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I miss when you got good service at department stores. They had three clerks to supervise self-checkout lines and only one real till open, with a long line. I used the self-checkout and they hassled me to input my phone and email for rewards. I said no thanks. She physically leaned over and tapped the screen to open the rewards menu for me to give my phone number and email. I said no thanks. They stood behind me and said "I don't know why you wouldn't sign up for the best reward program ever...." I'm sure they get commission or whatever but holy shit. You know what would have made me a happy customer? If they fucking scanned my items for me.

It used to annoy me that the clerks said hello and asked if you needed help in the aisles every five minutes, but this is a lot worse. Now they just stare at you from their posts. The pandemic and Floyd really did a number of QoL in my area.
 
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Been getting the runaround on some work-related stuff and I'm stressed out about it. I tried to vent to my family about it and they basically told me to give up and started listing alternatives; I told them I don't need more information, I just need emotional support, and the room went silent for like five minutes because they don't know how to do that.

Whatever, I tried.
 
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I'm getting fired. Not immediately, but my boss is planning to put me on a "performance improvement plan" which is the "we're getting ready to fire you" thing. I have a few months, but I really need to find a new job soon now. My boss responded exactly how I thought she would, totally dismissing any possibility that she could be doing something wrong.

My old boss said he's going to try to help me because he knows it's not my fault, but I know he only has so much influence here.
 
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anustart76 said:
That is a good point. I've got him on LinkedIn, but once things get further along, I might ask him for his email or something so I can keep in touch with him and ask for something like that.
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If you can include the letter with your job applications that could help a lot, depending on if it's ok to share his name like that
 
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One of my sisters have sent me a friend request on facebook, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I honestly don't fully remember why we're not talking but the few times I've tried to reconnect with them they demanded a whole apology ritual in the very first response. For a long time I've been at a point where I just didn't have the spoons to also deal with walking on eggshells around them and I don't really feel the need to get along with them anymore. One other of them hurt me deep and pissed me off over an argument over fucking $20* and I made the decision to no longer care for them, and now that I don't I no longer see any reason to even try and deal with their shit

*the whole $20 thing was stupid. My sister asked to use my Amazon Prime account to buy her husband a "herb" grinder, and a while later when I bought something online for $20 on HumbleBundle or something and used my Amazon account to pay, not realizing it defaulted to my sister's card that was still associated with my account. A while later she calls me up asking about that charge and I realized my mistake and apologized and then she started chewing me out as if I royally screwed her over on purpose and demanded the $20 back before hanging up. I immediately went to send it back to her using e-transfer because oh shit she's mad, but i wasn't sure what her current email address was so i texted her asking for it but then she refused to respond back so i sent it to her cell number and texted her telling it was sent and thought that was that. A month later (presumably because she got a notification that the undeposited e-transfer expired) she messaged me again saying that she doesn't use her phone for banking, then I replied that I wish she told me that a month ago - and then she started chewing me out again and treated me like this evil horrible person where every harmless mistake was fully intentional to hurt her, and that fully pissed me off because she made such a big fucking deal over $20 and the moment I tried to get the money to her she refused to talk to me. I told her exactly what I felt about that, and combined with all the other shit she's done I told her that we're done. Then as she still didn't give me her email address to do the e-transfer I withdrew a $20 bill from the bank and drove all the way to her house to drop it at her door.
 
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