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Serious question… how many Type 1 diabetics here are also struggling with drug addiction? I honestly never see anyone talk about it, and it’s made me wonder if I’m really that alone. Alcohol has never really been my problem. I had my phase in my early twenties, but I hated feeling a hundred times more hungover than everyone else, and I made some terrible decisions, so these days I rarely drink. My struggle has always been drugs. I was diagnosed with Type 1 when I was 14, and somewhere along the way they became how I coped with all of this. Now I’m at the point where I’m terrified of the damage I’m doing to my body, but I’m just as terrified of trying to live without them because they’ve been my way of coping for so long. The hardest part is I have an incredible family that loves me, and it would absolutely destroy them if they knew this is how I’ve been surviving. I’m not looking for sympathy or a lecture. I just genuinely want to know if anyone else with Type 1 is fighting this battle too because some days it feels like I’m the only one. If this is your reality too, what’s your story?

Serious question… how many Type 1 diabetics here are also struggling with drug addiction? I honestly never see anyone talk about it, and it’s made me wonder if I’m really that alone. Alcohol has never really been my problem. I had my phase in my early twenties, but I hated feeling a hundred times more hungover than everyone else, and I made some terrible decisions, so these days I rarely drink. My struggle has always been drugs. I was diagnosed with Type 1 when I was 14, and somewhere along the way they became how I coped with all of this. Now I’m at the point where I’m terrified of the damage I’m doing to my body, but I’m just as terrified of trying to live without them because they’ve been my way of coping for so long. The hardest part is I have an incredible family that loves me, and it would absolutely destroy them if they knew this is how I’ve been surviving. I’m not looking for sympathy or a lecture. I just genuinely want to know if anyone else with Type 1 is fighting this battle too because some days it feels like I’m the only one. If this is your reality too, what’s your story?

Serious question… how many Type 1 diabetics here are also struggling with drug addiction? I honestly never see anyone talk about it, and it’s made me wonder if I’m really that alone. Alcohol has never really been my problem. I had my phase in my early twenties, but I hated feeling a hundred times more hungover than everyone else, and I made some terrible decisions, so these days I rarely drink. My struggle has always been drugs. I was diagnosed with Type 1 when I was 14, and somewhere along the way they became how I coped with all of this. Now I’m at the point where I’m terrified of the damage I’m doing to my body, but I’m just as terrified of trying to live without them because they’ve been my way of coping for so long. The hardest part is I have an incredible family that loves me, and it would absolutely destroy them if they knew this is how I’ve been surviving. I’m not looking for sympathy or a lecture. I just genuinely want to know if anyone else with Type 1 is fighting this battle too because some days it feels like I’m the only one. If this is your reality too, what’s your story?

Anybody else feel like being an FMC just means “congrats… it’s your problem now?” 😂
Is it just my store or is this everywhere?
I swear everything somehow becomes File Maintenance’s problem whether it’s our job or not. We spend all week trying to maintain the integrity of the store while everybody else can destroy it in 30 seconds. Plug product wherever. Move displays. Ignore planograms. Shove new items wherever they fit… then somehow it’s Pricing’s fault.Then one sign is missing or one price is wrong and everybody loses their mind. Is Pricing just chronically understaffed everywhere or is my store special? 😂 Feels like we’re expected to keep the entire store together with next to no help. I can have a 12,000 tag night and it’s just “figure it out.” No help. No backup. But the second Receiving needs help, all the sudden I’m the receiver too. Multi trained hasn’t helped me one bit. It just means I get everybody else’s jobs added onto mine.And let’s not forget I’m constantly getting summoned to go check something while there’s literally 25 people standing around doing absolutely nothing remotely helpful. 😂Everybody’s more than happy to make my job harder, but nobody wants to help maintain the integrity of the store. Then they wanna bitch because a sign is missing or a price is wrong. Like… you literally created the problem. Now we’re hearing about electronic shelf labels. I’m at a show and tell store in NorCal, so if Safeway wants to try something new it somehow always ends up at our store first. We were the pilot store for the Lexmark tag platform too. Had it for like 8 months before it officially rolled out… then it went live and like 2 weeks later we were right back to the old system. So now I’m wondering if this is gonna be another Lexmark situation. Is ESL just NorCal right now or are other divisions getting it too? How’s this gonna work with NICIs? Subscription changes? Resets that are already a complete shit show? Are we actually gonna save time or is this just gonna create a whole new list of problems for Pricing?
I know I hate change 😂 and the fact that we have to switch to the honeywell touch screen guns. I love my old school gun. Anyways. End of rant. Would love to hear from other FMCs because I’m really curious what everyone else is seeing in their stores