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perilegs · 5 months

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every time i try to do something scary on purpose for my social anxiety the universe decides to add in unexpected situations 😔

#i was supposed to go pick up a package and then i was like. ok wait. ive gotten good at buying something while pickiing a package up. what #if i also buy stamps #bc you have to ask the cashier for those (same as with the package)#and it was just at my cornerstore so it's a safe nonscary environment #well. as not-scary as any store can be.#but. there were a lot of ppl there. which! i thought would be fine bc the line was still relatively short but. what happened was that they #opened another register.#and i was queuing for the reguster that had stamps and handles packages #and i would have loved to stay at the queue. but. only one person went to the queue of the new register. so there were 2 ppl in line before #me. one already had their stuff on the conveyor belt and the other was about to put their stuff there too #and the person who went to the other register only had like 2 things to buy. so. it was me. in line behind 2 people. versus an almost #empty register. so. i had to switch to the free register before the cashier had the time to b like 'there's a free register here!'#bc i don't have a script for hearing that and saying 'no' !!!#so i just. switched over and bought my snacks. leaving the store with no package and no stamps.#bc if i hadnt i would have had to say something i dont have a social script for and probably stumbled on my words and gone red and dizzy #which. not ideal.#and this sucks ass bc all i really needed was one (1) success in a social situation #bc this week has been kicking my ass social anxiety wise #usually when i go and get coffee from a coffeeshop they dont ask me shit and just make my order to regular milk which. ok. i dont have an #allergy or anything. i just think plant alternatives taste better in coffee #but this week. i got asked 'do you want that in regular milk?' and i was not expecting that #so i was like 'yes please 😊' and drank my grossly milky coffee dreaming about what i could have had #and that happened TWICE #after the first time i did think about it and decide i could have said 'do you have oat milk or something' and then the barista #could have either said yes or no and both of those would b easy to answer #but instead of asking if they have oat milk i just said yes. again.#can you guys imagine some people speak without being scared #some people even go to the store without feeling even an ounce of fear. imagine #leevi talks

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weaselle · 5 months

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spending a couple years in the service industry or working retail is so important.

For example, you may have seen a lot of stuff on here about "doctors don't listen to/believe their patients"

and as someone with a doctor father and an ER nurse mother i can tell you... that is for sure a real issue.

But as someone who spent many years working restaurants, hotels, and various registers, i can also tell you that patients are still the public, and "customers don't know wtf they are talking about" still applies

and if you've spent a couple years in service or retail and learned about dealing with the public, you can recognize when you are getting the same responses you sometimes have when dealing with the public, and know how to navigate it.

Other jobs definitely can teach you this, contractors and dog trainers and plumbers all have to deal with customers, i've done some of those jobs and the public is the public wherever you are. But there's just something about the intense nature of working registers and waiting tables, the sheer volume of customer interactions per shift that changes the experience to a trial by fire that forges a specific kind of understanding of the public.

It's a social ability that is just, so very helpful to have in your back pocket.

It's not just doctors of course, and not just for when you are paying at a register yourself. Any time you are dealing with a public point of contact, a banker, a call center, a secretary -- knowing what it's like to deal with the public all day can save you from accidentally being The Problem Customer, and help you recognize when you're, for example, genuinely requesting something that people usually don't really mean to request or whatever.

It is as helpful as learning several other languages, and istg the world would be a better place if it was the social norm for 100% of everyone to spend like 3 years in retail or FOH restaurants/hotels as the first jobs you work.

#hotel FOH is just like waiting tables only your tables are with you for a couple days and the bill is hundreds or thousands of dollars #imagine the 75 cent side of dressing anger but over a 5k bill #the water-never-more-than-half-empty attitude about their entire daily routine #but as front desk you also get mad register rushes of long lines of impatient people waiting to settle their bills or check in #so you also get all the My Card Should Work and You Should Open Another Register and I'm Going To Make This a Problem for the Whole Line #so if you're a server or a cashier never forget that hotel FOH are your siblings in arms

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catfishofoldin99colours · 4 months

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universities will make website pages that are so unnecesarily convoluted

#catfish speaks #just had to register to get my OFFICIAL ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPT which i had to PAY $20 FOR #THROUGH ANOTHER GODDAMN SITE #THAT WASN'T THE UNIVERSITY PORTAL OR CANVAS OR THE EMAIL PORTAL #WHY DID IT TAKE ANOTHER SITE TO SHOW ME THAT #WHAT'S WRONG WITH EMAILING IT TO ME #I BOUGHT IT CAN DO WHAT I LIKE WITH IT #anyway that site woULDN'T OPEN ON FIREFOX #I HAD TO OPEN IT IN CHROME INSTEAD TO REGISTER #AND THEN HAD TO REOPEN IT THROUGH THE EMAIL LINK TO ACTUALLY LOAD IN MY TRANSCRIPT #WHY IS MY UNIVERSITY LIKE THIS YOU ASK #I DON'T KNOW! I DON'T FUCKING KNOW!!!#so convoluted

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rodrickheffley · 9 months

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tried to get a job at my uni but failed oh well

#got past the interview but they do this thing regarding references where i had to fill stuff out and then one of my references was away so #i got an email abt it and i dont have another reference so lol. theyve emailed me again since but i am incapable of opening those bc mental #illness. i got an email frm the uni abt the training but it said we would get a link to register for this thing and i never got the email.#i did email them last night to ask if that was an error or if the position was filled #but that was at like 7pm and training starts in less than an hr and no response yet so im not gonna go cuz thatd be embarrassing #and at this point now id be late anyway. hate being disabled lol! trying not to let it get to me right now! i am up super early for no #reason now so im going to sbucks to get myself a treat lol

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kelpiemomma · 7 months

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my grandma got her (less than a year old, untrained, unhousebroke, has been in a total of 3 different places her whole life) puppy a service dog vest.

we're doing this again, huh?

#she also got her last dog a service dog vest #and had her registered as an emotional support animal #her last dog had almost no recall and very poor training #my grandma would take her to senior centers and senior housing areas and the dog would just run up to people #jump on their legs and jump on their laps without being asked #i really wish she wouldn't have gotten another dog #she doesn't pay it any attention #she sits watching tv & doing stuff on her phone and just. exists with the dog. like to the point where when the dog WAS alerting #that she had to go out and go potty (back when she did that) my grandma would straight up just ignore her bc #'oh she just wants to go outside she won't go potty'#and now we have a dog who sometimes uses potty pads and sometimes uses the fucking living room carpet or the tile #but never alerts to needing to go outside #the most my grandma interacts with her (genuinely) is taking her to go potty (a couple times a day) brushing her (or attempting to. idk if #she still tries to brush the dog bc it would scream and nip at her when she did) and bringing her out for the am and to bed in the pm #i feel bad for not liking the dog bc i know its not her fault its my grandmas #but also the dog is annoying as fuck and will not leave its crate when my grandma is out of the house. you open the door and she just.#stays there. and stares at you.#you can walk away and leave the door open and she won't go anywhere.#I'M. SO. TIRED.#its going to be ANOTHER fucking 10-13 years of HER DOG pissing on the floor i just know it

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butterflygemini · 8 months

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i dont understand why the university rec center allows students to teach group fitness classes without a certification but if you're not a student you have to have a group fitness and cpr certification???

#i understand why i would need those certifications but i dont get why they dont require students to get certified as well???#im just pissed bc the apps for this dance teaching position open up next month #so i have to get both my ace certification AND cpr certified #and like. i dont know if i have time for that #plus its 285 for the textbook and to register for the exam for the ace one #and another 100 for a live classroom cpr class which ace requires you to do #and then i don't even know if the rec center will end up hiring me either lmao #its just ugh. idk if its worth the investment #esp if i do get accepted and they end up paying me 10/hr to teach like 3 hours of classes a week ya know

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bravevolunteer · 10 months

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good morning i have to go to work in a couple hours but i’ll be here later 🕺

#why am i so nervous to return to the job i’ve Already Worked #not even for the actual shift just the first fifteen minutes of 🧍‍♂️hi i’m back i need register access #also they already tried to fool me into opening up another day on my availability LMAO #like i MIGHT in a week or two if it seems like i should but leave me alone.. i gave you open availability during the HOLIDAY SEASON #anyway michael on the brain always JSKDHD #⁂ ･ﾟ: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc

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agdab · 1 year

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this job really makes me wanna commit a huge act of terrorism sometimes

#work liveblog.#people are so fucking. lazy and selfish #somebody left a big planter on the table thats supposed to be on the floor bc they couldnt be assed to put it back #and ao i pulled it and dropped it (it isnt a far drop)#and a lady was like “hEY” like id just committed sin right before her #its a fuckin plant. its a sturdy one. its literally fine..#nothing even popped off when i dropped it too #and another motherfucker decided to lwave her cart in the middle of the aisle i needed into #to chat with anothwr lady who was blocking most of the fucking area #its so busy and all paths are incredibly congested #and they wont open the second fucking entrance slash cash register to clear things up and make it easier #fucking hate home depot and its lazy ass employees #the garden associates are never around bc theyre fuckin hiding in the employee area most of the time too

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bythebonefire · 2 years

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I am home!!!

And like... 95% recovered from the Rona!

Instead of taking a chill flight back from my Whoop Whoop Girls Weekend in Las Vegas, I drove 1700 miles over the course of roughly three days, subsisting off gas station food I thankfully could barely taste due to Plague reasons, and looking at fields upon fields of Corn.

It was an adventure! A terrible, terrible adventure! Though driving through Utah and Wyoming was actually pretty neat, and they are both beautiful states! I bonded with my sis over the incredibly stressful situation and how exhausted we were. Also we picked up lunch from a diner that won Best Burger in Iowa in 2016 and it’s proudly emblazoned on all their menus and the lady who gave us our food was really happy to tell us that and made sure to tell the cook behind the counter that I really loved her burger because they were all very very proud of her. It was incredibly charming. Really this whole experience was both deeply charming and extremely terrible, I never want to repeat it again and I am also kind of grateful it happened.

But all of this is to say that I am home now! And happy to get back to working on tags. While laying in my ownnnn damn bed.

#[ooc] spacy speaks #i don't think i fully was able to appreciate the diner burger on account of my sense of smell and taste is still pretty shot #but i got enough of it to know i liked it!!#and enjoyed the texture of it #also i didn't actually realize i had lost my sense of smell *that* badly until at one point we were driving by this open field #and my sis started gagging at this apparently extremely potent manure smell #and i smelled absolutely nothing #the smell carried on for like several miles and had to put her mask on and crank up the air to try and drown it out #none of this registered in my senses #it's kind of weird not being able to smell anything while not being congested! like someone just turned off one of my senses #(and put a dimmer on another one)#i do hope that clears up soon #but on the whole i am recovering well!!#coronavirus ///

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saintvampe · 1 year

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— for: @queenwolf | NIGHT SETTLES AS THICK FABRIC ACROSS THICKER WILDERNESS, DRAPES ITSELF AGAINST A BACKDROP OF TREE AND TREE AND TREE. the woods is silent and still, its quiet pierced thinly by the chirping of insects, the whistling of breeze, the slow rustling of something heavy within thicket. this night is dark and calm, glimpses of firefly illumination flickering like dying - out stars, and the change in atmosphere ( as if the wilderness was preparing to clear a path, as if something unbelonging there had arrived ) is only barely noticeable, beginning slow at first, and then becoming overwhelming. the trees shudder at the movement through them, the winds shift direction; the grass flattens itself before a large paw has the chance to find the ground, reverence to the beast given as it moves through this space –– it's domain. it moves slow and strong, groans low through this steady gait, smells an unfamiliar scent.

this wilderness has been untouched for four years, unseen by ordinary folk and ignored by those more special. that is how the beast likes it most, when its existence is untampered with, when its wilderness is its own. but now, but now... something is different. slow, the beast makes it way to the center of the wilderness, a neutral spot not quite between the human and the unreal. it is seen by everyone, only reached by the most curious. the bear, in all its glory, creates heavy footprints against the earth, leaving a path for whoever unknown is in its woods. when it reaches the center, where a single tree stump sits, ancient and patterned with rings ––– it waits patient.

#ARC 02 * : in the beginning ( ... ) there was me and me and me ( 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆‚ )#queenwolf #hello.... :) giving you some selene / eve meetings...#the bear registering another presence in the wilderness and leaving a path; attempting to bring selene #to a part of the woods that is most commonly found [ or allowed to be found ] by anyone who visits #it probably opens up every which way to leave the wilderness unless the beast allows for those entering to find other parts of it #also thinking abt how. selene was the first disturbance in the wilderness for... so long #how the woods changed in according to the new familiarity of being disturbed; even if the disturbance was simply..#an unfamiliar being is here.

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dawnedon · 2 years

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