It's Retail...
I'm front end management, which means basically my department is the entire front of the store. My job consists of making sure all areas are covered efficiently and that lunches and breaks all have coverage. This is hard to do when on most days you have no people mid-shifting. Unfortunately this also means that when a customer has an issue (usually a dumb one and they only want to make a stink about something to get a discount) so I'll go down to take care of the issue...which is they tell me their complaint and I have to decide whether I care or not. In all actuality I don't mind my job, most days I kind of like it...kind of. I work with a good group of people, we all get along and work well together which always makes the day go easier, quicker. But for some reason not only people from my department, but also other departments in the store come to me and complain to me about their job. Yes, I complain, but I do it on a blog that no one reads. The fact is, its retail, you applied for the job what did you expect it to be? I knew exactly what I was getting into when I applied for the job. Every single day they bitch and complain about their job and how this is a huge waste of time. And I've recently lost my ability to be compassionate and sit in listen, I have no time for it because I'm running a department with virtually no people in it anymore. So this is my answer to those who do this.
It is retail, what did you think you were signing up for. Its a job and considering the state of the country right now, just be happy you have one. Its like signing up for the Marines and then complaining that when you took the responsibility you didn't understand you had to go through rigorous training and possibly kill people. It is what it is so make the best of it. Don't think of all the things you hate about your job all the time and just do it. Come to work, do your job and go home. I don't bring work home with me. Right now I'm writing this blog at work at 6:50am in the morning, wasting the company's dime. Not that that's anything they don't do on the daily basis anyway. If they really minded blogger so much they would have blocked the site like they blocked facebook, but hey, that's what smartphones are for.
