u/Proof_Tour_1949

So I work at a mall store. It’s back to school season, so we’re pretty busy, and a lot of people buy multiple bags worth of stuff. So this lady has been walking around the store for about 45 minutes at this point. She has been giving us little piles of stuff to hold for her. Her pile behind the counter was pretty big. When she came to checkout, she said her husband and 6 kids would come to the store in just a minute to help her take bags out. We talked. She was super nice.

At the end of her checkout, she told me that they were running late and asked if I could help her carry things to her car. Unfortunately, the mall I work at is ginormous, and we are not allowed to leave the store, at all while clocked in, unless its an emergency or we are on break. I told her this, to which she said “oh, well no problem, you can just start your break”. I explained that no, I would not go on my break to walk across the huge mall with you and find your car in the parking garage. She got MAD.

My mall offers a service, for free, where somebody can meet you at any store with essentially a big shopping cart and take it to a locker for you to get on your way out, and they usually help take it to your car, however, they are known to be pretty slow. They usually take about 10 minutes, and I told her there was probably a queue, because of how many people were at the mall. I told her I could call them to come, hold her bags behind the counter until they come, and she could go shop around, and I would get her info for them. She REFUSED. Holding up the line, and I asked where her family was to help, to which she said “They are in the Nike store, they need to buy shoes. My youngest just changed sizes” 😐. I told her no. She would not leave.

So I asked her to step out of the line until they came, and we would hold the bags for her. She refused. Insisted on waiting right in the lane so she didn’t have to wait once they got to the store. At this point, the line is out the door. One of the registers ran out of $1s, so I had to go to the back and get more. I got back, and the girls family was there and she started cussing me out for not being there when they came. Her husband took a bunch of bags and apologized for her. On their way out, she put a bag down and flipped me off. Her husband just started yelling at her and left. And yeah! zero out of ten.

Today, I was checking out a customer, and when I told her her total, she said “Oh get [manager name]. She loves me! She will apply my employee discount!”. My manager wasnt there so I said I couldn’t grab her and she started naming a bunch of people who legit quit forever ago. I told her no, she wasn’t a current employee, so she cannot get a discount. She called my managers personal phone, and put it on speaker phone to try to prove a point. My manager said “Did you mean to call?” 🤭 This girl said that I was denying her a fair discount because she used to work here. My manager just said “oh, that doesn’t apply anymore, it is for current employees only. Sorry!” This girls whole face changed and she started like grunting and stuff (weird) and then paid full price.

I am taking MT rn on cipcources and I am STRESSING!! How hard is the final? What should I study extra? Help!!!!

Here is me, in the customer service area, the line is huge, so i am walking around with a return machine to try to speed things up. Go to preteen girl. Process her return.
Ask “is that okay back on that original card?”
“yes”
okay. explain refund process. Tell her be right back and get receipt from behind counter. Deliver receipt “um so i dont have access to this card anymore. i need store credit”
“Oh! I already processed the return and you said it was okay to go back onto the card so I put it back on the card”
“I know. I lost the card”
“You already got the money back tho. I can’t refund you twice”
Demand to see manager, get manager, manager defends me. Says she is getting her dad and coming back 😨
Dad walks in.
“i need store credit. we dont have that card anymore. She told you wrong”
“i can’t do anything about it now, sir.
“its not our fault. she didnt know.”
“soo why didnt YOU come in and do it or tell her?”
“I was in the car”
“okay cool”
get manager. Manager says nothing we can do. Man and daughter leave the store cussing everyone and everything out 😒

I am going to app state in a couple weeks. I was looking at videos, and the dorm only has a small chest of drawers (2.5’x2.5’, 3 drawers) and a small cabinet. However, I need more space than that. I feel like it is not enough to have a decent space ig. I am moving from Nevada so it is going to be a big change (app is in nc) idrk what to expect either and am scared so yeah!

So I am a pretty athletic person. I was never super duper skinny and fit (I weigh 130lbs), but I have no problem working out and I have a lot of muscle. I have a friend who, at the start of the story, weighed about 180 lbs.

2 years ago, when this started, we were in HS. We were talking about how we wanted to lose weight, so we started jogging together everyday before school. Instantly, I fell in love with it and got so attached to it. My friend was not too into it. She cancelled most mornings, and only came with me about once or twice a week. I started noticing that she was losing weight a lot faster than me. Within like 6 months, she never ran with me and was SUPER slim. When people would bring it up, she would always say “thanks! Ive been running”

One day I cried to her because I felt like I wasn’t doing enough and she told me, not to tell anyone, but she was taking Ozempic. I told her no judgement, and it made me feel a lot better about my progress.

Flash forward to now, she has built an online platform based on “helping women lose weight naturally”. She always posted workout routines, diet ‘hacks’, stuff like that. Always promised losing ~10lbs/month. It was all AI generated as well. It always really bothered me because she didn’t and still doesn’t do any of that. It made me remember how i felt like I was behind her. However, with her account, she was able to start only working part-time. I talked to her one day and she said that she was just encouraging people to work out, and that she was making a good living. No remorse.

One day, she posted about a supplement (which she later told me was a sponsored post and she bragged for how much she was paid), saying it was super useful for her weight loss. I looked at their website. For a 3 month supply, it was almost $400. I looked at the ingredients and they are pretty much just gummies. Someone in the comments said “Im so broke rn but saving up!” That absolutely broke me. I commented “They wont help. She took Ozempic.”

Since then, my friend took down her account and started working full time. I feel bad, but at the same time, I can just imagine girls seeing these posts, following them, and not seeing the promised results and wondering what they are doing wrong.

I just got my EMT license and I was under the impression that my advisor would help me get a job after, but he hasn’t. How do I get hired? I feel like walking around I dont see signs that say “hiring EMTs” n stuff. I have zero idea how to get out there or have people know I exist. What do i do?

Help me!!
I love biology. I thought about going pre-med, but I am worried about if I am smart enough. I had a 4.0 in hs and stuff but i really dont think it makes me smart enough for that. Is it super duper hard? Also, I love the outdoors and hiking and stuff and I would love if a career would be in something where I could be outside a lot. I have zero clue what I want to do with myself. I want my career to be something I can make a lot of money in (I am terrified of not having enough), something pretaining to biology(ish), and possibly pre-med if it is something I would enjoy but I have no idea (if u know anything about it lmk)
I am also rlly good at math. I really enjoy math.

For me it has to be the promposal episode where Mitch and Cam help Manny and Luke with asking girls to prom. Luke was doing a scavenger hunt thing and so he put a note in the girls locker that said “Go to the gym”. EXCUSE ME. Imagine you are in high school, and oh look, theres a note in your locker to go to the gym. I would not assume to go to the gymnasium. I would just think someone was calling me fat and I WISH they wrote that into the show.

I know that this is obvious. They were much better partners most of the time.

I think that Jay and Gloria’s relationship was the most mature and least of the Pritchetts always being right. For the most part, they got along. They always believed in each other and talked through their conflicts like adults, as well as treating raising Manny and Joe as a collaboration.

I know that the show would have gone in a totally different direction if this was the case, but I think Claire kinda got screwed over with Phil (Hot
take, i know). I mean he is funny and nice and a great dad, BUT, he ALWAYS made Claire out to be the bad guy to their kids, he had lots of weird things with other women, including Gloria, and never really listened to Claire, and always made backhanded complaints about her to her, and never took the blame for anything he did. She did so much for the family and Phil didnt really care as much for Claire and she did for him.

For Mitch and Cam, I don’t super like the whole thing that says Cam is fun and Mitch is just a dream crusher. I know (small spoiler ahead) Cam wanted to go back to Missouri towards the end of the show and Mitch sorta felt pressured to because they were at the party. I think that they would have been happier with other people. Mitch wasn’t completely supportive of Cam, like for his clowning and all his musical displays and whatnot. I do think that they kept eachother in balance though, which I do enjoy. I just wish that Cam would not blow everything out of control or get other people involved as much.

And also I would just like to say, I know it is just a show and their relationships are not meant to be perfect, this post is more of just a discussion and something I think about when I watch the show!! No harm meant. I adore the show so so so much!

I work at a place that only rlly sells clothes. When we open, there are a few tasks, one of which, is vacuuming. Vacuuming SUCKS. I normally only open with one other person so I usually do it anyways. Today, for the one day in forever, I was working with 2 people. The other girl is a new(er)hire (who I will call Jill) and is having a hard time adjusting to all the tasks we have. I feel kinda bad and we are so short staffed that I want her to stay. So, I offered to vacuum. She also needed more training on folding down, and that was the other task to do. The store was very messy.

The vacuum at my work is terrible. It is a regular vacuum, or was at some point. The main roller thing doesnt work anymore so you have to use the tube. One of the wheels fell off so it doesn’t move around very well and constantly falls over. Its so annoying. It also radiates a 5 foot cloud of wet heat all around it and gets clogged all the time.

So, as I am vacuuming, and before the store is open, I hear a dressing room door open and see Jill walking out of the area. I thought she was just checking if anything was left there yesterday. Nope. SHE WAS TRYING STUFF ON. Like, a huge pile of stuff. Eventually, my manager came out of the back and asked if Jill could start to fold down, because once again, everything was so messy. She said sure and started to PLAY ON HER PHONE. I finished vacuuming and went to start folding down myself because my manager is kinda hard on us and really wanted the store to look good.

Later in the day, Jill REALLY WANTED to go on her break, even tho her shift was not long enough to qualify her for one. We do free bathroom breaks that you do not need to clock out for and she had a fresh drink from starbucks so its not like she rlly had a problem. She asked the manager a bunch of times even tho we were super busy. I was still folding down and the manager asked Jill if she wanted to fold down and I could run the register since I was folding down all day. SHE SAID NO!

Finally, we got her walking around folding down. Another coworker came in to close, and upon seeing him walk in, Jill left and didnt tell anyone. She came back with a chai from the place down the street. I was furious at her. She did nothing all day

On Tuesday morning, a coworker messaged the gc and asked if someone could cover her 8h shift on Wednesday night. She seemed desperate and offered to cover another persons shift in return, and sent her availability. I need money and I wanted her to cover my shift the next week so I replied “Sure! I can. Would it be possible for you to cover my shift Monday 4-close?”. I had an appointment at 3:00 and a test I had to make up for a class, and was a little nervous to be cutting it so close and my day was just super busy. In the group chat she replied “I would love to!”.
I posted my shift as open on our website thing and she did as well. I took hers but she did not take mine right away (it was the same time as one of her classes at this point so I just assumed she was busy). My covering her got approved.
In the morning, literally as I was getting ready to leave to cover her shift, I looked online and she still didn’t take my shift. I got a private message from her that said (this is me copy and pasting her message) “Hey girl! I am so sorry but I have a big night planned on Sunday and I kinda wanted to sleep in on monday. Sorry ☹️” MIND YOU THE SHIFT I WANTED HER TO COVER STARTED AT 4. I replied and said “Really? You said you would cover it. Its fine ig. Ill see if I can find anyone else to cover my shift then”
I started drafting up a text in the gc and she texted me again and said “Um would it be possible if you maybe just worked that shift urself and told people you wanted it back? It shouldn’t be an issue. I just dont want people to know I wouldn’t cover for u cuz then they wont take my shifts”
OH. MY. GOSH. I had to go work that shift since technically it was mine now but oh. my. gosh. I have no idea what to do. I left her on read and I am genuinely so mad.

So I was at claires today with a friend. One of the locked jewelry cases was open and I was just looking at some options. I was spinning the case around and i got to the open portion (I didnt know it was open when I started looking at the display). The claires at my mall has some locked cases and some unlocked ones. I wasn’t paying attention to the other sides, and just thought it was an unlocked case, so I reached in to look at a piece closer. I didnt eve take it off the little rack thing. I just picked it up halfway then put it back down) When I did, the woman working swooped in and locked the case. I backed up and apologized cuz I had ZERO bad intentions and didn’t realize it was locked. She walked back to the counter and me and my friend didn’t find anything so we left.

As we were leaving, the worker jumped in front of me and told me to give her the jewelry I stole (which was none. I didn’t steal anything from her) because I “popped open” the case that she claimed she definitely locked. She wanted me to empty my pockets (which I didn’t have because I was wearing running shorts and wasn’t carrying a purse, my card was in my friends wallet) The whole time, my friend (who should have been just as suspicious as I was, but wasn’t for some reason) kept saying the case was just open and I didn’t take anything (all truths). I was holding my phone in my hands and she said she definitely saw me put the jewelry in my hand? and needed me to give it back. She told me I was permanently banned from the store, even though I go there and actually spend a lot of money.

The police and security got involved and it was super embarrassing!! I’m the type of person to get nervous opening a soda in walmart before paying because I might like forget to pay or something . I HATE stuff like this. I genuinely have not been able to stop thinking about it. Like all day. I know I did not do anything wrong, but like the stress and how rude she was being to me. Idek. It just feels weird like one of those feelings that lingers in your stomach even until way after.