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If you want to count it, worked a few years in a grocery store deli. Hated how I was always referred to as "the boy" by the owners even though I was in my early 20's.

Spent a few years in target. Got a promotion to signing supervisor without applying to it. Loved the freedom I was given to come in, do my work, and leave without anybody looking over my shoulder. Left to go to school.

Came back after to school to a different target, and that one sucked. Nobody knew what they were doing and nothing was getting done. It got to the point where team leads were asking me how to use LRTs and I flat out told them I had applied for their position and didn't get it, so I felt no obligation to share my knowledge and train my superiors. Lasted less than a year there.

Then spent around 17 years in a movie theatre. Overall I enjoyed it, but the pay sucked. Especially when the company got bought by another change and I lost like $2.00/hr. Last day coincided with when the new pay rate would take effect.

Finally, worked at meijer for about the last 3 years, so had about a year under my belt before Covid hit. Lost employees and never built staff back up. I was an overnight stocker and was really feeling shit upon by the end. Used to be 3 of us that did sale tags on Saturday night in part of grocery. (aisles 11-16) Over time, it was just me doing aisles 3-18. Other nights of the week, I was supposed to do the hardhome section. Unless they told me to go do pets, or frozen, or dairy, or seasonal, or toys, or health &beauty, or straighten shelves in grocery. Then get bitched at by my manager for the hardhome section not getting done.

Not that I was surprised. I'll always remember that he compared working 10 pallets of home solutions when I couldn't get 6 pallets of hardhome done in a single night. For context, home solutions is plastic storage bins with maybe 10 boxes per pallet, max. And they just got shoved on the shelf wherever there was an open space. Hardhome was stuff like pots and pans, kitchen utensils, plates and bowls, water bottles, cleaning supplies, bakeware, coffee makers, blenders, and vaccuum cleaners. Almost all of that stuff either required me to open a box inside of another box or unwrap the plastic bags and bubble wrap they were shipped in. Or else needed a security strap put on it. (other departments got to set theirs aside for day shift to secure. I had to do them myself). Hardhome also averaged about 40-50 boxes per pallet. Only time in close to 30 years of working that I had finally enough and just straight quit when being given yet another thing on my plate when in the middle of getting set up for the night. That made me like the 3rd employee to just straight walk out in the span of a month. Obviously, this is not a job I have fond memories of.

Thanks for (maybe) listening to me rant. Felt good to get it out.