Scenes from retail purgatory…

[emperor_fool]

When I took the seasonal retail job, I expected lots of good fiction-fodder. There have, however, been only a few standout moments. Still, if I take the top half dozen incidents from the past two months and combine them into a single day in a comic story about a retail worker, I might get some mileage out of them. I’m recording them here in some

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[sunneschii]

These stories are really fun to read!
But I'm sure horror to live through!

[emperor_fool]

It was kind of fun to write about them. It made me feel better about having experienced them. :-)

[florafloraflora]

My empathy for my fellow flake in Adult Story #2 ended when she brought up her ADD. Nobody cares about your acronyms, lady. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

[emperor_fool]

Honestly, why do people feel the need to share their diagnoses with complete strangers? If you need to share, go talk to your family and friends; I'm a shop clerk, not your shrink. There really appears to be nothing any more that is personal, nothing that we don't need to share, share, share. I hate it. (It seems to me the driving ethos behind Facebook and Twitter, which is part of why I can't stand either of those...but that's for another entry...)

[florafloraflora]

There's plenty I don't share on Facebook! And I don't Twit. I see FB primarily as a place to hang out with my friends. Sometimes it's silly and sometimes it's serious, but rarely does it get too deep or too personal. That's what works for me.

[emperor_fool]

Sorry--that was not a comment on you or any of my friends who are on Facebook. I understand that not everyone on FB is constantly baring his or her soul or discussing his or her bowel movements. Plenty of people use it in reasonable ways and get a lot of pleasure from it. Including, I'm sure, you. But it's the whole ethos of the place that bugs me--the fact that everything is public until you make it private (and a lot of people seem to want everything to remain public), the fact that you can't use any of the apps unless you let them scour your info (including your friends-list) first, the way so many people HAVE to check in 40 times a day and update their status, the friend requests I get from people I've never even heard of, the way that every damn website I go to these days seems to offer me the opportunity to "like" it on my FB wall--the basic assumption behind FB seems to be that we all want every aspect of our lives to be out there for everyone to observe, admire, comment on... To which I say, no thanks. I get the same

[alrescate]

This is one of the reasons I limit the boys public appearances. They don't act that way (and I wouldn't allow it) but until I feel they know the proper way to behave we aren't going to be exposing everyone to our lessons.

This is also why I'm glad at a bit over two the boys say please and thank you. (Not to mention knowing you cover your mouth when you cough and sneeze which is something their 8 year old cousins don't seem to know yet.)