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Originally Posted by Jeddostotle7

I think it's more that most retail employees are barely getting paid enough to live working multiple jobs, and certainly not enough to live with any sort of real comfort or security, so the amount of care they have for the job is understandably low. Plus, retail work environments are often garbage for a number of other additional factors aside from that as well, one of the big ones being frequent mistreatment by customers who hold low opinions of them, or who expect unrealistic things from them. For many of those people, they're literally only there because they have to be to live, and for a variety of other reasons, they have no better options for making a living.

TL;DR: maybe don't shittalk retail employees. They already have enough to deal with.

This. All of this.


The last thing the average retail employee wants to do is deal with an angry customer, so most will actively try to avoid that. But when your average shift consists of you trying to do a 3-man job on your own, being talked down upon by management and being treated like shit by customers simply because you're retail employee, some people just adopt a "fuck it" kind of attitude just to get through the day without losing it. I'm not one of those people, but I understand the frustration, especially given how toxic the work environment often is. Because no matter how hard you work, it's unlikely you'll be recognized for your effort.

Then you have to be the scapegoat for when a customer is angry about something that is well beyond your control. Let's not forget having to deal with thieves or robbers (I was actually robbed working the register late at night, other stores in the immediate area were robbed at gunpoint several times since then).

Shifts are irregular, so it's often hard to plan your personal life around work, and most retailers don't pay their employees enough to even stay afloat. Many of the employees you see are either going to school, living at home with their parents or working multiple jobs. And yeah, ideally, retail should only be for students trying to earn extra pocket money, but the reality is that so many adults work these jobs because they can't find work anywhere else.

But this post has gone on too long, and at the end of the day, this is a forum about toys, so I'll just leave it at that.