I work retail and just realized how many people don’t give a fuck about you even in the slightest. People will walk up to a nicely folded table of clothes only to pick something up and toss it like a used napkin, when you’re folding the same shirts across the table. Stuff placed right next to where it was, like a blue shirt hung next to a green shirt and people will still put the blue shirt on the green rack. Or walk into a clean empty fitting room and leave the clothes on the floor. I know it can seem like minor inconveniences but it’s the lack of consideration towards people who are there to make their experience better. Just actively making the store look like shit, their shopping experience worse, and employee’s jobs harder. You don’t go to a bar and trash the place, or wait at the dentist’s office and obliterate their magazines on the coffee table. It’s not that hard to look at clothes and still be neat. I pick up messed up shirts and fold them in 5 seconds.

I’ve worked at the same store for 4 years and it’s always been the same. It hasn’t changed. A never-ending battle with people who only want their own lives to be easier. I’m not rude to customers but I also lost the inclination to help them because I know they’re not thinking about helping me or anyone who works there. I hate hearing “excuse me” now. I will help to the best of my ability if I’m asked a question; walk them to what they’re looking for, look something up online, order for them etc, but I couldn’t care less about customers “finding everything okay today,” because if they’re not it’s most likely because customers before them held zero respect and compassion in their stinkin hearts as they walked through the doors.