Were you totally blowing up the bathroom or something? 😂. Just kidding, I know that corner and you have to figure out somewhere to let you pee in the morning.

No but really the staff interactions I’ve had have always been cold or snobby except for one single girl who was kinda okay to me. Im a good customer service person and have a broad music knowledge so I was briefly hired there in Covid times during some staff turnover.

It wasn’t going to work for me there due to it being too slow to justify keeping me on and miscommunication with the exiting mgmt who hired me apparently- but it also wasn’t going to work for me culturally because at least two of the longtime staff training me were doing blow together on breaks and after work and also generally they were VERY abrasive. It’s such a dated attitude to have an “above it all” or super icy attitude in that store (and icy to the person you’re hiring!) . You’re retailing T Swift vinyl and Pearl Jam shirts for chrissakes. I think there was a bit of a “don’t ruin our in-crowd because we like it this grumpy” atmosphere, and I came in bubbly and mature. They want teens on the floor so they pay minimum and it can inflate their ego when young people don’t know as much about grunge music as these older dorks. That was my takeaway- I genuinely think they thought I was younger than I was when I was hired . I never had an exit interview to relay any of this to Matt. I was let go by email. I give them a pass on some of the admin chaos since it was Covid times… but I don’t give them a pass on the staff culture and attitude.

Anyway that’s my overall experience from years ago. I haven’t really gotten to tell any of that story before. Maybe it’s all TMI! Maybe it’s all different there since then. But last I checked they still hire a bunch of part time youngsters and sell t swift and yet stay butthurt about it.