#Assistant Store Manager

[moonsnqil]

aftg au where bee adopted andrew and later aaron when they were teens. she owns an apple orchard that the twins and occasionally a few of the foxes help run but it's almost harvest season and she needs help prepping everything for the town's fall festivals so she decided to put up a help wanted ad. neil, tired, alone, and running out of options, decides to apply. bee let's him use the renovated barn loft as residence when she learns he's homeless. andrew is wary, his family means everything to him and neil is a flightly little thing that could only bring bad news, but something about neil is familiar. maybe it's how he checks all his exits or how he flinches when people touch him or how he cradles the key bee gave him in his palm like it was a treasure instead of a piece of metal. he asks neil for truths and it's like bleeding a rock but he finds neil is more willing when truth is reciprocated. they spend their days walking down the lines of apple trees, harvesting and talking, and andrew is only a little mesmerized with the way neil's auburn curls blend with the red of the apples and his eyes match the sky like something deliberate, like he was meant to be here. andrew thinks that maybe he doesn't hate how neil looks at him like he's worth something. andrew thinks that maybe he doesn't want to lose this. he's still learning how to accept that not everything is transactional, he doesn't need to make deals to keep people close, hes still figuring out how to want things without the fear of them being snatched away. his mind screams at him to turn away and push any feeling aside but then neil is handing him an apple and smiling and telling him stories he says he's never told anyone else and andrew doesn't think he deserves this but he wants it

[clancykisser]

we love dramatic high-fantasy or dangerous AUs yes but where's my stupid and silly slice of life aus. why don't we write about us and our f/os being unfortunate co-workers at a seven-eleven in the middle of downtown LA? au where you meet at a mutuals friends boring wedding and you leave early to get burgers and go over to one of your houses and watch family feud? an au where your f/o is a tech support person and they are trying despratley to talk you through re-routing your internet before having to come by with the cable man to do it for you? who says every day shit can't be fun and fullfilling? write about you and your f/o ordering coffee together and going to a mall in your city. It's fun!

[butchboromir]

my boss (our assistant store manager) said? joked? earlier that she wanted to quit her job and give it to me. What does it all mean. like girl how serious are you about this i would LOVE to take your job. but also i would be sad if she left because she is very nice and good at her job

[problematicsashawaybright]

Work has me scheduled as floor AND 1st backup cashier/front lead tonight and we have a new cashier who's working her first full cashier shift that's also her first full closing shift....... I get the feeling that I'm going to be training her tonight......on one of the busiest days of the week..... While we're doing an insane coupon promotion that everyone likes to misread and then get mad about when they find out they misread the terms.......

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

I work in the kids section of my store quite a lot (apparently I am one of the few employees here who likes children) and it’s GREAT a lot of the time. but wow. gets real messy.

LUCKILY I do enjoy sorting & organizing :D good fit for me!!

[kkisadorabubble]

I’ve been up since 4am these fuckass opening shifts during the week have screwed up my sleep schedule

I’ll go to bed

Wake up at 2:30

Try to fall back asleep then wake up at some other ungodly hour

This is not cool I don’t like this game

[cobalt-mutterings]

Always an "honorary" manager, never a real one

[sofarsogoodsowhat]

work was kind of awful today and i ended up crying in front of one of my coworkers that i don’t know all that well but he ended up like. talking me down from it and it was really nice he’s a cool guy. one of my other coworkers drove me home cuz i just like couldnt fucking handle taking the bus after how shitty ive felt this week and how awful today was and it’s just really nice to have a job where i actually really like most of my coworkers and like. they help me out when they’re able to

[villageoracle]

lord give me the strength to walk out at my job if i need 2

[jellybeanium124]

so one of my coworkers is another woman about my age who recently became single and is back on the dating scene. she likes talking to me about it and I don't mind, she's not being tmi or anything, but I'm finding it difficult to talk to her because I don't wanna be out at work. and I've mentioned being on and off hinge, but rn my settings are set to not show me men, while she's straight. I did at one point have it set to show me everyone so I know what straight men are up to on hinge but like it's hard to have these convos without explaining I'm bi ace (and also not really trying to date rn). like good for you enjoying having heterosexual sex and trying to find a boyfriend who isn't a crappy nothingburger of a man, but like you think we're the same and we're not and I'm not ready to explain that rip.

[actual-corpse]

Doug McMillon.

Bentonville, Arkansas

I know a few million employees who would love to see him get Adjusted.

[kozidraws]

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[pisshandkerchief]

not to be a drama queen but it's the end of an era. it's so fucking over.

[deeisace]

No one has like recently, but it does do my head in whenever someone's like "you've been at the same job forever now, why don't you change it, why don't you become a supervisor"

Firstly like I know I'm safe here, nobody's transphobic or nothing (the manager sometimes calls me they, but that's just cs he's like,, old, lmao, and he's started giving me funny little cheer-up shoulder bumps whenever a very misgendering customer leaves lmao, he's sound), I could not guarantee that going into a brand new job with strangers

Also like you clearly don't understand how much becoming a supervisor would wreck my life completely like,, I have an agreement with the manager that I don't do more than 30 hours on the regular (like, if there's something happened and I have to do 34 one week, the second week I will definitely be doing 25 instead to make up for it) for a reason, it's because I would have so little left if I did - I already still now fall asleep on the bus home sometimes, but I remember doing 40 hour weeks and sleeping through my breaks, not eating because I'm too tired to stand at the microwave for 5 minutes and don't have the brainpower to use a fork anyway, sleeping in my work uniform and only showering on my days off, cs I truly truly did not have the energy to live, y'know?

There is nothing you could pay me, nothing that would convince me to go back to that. There is no benefit good enough that I'd agree to that again. And to on top of that, be the one in charge for the day, the one making decisions and having to cash up end of day? No.

I might not make a lot of money, but I can get by, and at least - even if I'm still very tired, and have bed days-off to recover from the week sometimes - I can still think, and sit in my living room, and not cry walking home cs I'm so unbelievably bone-tired with it.

I don't care if "that's what you're supposed to do" is "progress in the company". I don't want to. For so so many reasons. But I am allowed to like my little life how it is, thank you.

Alright I'm shutting up now. Some of this might not be worded nicely, sorry, I am. Tired.

[beeboomachine]

i wish everyone thats passive aggressive a very skull caved in

[agentgreenbean]

lowkey fuck the company i work for. but i rly like my store specifically. there's very few people in the store who i don't like, bc even the managers actually Do Stuff