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Starman Super DX posted:Forget military conscription, everyone should have to work in retail at least once in their life.  I think working retail as a young adult is the primary reason why I'm not a "conservative" despite being a white cis male in his 40s who makes roughly 4x minimum wage and lives in the suburbs.
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Toadvine posted:working retail made me appreciate a well-fronted shelf, especially in the frozen/dairy section aka the navy SEALS of retail it's been more than 20 years since I've worked retail and I still feel the urge to straighten a shelf. I worked in a used bookstore, that was also a comic store, that was also a movie rental store, that was also a used adult magazine store, that was also an adult movie rental store, that also made up gift baskets on demand. I've seen some poo poo. The worst customers were invariably the ones who brought in their truckload of musty old books that had been sitting in an attic for a few decades. Despite being warned that the process could take some time and they should probably just come back later, they'd get super impatient because you would stop processing their shitmound of moldy "paper" to serve a customer that might actually lay out some cash for a purchase. They'd argue when told that no, we really couldn't take the book with no front cover that was covered in mold that appeared to be approaching sentience. They'd whine about the lovely rate of trade they were getting. They'd then be shocked! and infuriated! that no, I could not in fact poo poo the book they were looking for out of my rear end when they couldn't find it on the shelf. gently caress those people. That wasn't the worst part of the job, though. Nor were the sticky pages from the used girly mags. It was the gift baskets. They took a long time to make, and were always under a ridiculous deadline. Hard to make one of those and wait on customers at the same time when you're the only person on staff at the time. I still have nightmares.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Uhhhhh Yeah. It's just as disgusting as you can imagine. We had to handle, INSPECT, and bag the fuckin things too. Like no, seriously, people brought in their mags, we had to flip through them looking for missing pages or... other reasons why they should be rejected. Oh yeah, and people would argue about that, too. "It was like that when I got it here." No it loving was not, you goddamn troglodyte, get the gently caress outta my face. You wanna snip pics out of your porn mag? You go right the gently caress ahead, just don't bring it back here you gross little poo poo. Yep, kids running around the family-friendly store and I've gotta flip through a used Club International mag because hey, dat's muh job. I laugh at Programming Sucks not because it isn't true, but because no matter how lovely the job can be it's still a whole galaxy away from the awfulness that is retail.
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