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⌈ Secret Post #2176 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A. I don't like that you're assuming that all of fandom works at Walmart and/or has no degree.

B. I don't like how you feel that somehow you're better then someone who works at Walmart and/or has no degree.

C. You do realize the "god I wish I was an adult!" Is often a tongue-in-cheek statement right? Often people who play video games and watch cartoons like to joke about how immature they are, but if you take a deeper look at our real lives we are adults who get out shit done.

We just like to get our shit done with our Maleficent figure watching over us.

[(Anonymous)]

*get our shit done.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has worked at Wal-Mart before, this. You really do not understand how hard people there are worked. You have to have A LOT of patience to stand the a-holes that walk in there with a smile. There's also the fact that you're working more than your assigned job most of the time (I was a cashier and I often found myself doing salesfloor or working STS or Layaway)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this. I have a career that could resume-trump the OP's with half my experience tied behind my back. The hardest I have EVER worked at a job was when I was in college and had a summer job at a gas station to pay the rent. Low pay does not equal easy work.

[(Anonymous)]

You really do not understand how hard people there are worked.

Oh, god, this. Every time I hear the "well if they just worked harder" shite about people in low-paying jobs I want to turn our former nanny's story into a bat and beat them over the head with it, because there is no fucking way ANYONE has worked HARDER than she has, all her life, against huge odds, and working for my mom was the best pay she ever got. (Which: my mom paid well for childcare, as she viewed it as important. Unfortunately, then we all grew up.)

Just. Nobody. If virtue and hard work and intelligence really were automatically rewarded, this woman would be richer than Warren Buffet. She's not, and she still works too hard.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. It's not about how hard you work in these positions--they're not minimum wage because they're easy or hard. They're minimum wage because the a) you don't have a lot of responsibility, so if you fuck up, you probably only end up upsetting one customer. A CEO can destroy a company with a fuckup and put thousands of people out of a job. And B) it's not a specialized skillset that takes a lot of money to learn and get good at.

A lot of people are surprised how hard you have to end up working in these menial jobs.

[(Anonymous)]

current Walmart employee here. I work toys and let me tell you working toys during Christmas is no picnic. I'd like to see anyone who scoffs at it try doing a few 8-hour shifts.

Yeah OP sounds condescending. Not feeling very sympathetic.

[(Anonymous)]

I just want to say bless you for the job you do, anon. Retail can be awful, thankless work and the holidays are totally the worst when it comes to that.

[(Anonymous)]

Aw thanks. That means a lot to me. :)

I get by mostly because I want to continue being able to be independent and I have rent to pay.

[(Anonymous)]

My friend/co-worker worked toys, too. Do you also work Site to Store? They always expected him to have toys zoned, sometimes to planogram, AND deal with the STS/Layaway. It's just not possible. Especially if their items haven't been binned.

I second for him on a weekend once. I was a closer, though, so my CSM tried to drag me back to register. We had people there well after closing, it was alwayss a mad-house.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Nah not usually. I specified on my application that I do better with inventory type jobs and stocking jobs and they haven't trained me on the registers. From what I hear of cashier work, I honestly don't want to be. So I do less. But still get three people asking me for a thing at a time. Or I'm going to help someone on the phone when someone else asks me about something.

I dread answering calls really.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it can get tiring. You need to know the action codes, how to process checks, how to bypass hiccups, handle returns, price checks, do 82, and deal with very pissy customers. I always hated running the smoke house registers because you'd get customers with 30+items trying to get into my line. When you told them it was for 10 or less only they'd scream about poor service, or tell me they were never shopping there again. (lol) I had a customer slam his hands down in my face because I couldn't take -30!- cents off of his gift card (We aren't allowed to do that)

I miss just doing returns and zoning, to be honest.

[(Anonymous)]

Worked at Party City during Halloween. I went 6 hours the Monday before Halloween without a quick pee break I desperately needed because so many people wanted to buy costumes they could return before Halloween. I have never felt so overworked as I did that Halloween.

I really feel you.

[(Anonymous)]

Can I just say I like you?

[(Anonymous)]

Y-You have a Maleficent figure? C:

[(Anonymous)]

Tongue in cheek, plus an acknowledgement of two things:

1. Often, the criteria we have for "adult" in our heads is weird and sideways. I know lots of adults, for instance, whose housekeeping leaves something to be desired and who greeted online banking with cries of OH THANK GOD, NOW I MIGHT ACTUALLY GET BILLS PAID ON TIME. On the flipside, I kept my house IMMACULATE when I was an idiot nineteen year old who didn't even know how to open a bank account by myself.


2. That our childhood perceptions lied to us, and we will never be totally in control and secure and so on. "Adult" in that context means something closer to how a lot of us saw our parents as kids*, weird magicians who controlled the world and always knew what was going on and how to do and fix things.


This has been your total overanalysis comment. >.>


*excepting, of course, those who for one reason or another didn't.

[deadtree]

your second point is really the core of it, I think-- we have ideas about a solid wall running between "childhood" and "adulthood", like one day you cross over and you're suddenly Mr Responsibility with a car and a mortgage, two kids who need to be dropped off at school, a pile of paper to push around your desk... and you'll be able to deal with all that stuff just fine because you're an adult now! The reality is that it's all BS based on what we imagined our parents doing and what we saw on TV/read in books as children.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, my #2 is definitely the major for me. I mean, it's kind of reassuring to remind myself that in reality, all the adults I knew growing up were probably just as panicked and overwhelmed from time to time (or all the time) as I am, but it's still hard to accept emotionally.

So there are a lot of jokes about needing to act like a responsible adult, or failing at being a responsible adult, or whatever. When actually, I spent my working days caring for small children, running someone else's house, and my non-working days paying my bills and looking after my health and relatives health and actually holy shit, I am a) an adult who has b) responsibilities I mostly live up to.

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention, every skill is a learned thing. While how much a person was exposed to it has some correlations to how long that person existed, it's not all cut clean.

Hell, I was more house-responsible at 8 than I am now. Fuck yeah living on my own and no family to breathe down my back if I don't clean.

[recessional]

Or with our Gandalf plushie on our dash!

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