#its just fucking retail

[graciousdragon]

OH MY FUCKING GOD

I JUST WENT TO MY LOCAL HOT TOPIC THAT I'VE BEEN GOING TO FOR LIKE. 5 OR 6 YEARS NOW RIGHT??

I GOT SOME MCR STUFF BECAUSE. OF COURSE. IF YOU'VE SEEN MY RECENT POSTING HABITS YOU KNOW. THE BRAINROT IS REAL

I WAS TALKING WITH THE CASHIER ABOUT THEM BECAUSE HE WAS ALSO A FAN AND HE FUCKING SAYS "you wanna know a fun fact? this is the hot topic the lead singer used to work at! :D"

FUCKING WHAT

GERARD WAY USED TO WORK AT MY LOCAL FUCKING HOT TOPIC?!?

AND AFTER I LEFT I LOOKED IT UP TO MAKE SURE HE WASN'T FUCKING WITH ME AND YEAH. HE WAS RIGHT. WHAT THE FUCK

SORRY FOR THE ALL CAPS THIS IS LIKE. WORLD-SHATTERING INFORMATION TO ME AND HE JUST DROPPED THAT SHIT SO CASUALLY WHAT THE HELL BRO. I NEEDED TO SCREAM ABOUT THIS SOMEWHERE

#rys.txt #tw caps #caps #LIKE. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? #I KNEW THEY WORKED AT A HOT TOPIC WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THAT ONE #ok. its ok i'm normal now (i'm not) #on another note. why are all hot topic employees like the nicest people on this earth. at least they are at mine #they always greet you when you walk in and ask if you need help and if you don't they leave you alone which is nice #and then when you check out they're always really chill and don't rush you and if you're buying or wearing something they also like they'll #talk about it with you #like. i know you have to be nice to people for a retail/customer service job like that but it always feels really genuine from them #same thing goes for spencer's employees too they're also like that #idk its just really nice for someone like me who's scared shitless of social interaction with strangers. it makes me way less anxious 👍 #anyways. light and love everyone 💖 i'm gonna go recover from learning that information now #my chemical romance #mcr #gerard way

[jazzzzzzhands]

Can you draw Wally plz??

on tablet?

Do I really need an excuse??

I Honestly wasn't sure what you meant! Because i have drawn him so so many times digitally BUT this one is special BECAUSE! Normally i do do my sketch Traditionally, But i chose to take this ask as a personall challenge to do the WHOLE thing digitally looky at my digital sketch!!

just like my trad sketches, it is just very very light. Im so used to drawing lightly because i erase a LOT oh and hey, while i'm at it, just take my ding dang time-lapse

ahahaha just in case you guys ever wante to watch me manually color and yes yes, do those shading lines by hand because i love them. oh and ty Ibis for having background elements bc backgrounds are HARD. (But putting the little stickers and bgs together feels like scrapbooking and its fun!!)

If you actually watched me draw, you may get motion sickness from just how much i move my canvas around lmao

#i feel like i took a day on the sketch with just learning process and ohh lasso tool!! i may get spoiled on re-sizing/moving #oh let me get tags #jazzart #jazzanswers #wally darling #welcome home #welcome home wally #christmas #santa #wally in a santa suit wally in a santa suit #ok i desperately need to do some lil christmas sketchies before its too late #but boyo i work retail and um im one of the boss ppl so i get thrown around a lot awaaaaaaaa #in case you guys were wondering if i slowed down a bit #i promise i PROMISE im still very obsessed and he lives in my head rent fucking free #i think a lot of artists are feeling a holiday burn rn #oh dang i skipped an older ask for this because i wanted the challengeeee #and to do a bigger peice #im so sorry #groovy is coming #ohhh and if i can make it in time #id love to draw groovy crimmus time!! #i loose track of time and days so easily #its a curse honestly #ohh going to rest now maybe eat

[figofswords]

the post grad why did i get an art degree what am i even doing what do i want in life where am i going crisis has finally hit i want to. lie down in the dirt. or something

#WHAT AM I DOING!!!! #i get up i go to my stupid retail job i stick labels on bags they pay me fucking thirteen bucks an hour i come home i lie on the couch #too tired to draw in too much pain to go anywhere no energy to reach out to college friends to do anything fun #no idea where the even start with getting an industry job no clue what i even WANT at this point #trying to remember what i loved so much about comics i want it BACK i HATE this #WHAT IS THE POINT!!!! WHAT DO I WANT WHERE AM I GOING!!! WHAT COMES NEXT!!!!!! #there's no clear career trajectory i can't do freelance i need structure i can't work too much i need free time #my brain doesn't work every job requires me to move across the country the irs just took fucking three hundred stupid dollars from me #my friends live in different states i can't get a job without experience i can't get experience without a job #i can't work on my portfolio with no energy and no time and i dont have any money and everything is so expensive all the time #i can't get anywhere bc i dont drive and im too stressed to think about taking driving lessons again #and WHAT DO I WANT! #THE MOST INTERESTING THING I DO EVERY WEEK IS GO TO PHYSICAL THERAPY! #I AM EXCITED EVERY WEEK FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY!!!! WHY!!!!!!!! #anyway WHATEVER i need to go to bed #delete later #i got into spx. today. so. had to have a crisis about how i felt when i attended spx (energized. excited. a part of something. ambitious) #versus how i feel now (tired. unmotivated. kind of apathetic about art. disconnected) #i dont miss the stress of school but i miss being around other artists. ppl who speak your language and who want the same things you want #ppl who are excited abut art and that makes YOU excited about art. ppl who get you #i miss that i want that back #whatever. its 1am i gotta go shower i have an 8.5 hour shift tomorrow. wahoo. $13.50/hr lets go

[nando161mando]

Just make chatGPT CEO of Open AI. It shares a lot of qualities with your average CEO:

- Steals other people's ideas

- Valued by the market at much more than it's worth

- Doesn't remember things it previously said

- Says patently absurd things with absolute confidence

- Doesn't know what it's doing

- Doesn't really believe in facts so much as what it feels is probably right

#chatgpt #fuck ceos #ceos #aptech ceo anil pant dies aged 54 just months after leaving company over mystery health battle #banana republic ceo calls its new change ‘pinnacle’ of luxury and shoppers will immediately see the difference #h&m ceo confirms retailer is being forced to hire more security across the us as shoplifting spikes #ceo #open ai #openai #open a.i. #a.i. generated #a.i.voice #a.i. art #a.i. #artificial intelligence #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #fuck the gop #fuck the police #fuck the patriarchy

[abstractredd]

yknow, one of the sad things retail has shown me is that the average middle aged/older person has no manners. when i say to customers at work "what can i do for you?" i get "i need" or "i want" or even straight up "give me". theres rarely any "may i" and god forbid they say please. its not hard to look a person in the eyes, say "can i please get ___" instead of barely acknowledging me and barking demands at me like i'm a robot. it's disrespectful. and it's really sad that the generations that taught us manners growing up seem to have forgotten theirs entirely.

#retail #retail woes #idk just a thought #shutupberri #like acually its sad #these people are grown adults #and they act like children #i love my job but sometimes it really gets to me #just how callous and entitled some of these people act #ngl it’s usually cig smokers too with the ‘give me a pack of this’ like fuck you #retail worker #retail workers #retail memes #customers #grocery

[sage-nebula]

I just end each of my work days completely fucking exhausted, which I feel like a lot of people would scoff at since I work a tech support job where 90% of my work day is spent sat in front of a computer answering phones and emails to, well, provide technical support. But it is so draining, especially since I am so introverted. My throat hurts from talking so much. I am so tired. I've still got two days left this week and those two days are PACKED with more meetings and I am so tired.

#i feel like people are always like ''office jobs aren't hard'' but it's like . . . they are just in a different way #i have also worked retail and food service and at a gas station #so i know those are also unforgiving hells #but this is also very exhausting and has its own challenges too #all labor is labor. we should be united together against the billionaires who do fuck all while profiting off us

[demadogs]

i know ive been begging the unemployment gods to give me a job for months but now that i finally have one and start tomorrow im so scared!!!!!! i girlbossed too hard!!!!

#ive had EXCRUCIATING past work experiences so im really scared this is gonna make me wanna off myself #but it seems good…??? its something i like doing its not something im just settleing for to get a paycheck #its not retail!!!! that fucking slays #but im still scared

[tangerinesteve]

the fact that the words "time theft" even exist together the way they do and apply to some cooperate bullshit about ... stealing time from them (??????) and not like, time traveling bandits who literally steal things through time via time travel, makes me feel feral we deserve a better timeline we deserve to be time bandits

#i want to STEAL #i want to STEAL through TIME #also.... my buying lunch in the store i work in should not fucking be called 'time theft' #YOU CANT STEAL TIME ITS NOT TANGIBLE IT DOESNT WORK THAT WAY #im livid #sorry i just saw someone say the words time theft and lost it a bit #working retail #time theft #absolute bullshit nonsense #mine

[rewritingcanon]

guess who just worked a 1am shift last week and didnt get a single dollar of it on payday 🤡🤡

#im gonna fucking kill something #i was supposed go get increased pay from this shift bc its a night shift too ru fucking kidding me #i feel like i will never see that money even when i have to inevitably ask for it #because somehow theyre going to blame it on the fact that i clocked in wrong since i was transfering to another store #even though i double checked with both managers and workers there #FUCK #i need to quit this job i dont get shifts anyways #fuck coles #the tags wont let me write ‘fuck coles’ again #IM MOVING TO FUCKING WOOLWORTHS BITCH #FUCK THIS SHIT I FUCKING HATE THIS SHIT I CANT FUCKING STAND THIS SHIT #FUCK YOU COLES FUCK YOU RICKY WHEN I CATCH U RICKY #guys trust me when i say ive been having issues with this stupid fucking job all year. its why im angry not just this one instance #i just want to quit so bad and get a job that’ll actually give me shifts and PAY ME FOR THE SHIFTS I FUCKING DO IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK FOR #BUT IT TOOK ME THREE HOURS TO APPLY TO STUPID FUCKING RETAIL STORES #WHY DO I HAVE TO WRITE A FUCKING COVER LETTER FOR THE REJECT SHOP. LAME ASS REJECT SHOP #fuck me. seriously #not hp #vent #i dont even have a fucking flybys card

[n7punk]

i hate scalpers so much fr

#it's not even scalpers technically since theyre treating it as an out of production ''collectible'' & probably consider themselves resellers #but when it originally retailed for 15$ and they're charging hundreds and it's fucking *play dolls* #it sure feels like scalping #yeah you can technically charge that much because it's a limited supply but what's the BENEFIT? #i mean even for fans of the show when they manage to get their hands on them. they might feel like they have to keep them NIB #because of the loss if they open it & destroy a NiB when these dolls are meant to be played with & displayed & enjoyed #(and by 'might' i mean ''do'' and by 'fans' i mean ''me'') #they straight up aren't worth what people try to charge! its so stupid especially when they share bodies with the DC line & those go for 8$ #this has been an idea ive theoretically come across before with like amiibos but this is my first time dealing with it first hand #mylife #a catra got listed for 200$ again -_- which seems to just be her default price. and is more than EIGHTEEN TIMES RETAIL #okay vent post done. god #anyway fuck ebay resellers lmao #im not paying that but i Am gonna complain about it #unrelated but someone dug up the mass effect post again. how does that keep happening #people's tags are always fun on it though

[proserpine-in-phases]

I hate how every job says they're looking for a person like this because I am none of those things? Where are the jobs willing to pay top dollar for an unmotivated unprofessional cold unpersonable non starter who is disorganized and pays very little attention to detail?

#also i wish my guidance counselor in high school had sat me down and said dont go to college without a career plan #instead of what he did do which was tell me my grades are so good i absolutely should go to college #wish he had said at least make sure you get an aa in like accounting or something to fall back on #am i bitter about never finding a job that uses my degree that wouldnt also include needing grad school? #kinda #capitalism makes fools of us all #crap #its shut down week at the ethanol plant that does nothing with my english or fine art degrees #and also nothing with my 15 years of retail and customer service experience either lmao #i fucking hate shut down so much it is inevitable i start thinking of quitting even tho i am making more money than i have in my life #how fucking insane is it that jobs that require a masters degree will pay 15 an hour and yet this job that requires a ged at most starts at #like 25 and this plant actually starts low judging by what other plants are offering like damn #every job ive ever had needed no degree at all how much farther ahead would i be if id just gone straight to work? #like i fucking loved the college experience but it didnt do a fucking thing for me other than saddle me with life crushing debt

[pasta5284]

watching the world rly descend into fascism over the years is just so upsetting i dont even know how to process it

#uwu #like ik its not like the world was perfect before and in a lot of ways we've really progressed! #but in the last ~7 years it feels like things have gotten rly bad exponentially #which ik is probably a lot of reaction To all the progress thats been made #and ik we can fight it and come back i wont lose hope but idk if itll happen in my lifetime and its so disheartening to see #and thru it all i have to like. write essays work retail deal w personal issues etc #feels so pointless & stupid when it feels like the end is near & there are literally nazis and genocide and shit happenign #ik i sound like a dumb child and its much more complicated but why cant we all just be fucking nicies to eachother #.-. #globalization........sigh

[anotherpapercut]

How would one find work at a library when they just...aren't qualified or don't have the relevant experience? I'd love to work at one but I don't have a relevant degree or experience in the field (mostly because they keep rejecting my applications and then ghosting me). I know if given the opportunity I could learn how to do the various jobs at a library, I just have trouble getting into the field without a degree.

people ask me this quite a bit and I really don't know what to say because I don't have an MLIS and neither do most of my coworkers. only like 1/10th of our employees have it honestly. I only have an associates degree in mathematics. and honestly, I'm really sorry to say, the only other way to get your foot in the door really is to volunteer. I volunteered at the library that I now work for A LOT as a teenager so I was able to use the librarians I got to know as references when I started applying to library jobs, and I was able to speak to my experiences working within the library

basically the only other thing is starting at the absolute bottom of the totem poll, which I also did even with my volunteer experience. this is usually going to be a library page position. pages are generally the lowest paid, most manual labor job because they reshelve returned books. so it's a lot of lifting and pushing tens or hundreds of pounds of books around all day

unfortunately there's nothing else I can really tell you, there's not really a magic key to working here. volunteering and having a clean record (like, don't apply if you have a bunch of fines on your account) are really the only ways to get ahead at all. even having an MLIS isn't gonna help you much these days without having any experience like that

#also this isnt to be mean to people who have it but library degrees are like waaaay overhyped and largely exist as a class barrier #because in order to get one you have to waste at least 4 years getting a completely irrelevant degree then be able to afford 2 more yrs #i kinda wouldnt recommend getting one til youve worked in an actual library for a while first to give some perspective #and id only do it if you have a specific library position in mind #please do not waste your time and money getting a degree just because you want to work in a library #you need to know what exactly you want to aim for because positions are few and far between #also one last little secret: working at a library reallllllly fucking sucks in A LOT of ways #i love what we do and i love my coworkers but i fucking hate my job lmao #MANY libraries across the country (including mine) are controlled by boards made up of local wealthy business people #and all of the higher ups are extraordinarily out of touch #pay is exceedingly low and it is A LOT of very hard work. its not sitting around reading all day #you have to deal with the public in ways that i promise you no amount of retail experience could ever prepare you for #which is why you have to really really want it. so many people quit within a couple years

[nando161mando]

#jerkmillionaires #jerkbillionaires #jerktrillionaires #fuck ceos #female ceos #ceos #aptech ceo anil pant dies aged 54 just months after leaving company over mystery health battle #h&m ceo confirms retailer is being forced to hire more security across the us as shoplifting spikes #ex ford ceo issues stark warning over major issue that could see drivers paying $1 #ceo of one of us’ biggest car manufacturers blasts the ‘charging anxiety’ created by evs – despite its popular truck #ceo #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #class war #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #wage slavery #slavery #fuck the gop #fuck the police #fuck the patriarchy #fuck the supreme court

[moenmomentsthemoe-en]

ooooo ahhhhh oooooooooggg (big vent in tags

#vent #rips hair out rips hair out rips hair out #rambling about finances and jobs ueueueee -> #i want to have a life where a job doesn't take my entire life but god it feels like its just a reality that i need to it suck up #i dont!! want !! to suck it up!!! i dont want work life to be the only thing i should have in my life !!! #maybe i should start selling on etsy?? i dont know if i have an audience to sell to aughh #i want to believe that if i try hard enough i can find a livelihood where i have space for my lows [that im still working on but GOD it #takes so so long to even dent it and. fuck] #maybe ill open an etsy shop?? #i kinda wish i could like. talk about this with someone? like my plans? without getting the suggestion to push beyond my limits #ive tried and did push beyond my limits before and it didnt end well .. i know that its important to step outside of our comfort zone #but holy cow i genuinely cannot tell where is my comfort zone and where is Burnout until. well until ive burnt out completely #i dont know the line between challenging myself healthily vs sprinting without break til i drop #scratches head #i think. i need um. support more than criticism? which sounds entitled of me. i think. i cant tell #concrit is amazing and without criticism how am i going to Be Better - but most of the concrit i receive half the time are things #that i already know and am *struggling* to fulfill which kinda just ends up. pushing my anxiety to a breakdown? mmghg #i. i want to . work healthily. i know that i cant work in a contractual job (retail - customer service - corporate etc) because i genuinely #CANNOT risk having a depressive low thats too prolonged or an anxiety spike that messes up my workflow to the point it disrupts an *entire* #working environment with other people that are just trying to do their jobs and also risk breaking one of the contracts' terms. its just no #safe to do it (ive had a contractual job and nearly. fucked up badly cause of my mental illness. im not risking it again). but DANG does it #feel like im just making excuses to not get a job #i. i have an idea for an etsy shop since freelancing would be the safest option. i just don't know if im good enough at my skills to. #actually sell to customers you know #ooughgh i wish i could run by my ideas to someone without being so so scared of. appearing as inadequate or illprepared when im doing my #best? but also its a Job and im supposed to make sure theres little to no mistakes and have a product that's of the best quality i can make #AUHGHG #i dont know how to work healthily and consistently and it scares me. #i dont know how to take care of myself and i dont know how to work. which is like. the two most important things i need to live sustainably #probably seems unproductive to me to like. talk about this on a tumblr post if anything but by the gods i need to process all this

[possiblytracker]

feeling normal (birthday in like 3 days that im not ready for) feeling normal (too artblocked and preoccupied to even think about finishing artfight and wrestling with guilt about it) feeling normal (-£600 in bank account) feeling normal (realised breaking my foot last year led to Lasting Consequences but cant see a physio abt my fucked up legs til january) feeling normal (has to learn to drive stick and the instructor is scary) feeling normal (stlil has no idea how to un-fuck social life after the great mental breakdown of april 2023) feeling normal (gross sobbing)

#'hows it going' yeah everything is happening so much its fine tho <2 #like im FINE im just. all over the goddamn place i need things to just settle down #i applied for a job thats like. actually the closest thing i can think of to my dream job. like. rare opportunity where i can suck up to th #employer as much as i want about the place having a huge impact on my life and mean every single word of it for real #(its at the bird park where i used to volunteer but this time doing flight displays animal training and education) #im slightly underqualified for it (no prior hands-on experience and no drivers license yet) so i might not even get the interview #so not getting my hopes up high yet #i can always volunteer there again on weekends while i work whatever retail gig will take me if i dont #but fuuuck it'd be nice. so so cool #'required qualifications: undergrad degree in fields related to animal behaviour' me rolling up with my shiny new Animal Behaviour BSc: #anyway. AUghrh #give things a few more weeks to shake out. ill be okay #having complicated feelings about one chapter of my life being over.. its a fucked up transitory period thats prolly gonna feel worse- #before it feels better #but ill settle into it soon especially once i get a job/my sister goes to college in september #....and i get the goddamn boxes out of my room so it feels more like a place i actually live again jgHJSDN #vent/ #its not Really but close enough