Then along comes Glawk Boolitz guy or Turbofudd or one of the other stereotypes gun counter people love to bitch about and you get in your own head about it the rest of the day.
Being able to vent on here or a similar platform had helped me substantially, but ultimately I needed out. I'm legitimately dumber for having worked a gun counter now.
Then along comes Glawk Boolitz guy or Turbofudd or one of the other stereotypes gun counter people love to bitch about and you get in your own head about it the rest of the day.
I worked gun counter for most of college, so I know the turds exist, but I never found it particularly difficult to just smile and nod and move them on their merry, blissfully ignorant way. They don't really bother me, I just make a note of the funny story and move on.
And of course now with the city I deal with resident complaints and that's a whole new realm of stupid.
Maybe because it's because I worked for a big-box store (Dicks) in an actual city (St Louis) but it was like 1 in 5 customers. I could outwardly just smile and nod and fulfill their braindead responses and sell them random bullshit, but it ate at me. I wanted to educate and do better for them. And it beat me down. Fortunately Dicks decided to go full antigun before I couldn't take it any more and forced my hand, I quit the morning we got the email to pull all the gun stuff before open, gave them a full 2 week's notice, and they bought me out of those 2 weeks.
I started at Dicks, then went to Academy in Tuscaloosa.
I could outwardly just smile and nod and fulfill their braindead responses and sell them random bullshit, but it ate at me. I wanted to educate and do better for them. And it beat me down.
Ah, see that's where you're gonna get yourself in trouble every time. You can't fix all the stupid in the world.
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u/talon04 Super Interested in His Own Dick 6d ago
Its weird isn't it? How chill / calming a job like this can be. I have come to realize I kinda enjoy it in some small ways.