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Hey quick question do people actually wear jeans indoors at home? Like, as a casual thing to wear? As in you don’t plan on going out or anything you just put jeans on.

otherwindow

so many of you are saying yes what the fuck

cuphead-deactivated20220622

Man how do people work in retail for like 3 years. I admire them for that because 6 months of this has been hard enough mentally.

powerburial

You just gotta get to that special mental place where u don’t give a shit. Like youll be saying to the customer “yeah im really sorry about that. I know. I understand. Im really sorry. Youre right it is ridiculous. Im sorry” but your eyes are vacant and youre thinking about street fighter combos and what songs might sound good slowed down

justin-introduction

Retail Stories

When customers ask, “How do you know you don’t have this anywhere else?”

enticed-by

when ya homegirl reading tf outta somebody and you just sitting watching like

lowkey-extrovert

When the manager tells the customer the exact same thing you just told them

bloomflowersbloom

sobeitjayt

i hate that shit so much lol

pettyrevenge

I work at a furniture store and when I have rude customers I purposely decline their credit card multiple times just to watch them panic.

bloomflowersbloom

durbikins

A competition between retail stores to see whose Captain America t-shirts are the most pre-faded.

yamanitos

when your shift is over but the customer keeps talking

micdotcom

This map shows every state where women are more likely to live in poverty than men

Wait… hold up. Every state is colored in. That can’t be right… right?

Unfortunately, the map is accurate. And it’s especially problematic for millennial women, who are much more likely to have a bachelor’s degree or higher than millennial men, but who are consistently earning less living and living in poverty more.

taylormariegreen

SLAMS THE REBLOG BUTTON

note-a-bear

“But women earn more degrees” and still get paid less, so eat my whole ass

gaeans

punlich

One time I used my retail voice on a coworker and she was like, “Don’t use your customer voice on me, I know you’re dead inside like the rest of us, it’s just frightening and weird”

1980sbusinesswoman

The other day I asked for a table for two in my customer voice and the waitress squinted at me and I cleared my throat and said “Sorry, still in service mode” and she dropped hers and we swapped stories about our day and my boyfriend was like “You two just became two entirely different people in like .5 seconds…”

gritsinmisery

I can be bitching up a blue streak about a customer-from-hell while the store is empty, and when the phone rings swap over to my retail voice practically in mid-sentence. I even have managers and salespeople from other stores in the chain fooled into thinking I’m infinitely friendly and helpful, and my manager’s husband thinks I’m one of the most professional people in the store. One assistant manager’s daughter dubbed me Perky-Pants because she mostly dealt with me over the phone, and was shocked to the core when I dropped an F-bomb at her graduation picnic.

thesmilingfish

The acting required in the service industry is beyond the pale. My cousin freaked out when she came to see me at work because I was all smiling and nice while helping someone who was asking inane questions and who basically forced me to walk them to the product and put it in their fucking hand but I was nice as pie until I turned around to walk away and my demeanor changed back to normal and I muttered “what a fucking moron” under my breath as I got back to my cousin. She just looked at me shocked and said “no wonder you’re so exhausted when you get home.”

eat-my-dragon-deactivated201611

this is actually referred to as emotional labor in criminology, and is considered one of the hardest forms of labor