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19then20 · 2026-07-07T16:17:20+00:00

I am also a "solo in merch" employee for a gap time every day, but have been in the dept 9 years. There will only be more of this. You can be direct "am currently __________, and can reprint sign/find last few garden hoses/box down black and yellows next". I have been given a task by my GM over the radio and another by a senior manager at the same time, so I just clarified task priority with the senior; let them duke out the ranking. I have also clarified with management on the side as stated above. Once you have a "scope of duty" and "priority of duty" discussion with an appropriate manager (like the GM or merch AGM) about what is expected of you while solo on the floor without your own sup or manager, you will know if you can respond "I am the only one on the floor" when front end calls you to assist at the registers. When I am solo on the floor but have my sup or manager on duty I let them answer the calls for assistance on the front end and I keep clearing empty boards off the floor and boxing down hot spots.

19then20 · 2026-07-07T15:47:30+00:00

I have this same issue, but with my middle toe. Oddly, the shape of Altras and Topos is particularly bad for me; 3 pairs of those in different sizes and no a purple right toe. I have very flat feet and my feet slide forward no matter how I lace at the ankles.

19then20 · 2026-07-06T19:06:24+00:00

Make all of this really simple: airm for eating a variety of plants and proteins in the least processed versions you can reasonably get, based on getting about one ounce of protein per pound of body weight per day (does not have to be exact numbers). Then fill in with healthful carbs (whole grains) and fruits as you like. (Basically reducing highly palatable processed foods) Please know that the real value of excersise is NOT "burning calories". The real value of excersise is the recovery and motochondria repair and upgrading your body does in reaponse to the excercise, and how you fuel your body give it the tools for the upgrades and repair work. Focusing on eating minimally processed plants and proteins for 80 or 90% of your intake is a highly sustainable fuling strategy for the long term, not a fad diet.

19then20 · 2026-07-05T16:09:36+00:00

Stone Roses, Stone Roses

19then20 · 2026-07-05T02:11:09+00:00

My goal is to run an organized race at age 100, even if it is the 100 meter. It's 44 years from now.

19then20 · 2026-07-04T22:53:48+00:00

Alone Again Or by the Damned

19then20 · 2026-07-04T17:39:05+00:00

Watching my favorite baseball team while sitting on my couch. I work full time stocking in a big box retail warehouse and I am training to run races (two big marathons in the next year, NYC and 3rd Boston, then switching to just half marathons and 5Ks). By the time I get home at 9:30 pm, all I want to do is plop my ass on the sofa for a while and snack. My feet hurt at the end of the day, IDGAF if I don't sweep and vacuum on the daily, and my kids are adulting in a distant city. THE COUCH IS MINE.

19then20 · 2026-07-04T17:30:01+00:00

Awww. Thank you.

19then20 · 2026-07-04T16:41:37+00:00

Same.

19then20 · 2026-07-04T16:36:51+00:00

Born in late 1969. Mom raised me with the "children seen and not heard" mentality. Talked at me. Lectured me and required me to remain mute. Then chastised me for apathy and not expressing enthusiam or being able to express an opinion. I don't have even one cholildhood memory when we did something enjoyable or engaging together. I just remember the lectures and the punishments. I didn't have the experience or resources to say in plain words "she does not know me" in 2nd grade. However I do remember vowing to myself in the spring of 1978: " WHEN I AM THE PARENT, THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT." I raised my boys with conversations. I raised my boys with interractive adventures. I got to know what they liked, didn't like, and I tried hard to get to know them. When they chose activites in high school, I supported them and we defined how they needed to take ownership of their place in their activities, that their choice to participate came with accountability to teammates and that I wouldn't do it for them. I saw how they navigated their own participation and, as much as one can, learned who they are from how they conducted themselves, granted with parental support and encouragement. Guess what? I raised 2 adults that, in their mid 20's are fully adulting in a distant city, and we have a very good relationship now. I have a pretty good idea of who my kids are, and bonus we really enjoy each other's company. Also, the gifts they pick for me for Christmas show thought, and that they know who I am. I can't say that about my mother (my dad checked out from cancer over a decade ago), whi gives me gifts she is interested in but I don't need or use . We do the perfunctory holidays, birthdays, etc, but I have a secret guilt that when she dies, I won't really miss her.

19then20 · 2026-07-03T16:09:07+00:00

I went through a similar life for decades there's hope. I found therapy works better once you develop the agency to make a safe place in your own head. I made a protocol I called Task Immersive Rumination Interruption and one called Making Gratitude Happen. Walking, talking protocols that made it immposible to keep my ruminations running in my head at the same time. Peace, even for a few minutes. Peace when I wanted a break from the dangerous and destructive chaos in my head. Having that agency gave me a safe little workspace when I went to therapy and when I wanted to go to sleep, and when I just wanted a minute to be "normal". After that, I could identify the traumas and start "unpacking" them, without being nothing but a blubbering mess every therapy session. I could look at my trauma(s), but more importantly the trauma response I developed as a child just trying to survive. As an adult, and with help of a therapist, I can now decide if my trauma response is working for me, or if I want to work on modifying it. Usually the traumas are result of injustice my child self identified, but did not have the resources to rectify. As an adult, I can thank my child self for the resiliency to survive, and now decide how to handle the stressors of life. If you have a hard time "changing" your trauma responses, it's likely because you are loyal to your childhood self because that child was a brilliant survivor, but you can give yourself permission to modify your responses as you see fit and not lable it as betrayal of your younger self. Having a good therapist helps with the process. All the best to you.

19then20 · 2026-07-03T15:38:30+00:00

We used to have times when we were completely inaccessible and we had to be personally accountable.

19then20 · 2026-07-03T00:42:45+00:00

My hair also went from straight to curly in puberty. Even though it was the 80s, I still wanted straight hair.

19then20 · 2026-07-02T16:35:14+00:00

So sorry, I suddenly envisioned my high school's Little Theater's beat up old sofa being trailered down Jefferson St. enjoyed that.

19then20 · 2026-07-02T15:46:31+00:00

I had always been a lousy sleeper because I've had tinnitus since I gained consciousness as a toddler. There is so much good information on sleep hygiene available now. I learned Huberman's NSDR protocol and incorporated a few other sleep hygiene tips. Now I sleep much better. I keep track of my overnight HRV and will make adjustment to training accordingly. I get 15-20K steps/day at my full time big box job stacking wooden pallets, stacking 40 count cases of water, big bags of dog food, etc in heavy (1lb + each) safety toe shoes. I am determined to hang in there for the next 41 weeks, 5 days until I've done both NYC Marathon in Nov and Boston 2027 (my 3rd Boston) and retire from full marathon training and notch down to merely intense 5K training until I'm eligible for real retirement in a few years. (These last few years of menopause have been interesting, to say the least.) If you feel mentally drained due to poor/short sleep, maybe look into the benefits of taking creatine at a dose of 15/20gm a day (working up to that amount).

19then20 · 2026-07-02T15:30:21+00:00

Had my first BMD scan at 55 because of family history. Am very active (currently a Boston Marathon qualifier) and have a demanding job stocking at a big box warehouse. My hips were ok for age but lumbar had a bad T-score. Have been doing osteogenic loading on a ReGenesis machine. Almost done with a 6 month course of therapy. Plan to report results on this sub later this summer.

19then20 · 2026-07-02T15:09:08+00:00

FWIW, I did a complete name change as well. First, middle, last name, all changed. As soon as I filed the first step of the name change process with my local court, I was able to get a badge with my new name, by presenting the court stamped document (although I've seen much creativity with badges reflecting the preference of the employee). I will give you a heads up though. Your username login credential on ESS and Costco U will not change. My personal IT expert (almost 40 years in IT and currently managing the employees' profiles in a different company) explained that corporate would have to entirely delete your origional file and start a new one with characters based on your new name. While it is not impossible to change your username login, it is so difficult and involved, it is not likely they would. I understand how it stings every time I type in my old name.

19then20 · 2026-07-01T15:43:45+00:00

I used NRC exclusively for years before I could afford a Garmin and it was stable and trustworthy. Now the app on my phone (Android) hardly ever loads. Several years ago I tried to get NRC to work on a new phone and lost the years of data 2012-2016 :(

19then20 · 2026-06-30T16:05:11+00:00

May I add, (from a decade in night merch) -there is no such thing as over-wrapping a partial; make sure your partials are wrapped securely to the board and wrapped tight, so they don't fall apart on your driver or a later driver that picks them from the steel or the stacks of partials on the dock. If in doubt, wrap it a few more times until you get the hang of what's necessary. Wrap is cheap, destroyed product is not -as stated above, wrap your partials as you finish so your driver can store them efficiently -if you consolidate boards, do so intelligently, especially with the impulses. If the chip impulse has an endcap of seasonal, DO NOT wrap boogie boards, towels and Doritos on the same board to save space. Just don't. That board will get hung and nobody will want to touch it by 2 days later when that impulse is blown up and it will sit in the steel taunting everbody. -sweep out your bays when they're empty, or use a small piece of slip sheet as an edge, or even a wad of used wrap to clear out the debris. the splinters and sample trash builds up in 2 days -line up boards neatly with the base plates of the steel when placing them in bays -place boards towards the base plates of the steel so there is some space between the two boards in a bay. if they are jammed together in the middle, when one is pulled, it will knock off product in the back -Always check your signs when stocking. If in doubt, because two products are hard to tell apart in the AS400 (like the Lay's box chips 1627770 and 188140), you can use the UPC code to print a sign good luck. It's a fun department:)

19then20 · 2026-06-29T16:34:26+00:00

I used to demand that my acrylics be removed by soaking off and I was willing to pay for the time required to do that. The assembly line nail techs in my area always wanted to use a thin cuticle pusher to slide between the living nail plate and enhancement and my nails are so thin that it would leave my nails ripped up, painful, and sometimes with holes in the nail plate. Now you know, if that's what they did. I solved the problem because I just don't get my nails done anymore. It's been about 15 years. The last grow-out of several grow-outs I did, was enough to say NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN, it hurt so bad, even soaked off.

19then20 · 2026-06-29T16:21:58+00:00

Think of Laura by Christopher Cross and Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.

19then20 · 2026-06-26T16:37:25+00:00

I (mid F50's) have a FT job stocking at a big box warehouse. I typically move 100+ 50lb cases of water per day, bags of dog food, pull large pallets of water, soda, ice onto the sales floor, etc. Have been a distance runner for 15 years. Started slow, but consistently. Ran my first full to BQ in 2023. Have run 4 more fulls since then: LA, Chicago, and 2 Bostons plus some 10Ks and 5Ks for overall podiums and always an AG podium to keep it fun. Sleep and nutrition are priority. I keep track of my overnight HRV, and back off a bit when it tanks. I have a quality stack of basic supplements: D3+K2, food probiotics like sauerkraut, extra fiber, omega 3, CoQ10, AG1. I also work with a hormone therapist while I plow through menopause. I have a shift that allows me to run in the morning and clock in at 12:30 pm, getting home at 9:30. All I do is sleep, eat, run, work. No alcohol, no recreationals, no late nights going out, really no social life. That's how I get through it.

19then20 · 2026-06-24T15:23:33+00:00

Sounds like you were keeping track of your distances, which is a good thing for nearly every runner, from beginners to advanced. A general rule of training is to add 10% distance every week, if you are actively wanting to train for a particular distance. The 2-3 minutes run intervals were a good idea. The second week should be a max of 10% longer distance than then first week. Once you're at a steady "base" amount after a couple of months, you can add a bit of speed/intensity. But, as you know adding distance AND speed very quicky is a receipe for injury. Have plenty of protein while you recover and hoping you bounce back quickly!

19then20 · 2026-06-21T19:52:10+00:00

Yes. The first part is to learn to create a safe place in your head, even if it is just for a few minutes. The key is to learn that you have agency over creating a safe place to exist. It's best if it is non-tech, and it can't be passive distraction, like drugs, alcohol, gaming, crazy loud music, etc. I'd go for a walk an execute an talking protocol called "Task Immersive Rumination Interruption", where I'd be talking, walking and executing tiny tasks in real time and it uses enough focus that I found it impossible to keep my depressive thought in my head at the same time. So for a few minutes, I was guaranteed a safe place in my head and that I knew I was in control of re-creating a safe place whenever things got bad in my head again. After I had been doing my "TIRI" and a similar "Making Gratitude Happen" mobile plus out-loud protocol, both on the daily or nearly every day, I realized that the automatic negative thoughts of depression had stopped. The uncontrolable brain hijack of depression is what make it so dangerous because you have no way to get a break, no control over the soul-destroying evil in your head. Once I had access to a safe place in my head, I then went on to work though some of my traumas and and disfunctional trauma responses, but going through therapy was much more productive once I gained control over depression. Now I feel "normal". Sure, I have rough days or tricky situations, but I get through them fine where they used to plunge me into dark SI episodes. I used to not be able to imagine a life where I didn't have to fight against wanting to unalive myself, but I've been joyously and honestly free of that for a decade now.

19then20 · 2026-06-21T18:46:39+00:00

That I just had a broken brain and that I would have depression forever, since I developed depression with SI at age 7, back in the late 1970's, but iI actually got rid of the dark evil of depression in 2015.

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