I was browsing this reddit and im not sure if this fits but here goes haha.
I used to work for a grocery store in the meat dept. It was actually enjoyable until Amazon bought it out and everything just shot down.
PTimers quit since they lost they're healthcare benefits, you would be scheduled for a clopen (close shift, open shift) and any complaint you had would be promptly heard and tossed in the trash. All the managers started to care about were profits.
Like I said, this was actually fun and easy until it was bought out.
Then the pandemic hit. Bruh. Absolute chaos.
Nobody cared about how essential workers felt, they just wanted their fucking bacon 🥲. We were given fake cash to buy stuff which would help… since they didn't pay us enough to afford our own products lol.
Also, as “compensation” they had a copler filled with!… sparkling water. They decided all those record breaking profits should go to… somewhere else I guess haha not their employees pockets tho!
Fuck em, quit, got a new job and haven't been inside that store in over a year.
OH ALSO! I was helping a customer one day during a slow time and during the pandemic. We had a smoker in the dept that required wood chips. One of the other guys decided to put the wood chips that were in a PLASTIC BAG on top of the smoker. I was wrapping his food up and he goes “is that a fire” and I turn, look, turn back and say “yep!” finished rolling up his item, sent him on his way and then addressed the problem.
It clicked later that I had finished helping him due to customer service being drilled in my head instead of addressing a literal fire. I left shortly after haha