I have always been and always will be a natural hermit. I very much enjoy being alone, and I am not the kind of person who would strike up a conversation with a stranger for the sake of it. However, I also recognize a couple of important disclaimers: first of all, not everybody is like …
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30 Weird Products and Fake Brands That Could Be a Hard Sell
The world of retail is a wild place. It’s in a constant state of second guessing what the mighty consumer might want to spend their hard-earned money on next, and it can take some rather large leaps of faith when it does that. It’s no wonder that the genre of meme-worthy fake products is a …
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Entitled Boomer Deems Self-Checkout Indecipherable, Tries to Cut Straight to the Cashier, Then Gets Put in Her Place– the Back of the Line
Remember back in the day when everyone was worried about robots taking over the world? Well, in a way, they have started– with cashier jobs! A lot of Boomers advocated for menial tasks to be taken over by robots because it just made more sense to save money, which is exactly what big retail companies …
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Douchey Retail Manager Accuses Worker Covering Shift of Trespassing at 5 AM, Gets Hit With Malicious Compliance
I don’t want to make too many excuses for those who make up the managerial class, but that kind of job isn’t always an easy ride. Being in that kind of position makes someone a lot more liable for anything that goes wrong at work than if they were a lowly intern. That being said, …
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20 Relatable Retail Memes for Exhausted Retail Workers Who Need More Than a 15 Minute Break
Few customer facing jobs are easy, but retail has to be up there with some of the most dehumanizing. There is something about those dear customers being confronted with the idea of spending their hard-earned cash that can make some of them go a little crazy. The best part is that the average retail worker …
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17-Year-Old Bakery Worker Learns of Friend’s Passing Before Shift, Cruel Manager Refuses to Give Her Leave
One of the most traumatizing experiences at work is being visibly upset on the job. It’s happened to most of us at some point, for reasons both big and small. Bad news can be a pretty common culprit, and having to put on your moneymaking face while reacting to something like a death is nothing …
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Employee Gets Even With Manager for Never Having Their Back in Front of Karens
When I worked at a huge retail clothing company as a teenager, lord knows there were karens, and thankfully I was lucky enough to have a manager who had my back. Whenever a karen was rude to me for simply doing my job and enforcing a store policy, my manager would stand their ground and …
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‘The grin slid off his face’: Employee outsmarts customer trying to exploit returns loophole
Navigating some companies’ return policies can be an unnecessarily difficult experience that may drive you to look for ways you can circumvent their requirements and get a fair go at returning your unwanted item. At times it can feel like these policies are unnecessarily specific and cryptic: «Customer must return an item only when the …
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‘I pulled 6 doubles that week’: Retail worker told to take all the overtime they want, obliges
You really shouldn’t say something that you don’t mean that could cause an outcome that you don’t want to someone who will happily oblige you. Retailers love to set rules and swear by them as if they had been written in stone since the dawn of time—and definitely not something they made up 15 minutes …
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‘Be advised’: Male Karen leaves 1-star review because he’s angry about free soda
There are a lot of reasons to be angry in this world… and free soda is not one of them. Still, name a thing that exists, and there is someone out there who is absolutely fuming about it, plotting how they can end it once and for all. Meet Larry. Larry hates free things, especially …
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