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I’m so happy to think that someday I won’t have to think about other people, ever again.  Someday I will be away from the rabble and their constant din, and if that means I have to be alone –completely apart from others– forever, I’d gladly accept that.

I never used to hate people, not the way I do now, I thought they were generally fine enough.  Working among the ‘folks’ lets you see exactly what sort of collective they are.  There are some that are kind and courteous, and I wish them the absolute best in their lives; I just don’t care to know of them, but best of luck, really.  I want to be alone.  I want my career to involve not one other person.

Or if it does, I want them to be deaf, mute, paralyzed, gone.  What do you call the person who applies the lifecosmetic to the dead, before they are displayed?  I’ll take it.

I know there are people I could enjoy, somewhere, and I know I’ll meet them, someday.  I just wonder if it is even worth the bother to look for company, ever.  I had friends, what good did it do me?   I’m happy where I am, if people think I am odd for being so young and so uninterested in friendship, so be it.  Rather, I’d prefer to be thought strange and left alone, than bothered constantly by ‘friends’.

There were beautiful things written, felt, expressed in all manner of ways; not for me, never by me.  I can appreciate them, but only at their surfaces.  I see how it happens, I just don’t see what the trouble is worth–for what?  Some guy with a hat, some girl with a face?

I guess more or less, I’d much rather be alone than settle for a group of people to hang around with, with whom I’d have little in common.  I do think people would be surprised by how solitary I am.  I know it is very odd, but it’s better this way, I believe.  I’ll never just shrug and accept a behatted guy or some facegirl as a friend, just because it seems like the Thing a young person should do.

a list of celebrities people have said i look like:
-disney princess (sleeping beauty specific)
-amy adams
-taylor swift
-”that girl from married with children” (i’ve got to imagine they meant christina applegate, or else katie segal and……………………i do not believe that, no)
-taylor sprietler (this one was really odd as she seems…totally unknown but the woman must like that soap opera)
-a doll

a list of celebrities i really look like:
-a paper bag covered in white out, with a cheap, frizzy blonde wig on top and googly eyes with dead spiders for eyelashes
-the paper bag is pretty accurate imho

Someone tried to scam me at the register, they paid for a candy with a 50 dollar bill (not that odd, a lot of people come around to break such bills) but then wanted me to change out a stack of 1s for his 50.  I told him I couldn’t do that, and he got a little beligerant.   I just kept counting out his money, handed him his change, and told him customer service could that for him.  He was all like, “alright well where are they” like, “oh now you are the irate customer who has been wronged!”.  When he got there, apparently they busted him for something (i assume the 1s had counterfeits, or eles he was trying to doublecount or something) and told him to just leave.  They came around to check my till, the 50 was legit, as I knew it was, then they were even checking back the tapes.  I felt pretty chuffed.  What a dick, though.  What a con, asshole, you’ll get a whole what…50 bucks out of the matter?  How about you just get a job?  I wouldn’t risk embarrassing myself or getting arrested for anything less than…christ, a grand?  that isn’t even a lot, I’d have to be pretty sure I wouldn’t get caught.

Anyway, the thing that irritates me is they just ask them to leave.  Some other woman is a known grift/shoplifter, and she is still allowed in the store.  Give me one ounce of power over that sort of thing, and this store could be assured they’d never have to worry about loss prevention again.  I have no qualms about calling someone out on that sort of thing.  By the way, we are a massive, massive, (largest retail chain on Earth, I believe) store, that brings in massive amounts of money.  If we’re missing out on one hillbilly’s food stamp issuances, so be it.  Just tell her, and tell him, that they are no longer allowed in this store, and they will be escorted out if seen inside again.  Like they have any large networks with which to share this grand injustice with.  Who gives a shit?  Stop allowing yourselves to be victims.  All the managers and slightly-higher-up cashiers do, though.  We have people who work here who are absolutely, monstrously slacking.   Not that it is any business of mine as a low-level employee, screw them at every chance if you like, I say–I just know that if I were given a position of authority…anywhere, it would be a pretty tight ship.  So many people just seem to be afraid to say anything to others.  If I knew I’d have no repercussions other than to be seen as a dick,  so what?   Here, I reveal that I would be a real douchebag to work for.

Not a douche, I just wouldn’t let thieves and cons continue to shop in a store if I had the opportunity to stop them.  Maybe corporate has some policy about not banning customers.  Seems ridiculous.  Why continue to allow yourself to be fucked about?

Same with these ‘price checks’ we do.  Some asshole gets in line, wants to compare prices with shops that are nowhere near our competition–shops in totally different sectors than us.

Discounters, bulk retailers, specialty retailers, et cetera.  Those prices, those places, are not…comparable to ours, therefore, I do not believe we should allow them to change our prices to reflect the ones they see in ads for those shops.  For instance, The Dollar Tree.  People will come here, get some soda, and say “UHHH DOLLAR TREE HAS IT FOR A DOLLAR”.  “Hey cool story brah maybe you should go there instead of here so you can get eeevveeerything for a dollar, ps, the dollar tree is a totally different type of place than the one you are currently shopping at, and odds are good the soda that is a dollar there is not the same soda you are purchasing–or it is an odd batch, or it is nearing expiry, or it is just off-brand, but whatever, whatever, whatever”

Oh, and the most annoying is Aldi.  You know why Aldi is cheaper, goons?  Aldi is cheaper because you bring your own bags, you pack your own shit–you pretty much eliminate a person’s entire paycheck by shopping there.  Aldi doesn’t have to pay as many people, and they don’t have to purchase as many bags, soooo yeah, the prices reflect that.  See though, that is a totally different business model and pricing ladder, so not really in the same league.  You want discounted prices such as the type you’ll find at Aldi?  You should have to go there, and put up with the inconveniences that your thriftiness earns you.    By the way, business for which I work, why can’t we have baggers?  I hate the big box retailers for this, all of them are alike in this respect.  Just hire two or three more people for every shift, and have them rotate around helping large orders with packing up their bags–like legitimate groceries do.

Better idea, get rid of what is the absolutely redundant position of “door greeter”, and hire people on for the same amount of money as “bag couriers” or something.  Maybe they can even double as “door greeters”, in the way that they watch the door for theft when not bagging.  The rest of the ‘door greeters’ responsibilities are stupid, and archaic.  This isn’t Rancher Smorkey’s Old Timey Feed ‘n’ Seed, so cut all the Mayberry aw-shucks bullshit.  Modern up, maybe you can mask your unethical corporate behavior that way.

If I did not actively despise the company I work for, I would tell someone how stupid I think these policies are.

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