I made something up called "Fart in the Room Theory" Basically it just means, you could be in the most beautiful room in the world, everything is perfect. But if I come in there and do a stinky fart, you don't wanna be in there any more! One little fart ruins it all

I’m not saying I know what’s it’s like to work in retail but every time I go to store to buy items all I’m focusing on is buying my things and leaving im not judging any of the employees and frankly half the time I don’t even notice them

I work at a walgreens and sometimes i feel like im dealing with the biggest idiots of all time

Gamestop should just be an online seller like Gamefly

Dude drinks beer alone at home and is telling me about depression 😂

The hand sanitizer we now know has endocrine disrupting chemicals in them.

The “I was just following orders” stance is diabolical 😂

This is a perfect example of how low skilled workers have nearly ZERO self awareness. In another video you have an entire dialogue about KAREN’s. And what is the one consistent thing Karen’s do? They try to LORD over others. Tell them what to do and what they can’t do. When this topic is the perfect example of how the employees are doing the same thing. They have the Karen thinking as well. Like they have the Authority to point the finger and say “you can’t come into the store when there’s less than hour left!!!!” It’s literally Karen behavior.

The thing I love and hate the most abiut retail workers is if you want to know how to speak according to their programming template. Just go on social media and parrot that programming. If Karen is the term used online this is how you speak to retail workers. Don’t use any words that require an active role in learning like from reading a book that has influenced millions going back thousands of eyes. That WILL make the retail mindset person feel very small and they will hate you lol

Ive worked for most of the major retailers and it sucked and still sucks. Im hoping to get out soon for better work.

I worked at panda as a cook, it was one of the most physically and mentally demanding jobs I have had up to that point. Your responsibility compared to the employees getting customers their food is probably 5-6x the amount. I also had a pregnant assistant manager that hated me and accused me of “sagging my pants” when I followed the dress code with my shirt tucked into my pants and my belt buckled on my waist, it made no sense, and she called me an idiot or straight up insulted me multiple times. I remember literally crying before work because I didn’t want to go lol.

The retro places treat their clientele like tricks for sure lmao

Two AI’s vs each other pretty much is true whether it’s real NBA or 2K lol

Bottom line retail doesn’t determine your mindset YOU DO. Additional reading: - emotional intelligence - wisdom literature - virtues. - values drive action.

I work in retail and I love it! Because most customers are normal, nice people. The bad ones I forgot as soon as they leave.

Penjamin is my therapy

I know someone who got coached for taking a day off to mourn the loss of a family member..

“The shitheads are gonna stick with you” You have a fixed mindset. And you’re allowing your negative self talk to emotionally high jack you. “I think people should reflect more” I agree dude but holy shit you need to practice what you preach. Your talk is the opposite of emotional intelligence and it’s clear you have a fixed mindset. When dealing with people remember that you cannot take it personal when a customer rages at you because odds are it’s not you, they have some kind of drama or stress in their life going on and it comes out in other ways. It’s cringe it’s wrong but they do it. You knew this before you started working in retail as you said yourself were taught “don’t be a piece of shit” read some sun tzu or something and get this principle “winners win first and THEN go to work, losers go to work first and THEN try to win”. Think first. Don’t let your emotions rule you because they’re often not logical or rational. The only person that can control your mindset IS YOU. it’s not a customer interaction. And if someone cuts you off in traffic on your way to work. Ask yourself “how long did that take?” So you can come to the rational conclusion of “ok so I didn’t have a BAD DAY. I had a bad 5 seconds”. You can call class half full perspective. But it’s true. Your observations are clear to those of us who never worked retail. Here’s what you need to know: it’s one thing to be intelligent it’s one thing to “smart” it’s one thing to be “dumb”. The entire video here… All of this is negative self talk. Zero emotional regulation. You did not ask ONE rational question to filter your negative self talk through. This is unhealthy. The “I had a bad day” crutch. - he brought up one moment where he had a bad interaction with a customer. How long did that interaction last? Was there anything he could’ve done differently? He wines about people and is presupposing that people are pieces of shit, but he doesn’t ask if that presupposition could cause a bias in HIS mindset (when every word suggests that he has allowed it to) he doesn’t have the self awareness to THINK that it’s possible that the customers could also carry into that store the same or similar negative presuppositions that he has. lol So be encouraged with the fact that YOU can influence people just the same way that they can influence you. But the beauty of ethics is that you don’t have to return evil with evil. If someone makes a snide comment. Respond with kindness. That psychology has been extremely powerful for over 2000 years. Try it and take power back.

ive worked different retail jobs, right now im at a retail job with great coworkers and management but im still so drained everyday, it just helps a little i guess

It’s made me almost completely lose empathy and patience for people. I will say, I’ve worked in fast food and deli for years- I’ve had my worst and most aggressive customers in fast food as a cashier taking orders. In deli I get a lot of bitchy old people but also a lot of nice customers. However, I also get treated like I’m a prostitute by a lot of old men and it’s gotten to the point of feeling incredibly unsafe walking out alone to my car on break. I will always give back the exact energy I receive to customers. If you’re rude to me, I will be rude back. I miss being a line cook where I didn’t have to deal with the bullshit customers, I just made their food while blasting death metal in the kitchen lol

It's weird you had some measure of responsibility to teach people how to use their new gadget, I get joy out of learning how to use new technology by myself. On top of that, I have no expectation of store employees knowing all the features for all the products that are in stock, it's not realistic. The burden of research should be on me

Every corporate managed job negatively affects your mindset, goes double when performance metrics are involved. If your life goal is dying on a Walmart retirement, you aimed low.

Classic Fanta❤

whilst delivery driving isn't as bad, the customers are insanely ignorant. It's like they actually think you can wave a magic wand and the parcel will end up in their house all safe and sound. They order the parcel, fk off out for the day, lock everything up, baracade the side gate, don't answer the phone, don't reply to texts, don't leave any instructions, don't provide a safe place for the parcel, don't have a door bell (or have like 3 that don't work xD), don't put a number on their house. And they 100% give you that look of contempt on their face, although i'm sure it's not as bad as in a store and their are some great customers who genuinely are apreciative of the parcel being delivered quickly etc. But yeah, customers man.

Working at hotels for around 3 years gave me ptsd.

If you are young and entering the entry-level workforce, take heed of these endless comments on this video. There are many sorts of jobs you can do, but customer-facing positions can and will likely FCK you up for life. Im 44 and my years in retail/customer jobs sent me into the darkest spiral of my life. I now want nothing to do with most humans and live alone in the forest with many animals. If you value human interaction, stay away from "customer service."

God Walmart is fun to shoplift from!

long story but thankfully I've only had to endure 1 full year of retail and 2 retail christmasses so far, and with me being a huge christmas freak, it didn't affect my love for it at all. If anything, I'm constantly trying to get christmas weeks off from whatever job I'm at so it typically pans out well. Ironically those memories of me working retail around christmas are actually my less traumatizing memories despite the fact that i (1) spent one of them as a walmart cashier and (2) spent the other as a hot topic kid making $7.25 an hr, the lowest pay of my life lol My brief time at hot topic was a bit sad (my first job) but customers were mostly happy during the holidays, so it wasn't actually that bad. All i had to do was watch the door and pretend to fold stuff in the back, they wouldn't even let me operate the register 😅 Now walmart was a whole 'nother level of trauma, it literally warped my view of an entire racial demographic after dealing with the majority of them for only 1 year. Nevertheless, I spent that 1 christmas working the garden center register, half the time it would be empty, half the time lines would stretch to oblivion. But I got to stay close to all of the christmas stuff, they would have the entire album of rudolph the red nosed reindeer on repeat, day after day. But the christmas trees, the light displays, the quiet hours where I'd pretend to be busy so that they wouldn't force me back to the main registers, that same annoying music, were literally the only things keeping me sane during that time. I'm not even kidding. Everytime they played "theres always tomorrow" it was like a nostalgic plug, an injection of hope for my soul. That song stayed on my mind the entire time i worked at walmart and I never got tired of it. I would imagine myself lounging in the snow and watching a rainbow in the sky. That alone pushed me to wake up everyday for work until I couldn't do it anymore and was eventually fired. 10 years later and I still haven't broken my vow of never working another cashier job again for as long as i live

Or when you get undecided customers that ask 99 questions while everyone is waiting on you to finish with them

This drives me insane. Why is there always only 1 employee working? Usually it's just me while I line is forming and I'm still doing a fucking console trade. Those aren't quick so people gotta wait on me since I'm the only employee.

i literally have had so many dreams of working the register

I realize now i was the ideal customer at GameStop i would come in with my grandparents and tell the person behind the counter what i wanted because i knew my grandma didnt know what the fuck she was talking about and would do it for them to save them the trouble, i remember pre ordering gears of war 3 and my grandfather was also excited for it because he thought the gun designs were cool

Working at Walmart.. never understood the craziness. The tvs on sale weren’t the regular ones but unknown brands and a lot of the same sales were online. Part of the problem was a few years ago people got killed at Walmart on Black Friday.. the following year they changed their whole format

Worked day dairy, door greeter when I got injured, overnight frozen, overnight dairy and then cap2. Only position I hated was door greeter

True facts

Never worked retail… but I worked 10 years in call center customer service. And a lot of what you’re talking about really does feel like the same thing Except there’s never a break from customers (you know how you’re always on hold when you call in anywhere? That’s because they don’t want their call center employees to have even one second between calls. As soon as one person hangs up you IMMEDIATELY have the next one screaming in your ear) and the other exception being you almost never get a positive customer interaction. No one calls in to any customer service because they’re happy and things are going great

I work overnight at the front desk in hotel and I love it. Most of the time I’m just chilling and I only get a few people getting stuff from the gift shop or whatever. I have to do laundry and make the breakfast but I don’t mind at all. I’m autistic so retail is literally hell and this is the perfect job for me at the moment. I start college in the spring so I plan on doing my classes at work :)

🎶last Christmas I sold my soul.. this year to save me from tear, I lost the will to live 🎶😑fk this job

I work for Sedgwick at their call center, and I help people file for FMLA (family medical leave act) and these are people with employers, bosses, and they still act like children. We have the ability to report them and I have no idea why we don't. We also get a lot of people who are told to call us, but they are with another district or what the hell ever, and they give us the "are you sure?" and despite the fact we don't have their contract, we have nothing to do with them, we can't just transfer them because we don't want to deal with their shit. Oh, also, our ability to transfer is broken, and the extension numbers DO NOT work. Or the people are too stupid to understand how to dial the extension. I don't know, cuz we are told that extensions don't work, and it doesn't seem like anyone is trying to fix that issue either. A lot of these people are the absolute dredge of humanity. Now we are being told that we are getting the chic-fil-a contract, and that our "customer service" needs to be "top knotch" for burger flippers? fuck off. Sorry, chicken flippers. I am not going to be treating these people any differently because they are rated #2 in overall customer service. They can kiss my fuckin ass. The sad part is I know I'm going to be hearing about it from my supervisor as well. Fuck them. And the amount of people who call me crying, no no I don't do crying people, suck it up and get your doctor to send us paperwork. Some days can be chill, some people are just monsters, they think we're secretaries. It's nuts. Call centers are fucking awful. The person on the other line could be friendly or even just normal, I'm dead inside.

CAR Oarrts and piled that weight too much

Worked for Bank of America customer service on the phones. Brutal 💀

In my experience, niche retail can be something of a loophole in retail shittiness, since the people coming in are more knowledgeable about what they want, and if it's a niche you're passionate about, you will likely have more common ground with them and your coworkers. I work in an office job, now, and God, it's been lovely for my ability to care for myself. (I prepare healthy lunches, I do sit-ups by my desk, I'm drinking more water, and I'm planning life improvements way more effectively!)

I recently learned that the quote "The customer is always right" is actually only half of the original quote, as it is meant to conclude with "in matters of taste". Essentially meaning that for subjective things no one is right, which is true all of the time anyways. I've been lucky enough to be out of retail for several years now & while I've had some horrible experiences, along with some good ones too. I think it's our generation's version of going to war, not that those are the same. Rather that it's a shared experience that many of us will carry with us through our lives & some may never leave it behind. Everything sucks sometimes, but the general public sucks the most. I love the quote from Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black that goes "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it" & regardless of where you work, or whatever else you do in life it'll always be true.

If you think retail sucks try working in a call center.

My workplace is great and have smiling face goes along a way... #tryinggoingtomyworkplace #disabledpeopleworkedinretail #postivevibesonly

I’m a manager at my local dominos making 14 an hour. My old district manager was more incompetent then managers form Walmart.

Is it all a massive conspiracy to mess with us? Make all our jobs as miserable as possible and then raise the cost of living. Our world is hell on earth. Corporate hell

Retail is hell, I'm stuck at dg because of my own failure and I hate it. Getting 200.00 a week is not worth being chewed out by people 20-30 years my senior. Bring back industrial jobs!

Screw retail

Hillary is a f@cking idiot. Did this ugly hag ever have fun in life? Apparently not! If you're seeing this Hillary, screw you. I'm so sick of these stupid politicians blaming video games for every single tragedy that occurs in this country.