u/ImAMajesticSeahorse

I know that none of this is new information and it’s well-established, but I am so goddamn sick and tired of places requiring in office and yet the space is a depressing shit hole. As someone who already struggles with depression, there’s just nothing better for my mental health than sitting in a windowless space staring at a gray cubicle wall for 8 hours a day.

This has just been weighing on my mind lately because I’ve been trying to better myself and part of that has been paying more attention to my overall mood and what could possibly be affecting it. I took extra time off with the holiday and was out running errands on Thursday and was like, I think part of why I’m so depressed is because of my working space. I mean, the overall conditions depress me (not paid enough, no path for advancement, the usual stuff), but I’m like I go the bulk of the day getting no sunshine. Sometimes I have time to get out for a short walk, but I feel like it just doesn’t make up for the lack of windows.

The more I think about it, the more it pisses me off and the more that I think, it’s actually cruel to do that to people. Don’t pretend that you give a shit to care about employee wellness, but then completely ignore/disregard a pretty important contribution to someone’s mental and physical health.

The title is a joke (sort of), but seriously, why is it that people act like it’s their first day on this planet in a grocery store? Suddenly no one has any concept that people outside themselves exist and that spatial awareness is a thing.

I messed up today and didn’t get to the store until after lunch, and I made the even graver mistake of going to Trader Joe’s. For starters, no one knew how to park. Which if you are at all familiar with TJ’s, their parking lots are atrocious to begin with, and the one I go to is in a plaza that has a horrendous setup to add on top of that. But when I finally made my way into the store, I was greeted by people just blocking the doorway, deciding if they needed a shopping cart, which they’re outside by the way. Not even like they were standing by the carts, which happened to be by the doorway. No no. Then I kept running into these two women, who were shopping together but had separate carts. Wouldn’t have been an issue had they always decided to be together blocking aisles. At one point one of them was getting something out of the diary case and the other one was standing next to her, with her cart, talking, while 4 of us were waiting to get to the dairy case or get past her (because they were managing to block the case and the path).

I’ve been trying really hard the last year to have more patience, slow down, all that jazz. And I can deal with waiting at the grocery store when someone is actually shopping and picking out an item. I have no patience when it comes to people being completely obtuse and blocking things while yapping or looking somewhere else. Like, I can’t fathom what goes through someone’s brain when they decide to leave their cart perpendicular to the aisle and see people coming up the aisle, clearly looking to get by. And then they have the nerve to get mad when you ask them to move their cart.