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Anger lizard time

I never said any of these were gonna be good 🤣

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Time for the fire lizard line

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Bathroom checks at work always seem to bring good luck 🤣

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Venu-small

(This line was hard to draw that small don't judge me)

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For anyone casually passing through and finding my page randomly, don't worry. I will try to post stuff on here other than work related stories and such.

For example.

This thing was the bane of my existence, after attempting a Noibat outbreak with no success. I ended up getting two shiny Noibat immediately after, however.

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An interaction I just had with a regular Karen at my store. And the reminder that my manager is a saint.

Customer comes up to the register with drinks and asks for gas. I run the transaction, but because I don't make eye contact with her very much, she taps her long nail on the counter to get my attention.

Karen: Are you paying attention to me?

Me, forcing direct eye contact, which makes me horribly uncomfortable: Yes, I have your items rung up and your gas ready, was there anything else I could get for you?

Karen: No, that's it, I just thought since you aren't looking at me, you didn't know I was here. You should work on your eye contact.

Me: Ah, sorry, it's always an issue for me to-

Karen: Yeah, I'm done, just ring this up and I'll go.

Me: *finishes up her transaction and waits for her to pay*

Manager: Ma'am, I don't need you belittling my employees like this. We'll handle this for you, but if you bring in that attitude again, we won't serve you.

Karen: Excuse me? I just wasn't sure he was listening to me, because he never made eye contact-

Manager: Ma'am, to be completely honest, do you need eye contact to hear someone?

Karen: Well, it's just polite etiquette, maybe you need to train them better.

Manager: Ma'am, I'm going to have to ask you to not bring your business back here. You can get your gas and go, but we will no longer serve you. Beyond today, you're banned from this location.

Karen: *goes on the usual tangent about calling higher ups, taking this to the state, the store losing business, blah blah blah*

Manager: *"kindly" showing her the door and making sure she didn't come back in*

Me: *near tears* I'm sorry, it's just hard for me to look people in the eye sometimes...

Manager: Nah, fuck her, you did what you had to. I'm not letting anyone disrespect any of my employees. She's not gonna bug us anymore, I'll be sure of it.

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Tiny Ivy

(I went in early yesterday, from here on out it'll be 7:00am unless it's the weekend)

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Hey, what’s up with that Pokedex entry for Jumpluff in Pokemon Scarlet???

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pokédog sports!

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I've discovered a new way to cope with work.

Every day, I will be doodling the National Dex on my clock in sheet. Today is Bulbasaur. Expect updates daily.

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Something I'll never understand working retail. We'll have a product on the shelf, completely filled up, and not getting sold. It'll gather dust, staying in the exact same spot since the day they were stocked. And once it hits its expiration date, we'll take every one of them down, but since they never moved, we don't order them again right away.

Why...

Why is it, that the hour after they were taken off the shelf and disposed of, that it's now the moment half of my customers in that hour ask if we have them?

WHERE WERE YOU ALL THE FOUR MONTHS BEFORE THAT CANDY EXPIRED?!

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Listen, customers...

We do not mind taking these forms of payment:

Coins

Bills

Card (Debt/Credit/Gift Card)

EBT IF ACCEPTED

We DO mind if you do these things with them:

Take forever to count out every penny or bill to come up to the price

Throw the money on the counter for us to gather

Rush the card machine before we've read you your total

Ask us to check the balance on the card in the middle of the transaction

Insist on using large bills on cheap items

Try multiple forms of payment that don't work and you're aware it won't

Try to pay before telling us what you want

And for the love of God, if your bills are damp, your coins sticky or your card is damaged, please consider NOT getting mad at us for not wanting to accept it.

That is all.

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On days where I don't particularly want to think about how long my shift is, I've built hourly routines for myself. At first, it was with our lottery machine. I print out the unclaimed prizes for the scratch tickets at the start of every hour, on the hour, because it's always adjusting whenever someone wins a jackpot on any of them. This was my thing for months now.

I have since added a receipt report, for every hour, I print the previous hour's sales, and see if I can do better or worse the next hour. I'm the only one who really does either of these, but it helps cope.

Find something within your job to make a little mini game out of. It helps, trust me.

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CHILD

Mammals of the Southwest Deserts. Written by George Olin. Illustrated by Dale Thompson. 1982.

Internet Archive

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Might as well put up a little about myself since I kind of just made and started going nuts on this during my shift today.

Name's Nick. 31, transmasc, pansexual, polyamorous, who has worked retail for almost 10 years now, so I got stories, and you're gonna hear them. I've been advised this might be a therapeutic way to get through things, so don't mind the fact I might be sporadic on here. If that's not your thing, don't worry about following.

I'm working my current job to try and save for life improvements down the line that cost way more than they should. Most of which being medical, some being living arrangements. So I'm probably gonna be in this for the long run with price of living being more than what I typically make in a year. So, each day I have a new story, I'll try to remember to get it up on here. I'll probably never lack content, but I might lack the memory to post.

I currently live with the best possible human being any person could ask for. Without them, I doubt I could've gone on as long as I have thus far. They're probably reading this right now, being the main force for me going back on Tumblr after years of inactivity on my old account. If so, then, yousa cute binch 💗

I love things like Pokémon, puzzles, logic games, building things, cats, bats and birbs. While I'm not good at most games, I tend to try anything to see if I have fun with it, then go from there. I'm an aspiring writer who can't balance inspiration and time to save my life. I'm a youtube addict with a channel that somehow amassed 5k subs in 10+ years of posting. Mostly song edits, clip MVs, random stuff I think I'd like to watch and make. If interested, I'll try to figure out how to post a direct link in my bio. And I will still die on the hill of letting Waluigi in Smash. I don't care if they're done putting fighters in it, GET HIM IN THE GAME WITHOUT ME NEEDING TO MOD MY SWITCH.

I may be autistic, or somewhere on the spectrum. Never got tested, thanks to my scumbag father who didn't want a "broken kid", so it's unclear until I can get a proper diagnosis. But I have traits that makes it clear that I might be. So, if you try to message me to chat, please be patient, because social interaction is always difficult for me. I'll try to respond, and if I can manage not to be a nervous wreck, maybe we can talk about mutual interests. At least text has a backspace if needed.

I also miss snow. I'm in a landlocked desert of a state. I grew up in New England. Send snow.

That's about as much as I can think of to clarify for now, might update or edit every so often, though this'll probably get buried in due time and I'll forget I even did this. But hopefully, if you like what you see, give me a follow, so I can feel like my venting and short stories aren't being shouted at to the void on here.

Now to get back to work.

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A PSA for anyone who needs to hear it...

A gas station is not a bank.

A gas station is not a bank.

A gas station is not a bank.

A GAS STATION IS NOT A BANK.

If you come in and hand me a $100 for a pack of gum, I will be sure to shame you to the fullest of my ability, especially if there are other customers behind you. I will make you wait ten minutes for me to get your change from the safe. I will be sure not to help anyone else out, so they can watch you stand there and wait on me. You decided not to break it at a bank, I'll be sure to make it embarrassing enough for you not to forget the experience and never do it again.

This has been my PSA for any non retail workers.

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Working retail in a nutshell part one:

No one shows up to the store for at least a half hour.

Me: I need something to do, might as well work on it now while it's quiet...

Goes to do the thing.

The gates of hell open and a flood of customers who have detected the scent of your efforts to do something pour in.

Customers: AnYoNe HoMe?!!?!