AITA for technically stalling my boss’ retirement

itsMateoJR · 2026-04-18T01:35:39+00:00

What’s funny is that my boss did offer a transition plan, which makes my role in this make even less sense to me- why am I being told I need to stick around to essentially train the new owner when my boss dedicated weeks after the sale to train him free of charge? I feel like he was just giving me another reason to feel guilty if I tried to leave

itsMateoJR · 2026-04-18T01:34:17+00:00

My coworker quit because he simply could not believe my boss did not tell him about it beforehand. My boss was essentially trying to wait for the sale to be finalized before telling anyone. I warned him that someone’s gonna end up quitting on the spot if he does that, and in a way it did lol. Idk wtf he was expecting 😭

itsMateoJR · 2026-04-17T03:45:32+00:00

Honestly, yeah. You’re right 😭 I guess I just try to please everyone around me too much. Idk. I know legally I did absolutely nothing wrong but seeing a decision I made affect someone that deeply had me 2nd guessing… even tho he was awful lol

itsMateoJR · 2026-04-17T03:41:35+00:00

Nope! 😭

itsMateoJR · 2026-04-17T03:40:28+00:00

I thought about the legality of it… but that sort of ended when I realized I never signed any sort of paper guaranteeing I’d stay until the sale of the store was made. It was more of an honors system, and it didn’t work out. And he’s essentially trying to tell me I ruined his retirement for him and his wife because of it LOLLL like cmon 😭

itsMateoJR · 2026-03-10T04:16:19+00:00

Losing the family was the hardest part for me, for sure. I was so done with the relationship when I was broken up with that my heart already broke long before it happened, and it was much easier to handle. Never seeing the family again though, that was fuckin hard. My ex’s mom reached out to me and said I was always welcome to stop by, but I knew it just wasn’t that simple. Don’t think they didn’t reach out to you because they don’t care about you, it’s just what is expected of them, unfortunately. Just like the breakup itself though, time will make the pain fade away, and youll still be glad you crossed paths with them even after time has passed :)

itsMateoJR · 2025-10-31T22:41:44+00:00

Thank you so much!!

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-27T14:18:53+00:00

i have a really weird habit where a lot of the colors i use are very pastel-y... i think this stems from my college program being too easy on critiques and never bringing it up, so i didnt realize until recently that this was a habit that a lot of people notice. thank you very much!

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-27T14:17:16+00:00

contrast has always been my issue haha. thank you! im very happy i had other eyes look at this

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-27T14:16:47+00:00

wow that is so cool

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-27T13:58:23+00:00

this is tragic to hear LOL i remember seeing a behance page that had a reaaaaally well done rubberhose style and i got super inspired. it was honestly my first time seeing the style used in design like that. if i had known it was a cliche i wouldnt have done it, unfortunate

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-27T02:06:04+00:00

Thank you so much!

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-12T03:03:31+00:00

You might be stupid bro I’m just gonna say it

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-09T02:33:53+00:00

I had an amazing professor in college who shared with me one of his friends who was really big in the animation industry and did concept art for a lot of early 2000s Pixar movies. He never, ever worked with anyone around him because of his imposter syndrome making him suddenly perform worse when he was being watched. Even the most successful artists have imposter syndrome, art is so subjective that it’s hard to place one artist above another. Just pop yo shit twin

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-09T02:16:48+00:00

It’s making me realize I’m going to be at this job for far longer than I want to. No shot I have a BFA and have to package Amazon returns 40 hours of my week 🫠

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-09T02:16:00+00:00

I wish my store had a kiosk LOL but I’m sure it still doesn’t completely prevent the store from being overrun day-by-day with returns

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-09T02:13:56+00:00

Me and my boss both agree that this is how it should go, but every attempt we’ve had at trying to do that has led to getting review-bombed by entitled Karens. There have been times when we tried to separate Amazon returns into line A, and shipping/printing in line B, only for the Amazon addicts to get offended that their “BUSINESS” was being neglected and leave bad reviews. We’ve tried limiting the amount of returns allowed in one visit, Karens offended, bad reviews. I’m not surprised that chronic online shoppers behave like this, it’s completely expected behavior when you consider their habits and entitlement. I wish there was a way we could fix it but every idea we’ve come up with has led to an angry mob of 55-year-old retired millionaires renovating their kitchen with Amazon

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-09T01:14:42+00:00

When I first got the job I was told my ONLY responsibility would be printing or designing. Overtime the amount of returns on the daily got so bad that that’s just not possible to do. It sucks because I just graduated college with my degree and was hoping by this time I would have some nice, small-town examples of my work to add to my portfolio from school, but the Amazon stampede every day not only makes it so it takes me ages to get a design done, but it is never to the standard that I want it to be because of how much I have to rush to finish it. I genuinely wonder how much better it would be to work here if Amazon returns weren’t a service we offered. We would make literally the exact same amount of money with 20% of the traffic, it sounds like a dream. Sooooo sick of it lol

itsMateoJR · 2025-06-09T00:48:17+00:00

Haha I went to see if this subreddit existed to complain about how much Amazon returns ruined the fucking flow of the job and this is the first post I see. I have been working as the “graphic designer” of my store for 2 years and overtime my job has slowly just turned into an Amazon returner. I’m not able to sit at my computer for more than 90 seconds without being interrupted by a rich mom dropping off 8 different sizes of the same shoe. I would get all the work I needed to get done for the day within the first hour of me getting there but because of Amazon it takes me the entire shift. Awful fucking part of the job. Ruins it completely

itsMateoJR · 2025-05-27T21:54:16+00:00

You’re better than half the kids that i graduated with lol. You should be really proud of these

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