I work retail, and have for many years now. I’m not an easily fazed person and have a Talk No Shit, Take No Shit mentality. However, I also have a pretty intense anxiety disorder on top of other mental health issues and when I started 6+ years ago there were some customers who got to me.
So, to all the workers facing Karens and Kens out in the wild, here’s my advice - cry.
If you have the type of relationships with your coworkers and managers that will support you, don’t try to hold it in. Cry like the overworked, underpaid peon you are.
Nothing terrifies an asshole Karen like the indisputable proof that their actions/words are affecting you as a real live person. They feel perfectly entitled to cuss out a cashier over a wrong order/no cash policy/ face mask mandate but when that person starts to cry and asks them why they’d say such mean things? A whole other story, my friend.
There’s no way to make that situation look good to the manager they demanded to speak with, either. My manager literally got a security guard fired for being so verbally abusive he made one of her employees cry.
This strategy has multiple benefits -
1. You’re not standing there trying to pen up your emotions, crying is a great physical release for negative emotions and you may very well feel somewhat better afterwards.
2. The person who precipitated the situation is forced to not only see you as a person with feelings, but also has to confront the fact that their abuse has consequences beyond themselves.
3. It can actually give your higher-ups leverage to address these situations. ‘They yelled at my employee’ is one thing, but 'They yelled at my employee until they were in tears’ is a waaaaay worse offense. A good manager can use that. Hell, it can get a security guard fired!
tl;dr: We live in a capitalist hell but we can work the system and cry at work to shame awful customers
Here's my contribution to Weird Dice Wednesday, the most chaotic dice I've found.
They're intransitive d12. The sides form a sequence, meaning each face is unique and the next one is on the next dice. Here, 1 is on blue, 2 is on red and 3 is on white and then goes back to blue.
But there is a twist!
These dice are not completely sequential! They also got 3 sides from the next dice, from 11 to 19. For example, the blue dice also got 11, 14 and 17, which are from the sequence on the red dice. Meaning they also can rarely result in doubles.
I hope it's clear how chaotic they are. I have no idea what their initial use was and I still haven't found a use for them. But one day I will find a way to spread chaos with these!
For the love of everything, please free me from this endless cycle of death and rebirth, as the spiral increasingly descends towards fire and plague, please I beg of you unlock my substanceless and formless essence from the void.
love how when i get a new interest, i’m like “oh god it’s happening again” and i’m stuck like that for about a week until everything explodes and any interest i’ve had prior is completely dwarfed for an unknown amount of time
like this
shoutout to everyone who’s sharing the interest that has caused their category 7 autism event. we are all whirling around in our autism events together
