#like i know it’s bitter sweet ahd gard but i’m just really blowing this way up

[dearreader]

big rant time about my job, i’m sorry in advance but please scroll

but this job means so much to me. like not in a capitalist way but in a it was my first job i had after i worked at a movie theater where a coworker flirted with me while i was seventeen and waited until i was eighteen before asking me out and made me feel comfortable and safe to work again. it’s the job i had that i could go to in between the sorority hellscape and actually have a safe environment that was like a sisterhood. it’s where i knew i could always go back too and have my managers get excited to see me and hug me. it’s literally been a constant in my life since i was 18 and now my stores just closing????? like i didn’t expect it to be there forever but i just can’t handle it closing and just going to a new store when i literally planned my gap year and mfa and phd years around working here part time because i just was GOOD at this job for some reason and now i just transfer to a new store until i get into an MFA and transfer to whatever town i end up in. like… i can’t believe this is how my chapter at this store ends. i just thought i could always go back and see it but no… it’s just going to be gone and turned into some new store