u/emilyrosee35

She’s pretty mean to me honestly and I even try to be nice to her and she says something snappy back. She doesn’t like me because I used to work at a regular Sephora and some of the stuff we do at kohls Sephora is very different and I’m not used to it yet. She got annoyed with me on the headset because I said “hey can I get more change for my Sephora register? People been using 100 dollar bills a lot” she YELLS “WELL FILL OUT THE CHANGE REQUEST FORM” I said “umm okay” mind you they never showed me how to fill that out. Also my last job all the manager had to do was go grab more change in the back. We never had to fill anything out for that?? That was the managers job not ours. Idk why this lady makes my job difficult. Then she got mad because when I counted the register last night it was a dollar off. I said “yeah sorry at 6:59 someone came in and paid with cash but you told me to clock out because we’re not allowed to clock out more than 5 minutes late I ran out of time sorry” she said “yeah well someone pays with cash you have to recount it” I said “yeah?? You told me to go home” WTF??? It’s an easy job but her attitude is ruining it. Also why are they so difficult about the registers?? It really shouldn’t be our job to count the cash. It just leads to errors. I actually don’t mind this job even though it’s boring but dude…I’m so tired of her mouth. She’s the only manager that gives me an attitude

I’m sorry but as a 26 year old living in a low income county in Ohio, I see no growth whatsoever in our economy. 50% of gen z lives with their parents because we cannot find employment. College graduates are applying at Walmart, McDonald’s, and any customer service related jobs because there’s no other forms of employment. Around 1/3 of Gen Z has passed away due to burnout and mental health issues. We cannot simply keep living like this, our society along economy is going to get worse if we continue this pattern.
I currently work in Kohl’s and you would think since it’s minimum wage job you would see teenagers. No I see a lot of teachers working second jobs because they do not make enough, and college graduates like myself who can’t find employment. When gas is $4.50 a gallon along with other goods and services, you simply have no choice but to just work wherever.
Media sources always say “entry level jobs” are being taken by AI while the rich get richer and they try to tell us how to manage our money. It’s such bullshit. Every time this man has been president I have seen nothing but disasters. First term, we had a whole pandemic and a terrible economy. He lied to the American people and said “right now we have the greatest economy in the world” seriously?? What for you because you get to be corrupt and get away with it??? This man was guilty on 34 criminal charges and I see little penalty for that. It’s just the whole thing is really bothering me because I can sense it’s getting worse. His first term was already a shit show. He’s taken away so many things from Gen Z. The second term is just as a bad if not worse. I really hope we see change in 2028 because the way things are running now is awful.
Let’s not forget either when Republican journalists on YouTube and TikTok were really pushing Gen Z to vote for Trump. That fucking Brett Cooper, Nick Fuentes bullshit was such propaganda. Same with those Jubilee debates in 2024 🙄 I didn’t fall for that shit because like I said before, trumpism has got to go. Others might say “oh well it doesn’t matter whose president the economy is always bad”, that’s incorrect.

I’m literally losing my sanity at this job because it’s so boring. I usually dust and spray down the gondolas, sanitize the lipsticks and powders, deep clean the fragrance area and our store is so dead even that doesn’t help the time go faster. We also have a binder full of sales goals we write in but that only takes 5 minutes if not less to do. I used to work at a regular Sephora and I’m so used to a bigger store. Clients aren’t too bad we usually get one per hour, sometimes we’ll get nobody for three hours (depends on the day). The small format Sephoras are so dead even sometimes the kohls employees come in and say “wow idk how you guys do this, I would go crazy”. Yup it’s boring for sure. Even if you have stuff to do, it still drags. The last hour isn’t bad though because last hour I usually do back stock, stock up on bags along with hygiene products and then count the register. Sometimes I’ll even clean the mirrors because those can get a lot of fingerprints. It’s so tiny there’s little stuff to do. I wish they would expand our Sephora because we’re always out of stock and it’s way too small.

Make sure when you take the argumentative writing you downloaded the extension and closed all your tabs. I downloaded the extension but I forgot to close a tab and it kept saying something about a session error, restart the page and I was so confused. Once I closed all my tabs I was good. 😂😂 I was sitting there for 10 minutes and I said “what the fuck why isn’t it working?”….it was exactly that.

I would actually be okay with it as long as the grading is fair. The reason why is because AI is really ruining the quality of how people write. Also the cycle competitiveness is getting worse. I just wonder though is it going to be part of the 120-180 score or a separate score?? Also wouldn’t it prolong us getting our official scores back because LSAC would have to go through every single one?? I just wonder. They’re probably still coming up with ways to do this.

I live in a small town and literally everyone I graduated with got married to someone they went to high school with, reposts old Facebook memories from high school titled “the good ole days”, and constantly stalk my profile and watch every move I make. One girl even posted her old school schedule on Facebook and said “anyone remember these classes?” No Sarah we’re 26. Then I saw one who now works in the office at the school we went to. I can’t wait to move out of my town because now that I moved back with in my parents and work at a shitty store, they keep coming in the store I work at giving me dirty looks. Yes 26 year olds work retail it’s very normal. I think it’s because I was the “quiet girl”. The “quiet girl” is trying to go to back to college for law and leave this place for good instead of reminiscing about shit from 8-10 years ago.

I’m really starting to spiral down again on my mental health. I’m 26, I work an awful boring retail dead end job at a dying store, I have a bachelors degree and 8 years customer service experience…I feel like I’m a failure. It’s really starting to make me feel like shit. As if I’m doing something wrong in life. I’m trying to get my JD but my LSAT scores are not there. I’m so tired. I wish I could just quit everything. I’m so fucking tired. I feel so far from success. I’m afraid it’s never going to happen and I’ll be stuck at this shitty job…I can’t do that. I just can’t take it anymore. Might get a therapist because I’m not doing well and if keep taking this path it’s not going to end well. I can’t keep doing this.

I live in a small town in Ohio and I genuinely cannot find good employment. I just started working back in my hometown and I work retail but the store never gets business. It’s always dead and I stay seeing people I went to high school with who give me judgmental stares 🙄 ( I ignore them). I have a bachelors degree in political science and I’m trying to think of ideas of what to do that’s not retail or fast food. I tried to get a legal job but there’s nothing out here because the all the positions seemed to filled. I even tried the BMV still nothing. I used to work in Columbus and made about $19 an hour but the problem with that was I can’t afford to live on my own so I had to commute an hour to work and it wasn’t really a “raise” because car maintenance and gas made me lose a pretty big chunk of my earnings. Unless there’s something for people two years out of college with a bachelors degree that actually pays more than that than I would be open

When I worked at McDonald’s in 2018-2020, we were able to get “crew meals” on our break and it was one medium combo meal and the manager could come up and approve it. Then it changed to where there was a limit of like $6 where you can’t go over that. I heard now it’s only 30% off?? 🤔 because another rule McDonald’s had was you were not allowed to bring outside food into work like my coworker brought in chipotle and was told that’s not allowed. So she had to take it to her car. It was the same thing to when I worked at a pizza place in 2021 where it first was free then they changed it to 30% off. If you’re not getting those anymore, that’s really ridiculous. I work retail now but I keep hearing that some restaurants don’t provide their employees with meals anymore. They make a billion dollars if not more and you get paid minimum wage but you have to pay to eat their food even though work there?? Even at Sephora they give us free training product.

I’ll never forget a few months ago I had a really awkward interview where they first acted really interested and asked me for a phone interview for the first round, the second round was in person. I mean wow they were so stuck up towards me because I worked at Sephora. They were like “do you have colored hair and tattoos? That’s unprofessional if so” I said “umm no I do not” he said “okay well are you doing to be able to deal with older clients? We’re a real estate firm so much of our clients are boomers” I said “yeah that’s perfectly okay and I understand. I have 8 years of customer service so I deal with a range of different ages and have also worked older clients as well. I treat them equally from everyone else and try to offer them the best service possible”….they just start laughing in the background of the phone. How unprofessional. I would not want them as my attorney honestly 🥴🥴 if that’s how they talk to employees I can’t imagine how they treat their clients. Plus they fail to realize a lot of lawsuits deal with a range of people much like customer service.

I really might have to quit this job because it does not pay enough for my bills and we also don’t get enough hours. They’ve been scheduling me 10:30-7 and that’s fine but it’s barely 5 days a week. I only get 3 days a week. Then they have the nerve to say they’re hiring?? What a joke. You can’t even give people with open availability enough hours. I work at kohls and I make $15 an hour as a 26 year old with a bachelors degree in political science,7-8 years customer service experience. I’m genuinely thinking about reaching out to my local courthouse and seeing if they have any other opportunities or tbh I almost asked Starbucks today if they were hiring. I’m in no way job shaming or being ungrateful I have a job. It’s just very exhausting working for a place that doesn’t want to give me any hours. I don’t even want to go back tomorrow because I know damn well there’s a job that makes more than $15 an hour. It’s like I want to go back to school and study law but right now it’s been tough because bills along with the costs of food and gas is insane. I don’t even live on my own because thankfully my parents allow me to live with them. But omg I am very sorry to those who have to live on their own because I’m struggling now I can’t imagine how bad it is being alone. It shouldn’t be legal for jobs to only pay $13-15 an hour. That’s far too low. Who wants to work 40-60 hours a week to make $1100 in two weeks?? That’s such bullshit. My paycheck was actually lower than that. I made $400 in two weeks because they barely give me any hours.

I really need to not be so hard on myself when it comes to my career goals. I’m also tired of people thinking that you’re too old to achieve something or that “your time has passed, most people already done that”. Okay well most people is not you. Everyone’s journey is different. I always get sad because I’m 26 and still work in the beauty industry. I love the company I work for and I love cosmetic retail/sales. I just catch myself getting sad that I’m not achieving my whole career goal yet. I’ve always wanted to be a lawyer and go to law school. I’m not there yet because the LSAT. What makes me feel better is when I remember when my 15 year old self said, “I want to be a makeup artist first and then be a lawyer…maybe I’ll be both” and it’s funny because 11 years later I’m sort of doing exactly that. So yeah I just learned that being hard on myself does nothing but slows down my progress. I see more growth when I realize, age doesn’t matter. 26 is still not that old to me and I feel like I have time. Plus I did not graduate college until I was 24 because I could not afford to finish college (I started when I was 19) and I also did not have a car so I had to rely on my parents to take me to school . I worked fast food damn near everyday because I wanted to be educated and go to law school someday. I got a brand new car in my name when I was 21. I also am glad I graduated when I did because I felt more mature at that age anyway. It took a lot of work to get where I am now so I just need to not be so mean to myself.

In summary: regardless of how old you are, you can achieve your goal. Don’t be mean to yourself because your timing is not right yet.

My sister got a phone call from someone who works with Medicaid today saying that she might be over income for that. She makes only $680 a month…how is that over income?? She cannot afford anything. We both have college degrees and she’s actually pursuing a second degree (nursing). So she’s going to be a nurse and a marketer. That’s impressive. We both are in our late 20s (I’m 26 and she’s 30), we cannot afford to live independently due to us not finding a job that has a livable wage. I work retail and she’s a pharmacy tech. We were told that going to college meant you would no longer work those jobs, major myth btw. The older generation says “oh that’s just laziness”. No it’s called we’re not getting paid enough and costs are going up. I went to put gas in my car, $45. I had to quit my old job because it was an hour away and I cannot afford car maintenance along with gas prices so I work locally (6 minutes away). My paychecks are only $200 a week with a bachelor’s degree. If that doesn’t radiate economic crisis, I don’t know what does. Also I’m trying to be a lawyer and guess what? Applications are at a record high making it extremely difficult to get scholarships for law school and the big beautiful bill pushed by Trump administration is making it worse. You know why people want to go to law school? They were told it’s prestigious and the job market is so bad people think that’s the only way to make money. Am I saying that’s the only reason people are applying? No but that could definitely explain the increase. Now I’m studying for hours a day on top of working because if my LSAT score is not damn near perfect I am screwed. I even know people who DO NOT want to be lawyers who are applying for 1,000 jobs a day and cannot get stable employment. I met a Starbucks barista the other day who says to me “I’m an engineer who cannot find employment”. So next time you call Gen Z lazy or privileged look into those things because economic inequality is the worst right now.

I’m 26 and I’m stuck in retail. At least it feels that way. I have a bachelors degree in political science and been working customer service jobs for 7-8 years. I want to go to law school but I have no idea when my LSAT score is going to increase, I’m slowly getting there but damn. I come home from work everyday around 7PM super drained and have to pull through and study. I try to look and see what else is available work wise and I can’t find anything. Or if I do find something it’s an hour away from my house. I use to drive an hour for work and my car maintenance expenses just couldn’t keep up. I’m so tired. I really hope the job market changes in the future so no young adult ever has to experience this shit again. It’s so draining and also kinda embarrassing to be in my mid 20s at a shitty stage of life

So umm this job is very okay we’re not a busy store so it’s pretty dead but it’s fine. Idk if it’s just the store I work at or what but they have me (a beauty advisor for Sephora) count the money in the Sephora register every night. They told me as long as it’s at $300 it’s fine but don’t go over that. Sounds easy. I’ve been doing that every shift where I count how many nickels, pennies,dimes and quarters are in the register. I write it down on the white sheet and it add it up. Then I count the ones, fives, tens and twenties. If it’s over $300 so for example if it adds up to $350, you take out $50, put it in a blue bag and put the sheet from the day before in there. That’s how I was trained to do this twice mind you. They’re trying to say I’m doing this incorrectly and it’s getting counted wrong but when I asked the Sephora manager, she said it was fine and she does it the same way??? I’m very lost why I’m in charge of counting the register as a beauty advisor but okay that’s my job now to I guess. Also if you trained me to do something a certain way and I do it, how is that incorrect?? I’m just getting tired of the bad communication and I feel like talking to the LODs about it because it feels off

lol I noticed if you accidentally make a small typing error on here they act as if you’re stupid and should re think your future 💀😂 are you okay? Honestly it’s Reddit not an essay, brief or writing assignment….who cares if someone used the wrong there 😂 it’s as if they cannot insult you for anything so they come up with that as a “gotcha”…it’s very odd. Or the people who will go to your profile view everything you post and say “based on your profile you got some growing up to do”….I just block them afterwards because that’s weird to watch everything someone posts just to insult them. Plus I view this as texting or social media, it doesn’t HAVE to be perfect. This app man…you shouldn’t have to walk on eggshells to say something either.