I’m currently employed in a smoke shop in a small part of town. Most of the time, the shop is completely dead. Two hours will go by before a customer crawls through. In downtime, we wipe down glass, sweep, reorganize, mostly busywork. Between that we have not much else to do.
Myself and another employee are both art students, I’m pursuing a masters degree so I can teach in the future. Her and I use scraps from orders or receipt paper to doodle, she draws anime girls and I drew a cartoon pig. Our boss came into work, saw our small, low-effort drawings, and scoffed, scolding us because “that’s not what we’re paid to do.” Frankly, if we weren’t doodling, we were playing on our phones or reading something anyway. It’s too quiet and slow here to constantly be working, and there’s no fresh paint to watch dry anyway.
Anyway. Vent over. I like this job, it’s easy and laidback, but I feel like our boss has better things to do himself than chastise some cashiers over small artwork.