#retail and customer service suck

[gamingbeats]

i truly wish some days being in a fandom paid the bills

[hachama]

Hey, PSA: this is a rough time of year for retail and service industry workers. I no joke enlisted to get out of retail. I did permanent damage to myself to get away from that industry, and I would do it again.

So, be patient with them. A lot of them haven't worked in their current roles for very long, and all of them are over worked, underpaid, and under enormous pressure to make this The Most Wonderful Time for all their customers. Don't make things any harder than they have to be.

[nil-elk]

I don't think people are honestly taking into consideration the fact that shitty/overwhelming work conditions DO impact relationships outside of the work environment. I haven't, until more recently, especially pertaining to my own work conditions.

Imagine working and socializing with customers and co-workers for 8+ hours a day, and all the good and shitty things that come with it...to then come home and do more work, and trying to socialize with friends/partners after all that.

Yeah, be for real. Cut yourself some slack. If you're friends with people with this sort of work-life? Cut them some slack (that isn't to excuse poor treatment of others, mind you)

We're just on the fritz as it is. Frazzled, even.

[bullshitcustomerssay]

Hey if you’re an office employee or government employee or a 9 to 5 and you get Labor Day off

Couple things:

1. Labor Day is supposed to be a day to remember the struggle for workers’ rights and the honoring of unions and is therefore a day to abstain from capitalist spending

2. Retail and gastronomy workers very much resent not being included in this group

3. 15 years ago my company was open for limited hours for this holiday: 11am to 5pm. Then it shifted to 10am to 6pm a few years later, and now it is 10am to 7pm. This trend is BECAUSE they set Labor Day promotions and use the profit numbers to justify the “extended” hours

4. I am not sure that this is a trend across the board, I am just pointing it out in this very specific case

5. This indicates an ever growing attitude from corporate executives that they can “boil the frogs” if they do it slow enough

6. They set the promos to be attractive and then when they inevitably produce positive numbers it is used as a data point to justify the erosion of their employees time and rights

7. In conclusion please, I beg of you, if you are going to take advantage of these “Labor Day Deals!” Do it online. We want to have this day off just as much as you do

[chasing-dreams-since-1995]

Every time I have to deal with customers who are extremely rude and complete assholes

[th3wizardoz]

I put in my notice at work today and I was already feeling sad about it since my assistant manager looked genuinely disappointed when I handed it to him but then I mentioned it to one of my other coworkers and SHE STARTING CRYING !!!!

[gideonisms]

Do u have a venmo? Wanna help with the acquisition of headphones.

Aw that's sweet! Thank you for thinking of it anon ♥️ but I would prefer you save your money for people who are in like real financial trouble whereas the worst that happens to me is I move back in with my family who I disagree with politically but who won't kick me out

[dylawas-reblogs]

me: yeah so we haven't had a meeting about it yet, but I asked my coworkers about past interns and why they left; chances are they won't hire me full time at my internship immediately. However, the chances of having it extended are pretty good, and I like what I'm doing, and they're going to be talking about budget in July. Sure my finances are a little tight but--

my sperm donor (only slightly exaggerated): look for a new job immediately and tell them if they won't hire you full time you're leaving. and no, I don't care if you don't find something in your industry and you have to settle for a job that will make you hate being alive even more than you already do. Also I'm going to ignore how long it took you to find this internship to begin with

me:

[ifyouhavegonst]

hey weird question but @ anyone else who ordered the pitch image ghaseball jerseys from puckdrop last year (i know they were posted in a few of the ghost fb groups when the pre orders were announced). did any of you actually get your orders or are you also being given complete non-answers about where your order is lmao

they don't respond to emails and if you ask in their instagram comments where your order is, they just say something like "oh we'll check on that for you" and then they don't follow up ever. I just DM'd them and depending on what kind of answer they give me (if they answer me at all) i'm going to have to do a chargeback through my bank because paypal purchase protection doesn't apply after 180 days. (hell. agony, even.)

for reference, these were estimated to ship in late october, and then they pulled that date from the website, and it is now april 5th. I've been trying to get a proper answer/refund since february. im out $60 usd on this order. so do with that what you will i guess

oh ETA back in february they told me that all orders were shipping out, quote, "this week", and then they didn't :D

also you can reblog this or crosspost/share it or whatever. kinda tempted to ask in the ghost facebook groups myself but i am so so scared lol

[delightful-druid]

[caterpillarinacave]

I would like to thank retail for allowing me the pleasure of ringing up such incredibly unpleasant, condescending, bitchy people.

[poptartmochi]

unfathomable emotions after showering

also.. i hit tag limit on this, so watch out for a very long post if you hit read more on the tags! 😨

[toytulini]

ouagh at some point i should try to post some of the multiple thousands of pictures I've taken every time i go to an aquarium huh

[alukaforyou]

wheres that tumblr post i reblogged it so long ago but its smth like "every service worker should be allowed to have an axe (gun? knife?) and be allowed to attack one person per year no questions asked" or smth am i remembering that so wrong or what but it was so funny n i need it now 🤣🤣🤣

[geraniumshurricane]

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[marzipanhoney]

What’s your villain story?

Me: Have you worked retail before?