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Ah, yes, I do this every morning.

I always find it interesting that energy drinks list "sleeplessness" as a side effect as if that's not the purpose to consuming an energy drink.

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I'm on the fence about this. On one hand, I think some customers unload their personal lives on retail employees because they don't have any friends to talk these things over. On the other hand, I'm a customer service employee, not a therapist.

I'm genuinely sorry if this sounds awful but customer service is emotionally exhausting and it's so hard for me to even pretend to give a shit about whatever a customer is talking about outside of my work. There are regulars who make a beeline for my register because they like me and I feel kinda bad that i really don't care?? Idk...is it ok for me to be emotionally detached or am I taking it a bit too far by saying I couldn't care less?

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I swear sometimes people will call my store and immediately yeet their phone into the back seat of their car. I hear the ambient sounds of the traffic outside more than I can hear their questions.

You know how there are courses in elocution? I swear people need something like that for how to use a telephone. So many people need to be taught how to speak directly into the receiver, how to talk so it doesn’t sound like they’re speaking through a gym sock, how to properly recite a phone number or a credit card number or an address (some people go way too fast, some go way too slow, some go sing-songy)…. It’s not that fucking hard but so many people clearly have no idea. Anyone who has ever worked in a call centre or a similar job requiring a lot of use of the telephone knows exactly what I mean. Get rid of these problems, and half of the stress call centre workers face would be gone right there.

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"You think I did that?"

Bernardo Cavallino (Naples, 1616 – 1656), Saint Lawrence, 1640 - 1645, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 53.5 cm. Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

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A customer came up to my register today telling me that she had a coupon for 25% off her entire transaction. Weird, because I've never seen such a coupon before. She then shoved her phone at me, showing me a photo of her computer screen, displaying her Google searching for "25% coupon for {my store name}"

And of course, she got angry at me when I explained that was not actually a coupon. 😕

#I shouldn't have to explain to customers what a coupon is #but here we are #retail #retail hell #customers #customers suck #retail story #work

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Whimsical, magical, faintly allegorical. Silence Like the Grave, by French surrealist/magic realist painter, Claude Verlinde (b. 1927).

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I need that Sass flag in my life.

SATAN

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Hey um...it’s perfectly alright to wear shirts that don’t like..completely cover your stomach, right? Like, if you do that you don’t deserve to be called „slutty“ right?

Because my stomach was showing today and i was feeling happy and confident and was then told i looked like a slut so 🙃

#sorry i’m just a bit sad now

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Hang on it’s ringing

#Meme #funny

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Sounds to me like the person calling another person "slutty" was hating on that confidence more than the clothing.

Hey um...it’s perfectly alright to wear shirts that don’t like..completely cover your stomach, right? Like, if you do that you don’t deserve to be called „slutty“ right?

Because my stomach was showing today and i was feeling happy and confident and was then told i looked like a slut so 🙃

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That looks like something a random text generator would spit out.

Hang on it’s ringing

#Meme #funny

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I was taking out the trash at work today, and I saw a dragonfly on one of our outdoor trashcans. It looked like it was in its last moments of life, just flapping its wings and flipping around and not going anywhere. So I carefully scooped it up and took it to the row of bushes behind our store. I figured if it was going to die, it should at least die somewhere natural and peaceful and not on a trashcan.

For some reason, that feels like the most important thing I've done this year.

#meirl #retail #retail life #dragonfly #natural #nature

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for the love of god, YOUR MASK GOES OVER YOUR NOSE. the amount of customers AND COWORKERS ive seen with their nose poking out frustrates me to no end. like, just look at a picture! its not that hard!!

Saw someone actively hacking like they were dying today while their upper lip was exposed. I was 15 feet away but still asked my husband for the keys to the car and noped the fuck out. Someone was loudly asking her “ARE WE GOING TO THE FOOD SECTION” and I thought “Please answer loud enough as a warning to other shoppers”. It wasn’t even a proper medical mask. It looked like one of those masks painters wear, so I don’t think it’s up to CDC regulations? -Abby

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I found this random podcast, I don't want to name-drop because I don't want people to search it out to hate on the entire cast. But the host of the podcast went on a rant about COVID-19, which basically amounted to "lock away anybody who might die from it so everyone else can do whatever they want".

Which is pretty fucked up no matter how you look at it. Basically confining people for being vulnerable to getting ill so others can live their lives however they want. And even then, who would be taking care of the people who are locked away for their safety? More than likely, the same people who would be permitted to do whatever they want. So if one of those caretakers has the virus but isn't showing symptoms, they're going to give it to those vulnerable people, basically defeating the purpose of keeping them separated to begin with.

I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much into this, or I'm not thinking about it in the right way. It just sits wrong with me that someone should be punished for being elderly or having a compromised immune system because someone else doesn't want to practice social distancing or wear a mask.

#rant #COVID-19 #Coronavirus #Podcast #Thoughts #Overthinking

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I always find it interesting that energy drinks list "sleeplessness" as a side effect as if that's not the purpose to consuming an energy drink.

#thoughts #random thought #random #caffeine #I'm probably thinking too much #Also I had too much caffeine #lol

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I worked at a store with the opposite problem. They got the "deer in headlights" look because they couldn't comprehend the fact that some stores actually close at night.

#retail #retail hell #customers #lol

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My face when people keep demanding to see what I'm drawing instead of shutting the fuck up and letting me draw.

Constance Marie Charpentier, Portrait of Mademoiselle Charlotte du Val d’Ognes, c. 1801.

#funny #lol #fun #meme #memes #lmfao #meirl #art #drawing #leave me alone #please