u/Johnny_Mira

Like you have a complaint about someone. Could be anything. They annoy you in some way. And you'll be like "god I can't stand how my coworker is so slow and stupid."

And everyone will jump in with excuses for him. Maybe hes got mental or emotional problems. Maybe hes got stress at home. He has a medical condition that makes him slow and stupid, and boy I must be a real asshole for not considering his situation.

Well what about me? Maybe I have stress at home. Maybe I have a disorder that makes slow and stupid people intolerable. Maybe my emotional problems are affecting my judgement.

Then suddenly its "no you cant use excuses you just have to own it and deal."

Editing to add another example, had this coworker years ago who got away with everything because she always had an excuse. She got to sit down and take breaks every half hour because of "asthma" (whilst having a cigarette). She didnt have to do any lifting or anything because of back problems. She also got a free pass on every mistake because of "brain damage" from sleep apnea. Always spouting "I had 70% oxygen loss its not my fault $100 went missing!" And it was always fine.

Me, I was in a car accident and while I could show up and do some work, whiplash and some other injuries were slowing me down. You think anyone gave me a free pass?

"You need to do your job and leave your personal problems at the door. If you can't do the job you shouldn't be here."

This starts to wear on me after a while....

Customer: can I get a pack of marlboros please?

Me: reds?

Customer: yep.

Me: ok that'll be....

Customer: oh I meant the menthols.

Me: ah, ok here you go...

Customer: the long ones.

Me: you want Marlboro menthol 100s? Is that correct?

Customer: yep!

Me: ok here you go that will be...

Customer: oh I need the lights.

God I hate this. To be fair its not TOTALLY their fault. We only have one register that works good so everyone is just always on that one. So yeah theres sometimes a little wait.

But jesus fucking christ learn how to manage your drawer. Im in at 9pm, usually show up a little early and clock in wrong 8:50. Then I gotta watch as I Am Sam over here finally starts counting....very, very slowly. Usually has like 20 dollars in change and a fuckload of bills.

And there will be like 4 people in line for 10 minutes just waiting. Motherfucker why werent you working on this earlier? All you do is stand there all night so maybe roll some of that change? You dont need 97 one dollar bills in there either. You dont need to wait until 8:55 to start feeding them one at a time into the safe.

I keep my drawer around 50 bucks. That'd where the boss wants it. When its time for me to end my shift, ive already counted it an hour ago and verified that I got the right amount in there. Most of the time I just look at the shift report and thats what I type in for my end shift count.

I know that's cheating a little bit but it works. And even if I couldn't do that, no way I would make people wait while I count down a bunch of fucking change and do like 12 safe drops.

Usually its a "what are you doing" type of question, and not in a conversational way. Like well I got a bottle of windex in my left hand, a squeegee in my right hand, im on a ladder in front of a window. Exactly what the fuck do you think im doing?

I work at circle k, overnights, and I do a fair amount of baking at night. Everyone knows this. I usually never see the main kitchen worker, but this morning she came in early and she comes out holding the bottle of cooking spray and demands "what the hell are you using this for????"

Ok Sheila, I know youre borderline mentally retarded but come on and use one of those two braincells you got to figure it out. What in the everloving fuck do you think im spraying cooking spray on in the kitchen?

But this is the same girl who thinks cheese is spelled C H E S S E.

Cigarette customer: I'll take a pack of Marlboro reds please.

Vape and nic pouch customers: uhhh...what do you have....uhhhh...how much are the zyn. How much are the velo. What flavors do they come. What about your juul pods. What flavors. How much exactly. Uhhh...ill take a juul. No wait, a breeze. No wait, a juul. No, make that a breeze. What flavors are the Luna? Peach? What does that taste like? How about the banana mint What does that taste like. Wait hold on how much is a breeze and a velo. Now how much is a juul and a velo. How much is a Luna and a zyn. What flavors are your zyns again? How much is 2 zyn? How much is 3 lunas? Is are different flavors different prices?

This aint a car dealership. I dont work on commission. Do your own research, pick something and go.

In the kitchen theres all kinds of stuff they keep right next to the sink. Boxes of rubber gloves, the little boxes of foil that we wrap burgers and other hot sandwiches in, plastic wrap for other stuff....my point being that this stuff gets little bits of splatter from washing hands all over it.

That cant be sanitary, right? Or am I overthinking it?

My rent is due on the first. The landlord has it set up so I pay on Avail or some shit. I pay on the first but really the landlord doesn't get it until like the 3rd.

That's not "late" is it? I mean thats the payment method the landlord chose. If there's a delay so what. Literally no sort of debit/credit/online payment is instantaneous.

A while back i remember reading about someone getting caught "stealing" from some store; it was an employee eating the outdated throwaway foods.

From what I read, the boss was aware of this and let it keep happening until it reached a certain dollar amount so he could have the kid arrested.

Fuck that. I think once youve become aware of the problem, you should have to deal with it immediately, or youre giving permission for it to happen.

Same with legal stuff. Cops see a criminal doing criminal shit, no more waiting until he does enough criminal shit for it to be a felony or whatever.

Camera man: ok smile!

Me: (putting on a forced but legit looking smile)

Camera man: (turns on camera.)

Me: (smiling)

Camera man: (fiddling with settings)

Me: (smile is fading)

Camera man: (fiddling with settings)

Me: (smile becoming more forced, less natural)

Camera man: (aiming camera)

Me: (smile has been become a completely manufactured obviously fake upturn of my mouth that doesnt reach my eyes)

Camera man: (focusing)

Me: (there is no more smile, only a soulless twisting of my face

Camera man: (finally takes the fucking picture).

The official rule here is you can get a free fountain soda or coffee if youre on the clock and use your own cup. Of course no one follows that rule and its common to get a drink when you first come in even tho youre not clocked in. No one cares.

Theres even a couple people who let coworkers take a free drink if theyre off that day. Against the rules yeah but still not like theyre stealing bottles of liquor lol.

But of course Dan is all pissy that he didnt get the assistant manager job, and pissy that I gently remind him to take care of certain things when I have to work after him, so when he came in to get a drink and the employee gave it to him free, he immediately called the manager from the parking lot to tell on the guy.

Fuck you Dan.