they're made" and how much more wonderful a concept it is. you were not made to fit with someone else, you were made be yourself and it's up to you to choose who fits with you and how they fit. you get to wake up every day and choose to have the people you love the most belong with you and that makes it so much more meaningful than some random act of fate forcing you together

bakwaaas

even though it’s bad for my physical and mental health I can’t stop staying up until 3am because there’s something about those hours of the night which feel like they’re just mine. it’s quiet and still, the night belongs to me

cowpokeprose

Maybe you aren’t annoying, maybe they were just annoyed. Maybe your entire personality can’t be boiled down to actions others found disruptive. Maybe peoples feelings are subjective views of you, not objective. The same way we teach kids to say “I feel angry when you do this thing” instead of “you made me angry!” maybe you should consider that people, due to their own personal beliefs about social interaction, felt annoyed in response to your actions but that that doesn’t necessarily mean you did something bad or are something bad. And while its sweet that you want to make sure people don’t have negative feelings, there’s a lot of humans in this world and we’re always going to be stepping on each others toes so maybe don’t let people feeling annoyed with you define you.

theaxiomofhope

holy shit did I need to hear that

grifalinas

Oh this is SO much more useful than ‘if someone is annoyed with you then THEY’RE the one in the wrong’

datasoong47

“A collection of common glyphs of the poorly understood Memeorite civilization of the Second Silicon Age. Memeorite glyphs possess multiple conflicting interpretations and a complexity of meaning impossible to capture in a few short words. These are rough translations only.”

Source: https://twitter.com/beach_fox/status/1325668490431246336 (which include more “memeorite glyphs”