Tiny Things That Annoy You • Page 509

All you fancy people with your dryers. Meanwhile I’m still hanging all my clothes up to dry like I’m Amish. One day I’ll be able to afford to buy one! I thought I was gonna get one for free but it’s electric and I need gas booooo!!

 

Well, now I live in an apartment and have to use the laundromat which obviously sucks for washing but I usually hang most of clothes to dry anyway.

 

People who are rude to service workers

 

I think in order to run for any public office, you should be required to work at least a year in the service industry or work a minimum wage job. That’s one of the many things I would add to the constitution if I had genie.

 

I'd vote for it

 

I would kill for a washer/dryer. I just own a lot of clothes so I only have to go to the laundromat every 2 weeks haha. I guess the nice thing about it is you can do a ton of laundry at once and those big machines are much faster than standard ones... takes about an hour to wash and dry two full baskets... 23 mins to wash, 36-40 minutes to dry.

 

I have an in unit washer dryer which is lovely but putting my clothes away is my nemesis chore

 

I never put my clothes away until I decide to do more laundry lmao but I at least make sure to fold it all up nicely. When I was in college, I let everything be in a wrinkled ball.

 

I've been walking more than jogging/running lately and have tried jogging again the last few days but I feel like I've aged 83 cardio years now omg. Fighting for my life.

 

I really want to get myself a puffer jacket, but I do not live in an area that would warrant me owning a puffer jacket

 

Not enough, should be at least three years tbh

 

I think everyone in general should work in retail or a restaurant for at least a year. I know far too many people who treat retail / restaurant staff like shit who have never done that type of work themselves and it shows with how they act. Not to say people who have done those jobs can’t also be asshole to staff, but idk to me it really stands out when someone is a dick and lo and behold they’ve never done that type of work before.

 

What branch(es) did you all serve in? I did time at Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, Forever 21, and apartment complex company customer service. I swear to god I won’t stand for any stolen valor.

 

I did three years in online customer support which kinda feels like I’m comparing me being in the national guard to you being in the marines

 

I worked for 3 months at a grocery store during the pandemic and that was more than enough for me. People coming through my line, no mask, talking about how they just went and got tested and found out they had COVID and thought it was a great idea to go get groceries. I got out asap lol

 

I did Chipotle, Which Wich, a local churro spot and a local organic grocery store where I was a supervisor.

I am the de-facto customer service person at my company currently though (although it’s a very small company, so other people do it too), which I do on top of my other duties.

 

I've worked mostly in customer service my entire adult life and it truly builds character

 

3-4 months as dishwasher / quasi-server for super small little diner.

3ish years at Walmart. Cashier, then electronics, then 3rd shift “swing”/go wherever they need you. 2 Black Fridays (way back before this was done online), 1 store grand opening. No matter how shit my current office job seems, I know it’s world apart from actually being shit like Walmart was (is) lol

 

never eaten at a Which Wich before

how do those who have like it?

 

I worked 5 years as a bagger, cashier, and grocery cart gatherer at Market Basket. And a phone-a-thon college work study where I begged alumni for money

I hated working in a grocery store, especially the one I worked in. It was very strict. Had to wear khakis, white button up shirt, a tie, dress shoes, with hair above the collar. No beards allowed; only mustaches. Got yelled at if you dared to not be cleaning something in between customers. I am very grateful to have a desk job now

 

Least favorite job though was when I cleaned places. I did that through high school and after I graduated until I got a better job and ugh truly awful. The houses weren’t bad, offices were generally ok but the factories omg. The men’s bathrooms were absolutely disgusting. Like horrific. Just poop everywhere, piss everywhere. You’d walk in and want to vomit immediately. Never again!!

 

I hear women's rooms are nightmares too

sometimes even more so

 

They certainly were the worse bathrooms at my store. Tampons, pads, used toilet paper all over the place. One day someone flooded the entire bathroom so the floor had water up to your ankles.

I got lucky, my assistant manager brought me over just to laugh at the ridiculousness of the flood but he didn't make me part of the clean up crew for it that day

 

Prior to the job I have now, I’d worked in customer-facing positions at Blaze Pizza, Starbucks, Caribou Coffee, Jamba Juice, Walgreens as a pharmacy tech, and a couple non-chain restaurants across 12 years

I was also employed by Forever 21 and Ruby Tuesday during that time but hesitate to count those since my tenures there were very brief