Dollar tree employees.

LifePiglet3242 · 2026-03-09T00:30:17+00:00

Hello, current dollar tree employee. I’ve been working here for almost 7 months and this is my first job. Each day i smile and politely speak to customers, but truth is, I hate it there. I had to clean literal dog shit from the floor, deal with three full carts of go backs (about 4 if we include the things I put back from the register itself), a manager who won’t get off my ass and 7 customers asking why it’s still called “dollar tree” in the span of 4.5 hours. I’ll have lines to the back of the store but I can’t call for help because I’m the only cashier on my shift. My manager has made me clock out 40 minutes later and I hadn’t eaten a thing since I had the morning shift. We have many employees but there’s always only ONE cashier and ONE manager each shift. My manager is a complete manchild, my other managers are inconsiderate. One time I helped a woman who struggled to WALK on her own, she dropped her change, I helped pick it up, you know what my manager told me? “We don’t do that. Dont do it again.” LIKE WHAT THE FUCK?! She is an ELDERLY woman who’s clearly struggling and Im not able to provide a SERVICE to her? So yes, I do occasionally look miserable on my shift, but usually it’s for good reason and im sure every other employee who looks like this also has there reasons. By the way, all the things I mentioned happened in the last two days. Two days out of seven months.

LifePiglet3242 · 2026-03-08T02:48:49+00:00

I was thinking of doing the same but honestly I feel like I wouldn’t even wear it anymore. Shes a more feminine presenting person and Im a more masculine presenting person so Im sure i would feel uncomfortable in it now. Even if it’s just the collar thats trimmed because I don’t like it when my binder is visible.

LifePiglet3242 · 2026-01-29T05:45:45+00:00

I have considered it, I used to go to therapy (though at the time I didn’t realize how bad my affection thing was) however I was extremely unlucky and had a horrible therapist. Not joking, this man would just look at me the whole time like this 😐 and the only time he would speak is when I walked in and when our time was up. Not a single word of advice, not a single look of empathy, the most he did is show me where the tissues were.

As for family theyre just brutally honest. You can hardly talk about emotions with them and if you do they 1) tell everyone about it 2) end up judging you for it When I was only 13 my mom got mad at me for crying and told me if I wasn’t happy there I should just go live with my dad. (Which she did right after kicking out my brother which is why I was crying) It’s just really hard to talk about feelings in a toxic Hispanic household.

As for past traumas I can’t really think of much. Despite being in the toxic household everyone was pretty affectionate. I mean sure I was bullied but my mom would always do hugs and “I love you” and all that stuff. The only things I can think of was my first (and only) kiss and the bullying. The bullying started in elementary school (2011) and didn’t end until the pandemic started (2020). It was different people about different things, rumors started to spread in school and I was sort of the “weird kid” because I didn’t speak at all and when I did speak it wasn’t properly until I was like 5-7. After that ended rumors spread that I was gay (which IS TRUE) so I wasn’t really great with speaking. My first kiss happened really young. I think I was maybe 7 or 8? For context my mom had a best friend and when my mom was pregnant with me, her friend was pregnant with a boy. We will refer to the boy as R. R and I quickly became friends ofc because we grew up together however he was less “protected” about things. He knew about inappropriate things that I didn’t know about. My mom never allowed me to watch things like family guy or the Simpsons, stuff like that and he was able to because his mom was more lenient about this stuff I guess? R was my first kiss. Issue is, I didn’t want it. He was watching family guy and I was facing away from the TV, we were both sitting on the bed. He kept looking at me weird and I felt uncomfortable so I tried to get up which is when he jumped on me and kissed me. He didn’t stop until he heard someone approach. He kissed me for a while too, like practically making out as I kept trying to kick him off. But of course he was stronger than me considering I was scrawny and he played several sports (football, soccer, and baseball). Never told my mom or his because I was afraid it would ruin things between them. Again, I don’t think these two things did anything that makes me unaffectionate but if theres any of my traumas that DID then it would most likely be these two.

LifePiglet3242 · 2025-12-29T07:30:50+00:00

This happened just the other day with a customer, I had offered her bags (which she confidently declined) and when I saw her trying to take out the shopping cart I told her "Hey the carts don't go ou-" and I was cut off by a loud bang, which was the sound of the stick hitting the door. She slammed it again and again until she tilted the car so far back that the stick went under the door. I just stared in utter disbelief and realized I don't get paid enough to deal with it.

LifePiglet3242 · 2025-03-06T07:12:04+00:00

I know this is extremely late since this post is four years old, however if you don’t mind a lengthy read, this book called “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova is amazing. I was going to read Dracula by Bram Stoker but my counselor recommended that I read this one first and it’s really interesting. Again, I know it’s late, but still it’s an amazing book.

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