Are there any movies that actually portray the drudgery of retail work? It's always hot people getting into crazy stuff
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Are there any movies that actually portray the drudgery of retail work?
Are there any movies that actually portray the drudgery of retail work? It's always hot people getting into crazy stuff
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>the drudgery of retail work?
Retail work is comfy as hell.
First post worst post.
You've never worked a day in your life at any job.
I worked retail for about 6 years and now have had office jobs, and while I hated retail at the time, it is easy to look back on is as being comfy. Even as management (for small/local stores), it's pretty basic, and once you've got the main routine stuff down, it's like 95% of the job, not many surprises pop up. But aside from that, I was always working with people close to my age, and hot girls, and it was a lot easier I found to chat in a low-key retail environment than a stuffy office, where the age range and experience is all over the place. I suppose I just have fond memories of certain hookups and make out sessions that retail afforded me.
Also there's something about closing up when it's dark and it's just you and a few peers left to shoot the shit after the doors are closed.
Truth, Ive worked retail when I was younger and my (probably rose-tinted) memories where all maximum comfy. I worked at a big H&M store and the days flew by just chatting with coworkers, folding some clothes, drinking beers in the back. And as you said, closing up shop while being left with the “core” members while it was dark and quiet outside was magical. I recommend any youngster to work in retail because its probably the easiest low stress job there is, while still working with people the same age, and ofc hot girls. I still hangout every now and then with the people I met 10 years ago.
you've never worked a real job. retail shit is the easiest shit imagineable holy frick lmao
>oh no i had to restock the pepsi TWICE and a grandma got mildly irritated about a mispriced item GOD I HATE PEOPLE
>oh no i had to restock the pepsi TWICE
Vendors usually stock that. The annoying parts of retail are having shitty managers that breathe down your neck and force you to upsell things if you're a cashier, shitty customers who yell at you for something trivial, doing inventory and having discrepancies that can't be solved, heavy lifting, customers constantly coming to you for something that's outside your department. It's a lot of little things that can add up, but yea it is pretty easy in general.
Wally World shelf boy for three years, was comfy as frick. No guaranteed weekends or holidays was why I left but the gig itself was supreme comfy.
Back house work is fine, it's just lifting and hauling shit around, front of house is death.
Back house is fine if they have even a little bit of organization going on. Working stockroom is a fricking nightmare at places where they pretty much just make up new places for shit to go every time you get a new truck delivery.
I quit 2 weeks into a job like that. I thought it would be like targer where I have a nice little cart too stock shit in. Nope, large conveyer belts worth truck load of todays goodies I have to sort, resort, then push to the front.
t. homosexual who worked at a local grocery store for a week before getting fired for stealing candy bars
Its only comfy if your coworkers do their job and the managers mind their fricking buisness, which is %5 of the time.
I got a comfy recovery job in general merchandise
Clerks
there's gotta be some frickery going on at my local store. all the employees are 12/10 bombshells.
Got one at a pet supply store here that is porn-level, just about everyone else there is a chudly mutt, I often wonder—why
a smart manager
>work at a kinoplex
>hiring manager hires me, a hot girl, and some other normies
>a year goes by, most of my group has quit
>hiring manager only hires absolute freaks, in spite of the fact i SEE hot girls go in for interviews
frick
Trust me, you don't want to work with hot girls, they will all be getting fricked by men other than you.
>all the employees are 12/10 bombshells.
That happens in college towns a lot.
People like OP is why society is collapsing
i've applied for a lot of wagie retail jobs recently. what can i expect?
an online interview with 20 other people
it's mostly local stores so doubt that will happen
i worked in a supermarket for about a week for some school thing (you basically just have to be a wagie for a short time as practice) and it wasn't really hard. the only 'bad' part was cleaning up a few dead mice in the back storage area. also i used to go for a 10 minute bathroom break before and after lunch.
A few months back we fired the somali girl who was consistently late and began clearly spending a third of the shift hiding in the bathroom on her phone. Boss and I talked about her (I am valued) and I said "I'm done with her" and the boss said okay, we'll get rid of her. Feels good to have directly contributed to her termination.
>takes 2 people to come up with the idea of firing a shitty worker
no wonder you're going no where
I don't know the details but there's a corporate protocol to document cause for termination that they wanted to follow carefully, so the company doesn't get accused of the -ism of choice I suppose. But yes it is silly.
pending your company and any potential union regulations, the company can fire any new hires for no reason at all within the first month or so
but then after that, as others said, it will be hard to get fired because you are protected
I worked at Walmart for like 3 weeks before I got fired for my drinking, that didn't happen. I think lots of people get filtered by the questions they ask, on that long-ass "what would you do" thingy. It was easy for me as I'm good at multiple question tests, but my friend had trouble with shit like that and I assume most normies do as well.
First off, what factory work is it? I'm at Corner Bakery and most are under or near 20 year old chicks, so apparently if you want chicks try shitty fast food joints. And most factory jobs I've had are 90%+ dudes and those that had nearer 50% chicks are middle-aged women or drug users. Second, why don't you do drugs? Start doing weed at least, just be careful you do your job well.
>t. on 10th job in 2 years due to drinking (6 months sober tomorrow though)
This guy seems like he knows what he's talking about. Everybody take advice from him!
>I got fired for my drinking
>10th job in 2 years due to drinking
i forgot this was possible. for me, i'm not prone to getting addicted to anything. i'm a glutton for food but i can keep it under control. good for you for keeping sober
> lots of people get filtered by the questions they ask
a few of the places i did applications for had these very longwinded tests you need to do. basically just a lot of questions about different scenarios. another place just asked for my resume and email.
>so apparently if you want chicks try shitty fast food joints.
only if you work day shift. tried working nightshift as an aimless and alcoholic 25 year old. nothing but jailbait and morons as far as you can see. bad times.
>Jailbait
>Working overnight
nightshift. between 4pm-11pm or so
That's literally afternoon shift morons
great
those anons are just clearly over the age of 21 and function outside of retail.
So their brains are mush.
Brah you didnt even know what 2nd shift is and you have the gall to call someone autistic???
Kids can only work after school, so they usually do night shift
The term of art for the shift which begins in the early afternoon and goes into the evening is SECOND SHIFT. "Night shift" is commonly understood as the overnight shift, from the late evening into the early morning. It is also known as THIRD SHIFT. Contrast both terms with first shift ("banker's hours, government offices, "respectable" office work).
When I was 16 I worked in a supermarket. All I can say is the two best aisles to work were the pet food (no one ever asks questions or where to find stuff) and toilet paper (no heavy lifting and the storage container was comfy to sleep in.
all of that depends on your store and how busy it is tho. pet food sounds like a nightmare because of all the little cans and shit, tedious
also, more often than not, you'll probably be working night crew if you are a "dry" grocery stocker. while you won't have to deal with customers (probably), you also won't really get away with being too lazy because the other night crew WILL notice if you are slacking and may narc you out
from what i've heard the worst part is how they will constantly move your hours, so you never get a steady schedule
i don't think i'd mind. at the moment i'm just sitting at home all day. i'd rather have some more cash for some PC upgrades and nicer clothes. maybe a kebab or two hehehe.
yeah i don't really like people like that. i'll get my work done, sure but i'm not gonna be a dedicated wagie either. especially when i'm having to sift around pallets for dead mice while i'm getting paid less than the front desk lady
> maybe a kebab or two hehehe
Don’t know why but this made me kek hard
minimal to no training, high expectations, being basically impossible to get fired for anything short of criminal negligence
That's one of the worst things too, when I did customer service my manager kept having me alternate between morning shifts and evening shifts and I ended up having to go over her head through HR to get her to fricking stop it.
>Work at Sears years ago out of high school
>Some hot girls work there but pay no attention to me
>date a girl I met elsewhere for only about a month, but the second she stopped by to drop off lunch for me the other girls won't leave me alone
One of them gave me HPV
when i was working at mcdonalds, there was a middle aged woman who would sit in her car for 10 minutes minimum openly weeping and sobbing after every shift
for movies its
>Waiting
>Employee of the Month
both dane cook kino
Wasn't this the movie where the guy gives up a comfy shelf stocking job to be a fricking costco cashier and the bad guy cashier gets caught not scanning like half the stuff he checks out (As if that wouldn't be found out after like a month at most of the massive stock inacuracies that would cause)
I think that was the dan cook version. No idea what the rip off op posted
Yes thats the one, and they build a comfy fort high up in between some aisles in between boxes of products to hide out in between shifts
>Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson
Its like a time capsule
Can someone shop Cook out of this and enhance? I need a nostalgia fap.
I work in a factory and it feels like everyone is fricking each other besides me. There are even love triangles and people having sex in their cars in the parking lot. I fricking hate my job so I'd love to get some pussy before I get fired. But they all just seem to happen into three relationships. All the women in my area are married or in relationships. There's a fat girl there I'd love to frick but she has like 3 boyfriends and I'm a skinny ugly lanklet gay. So instead I take creepshots of their asses and jerk off to that.
>instead I take creepshots of their asses and jerk off to that.
Mystery to me why you're not getting laid lmao
Nah it's because I am an ugly homosexual. You think I'd have resorted to that if I was decent looking? Lmao. They don't know I'm taking creepshots homosexual. Inb4 you make up some bullshit that women are mid readers and I'm giving off "vibes" fricking have a nice day. They don't find me creepy they just find me ...nothing.
>There's a fat girl there I'd love to frick
Absolutely disgusting
I feel like you're just confusing any communication with having sex
No they are definitely having sex, they say they are dating and hold hands in the parking lot. 2 people got fired for fricking in the parking lot. One girl was married but was getting fricked by 2 different guys there and I watched them get into a pissing match and one of them had another gf there. A load of blonde girls there hooked up with black guys who also worked there. I'm not even joking.
>it's a moron Anon thinks he works at a factory when he actually works at a sex club called the Frick Factory episode
>i want le sex but i dont want to put in le effort >;(
What effort am I supposed to be putting in? They aren't putting in effort, just chatting normally and the girls give them signals. Some of them aren't fit at all. I have plenty of charisma and plenty of women friends but they all live far away now. And I don't want to frick any of them.
Why are you taking pictures of her boyfriends asses and jerking off to them? Ever think the reason she's not into you is that you give off gay vibes? Because that's pretty gay
the fact that youd still frick a girl who has three boyfriends is telling beyond words about you and who you are anon, get some help. Stop revolving the world around sticking your dick in a wet hole, find something to make you happy
>Stop revolving the world around sticking your dick in a wet hole, find something to make you happy
I've tried, but lately it's been overwhelming me how undesirable I am to women. My hobbies feel more and more pathetic by the day.
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Are you a sentient CCTV camera?
He sounds like an npc so you're not far off
>anon works at chuck's frick and suck (soon to be sneed's)
Cashback, 2006 bong movie
I've jerked off to Keeley Hazel in that atleast 10x.
>Keeley Hazel
Holy frick, there's a name I haven't seen in a while.
very nice booba
That pretentious trash was not worth sitting through just for some breasts and ass.
>Cashback
>realistic
lmao what? kino movie though
I worked in Asda for like 4 years when I seen that movie, it gets the joke on shampoo bottles/deoderant cans perfectly
Good taste, anon
That movie still pisses me off with how they introduce that jump scare half way into the film with the guy in the hoodie getting up and running away when time is supposed to be stopped, and then they never elaborate on it again. The movie just proceeds as if it never happened. Fricking bullshit.
One Hour Photo
Waiting, not retail but, well, waiting, it portrays the experience to a t, crappy training that fails to prepare you for anything, moronic coworkers who are too old to be acting like teens and most of them still living with their moms, kitchen staff that is woefully unsanitary, a manager that pretends to be doing something but just walks around the place doing nothing impeding actual work, that one person who has been in the joint for far too long and are always pissed and about to explode, hypergamous bawds disguised as hostesses who openly flirt with the clients for tips, burnouts and Karen clients who take issue with everything (Mostly female, male Karens are more passive-aggressive or condescending).
It's a fricking horrible experience, but it makes for a good movie.
Waiting really captured the feel of every single CHAIN restaurant in the United States, from the staff to the customers.
I hate every chain restaurant i've been to.
that must be a slow walmart because there is no way any part of that grocery section should look that decent
You's be amazed at how nice life can be in rural white America.
Why do weird autists always want boring plotless movies? They always ask for movies about the drudgery of retail work or the loneliness of being a friendless shut in. These aren’t movies not because they’re verboten topics but because a movie needs a plot or something to happen. You aren’t going to want to watch 90 minutes of some loser stocking shelves or scrolling through the computer anymore than you’d watch some hedge fund guy scrolling spreadsheets and 10Ks for 2 hours. These aren’t movies. Surely you can find a surveillance cam of some store and nothing happening if that’s what you want.
>loneliness of being a friendless shut in
You do know that a lot of the GOAT movies have this premise right
Name three
richard linklater is one of my favorite directors
goodbye dragon inn is one of my favorite films
>goodbye dragon inn
damn, hadn't heard of that. looks fricking kino.
They just want narratives that speak to them and their directionless lives, even for losers it's perfectly legitimate to want stories tailored to their own experiences. The sad state of their lives is itself the conflict which might animate the story, and a conflict doesn't have to be resolved in a narrative.
Yeah I get that but the problem is I’ve been in many threads where they request a movie about le REAL loneliness or a life of drudgery. Then people give a bunch of examples and th loser posts “no not like that, an adventure happens / the character develops / something happens to him.” So they don’t just want to see themselves in a character, they’re asking for security cam footage where nothing happens like “real life.” That’s why OP dismissed “hot people getting into crazy stuff.” He wants ugly people doing nothing for 90-120 minutes. Why not just go sit in the store he works at?
absolutely midwit tier post there m8
these things can be artistically portrayed which is what I assume Op was looking for. There's a liminal feel to retail work sometimes I think would make a great movie set
I want The Lighthouse, but they just do chores for 7 hours over the course of their stay.
Yes 7 hours.
low iq confirmed
>You aren’t going to want to watch 90 minutes of some loser stocking shelves
speak for yourself, bud. I would love that.
You should've seen me when I was doing it, I was the master of moronic menial labor. I basically figured out how to do everything as efficiently as possible without having to exert myself because everyone else I worked with kept doing the stupid shit they were taught which was to put all the packages from the pallets on the ground in front of where they go on the shelves before working them instead of just working them right off the pallet. Some people followed that so mindlessly they would do shit like drop a bag of dog food on the ground inches from where it actually goes then come back later and put it in its proper place, it was insanity.
i saw the plot to the jason segal movie jeff who lives at home. 30 year old jobless stoner living with his mom. for a lot of the movie it was pretty decently like this. then at the end when segal jumps over a bridge to save a family that nearly drowned in their car that drove off it i realized the silliness
WE ARE
WE ARE
WALMART!
It's hilarious seeing those Paul Blarts though. Funny that they think having a shirt that says security is some authority figure shit
employee of the month
I used to work retail, but I've been a neet for over a decade and think I may have killed so many brain cells that I couldn't even do a job that easy any more.
Looks terrible
So do you.
Retail has made me hate wiggers with a passion, weirdly enough black people are fine but the white people emulating the blacks are always degenerate scum who will make your day a living hell
Is it just my Targets or did they go from hiring hot college girls to minorities after the whole Georgie Boy thing
Maybe they all got OF pages now.
She cute, think she'd be down with a 40 yo warehouse monkey?
mine has gone full on woke, like half the employees have some form of colored hair and pronoun nametags. Last time I was there the self check glitched out and the attendant start freaking out since i wasn't wearing a mask she was "literally shaking" about how she need six feet of space
In the first year or so of covid when everyone was flipping out, there were a few fight situations when people felt like the other person was "getting too close". Our particular store is in a fairly nice suburban area and not in a more culturally enriched spot, so we don't have store security. That means whoever is managing (me) gets to man up and deal with whatever comes-tell the occasional homeless person to go away, deal with other garbage. Doesn't come up too often so it isn't bad, but still.
In both cases, basically one person is unloading their stuff and they feel like the other is too close, so then they start getting into it, which is so stupid of course because their brains get into fight-mode which involves getting close, over-riding the thing that they thought they were afraid of. Then I'm wiry and I slip in between these middle-aged fricks and they completely forget the proximity thing, the aggressor/Karen buys their stuff and leaves, I stay physically between them until the thing is defused and they're off the property. These were fatter middle-aged people so I didn't feel any real physical danger doing that, might reconsider if it were two younger men capable of throwing a decent punch, but by their nature, they're not liable to be concerned about covid.
I know about this shit I was working at target at the time covid started and we had a couple actual fights break out over shit like toilet paper. I made a regular habit while I was stocking to always give people space. I was kind of annoyed by this girl though because one, I had stepped back like four feet away to give her space but apparently that wasn't enough. And two she was wearing a shitty cloth mask, if you're going to virtue signal about masking you best be wearing an n95 or kn95 not some shit that doesn't even protect you other than making you feel good about yourself.
>waiting for kfc order
>zoomer kid working
>another zoomer kid comes up
>they slip each other something
was this a drug deal
I was just at a retail store and witnessed some dark gentlemen steal a television
>drudgery
i don't think you know what that word means.
In retail you walk around all day long, getting plenty of exercise.
You usually have a task to do with your hands, it's often not very hard or heavy.
You get to work at a very steady pace.
All in all it's just about the most smoothed paced and easy work you can do.
Now get back to me when you've done electronic repair on a line, that is by far the dullest work known to man.
Or when you've done multiple shipping containers worth of equipment in one day.
That is some hard ass labor in the dead of summer when those frickers reach 120 degrees.
Superstore didn't completely glamorize it
working in retail was like therapy for me. i got rid of my self hatred, turned me into a misanthrope though. people on average are fricking abominations.
I enjoyed working at superstore, I either did cart collection or stacking shelves. Both are pretty comfy and easy to do. I can imagine hating retail if you have to work as a cashier or interact with customers but if you are doing something else its not all that bad. More than anything I just like to keep busy, I hate when there is nothing for me to do around the store. Some people say they like it when you can just stand around nothing but my god it makes the day go so fricking slow.
in des ganges 'in the aisles' but i thought it was a bit shit because it made the people really le sad for no reason.
I don't even mind shopping at my local soulless supermarket but I've realized how awful most of the products are. I now buy most of what I need over the internet and get much better quality. I only occasionally go to the store now just for fresh produce and dairy, and I'm in the process of finding better supplies of that as well.
i'm a 30 year old neet and am scared to get even a shit job like retail because i've only had 2 jobs before and both were fairly free in terms of just getting the work done and adhering to certain hours and other things were pretty lax.
You know you can quit if you get a job and it ends up being shit, right? Hell, you can even just stop going out of the blue. I've ghosted almost every job I've ever had and still have no trouble when looking for new ones. It's a good strategy to lie on your resume anyway so who cares about what some dickhead middle manager from a past job thinks? Part of business is carelessly screwing over random people that you don't need anymore.
I have ruined all of my 20s working at a pathetic, humiliating job. it's not retail but it is utter shit. I barely do anything all day and I've truly completely humiliated myself. The boss thinks that I do so much and cannot be replaced. I put in 2 weeks notice for my last day to be last Friday end of July. Last Monday we discussed the situation, basically my only option to them is doing an aspect of it in a remote way that will be maybe half to 3/4 time that I can do at home in the evening. I think we are meeting tomorrow to see if they are accepting it. If they don't accept it then I'm leaving
I have no other job lined up and honestly don't even know what the hell to look for or what to even do considering how I've wasted my entire life. I enjoy nothing and I have very few skills. The thought of having to fill out a resume and do a job interview with the state of my life terrifies me.
This as well. 30 years old, college degree, and literally afraid of thinking of resume filling/job interview and exposing how few skills I have. I honestly feel like I could only do retail.
>I honestly feel like I could only do retail.
Try a staffing agency, you can at least find factory work. Or if you have savings try to get a CDL.
you're lucky you have a college degree, i'm 30 and dropped out of two colleges, had two jobs, no real skills or qualifications.
going to college was the worst most pathetic and miserable decision i ever made. it ruined my entire life. i cant believe my parents even let me go with the lack of ambition i showed after hs despite having a great gpa.
Why would you leave a job where you do nothing and they think you're essential? That sound awesome
because its absolutely humiliating anon. i do a decently long commute to get there, don't get paid much, and feel completely and utterly worthless sitting there doing nothing. it isnt awesome at all. maybe if this was like the jobs that everyone on fit has where they work a few hours a day, frick around the rest, make huge amounts of money and feel like theyre doing something worthwhile because their job actually takes some skill.
my job is to walk around picking peoples online orders. extremely comfy as i get to ignore the old farts. not my job to help them.
How late is "too late" anyway? Also how do wagies tolerate standing up all day, i lasted a week doing that and the pain on my feet was unbearable. Working at a warehouse was heaven compared to in-store