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when spring hits

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going to tractor supply is hell. they force you to listen to a song with lyrics like "me plus you equals us" with a banjo in the background. i hate this state.

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Working in a custoner service job is an incredibly easy way to get dehumanized to other people btw.

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This isn't meant to be a haha funny relatably upset post fyi. Like this is just straight up something I'm saying. People do not treat customer service employees like humans as much as they should. I've had a man hit me in the back with a bag of scented pinecones to get my attention to tell me he found them when I said I didn't know if they were sold out since I hadn't been at work in a week, that man months later was complaining about me to a coworker, he recognized me half a year later despite having completely changed my look and brought it up like it was funny. I've had a woman tell me to my face that I was useless because I didn't have an easy solution to finding a price on something before demanding i lift the giant, heavy tent into her cart for her despite being half her size, and she didn't even buy it. I've had people ask me to open a product that I am not allowed to open, only to do it right in front of me when I say its not allowed. I've had people laugh at me when I said I was the one who was assisting them with something and scream at me when I said I couldn't assist with something. I've had to uncomfortably chuckle along when someone makes a joke about how I should know everything in the store because I didn't know if they were genuinely just joking or not. People just shove past or into me, or keep pushing their cart at me when I dont even notice them, because they expect me to move. The most fucked up part? These people are always completely polite to me when I'm just another customer in the store. I've had someone who told me I should just quit my job while on the clock later politely say excuse me and talk about the weather when I was simply buying chips out of uniform. In the same god damn day. The list goes on and on and on. The fact is that even if you don't personally dehumanize a customer service employee, so many people DO.

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This is ok to reblog btw, if you want to tell your own stories of experiences in a job like that go ahead. Just know that I'm sincerely sorry you had to or still have to deal with that stuff and you are so awesome for making it through that man

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at my very first job working in the kitchen at a country club, i would be routinely called out into the dining room where the club members would call me all sorts of heinous shit because their toast wasn't the same color of brown on both sides, or if their steak was slightly cold or overdone (because they'd let it sit there while they chatted), and i was expected to nod my head and smile because these people were long-term members and spent lots of money there.

when i worked at a casino (various dining venues), i had three different guests throw drinks at me, had another guy take the lid off his drink and splash the entire thing all over me, had two customers throw food at me, and had a bowl of ice cream thrown at me, all because they were "stressed", and i just happened to be there. i also had a guest literally PUNCH ME IN THE FACE when i told him that we were out of prime rib.

i moved out of state and took a retail job at a department store, where i worked in home goods. customers would routinely make a mess, pulling stuff out of place and setting it everywhere except where they got it, and look directly at me and tell me "sorry i made a mess for you" while smiling. i got called a "stupid cunt who should have been aborted" by a lady when i informed her that we were out of the novelty christmas ornament that she wanted. had numerous children hit and kick me while i was working and the parents would just be like "teehee kids will be kids!".

when i lived in utah i literally got attacked by a customer who had a little bit too much meth and grabbed my apron and used that to haul me around right into a nearby wall.

you might think this all sounds ridiculous and unbelievable, or i'm exaggerating details, but i promise you i'm not. talk to literally anyone who has ever worked any kind of service job and they'll tell you horror stories. and we're always expected to just "bounce back" right after it happens, because god forbid that we ever have to go home for any reason. to customers, we're forms of life that are lower than humans, and even to our managers and bosses, we're expendable cogs in the machine that are there to take the flak for them.

no one out there cares about service workers.

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As you can clearly tell from the gimmick of this blog, I once worked at a Tractor Supply store for a while

first of all, the sexism. Every customer will see a woman (literally half the entire staff) and be like “oh haha weak girl pick up big bag? Crazy. Anyways can I get a Man to come and assist me?” constantly. Fuck you sir, I can heave this 50 lb sack of corn at you if you would prefer it. People would see the female staff working over in the hardware section and ask us to go find a man

I was personally never touched beyond uncomfortable and unwanted shoulder and arm contact, but had a coworker get her ponytail yanked by a man who was annoyed at her for telling him hi twice. Men still constantly wanted to use pet names, stare at my ass when my back was turned, and act like I was flirting with them when I was asking if they had a rewards number with the store (and you may not think that’s as uncomfortable as it sounds but when they start talking to other men in the line about how they hope you dont call them when their wives are at home, or wink at you..,, yeah)

Once a regular customer came and beat on our doors 20 minutes after we closed, demanding to come in and buy dog food from us. When a female coworker came to give me backup he very obviously looked her up and down and smiled before trying to use pet names to wheedle his way into the store. I was understandably uncomfortable around him after that and he filed a complaint calling me racist because I didn’t engage past basic politeness the next time he came through my line at the register

I was demeaned for not knowing exactly how much of a certain product we had, or if we even had it, and have been cursed at for being unable to do a return for a customer (and one notable event where a customer became incensed when I asked her to wait in line so I could process her recent transaction and give her back a two dollar discount)

That’s not even getting into the backbreaking work the “low-traffic” stores have to deal with when the freight trucks come in. The way upper management is incapable of treating workers like human beings despite constantly touting their support for us. I enjoyed some of the time i spent there but also fuck ‘em

I will say the one good thing about Tractor Supply is that depending on the store you might be working with a Good Ol Country Boy (TM) and those motherfuckers will go to war for you. They may be homophobic but god help the bastard who tries to pull some shit with the cashiers when they’re nearby