Manager: we need more staff for the holidays!
Assistant manager: How about we use social media to make people think working retail for the holidays is great!
Manager: Sure! But don't be too obvious.
Assistant manager:
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(full disclosure i do not like lorenz (OOP) or what she has done to the trans community if that wasn’t already obvious; i encourage each individual to form their own opinion.)
What did she do?
cc @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
again, * my opinion, i don’t believe there’s enough public evidence to convince 100% of ppl either way *
Lorenz is an ally, so her expression of motives is fine. but Lorenz’ “coverage” of the now ultra-influential trans harassment account Libs of TikTok, to me, pulled them out of relative obscurity into the mainstream.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/19/taylor-lorenz-blasted-for-doxxing-libs-of-tiktok-creator/
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/libs-of-tiktok-and-its-dark-influence-on-lgbtq-hate/
by making her “reporting” of the story feel centered on herself rather than the protection of minorities, i genuinely feel more of our trans brothers and sisters have been put in harm’s way.
this is an opinion of mine made more pointed when you look at her other public controversies as a reporter. the details of her departure from the Washington Post aren’t fully public, but based on what is known, i personally read her overall track record as showing a pattern of poor judgment and lying when it’s convenient. Lorenz simply doesn’t, in my opinion, have the basic skills to treat the trans community with the respect and compassion her work requires.
* this is an opinion piece and i welcome others’ perspectives and research. you might even sway my opinion—this isn’t a conclusion I have particularly enjoyed coming to lol *
Seems to me Libs of TikTok was being promoted heavily prior to Lorenz coverage of it in 2022. From the lgbtqnation article:
In August 2021, right-leaning media figure Joe Rogan began promoting Libs of TikTok on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, causing Raichik's Twitter account to gain a massive number of new followers.
Not really sure how her reporting of the group brought them into the mainstream when one of the biggest podcasters is promoting the group to their followers.
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What has she done to the trans community? I hadn't heard of anything like this, so I'd like to read about it if possible.
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To those people ITT actually discussing this tweet as if it's real: Have you ever been to the corporate shilling place known as Reddit? The gaslighting there is so strong, it could give you a sunburn.
Now Twitter seems to go down the same route.
I actually miss working retail...
x.doubt
tell me you have never worked retail (or even known someone who does) without telling me……..
dude earlier today a customer genuinely asked me if I was working on black Friday.
like gal the entire roster works. you gotta be in the gd hospital after a freak accident to get out of working on consumerism day ont
The only reason my manager and I have Black Friday off was taking on Thanksgiving closing duties. Our department is supposed to close an hour earlier than the store. We have kept the store open longer some years, because fuckers need day-of baked goods, and refuse to do it their own damn selves.
Writing "Happy Thanksgiving" on a cake while hearing "Oh, you have to work on a holiday‽ Why don't they just close the store for the day!" Why, I don't know, Gertrude, you absolute textbook example of genius, maybe it's because you "forgot the traditional cake!" again, for the third year in a fucking row, and decided to do your months shopping while you're here! Yes, get more two-bite brownies for your family of type-2 diabetics, that's exactly what they need!
That was true my first handful of years doing retail, but the last few years I got to skip black Friday because my manager forgot 3 years in a row to blackout black Friday and I got PTO in 6-8 months ahead of time. Pissed him off every year when he'd start making the schedule/telling me about how the day was gonna go, only to find out I had it off and already had plans (scheduled months ago) so I wasn't going to be there, scheduled or not.
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holiday energy
entitled, impatient, rude adults acting like children?
Yes but they’re wearing, or angrily demanding sale price on, holiday sweaters so it’s festive customer service
I quit 2 weeks ago, for the first time in 20 years I will hopefully be able to enjoy Christmas. I swear you lose pieces of your soul working retail and management seem to be soul vampires as they have none.
Bless up! Sending love.
Nothing like the torture that is Christmas music that starts in October. I still get PTSD walking into a store these days. 5 years of it and 20 years later
WHO needs holiday music for THREE MONTHS STRAIGHT?
WHO
I suggested at my call center job we change the hold music to All I Want For Christmas is You. That way, if a caller is being a removed I can yeet them into the Mariah pit for a while to cool down.
It was appreciated. It was not implemented. Why are my suggestions never taken seriously?
I would not cool down if I was in the Mariah Pit.
Ahhhh…..-synth bell-
I suggested similar thing, just different song: Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
I hate liars.
relevant: journalist taylor lorenz leaves washington post after lying publicly oct 2024 ap news
Lorenz attended a White House conference in August and had posted a picture of herself to some of her followers on Instagram, with Biden in the background and the text “War criminal :(”
What's the problem? All US presidents are war criminals. Some are much bigger criminals than others, but they're all guilty. Such is how our shitty country rolls.
After a New York Post reporter posted a screenshot, Lorenz posted a message saying “you people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes.”
Ah, too big of a coward to say it with her chest.
precisely the second part, she couldn’t stand on business abt her based tweet because it was inconvenient to her, and so lied that it never happened. 🤥
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working at a restaurant also sucked
Simply having a scream in the walk-in fridge 🎶
The absolute best thing about working in a restaurant is the walk-in.
I appreciated the massive freezer attached, and that all the air handling in there made it so we could occasionally smoke a bowl back there without getting in trouble
lol, I thought about the freezer, but our dishwashers smoked meth (I think) in there and it smelled so bad. I guess we didn’t have great ventilation.
Super clean dishes though
Damn, I've thankfully never worked with active tweakers, but I know the smell and how clean they can make things when they get into a mood (assuming they're not taking shit apart)
The one I worked at played that song just as often as shops did, too.
Worse than Mariah Carey, I swear. And I like Paul McCartney's music otherwise!
I’d be more inclined believe someone who told me they missed having salmonella
That lying removed
Maybe not. Maybe she's just that one worker who's never to be found unless it's time for one of the very few actually fun tasks that she immediately claims for herself, further ruining the retail worker experience. Loading shelves? She's gone. Helping a removed Karen? Poof right into a cloud of mist. Helping the sweet old grandma who's know about tipping $20-50 for holding her cart and putting 2-3 items in it then checking her out? Of course she's already grabbed her arm...
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I currently work in retail, it's before Christmas, it's shite
absolutely psychotic
I worked at a gas station in BFE and was allowed to pay whatever I wanted on my Bluetooth speaker. I got a real badass one on one black Friday sale and started playing my kinda Christmas music. i.e; the kinks, the Ramones, something corporate, etc.
It was pretty funny seeing all the rednecks brains melt in real time.
What about those of us that worked a retail job with a decent manager that didn't play christmas music all day long on repeat?
if the customers are somehow also bearable honestly more power to you lol
That was my old retail job and I'd still rather slowly pick my fingernails out of my skin than go back to dealing with people, especially around the holidays. Managers and coworkers were all 10/10 and I'd love to work with them again. I don't want to ever deal with the public again though.
I've worked retail during the holidays and agree with the "Christmas energy" and helping people pick out gifts. It's like everything is so disorganized and slightly off from normal that it's almost like a dream. Like a post-apocalypse in which I have the skills to save everyone, because I know exactly where in the stock room we have that item that's "sold out" in the system. Everyone adores me because I'm not only willing to sort the candles and frames, I fucking enjoy it.
e: I also have one of my playlists that's "happy" themed. It includes All I Want for Christmas is You, and I will listen to it at any time of year at all.
i respect your opinion and talents expressed here 🫡
Taylor is a masochist.
she keeps talking to the worst people (not exclusively!), so it checks out
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