So I (22 M) started work at a mid-sized national retail store (Canada) In April and I am already thinking of handing in my two weeks notice. I work in the tech department. I thought I signed up for a part time job selling tech products to people. What I actually signed up for was a parade of awful* customers and terrible management.
*90% percent of my customers have been chill, remaining 10% are the problem
The things I've had to deal with include(But are not limited to):
Having to watch to make sure that somebody who is clearly on something so that the don't pilfer the smart home stuff or the tablets, several times a day in some cases.
Having an old white dude loose his mind because I was taking a bit to cut up someone else's passport (On a paper cutter, mind you) as a line built front of the photo counter because I was only one of four people on the tech floor at the time and two of the three are managers who are in a meeting and the other was our proper computer technician.
Activating a phone plan for someone who is (again) clearly on something and in an elevated mood, sending my autistic brain into fight or flight mode and causing me to look like an idiot in front of anyone nearby.
A manager being like “How do you not know how to do The Thing?!” even though the thing that they are referring to is a complex procedure that I did a training module for almost literal months ago and have not done in person ever before.
Our cardboard compactor being set on fire from the outside.
Some dude smashing his iPhone on the tech counter and storming out.
Having someone pay for a game console entirely in cash. (Edit: The customer themselves wasn't necessarily toxic in the situation, but it was in the middle of a rather busy day and they paid with small denomination bills, so it was just more of a bad work situation and the neither the fault of neither myself nor the customer.)
Customers looking at me like I told them that I kick puppies because I told them “I'll just a moment” as I was putting out small appliances on the display shelves that are taller than I am.
I recognize that this workplace is inherently toxic, but I really don't have many other options nearby as I live in the kind of place that prides itself on being a university town, even though that in reality it's an isolated cesspit that's used the fact of it having a university to disguise the fact that it a dead-end Industry town, like a boujie outhouse in the middle of the woods that people keep using but no one has bothered to clean in the past 12 years. Thank you for reading through my rant.