#Walmart employee of the month

[ozmosiis]

Ash Williams is insane because at literally ANY POINT he could’ve just said “not my problem” and dipped. But no. Dude got his hand possessed, chopped it off, strapped a chainsaw to the stump like those noodle and glue hacks from 2019, and said “groovy.” He got fucking launched back to 1300 AD, looked around at literal knights and castles, and decided he was still the most qualified person in the room. He’s not saving the world out of duty or destiny. No, he’s doing it because he’s too stubborn to let some crusty ass book and a few thousand zombies destroy the shelves he just stocked. Like my guy, you are not the divine chosen one. You are a stockboy with a grudge and a boomstick, and I respect the hell out of that.

[rachielynne728]

So, a recent work update, I was taken completely by surprise at the afternoon meeting the other day to be awarded the Associate of the Month for April 😄 Thank you so very much Walmart!!!!! I'm so Honored ❤️

[butchez]

yesterday i cut my finger on the tomato slicer and also bruised my palm from using it too strong and today my freaking tire blew up and lunch rush was yuckkkkyyyy literally 30 sandwiches ordered within the span of like 45 minutes and there was only one other coworker. and right before my shift ended someone bought the last raspberry cookie.

[technofeudalism]

let's recap what we've learned about the United States in the last few days.

things that are terrorism:

allegedly shooting a healthcare CEO whose company generated more pure profit (not revenue, profit) in a year than the GDP of 94 countries, exclusively by denying coverage to people who pay for it

a 42-year-old mother of 2 using the wrong combination of 7 words during a heated conversation with a call center employee at a health insurance company who was in the process of denying her health coverage.

things that are not terrorism:

mass shooting in a Black church to incite a race war

going to a BLM protest specifically to kill protestors

a neo-nazi running over a crowd of people, killing a woman

targeting and killing 23 latinos in an el paso, texas walmart

killing 12 people in a theatre, shooting 58 others, rigging your apartment with explosives

a QAnon groyper killing 7 and shooting ~50 at a 4th of July parade

killing 3 people and shooting several others at a Planned Parenthood in defense of the unborn

stalking someone relentlessly and then killing them and their child despite months of the victim making police reports

any one of the 1,200 murders committed by US police yearly, the vast majority being minorities

tightening your border while ~100 immigrants (including children) drown every year in the Rio Grande

United Healthcare killing an unnknowable number of elderly people by using faulty AI to deny medically necessary coverage

Aetna killing a woman by refusing to cover her cancer care

Blue Cross killing a 6-year-old by denying her appendicitis surgery

Cigna killing a 17-year-old child by denying her liver transplant

the pharmaceutical industry killing half a million people with opioids in the name of producing revenues in 2023 that rivaled the GDPs of countries like Spain, Mexico, and Australia.

the United States killing 45,000 people a year because they can't access health coverage

make sure you keep this guide handy the next time you find yourself interacting with your insurance company or any other millionaire, billionaire, or an individual who is part of a protected class such as a CEO or president of a corporation.

[bunnyb34r]

Brings me such joy to see shelves and shelves of that nasty ass "feastables" candy bullshit and absolutely no one buying them ❤

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[itsclownhours]

happy pride month to social darwinists, taco bell employees, ukrainian autotune rappers, furries, café owners, and people who are banned from their local walmart

[moscatosin]

🖤slytherin gang's first jobs 🖤 this is absolute crack nonsense that rots in my brain - enjoy xo (with a pepsi!)

Theodore Nott – Barnes and Nobles

Wears a little name tag that has his name printed in cursive. People think he’s shy – ha! Wrong.

Pretends to be indifferent about books but is basically a walking Goodreads account.

Has read more smut than he’ll ever admit. Will not so subtly recommend less popular dark romance reads to innocent customers – like your gran.

Was once caught trying to rearrange the entire fantasy section by trauma intensity.

Any time anyone picks up a copy of ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ you can hear him audibly sigh from across the store.

Gives unsolicited life advice disguised as book recs. “You look like you pretend to be okay. Try Sylvia Plath.”

Flirts with older women buying erotica. “No ma’am, I do think you’d enjoy this one. The plot’s very thick. A little like me.”

Set up a ‘Smut for the Soul’ corner and reads from it at 9PM every Friday in a dark turtleneck while sporting thin framed glasses he doesn’t need, no matter the season.

Blaise Zabini – In ‘n Out

Wears the paper hat tilted like it is Balenciaga baby.

Prefers working the drive-thru window and calls it his “VIP booth.”

Offers life advice with your order. “He doesn’t text back because he’s emotionally constipated. Get the vanilla shake, you deserve love.”

Has 7 write-ups for saying ‘animal style, like your last relationship’ out loud.

Winks at the camera that doesn’t exist when people order grilled cheese.

Has a fake accent and uses a different one every shift. Tuesdays are French. Sundays? Brooklyn.

Constantly alters the menu. Created something called the ‘Zabini Zester’ that nearly sent a man into cardiac arrest.

Has a fan club of middle-aged moms who tip him in cash and trauma overshare.

Draco Malfoy – Sephora

Stands at the Dior counter in all black like it’s the entrance to Olympus.

Will not speak to you unless he thinks you’ve exfoliated.

Happily roasts your makeup routine before you even ask for his help. “You’re using what primer? Oh – how bold of you.”

Management keep begging him to tone down his attitude – Draco will NOT!

If anyone asks for a dupe, he makes a sound like a dying ferret.

Upsells the same $90 highlighter to every customer – even if they didn’t come in for highlighter, and convinces them it was ‘exclusively made for their undertone’.

Will start beef with the teenage girls who walk in wanting to test foundation with unwashed brushes and ends up giving them a tutorial on the perfect smokey eye that ends in existential crisis.

Is on his third HR warning for whispering ‘remember to blend otherwise you’ll be begging for mercy’ to any ‘Karen’ that walks in.

Lorenzo Berkshire – Walmart

Works in literally every department because no one knows or can figure out what he was hired for or if he was even hired.

Creates spiritual retreats in the homemaker aisles consisting of bean bag thrones and crystal balls. HR refuses to engage with him.

Once got tased by security for trying to steal a karaoke machine while still clocked in.

Can be found rollerblading in the sports section while singing Bohemian Rhapsody using his pricing gun as a microphone.

Attempted to adopt a feral raccoon from the parking lot one afternoon. Named it Kevin. Kevin bit him. Kevin does however, still visit and has won employee of the month.

During lunch breaks, he sleeps in the camping aisle surrounded by lanterns and half eaten packets of beef jerky.

Climbs into ball pits in the toy section and pops out screaming to scare children and parents alike during Halloween.

Tries to spiritually cleanse customers by waving incense sticks near the self-checkout machines.

Mattheo Riddle – Olive Garden

Does not actually work; just loiters around the kitchens for most of the night and management have given up trying to move him on.

Is obsessed with parmesan. Stares customers down during the cheese grating and only stops when he feels it is enough. “You think you control the cheese? That’s adorable.”

Organises staff cage fights in the walk-in freezer. Winners get extra break time and stolen bottles of merlot.

Has an inability to write down guest orders. Forgets what they’ve said the moment he leaves their table. Serves chaos instead.

Tattoos people using a safety pin and food dye in the back stock room. Same tattoo every time – lasagna on their ankle.

If anyone asks for low-fat anything, he serves them full.

Once turned off all the restaurants lights and screamed “Breadsticks are a lie” before leaving midshift.

Loves working Valentine’s day just to make couples uncomfortable. “Girl – does he really value you if he brought you to Olive Garden of all places?” Always manages to get the crying girls number before she leaves.

Pansy Parkinson – Abercrombie & Fitch

Conducts ‘vibe checks’ at the entrance as she welcomes you. If you fail, you’re redirected to Hollister.

Gatekeeps the good jeans and redirects anyone who she isn’t on a first name basis with to the clearance section.

Comes in even when she’s not scheduled to work to drink oat lattes in the staffroom and trash-talk customers.

Will not respond to management unless they pronounce her name like “Pahn-zee.”

Gives unsolicited life advice to anyone in the changerooms. “Like yeah – that dress is cute… if you wanna look like your ex’s rebound.”

Accidently started a cult following called Pansy’s People on TikTok. Uses it to rate customers outfits and declare new it-girl styles.

Often caught doing tarot readings for customers using expired coupons.

Refuses to offer customer assistance if Mercury is retrograde.

Tom Riddle – Apple

Stands at the Genius Bar and glares at customers like he’s deciding who lives and who gets locked out of their icloud account forever.

Will say “Oh, you forgot your password again?”, with such venom that customers will cry openly in front of him.

Refers to Siri as his ‘only equal’ during morning staff meetings.

Refers to broken iphones people bring in as – weak. Often tells people their ipads have died because they ‘lacked discipline.’

Rewrote the company mission statement in Latin to better suit his opinions and emailed it to the entire company insisting it be implemented.

Refuses to wear a nametag – everyone just knows his name because of rumoured whispers.

Claims that airpods are vessels for truth and will excommunicate anyone who loses one.

No, when Mattheo asks – Tom refuses to give him family staff discounts.

[lastoneout]

I try not to talk shit about boycotts even if they are the kind that historically don't do any good because I believe in harm reduction and every little bit helps, and also bcs I don't want to discourage people from taking action...but the people saying we just have to keep up the economic blackout for the rest of the foreseeable future and if you need anything just get it from "local/small businesses" clearly all live in cities and/or are not disabled.

Sometimes Walmart is legit your ONLY option for groceries in small towns, and that's because Walmart intentionally drove all the independent stores out of business. I spent a lot of my childhood in a village with a population of 200(and I've spent a lot of my life living in different small towns) and the only local restaurant was open like a handful of completely random days out of the year and when the owner died they closed. If you wanted to buy anything you're either driving to the nearest bigger town to shop at a Walmart or Food Lion or Win-Dixie or Safeway because those are your only options, or buying stuff online and hoping the shipping fees don't cost more than the product itself/that they deliver to your neck of the woods AT ALL.

And that's not even getting into how disability can complicate this. Try buying everything you need at small local businesses when you don't have a car, don't have good/any public transit, the nearest post office is in a different town, you likely aren't getting proper treatment because the only specialist who can help is a 2 hour drive away, your mobility is limited/you're in a wheelchair or use another mobility aid, and you get like less than $1k a month in gov benefits and like $200 in EBT. Most local businesses have to upcharge because they aren't Walmart and $1k a month is NOT enough to shop at them for all your needs. Barely enough to shop for one of your needs, tbh. And these people cannot just leave because that $1300 bucks goes a lot farther in the ass end of nowhere than it does in a city that could actually meet your needs. There's no winning.

(Also sorry if someone has autism or ARFID and all they can stomach is McDonalds or idk Hot Pockets and Uncrustables then I think they deserve to be left the fuck alone to eat whatever food they can. Disabled people get a pass on this, because disabled people suffering and dying is bad and society already treats us like subhuman freaks. Fun tip! If you see your disabled friend who has food texture issues eating chicken nuggets from McDonalds you can try leaving them the fuck alone about it! Hope that helps!! (Like dude I hate shopping at Whole Foods but that is the store with the biggest gluten free section. And I need to eat.)

And like the most annoying thing is that NONE of the people posting about this are suggesting like, any form of mutual aid to support people who can't currently take part for one reason or another? Which is why it doesn't fucking work. Capitalism makes you complicit, it destroys all your other options so that you have to buy from big corporations, and lobbies to ensure this is legal and also all of your non-private options for transportation and necessities are shit and get replaced by slightly better private options BUT only until they reveal they were only being "good" to destroy their competition and now are going to be even worse than the places they ran out of business.

(Also like, I love local businesses too and try to shop at them as much as I can...but they aren't always more ethical than the alternative and acting like they are is profoundly disconnected from reality. In 2016 when I lived in Flagstaff, AZ we voted to raise the state minimum wage to $10 an hour, and Flagstaff specifically voted for $15. This was needed, rent on a studio apartment in 2016 was like $1k and that was BEFORE utilities and internet. And it almost worked, only a coalition of small business owners threw such a massive fit about having to possibly pay their employees enough to survive in an insanely expensive city to live in that the city council REVERSED THE DECISION. Flagstaff is honestly a ridiculously classist city, beat only by the evil rich people paradise that is fucking Sedona(which is almost entirely local businesses, who are owned by people who voted against setting aside one parking lot at a charity for PEOPLE TO SLEEP IN THEIR CARS because you cannot live in Sedona unless you're rich, and the rich people there don't really care if the person working at the crystal shop can't afford to eat or is living out of their car.) Anyway, the poor people in Flagstaff had their say, but our say was not considered good enough, and was fucking overruled to protect the interests of rich assholes who would absolutely love to continue to be able to treat us all like shit and pay us nothing. So yeah. Small/local does NOT mean ethical. I've seen franchised fast food restaurants treat their employees better and pay them more than some small local ones do. And that's not even getting in to how a lot of local businesses are NOT accessible for people with mobility aids. Half the stores on 4th Ave are so small my wheelchair can't fit comfortably inside or have stairs at the entrance. It's always more complicated than just "buy local".)

The people who can afford to avoid stores like Walmart are probably already doing it(you couldn't pay me to go into a Walmart unless it was absolutely necessary, I fucking hate that place SO goddamn much that it legit gives me panic attacks if I'm in there for too long) and the ones who can't afford it can't afford it, and you are offering absolutely no support to help fix that. It's just "shop local! don't go to Walmart or use Amazon!! don't use your debit card!!" with no acknowledgement of those intentionally being the only options a lot of people can fucking afford or that exist at all. That's how capitalism works!! You can't fight it by refusing to accept how it controls people's lives, and pushing people to take part in a broad, directionless boycott with no consideration for the reality of living in America right now or help offered to vulnerable people who legit cannot just shop local is doomed to fail.

If you can shop local(and know the local shops aren't run by power-mad capitalists playing pretend as feudal lords and are not at all better in terms of ethical business than Walmart) and avoid Target and Walmart and McDonalds, by all means, do. If you can help your friends, family, or community members do the same then DO IT. But if your only suggestion is just "stop shopping at anywhere owned by a capitalist" then I'm sorry you have no idea how boycotts work, shouldn't be organizing one, and absolutely should not be pressuring people who cannot reasonably take part without mutual aid offering to support them for however long it goes on for to just, idk fucking starve themselves and die for the greater good.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott worked because the community came together to make sure everyone who took part had a way to get to work and school and the grocery store and the doctor's office. It's just like a strike, you need mutual aid and money to make it possible for people to do it at all, and it does need to be targeted if it's going to register as anything more than a blip on the radar. Pooling money to split a Costco membership with your roommates or neighbors or family and giving them rides there when they need it so you can all spend at a company that has stood up to Trump instead of caving, or idk vandalizing all the Teslas in uh, Minecraft, does more to take money out of the pockets of companies like Walmart and Target and Tesla than shouting at marginalized people on BlueSky about how if they don't figure out how to shop local they're complicit in the evils of capitalism and clearly don't care about building a better world.

[black-fist-order]

BREAKING: Renowned business expert Scott Galloway hammers Donald Trump as "stupid" and says that he's "blackout drunk" at the "wheel of the global economy" as his tariffs destabilize the entire world.

He also alleged that Trump's sudden tariff reversal enriched his MAGA cronies in the "greatest day of insider trading and grift in history."

This is one rant that every American needs to hear...

During an appearance on The View, Galloway — who is a successful entrepreneur and a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business — was asked by co-host Whoopi Goldberg about Trump's recent behavior.

She slammed him for having "wreaked havoc on the global economy since his so-called liberation day last week with massive tariffs" and pointed out that he backtracked and lowered his tariffs on most countries to 10% while imposing an effective tariff rate of 145% on China.

"It would be hard to think of a more elegant way to reduce prosperity this fast," said Galloway.

"Let's talk about Apple," he continued. "The notion was we're going to bring back all of those great jobs? The average Apple assembly person in China makes $500 a month. The average Apple employee focusing on more high-value things like design, store management, makes $200,000 a year here."

"We want to wear Nikes. We don't want to make them," he went on. "We have outsourced low-wage jobs overseas such that we can create more profits, more investments, and create higher wage jobs."

"If these tariffs hold, your iPhone's going to go from $1000 bucks to $2,300," he explained. "To make an iPhone in the U.S. it would cost $3,500. As a result, the threats of these tariffs take Apple's stock down the value of Walmart in three days."

"If these tariffs hold... 80% of toys under the Christmas tree are from China," Galloway continued. "So 90% of U.S. households are budget-constrained. So we're talking about half the number of toys."

"We're talking about a destruction in shareholder value such that your parents can't retire as quickly and we're talking about the entire world rerouting their supply chain around 'brand America,' which, quite frankly, right now is toxic uncertainty — so they can bypass a series of unpredictable, epileptic, sclerotic decisions," he stated.

"What we finally need to acknowledge: We have someone at the wheel of the global economy that is blackout drunk right now," he continued.

Later in the segment, Galloway dismissed the idea that Trump's policy is setting the stage for the "economy of the future" by bringing jobs back.

"First off, America is the second largest manufacturer in the world," he said. "And the Cato Institute — we romanticize manufacturing — the Cato Institute did a survey, 80% of us believe that we should have more manufacturing but only 20% of us want to work in manufacturing."

"There is no line to get in and have work at an assembly plant in Lansing, Michigan," he continued. "What we want is high-paying jobs. Quite frankly, if this president cared about young men and trying to up-level people we'd go to a minimum wage of $25 a hour."

"And by the way, if minimum wage had kept pace with productivity and inflation it'd be somewhere between $23 and $27 an hour," he explained. "This is nothing but in my view—"

"Do you realize that yesterday about ten minutes before he put a pause on the tariffs and Apple skyrocketed, the market went up 2000 points, there was huge activity in the options market," he went on.

"Yesterday will go down as the greatest day of insider trading and grift in history," said Galloway. "Someone knew what was going on and made a lot of money and it wasn't us and we're going to find out about this."

"If you want to go back — he talks about the great era of the late 19th century — guess what? When we didn't have indoor plumbing? Where we had child labor? I'll take Netflix and novocaine," he said.

"We have a habit because of social media to talk about how terrible America is," he went on. "There are [one hundred and ninety-five] nations, they would all trade places with us."

"Do we have income inequality, we have polarization, do we have struggling young people? A hundred percent," he said. "But guess what? This nation is less bad than any other nation except if you want to take us back to the past. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever."

Galloway was then asked about America's image around the world under Trump.

"We have the greatest inflow of capital which drives our stock up which lets us borrow money at a lower cost," he explained. "We have the greatest inflow of human capital. What do the best and the brightest in the world have in common? They want to come to our universities, they want to live in America."

"And part of that is that the American brand is risk aggressiveness, it's rule of law, it's consistency," said Galloway. "Rule of law has gone out the window. Right? We've now decided to defy court orders. We're having used car sales on the White House lawn."

"We are rounding people up with the wrong tattoo and shipping them off without due process to essentially hellscape prisons," he continued. "Rule of law is gone. Consistency? The tariffs are on, they're off, the tariffs are on, the tariffs are off."

"We're alienating nations that love us and we love. When did we decide to go to war against Canada!?" he asked. "Canada!? You know what Canada did?"

"There's this great line that the Holocaust survivor talking to Warren Buffet said, how do you judge friends? V'ery simply, I ask a question would they hide me?'" he said.

"Canadians hid us in the [Iran] hostage crisis," he went on. "The Canadian embassy hid six Americans and if they'd been found out they would have been hung by cranes. We're going to war against Canada!? They are our true friends. We can't even articulate why we're angry with them. We are going to war with everyone at the same time."

"The big winner here, if there is a winner, is China over the medium and long-term, who says 'You may not like us, but you can count us,'" said Galloway.

"The damage here... When he paused the tariffs yesterday, he took the knife halfway out of the economy's back, but the injury will take years, if not decades, to heal," he predicted. "The definition of stupid is doing something that hurts yourself while hurting others. This could not be more stupid...!"

[stellaluna33]

So many people saying that Jess (Mr. "Employee of the Month") should have been in the Walmart commercial, and... I get it! It would be lovely to see him! See a little call-back to that storyline! But...

Please... that man is 40 years old now! 😭 PLEASE let him keep his successful and fulfilling career at an independent book press in a different state! He's FREE! The only way he'd be getting an employee discount NOW is if he were working at Walmart NOW. 😭 Do NOT send that beautiful 40-year-old man back to Retail Hell, I BEG YOU!!! 😭😭😭

[who-is-ashhhh]

Tales From the Grocery Store

A Tales From the Gas Station AU

At the center of town, just across from the post office/"fire department", to the right of the church, and to the left of the bar, there is a shitty grocery store.

The town has only 2 real sources of pride. 1, the high school football team made it through the first round of playoffs back in '96. And 2, they have the largest grocery store in a 15-mile radius (never mind that the people 2 towns over have a Walmart)

Jack has been here way longer than any other employee. He was originally hired to stock frozen food. One time, he was told to fill in for a cashier who called out (no, he wasnt given any training, why would he?), and ever since, his job each night can fall anywhere between a bakery clerk and a janitor.

not that it matters much, cause since the end of high school, the place has had an unrelenting tight grip on him, sometimes literally.

The constant cycle of new part-timers has long since worn him down. You can only show teenagers how to put something on a shelf or how to ring up groceries so many times. The poor folks never seem to last. Second place for longest time as an employee was 6 months, and that ended with multiple shoppers needing therapy and an FBI cover-up.

The managers come and go like a county fair. Appear out of nowhere and then disappear like they never existed. When the owners are asked who they are, what qualifications do they have, how do they always know what I'm thinking, why do they have 4 extra pairs of hands or any other nonsense like that, they respond by saying that they are transfers from another branch. Ignoring the fact that there are, in fact, no other branches.

Not to mention that the place is a magnet for the unusual and otherworldly. The woman who always seems to be preaching from exactly 5 am to 8 pm every day, whether rain or shine, with no breaks. The alluring voice that comes from the back door by the loading dock, calling out to any poor unsuspecting employee unfortunate enough to hear it, begging them to follow them, no one who has has ever been seen again. The mold that never seems to go away at the bottom of the dairy case. The fish. The products with labels in a language that can't exist appearing out of nowhere. The Fish. What happens when one dares to speak the word Q-U-I-E-T.

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Jerry is the ex-cultist who came in every other day for the soggy made-in-house sandwiches. Eventually, his cult abandons him and the only place he can go is the shitty grocery store. Jack takes pity on him, and seeing as they just that day they lost a cashier, he suggests the job to Jerry.

Jerry is by no means a good employee, but considering that he is one of the few to actually stay for longer than a few months, the owners don't care that much. He gets the job done (even if in the most inconvenient way) and with minimal property damage.

Rosa is the newest hire and is the only one who is consistently above average at her job. She was hired after the last stocker quit, and ever since the store is the most put together it has ever been.

All the grocery is perfectly stocked and fronted. The backstock is always where it's supposed to be. Expired stock is rarely on shelves. She is the only reason why anything running smoothly.

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Jack is starting to think that there is more than what meets the eye. What with the owner's weird, nearly religious worship of The Founder and the oddities becoming more frequent than customers, there is definitely something more going on.

But he can't bring himself to care. After all, he is getting paid nowhere near enough to deal with this shit.

[beardedmrbean]

(Reuters) - Target has been sued for allegedly concealing the risks of its diversity and social initiatives, leading to a backlash that caused customers to flee and the stock price of the Minneapolis-based retailer to plummet.

In a proposed class action on Friday, shareholders led by the City of Riviera Beach Police Pension Fund in Florida said Target defrauded them into paying inflated prices for its stock and unknowingly supporting management's "misuse of investor funds to serve political and social goals."

The lawsuit said the retailer, CEO Brian Cornell and other officials failed to disclose the risk of consumer boycotts stemming from Target's Environmental, Social and Governance and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.

It also said Target concealed backlash from its May 2023 Pride Month campaign, which led the retailer to remove some LGBTQ-themed merchandise after in-store confrontations led some employees to fear for their safety.

Target's share price fell 22% on Nov. 20, 2024, wiping out about $15.7 billion of market value, after it forecast disappointing profit and holiday sales.

Shareholders said Target's underperformance stood "in stark contrast" to results at rival Walmart, and reflected "continued backlash from its campaigns."

Target did not immediately respond on Monday to requests for comment.

The lawsuit in the Fort Myers, Florida federal court seeks damages for Target shareholders from Aug. 26, 2022 to Nov. 19, 2024.

It was filed after Target said on Jan. 24 it would end DEI initiatives this year, including a program to support Black-owned businesses that it adopted following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

Target joined Walmart, Amazon.com and some other prominent companies to scale back such initiatives, which have been attacked by many conservatives including U.S. President Donald Trump.

The case is City of Riviera Beach Police Pension Fund v Target Corp et al, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, No. 25-00085.

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Ooh, have any of the Decepticons done anything with their holoforms, if they have any? Have they lead fake lives? Is that why they disappeared for a few years? :0

Anyways, I'd imagine Megatron would use his to either become a poet writer, or the most badass wrestler you've ever seen. Maybe even both.

Oh boy have the Cons goofted off with their holoforms.

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In light of Optimus teaching in his holoform, some of the Decepticons got the grand idea to use holoforms as well. It started small, usually with the Con in question just going to watch a film or wander around. But with time, they grew more and more bold.

Knockout took to joining up with the racing leagues. At first, he was just an observer. But after mocking the drivers for their poor form a few too many times, he was pushed into joining the race where he promptly dominated all his competitors through his expert understanding of his frame. Sure a sports car in rather unconventional, but none of his fellow racers felt the need to get on his case about it when Knockout was almost always the victor. The best part about the whole thing is that not a soul can figure out who Knockout is. He comes once a week to the race, joins or watches, and then seems to vanish into thin air afterwards.

He has gained the lovely title of "Ghost Racer" due to his habit of appearing everywhere and anywhere without warning. There are rumors that he was perhaps a racer who died in an accident and now haunts the track to get his rightful medal. Others say that he is a retired racer just looking to stir the pot a bit. And there are some who murmur that perhaps Knockout really is just some guy with luck that really shouldn't be plausible. Knockout is aware of all the rumors and goes out of his way to foster each of them. He enjoys the respect they get him.

Breakdown didn't mean to use his holoform at all. But during a quick scouting mission, he decided to use his holoform to get a better look around a small town and see if the energon readings were real or not. As he wandered, he did not at all expect to find an old man working on his car out back. Curious, Breakdown watched from a distance until the elderly man invited him over to have a beer. Then being interested, Breakdown accepted the offer and ended up spending all afternoon with the man he came to know as Mr. Carpenter. From that point on, he was in deep. The cover story he gave was that he was an immigrant without any living relatives involved in some shady under the table business to stay afloat. In light of his story, Breakdown found himself adopted without meaning to.

Now he comes by a few times a month to help around the farm. He assists in fixing cars, usually by holding the light and passing Mr. Carpenter tools. He puts down fence posts when he can and overall does whatever he is able to in order to assist his elderly companion. He is always invited in for dinner and has since become an adopted son of sorts. Mr. Carpenter's children adore him and he has since become the fun uncle to the grandkids. Unbeknownst to Breakdown, Mr. Carpenter and his family are fully aware that he is not human. However they have never been ones to judge a book by its cover, so they treat him as if he were just a young man a little lost in life. He is a full member of their household, and Breakdown adores the feeling of family.

Soundwave uses his holoform very rarely. But when he does use it, he does so to go buy cat food for his favorite felines. He goes to the same Walmart every. single. time. And Primus, the employees fear him. His holoform is unnerving in the oddest of ways. He looks totally normal, too normal. His eyes are too bright, his skin too glossy. Everything about him is perfectly average, but without fault. The employees have dubbed him "The Skinwalker" and have since allowed him to come in, buy what he wants, and leave in absolute silence. Not a soul speaks to him, and for good reason.

Starscream and Shockwave do not use holoforms. Both see it as beneath them. However against all the odds, Dreadwing has used his holoform a handful of times in order to do some private investigation work. He is fond of true crime, and off and on, he will wander around to inspect cold cases. Cybertronian tech is more advanced than human tools. As such, he has had the satisfaction of cleaning up a few old cases through leaving anonymous tips. Police across the world have given him the name "The tipper".

Megatron, once he got back from his little escapade in space, used his holoform for more recreational reasons. Once in a blue moon, he will turn up at underground fighting rings just to beat the snot out of the rookies who try to make it big. He finds joy in reliving his days as Champion of Kaon. He has even gone so far as the made his underground fighting name "Kaon" Just so that when he wins, he can be dubbed the Champion of the place he once called home. He knows its a waste of time, especially since his holoform can't really be beaten. Despite that, he has a grand time putting criminals in their place and giving a few tips to the upstarts who have potential.

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only if u rly wanna: WarGreymon blorbo who works retail (he is miserable, looks like a normal wargrey w blue eyes) his life is suffering for he has seen the horrors of working at walmart. he cannot quit.

he literally doesn't even try to get employee of the month his co-workers are all actually just so bad at the job but he can't say anything because it's a lot of their first jobs but at the same time some of you have been here for like 4 months and you keep scanning the wrong things and then we have to do like 3 refunds in one transaction and how does this keep happening it's not even time for lunch break yet and how's he going to stock up his section if he keeps having to run up to the front to help someone out and he shouldnt even be scheduled right now because not only is it outside of his availability, today's supposed to be his day off to just sit at home and do nothing but play red dead redemption 2 but Victoria had this thing she had to do at noon but she forgot to ask for the day off for and she overheard him say he wasn't doing anything today and she was like oh since you're not doing anything can you do me a solid haha and like he didn't want to because he's already worked 7 days in a row because the week schedule was messed up this time and like he could have and should have said no but she's one of the nicer people in the building and he'd look like a jerk if he said no so he was like ok yea sure but he regretted it the second he clocked in and he saw a bunch of teens running around filming a tiktok prank but he couldn't be assed to do anything about it because they weren't even heading to his department and all he was gonna do was just stock up the canned foods but he's over at the registers again because no one remembers how the coupons work and they keep freezing and he's the only one who knows how to fix both things so its a never ending cycle of going back and forth and by the time he gets out the suns already going to be set and it'll be late and he could play for like 30 minutes when he gets home but god he's just so tired and he's opening tomorrow anyway so he might as well go to bed at 10pm because the pay isn't even that good but this is just where he's at now in life...

anyway

Shitty doodle requests closed, Happy Odaiba day!

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CNN 5/28/2025

Walmart, Target and other companies warn about growing consumer boycotts

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN

Updated: 7:00 AM EDT, Wed May 28, 2025

Source: CNN

Companies are warning investors about the risks of becoming the next target of angry customers.

Corporate America is required to disclose risks to their businesses in their annual regulatory filings. This year, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Corona-parent Constellation Brands join an increasing number of companies advising investors about customer and legal backlash to their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies and environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. They’re also giving notice of the risks of rolling back these programs.

Businesses typically warn shareholders about economic downturns, data breaches, natural disasters, and tax code changes. But companies are adding new risk disclosures in response to the intense political divide over corporate efforts to increase diversity in the workplace, promote LGBTQ rights and slow down climate change, corporate governance and risk management researchers say.

“Companies face a Catch-22 situation,” said Kristen Jaconi, director of the Peter Arkley Institute for Risk Management at USC. “Consumers may be dissatisfied if a company takes a particular position on a social issue or if a company takes no position at all.”

Consumer brands are trying to avoid damaging boycotts like those against Bud Light, Tesla, and Target. They are also reacting to opposition to DEI on the right, including the Trump administration’s threats to investigate companies with “illegal” DEI programs, conservative lawsuits and activist shareholder proposals against companies, and right-wing activists like Robby Starbuck targeting companies with DEI programs.

“The heightened debate on DEI and climate, in particular, has driven the inclusion of these disclosures in the last few months,” said Matteo Tonello, the head of benchmarking and analytics at The Conference Board.

‘Conflicting expectations’

Many companies are warning about consumer boycotts from both the political right and left, stoked on social media platforms.

“Strong opinions continue to be publicly expressed both for and against diversity, equity and inclusion and ESG initiatives,” Walmart said in its annual report released in March.

Walmart, which ended some of its diversity programs earlier this year, said it and other companies’ positions are “subject to heightened scrutiny from consumers, investors, advocacy groups and public figures, potentially leading to consumer boycotts, negative publicity campaigns, litigation and reputational harm.”

Target said in its annual report in March that expectations from shareholders, customers and employees over whether it should offer certain products or pursue ESG and DEI goals are varied, and at times conflicting.

“We have previously been unable to meet some of those conflicting expectations, which has led to negative publicity and adversely affected our reputation,” Target said.

Target noted backlash to its merchandise selection during Pride Month in 2023. That year, a boycott from the right over some of Target’s LGBTQ-themed merchandise led to a drop in sales and lawsuits from Republican-aligned legal groups.

Conversely, Target also noted “adverse reactions from some of our shareholders, guests, team members, and others” over its decision to end some of its diversity programs this year. Target’s sales fell last quarter, driven in part by customer backlash to Target’s retreat on DEI.

Target said any future changes to its policies could result in a negative reaction from some customers. The company also warned that it could face litigation and investigations from states and federal agencies that assert diversity programs violate the law, but said its initiatives were legal.

Anti-ESG backlash

Target is not alone in signaling that the Republican legal assault and right-leaning consumer backlash against diversity policies, in particular, could pose a big risk to business.

Abercrombie & Fitch, Kroger, PVH Corp. and other companies warn they could be hurt by the Trump administration’s anti-DEI and anti-ESG crackdown.

“There is some indication that sustainability goals are becoming more controversial,” Kroger said in its annual filing last month. “The recent change to the United States administration and changes in investor perspectives could also affect our ability to pursue our sustainability goals and could lead to increased criticism and associated reputational harm.”

PVH, the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, said in its annual filing last month that it could be “subjected to negative responses by governmental actors (such as anti-ESG legislation or retaliatory legislative treatment) or customers (such as boycotts or negative publicity campaigns) that could adversely affect our reputation.”

It’s notable that companies are now anticipating boycotts, said Lawrence Glickman, a historian at Cornell University who studies consumer activism.

“Often, boycotts catch companies by surprise,” he said. “Recent boycotts have been successful enough that (companies) are worried about them.”

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