u/Glitterygloomy

I am the only person running my department. Every day I have a humanly impossible amount of tasks to complete by myself. I am always very friendly with customers and happy to help. I don't, however, always ask every single one of the hundreds of customers that come through how they are doing because I have a lot on my plate and sometimes it annoys customers if I'm always asking if they need help. I'm the kind of person that likes to get in and get out and feel rushed if everyone is asking me how I'm doing, so I smile and say hello but don't rush them.

This lady walks in my department and I'm about 20 feet away from her. I do pass her to go get another box, but she's in my peripherals, not even facing me, and seems to be doing fine.

She turns around and starts laying into me. She's like, "I think it's fucking INSANE that you haven't even asked if I need help when it's OBVIOUS that I'm struggling to find what I'm looking for"

I just tried to kill her with kindness and smile and say, "yes, ma'am, what can I help you find?"

She puts her hand in my face and screams, "BYE"

I say, "ma'am, I have no problem helping anyone who asks for assistance"

She says, "I SAID BYE"

Then she storms off. I think she told my manager, but I'm not sure yet.

I'm extremely sensitive and it made me tear up. I'm not really cut out for customer interactions and am going through a lot on my personal life, so I kinda just fell apart. But I sucked it up. Why are people so entitled and hateful?

My favorite songs are Vinushka, Glass Skin, and Kaishun. I feel as if Vinushka may be too long and the other two may not encompass the Dir En Grey sound to a first time listener.

So today I saw this couple doing an instacart order together. They just looked problematic to begin with. The girl was wearing a Buckee's T-shirt tied into a crop top and booty shorts, hair in a messy bun and the guy was in a wife beater, fake gold chain, and sagging gym shorts.

I look over as they're shopping and the guy reaches down the front of his gym shorts and grabs his dick and readjusts it. The girl giggles and lightly pushes him and they go on just picking up produce for the customer with their peen hands.

I thought it was bad enough that a few weeks ago I witnessed a shopper sit their phone with the instacart order they were shopping open on the bathroom floor while they were blowing up the bathroom, then walk out without washing their hands, and proceed to shop the order.

This is also not the first time I've seen customers stick their hands in their pants while shopping. It's a pretty common occurrence sadly. Society is screwed.

I was on Lexapro for 7 years. I tapered off Lexapro 3 months ago. About a week in, I had a 2 week period where my sex drive was higher than it's ever been. I was thinking about sex every waking hour. After that, it started to slow down. Now I have zero sex drive. I'd go as far as to say that I'm disgusted by sex right now. I have a long term partner that has a very high sex drive and I find myself dreading it every time. Is this normal? I assume that it would take my brain longer to reach its baseline, since I've been on Lexapro for so many years. Has anyone else experienced this and how long do you think it will take to get back to normal? Any advice welcome. Thank you.

I've felt this way for as long as I can remember. I remember in kindergarten I had such bad social anxiety that I did not say a word to anyone until the last day of school because my teacher said I'd fail if I didn't answer her questions. I've always had depersonalization/derealization, so whenever I'm in public I feel like I'm in a dream and I am not real.

I started using drugs and alcohol at age 16 because my guardians told me that it would make me more sociable. Whenever I was using, I was really funny and made friends everywhere I went. However, I also treated others as disposable and hurt people around me. I ruined my life with my addiction. I've been sober for 8 years now. I now have social anxiety again, I've lost my sense of humor, my depression is back, and dpdr. I have no friends and I honestly don't desire friendship.

I remember when I was in early recovery, I would mention in AA that I felt like I didn't belong and felt disconnected from other people. I was told that everyone feels that way and thinking such things is selfish and "you're not special". I'm starting to realize that this is bullshit and not everyone feels that way.

When I look around in public, I see everyone laughing and joking around. I see people talking loudly on speaker phones about all their first world problems, rudely subjecting us to them. I see people cheating the system and screwing other people over with no guilt whatsoever, as if the world owes them something. I see friends eating at chic restaurants, telling each other secrets and giggling. I see people mistreating service workers. All around me people are living their lives. They don't feel like I do. The more I watch them, the more they disgust me.

I can fake it for work and then I come home with my social battery drained. The whole world is being destroyed by people who are greedy. Then the people directly around me are selfish and dense. I feel as if I have lost hope in humanity. I view life as pointless. I love animals and focus on loving them. I started reading more and I treat the people around me with kindness. I just try to be the bigger person and better myself each day, but it doesn't change how disconnected and depressed I feel.

I have been off Lexapro for a few weeks now after being on it for 7 years. I have suffered with manic depression, derealization, social anxiety, and panic disorder the majority of my life. Since I stopped Lexapro I have been feeling suicidal. Not planning on doing anything, just constantly getting urges. I feel such extreme guilt for all the mistakes I've made in life and people I hurt. It feels unforgivable.

I also feel like I'm constantly thinking about all the traumatic moments from my past, whereas on Lexapro I could just pretend that never happened. I feel so disconnected from others and everyone around me is so hateful. I work with the public and get yelled at and witness how shitty everyone is each and every day. It makes me feel even more hopeless. There's constantly a pit in my stomach that constantly aches. I feel so hopeless. Has anyone else experienced similar things coming off Lexapro?

So I was watching a famous right wing commentator debating a feminist content creator who I'm a fan of and he was arguing about how women should not vote, work, etc. It had me thinking about all of the men I know in real life who believe in traditional gender roles, and let me tell you that they cannot handle traditional gender roles.

I dated a guy in my early twenties who was a huge believer in traditional gender roles. We lived together and he expected me to prepare him dinner every night, do his laundry, clean the house, PAY MORE THAN HALF THE BILLS, AND PAY FOR ALL OF OUR GROCERIES. I decided to turn the tables on him and I told him that me paying for everything was against his beliefs and that I should probably quit my job and he can take over....he was like, "that would be ideal, but I'm just not in a financial place to do that right now." Then when I got promoted to management at my job he said I didn't deserve it because I was a woman, but should still take it so I could pay our bills. Also at the time I sucked at cooking, so every meal I made he would hate and constantly would tell me I would never live up to his mom.

Thankfully I left him and he somehow landed a goth girl and they got married. However, over the years I have had the same experience with men who believe in traditional gender roles. They want all the perks of a stay at home wife, but don't want to pay for it. So they expect the woman to work full time, cook for them, clean up after them, pay half the bills, pay for every meal, and have sex with them whenever they want. And their excuse is always either, "you wanted equal rights, so this is equal rights" or "I can't afford it right now, but you still are obligated to fulfill your wifely duties"

I live in the Bible belt, so the dating pool is rough.

I've been in a relationship with a fantastic agnostic man who doesn't hold any of these fundamentalist Christian or sexist ideals for 8 years now. I learned how to cook and even though he doesn't expect it from me, I cook for him and care for him because I love him and he treats me good. Whenever I don't feel like it, he just says "that's fine" or "I got dinner tonight".

Just wanted to vent about my experiences and wanted to see if y'all have noticed the same trend.

Here is a list of all of the things that happened today:

1. A woman has diarrhea and gets it all over the toilet and then leaks drops of diarrhea all the way out the door.

2. A homeless man strips in front of the store and gives himself a dry bath.

3. A woman smears her period blood all over the other bathroom stall... simultaneously someone fills up the only remaining toilet with shit and toilet paper.

4. Someone goes into the clogged toilet and has diarrhea to the brim on top of all the tp and shit, and then it is so clogged nothing will go down.

5. A woman asks me why some brands are more expensive than others. I want to ask her if she was born yesterday, but I just tell her" that's how it is."

6. the homeless man comes in and fills a basket full of items and starts asking people to buy it for him.

7. A guy in the parking lot tries to kiss a customer on the mouth and then she comes in yelling at us.

8. I walk down an aisle and a girl in a short skirt is bending over exposing her ass to her boyfriend who is touching her ass.

Now I'm on my way home. I hate the human race.

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I'm a 33 yr old white female with an unpleasant yellow skin tone. I have dry acne prone skin. Ever since I entered my 30s my acne has been so bad. I haven't had an acne issue like this in my teens and twenties. I get tiny acne spots all around my chin and lips with giant acne sores around my nose. My skin tone seems to get more and more dull as time goes on. There's definitely discoloration going on. I feel like these skin care problems are aging me.

I get bad hormonal flare ups around my period and am constantly fighting it off the days in between. My current skin care routine is as follows: rinse with cold water in the morning and put on Round Lab dokdo moisturizer and sometimes (not as often as I should) spf 30. At night I do cleansing balm, Cera Ve foaming face cleanser, I'm from brand rice water toner, and dokdo cream. I use CeraVe retinol serum twice a week. I do wear make up to work, but cleanse thoroughly when I get home. Has anyone else struggled with these skin issues upon entering their 30s? My self esteem is on the floor. I'm crying right now because I feel so ugly and hopeless with my skin. Any recommendations would be welcome.

I'm a department manager at my job. One of my clerks texts me multiple times on every one of my days off and sometimes even calls me over the most miniscule things. It will be like "this regular came in and bought all of the corn" or "you ordered too much on this order" or "this brand of eggs came in with 6 cartons cracked." I DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT HELL HOLE ON MY DAYS OFF.

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However, I guess I signed up for this when I became a manager. 🥲

At my store parents will bring their young children and have them shop orders for them while they are shopping what I'm assuming is a different order. As I was going to lunch, a little girl (probably about 8 or 9 years old) put her phone in a coworkers face with two toddlers behind her. Then I see her go to her parents across the store, who have their own phone and order that they are shopping. This is the 3rd time I've seen it today and it's a regular occurrence.

I don't know how they're operating things on their app, but I know that other instacart shoppers have told me they can accept multiple orders at a time in the same store. I'm assuming that they have their instacart app open on both phones and are accepting multiple orders and having their children shop the other orders.

So just in case you use instacart and door dash, a little kid might be shopping your order.

"I'm not religious, I'm just faithful to Jesus." or whatever other thing, avoiding the "religious" label. Yet they go to church, read the Bible, identify as Christian, evangelize, etc. Being religious is defined as showing devotion to a deity. So why do they try so hard to avoid being labeled as religious? I assume it is a way to disarm people whom they're preaching to because usually whenever they start evangelizing to me, I say, "Sorry, I'm not religious.", and they follow up with, "Oh, neither am I! I just accept Jesus Christ as the one true God!".. I just don't get it. Has anyone else encountered this out in the wild?