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[peanutbutterclydesdale]

Imagine Daemons: Modern Retail

I wonder how different retail and other entry level jobs would be in a world with daemons. Obviously shopping aisles and the space behind register counters would have to be a bit wider to accommodate people. Would daemon’s help their people with cleaning/straightening the store? 

Would bosses expect it? Would they factor that in to how much work they expect you to get done? Would that be a question on the resume “what form is your daemon? How do you think your daemon might assist you in the workplace, and what accommodations do you think will be required?” and the answer is something they consider carefully when deciding to hire you. Or would asking that eventually be banned under an equal rights thing?

Would there be people who’s daemons are just so curious and clumsy that it affects their work? People asking their daemon to /please/ just take a nap or something. A cat daemon whose tail is twitching and waving wildly as their person puts up with irrational customers? Daemons engaging in conversations to help smooth out transactions?  “I can’t BELIEVE this company!”  “Wait... what exactly is the problem ma’am?”  “This is the most horribly run store I have ever seen!”  “Ma’am... I want to help but...”  ^super highly emotional and tense interaction ma’am’s daemon explains to manager’s daemon what actually happened and why it was upsetting. Manager’s daemon relays the message, and the manager figures out a way to sort things out.  That wouldn’t help with customers that deliberately try to pull one over on stores though....  speaking of,  Daemons serving as an extra pair of eyes to spot shoplifters, or watching carefully when people try slight-of-hand scams with money. 

Or the flip side... what if a daemon is a little grabby (reflecting a klepto or hoarding nature) and takes money from the register? 

Daemons that help their people get things from the lowest or highest shelves or pull/push heavy weights, giving them the ability to work even if they have bad knees or back problems or other disabilities.  

Daemon’s in restaurants? Daemons perched on counters as their person waits tables, keeping a careful eye out for any customers trying to signal for assistance/refills/etc. Daemons checking for things spilled or dropped on the floor to keep the restaurant clean. Bird daemons flitting up above the crowd to double check which tables are free and freshly bused to sit people at. 

Daemons in call centers? Could daemons work alongside their humans, answering calls? Or would they spend the time socializing with the other worker’s daemons, complaining about rude customers or bosses, passing on warnings about trouble calls being transferred, and relaying all the gossip to their person after work is over. 

[peanutbutterclydesdale]

Imagine Daemons

I just got mildly turned about (lost) for about half an hour out in the woods at the back of my property. Made me think of a teen and their daemon lost like that. Like the daemon looks like a species that should be at home in the woods, but it lived in suburbia all it’s life too, so it’s just like “I dunno the first thing about all this! D:”. And then it’s worried that some animal might mistake it for another animal at a distance or something and the daemon and the human have to take turns reassuring or distracting one another, both trying to remember the stuff that books and stories told them could help them find their way.  The twist... the forest is only five acres big. And it’s fully fenced off. They’re fine. In fact, their parent has been keeping an eye on them the whole time with the help of their bird daemon, letting them have a little adventure and sort things out for themselves for once without actually being in danger. When it gets a little late, the parent calls them in and they find out how close they were to the edge of the forest the whole time when they follow the sound back. They have a good laugh, the bird plays affectionately with the other daemon, they all head in for dinner, and the teen and the daemon talk all about their adventure, naturally embellished here and there, for dramatic effect.