I'm Just Trying to Pay for College!

I'm Just Trying to Pay for College!

I work retail. In fact, I have worked a lot of retail. Since I was 16...so that would make my retail odyssey almost three years long now.

In these three years, I have managed to come up with a proper list of the Things That Will Always Happen When You Work Retail.

1. If your manager schedules 6 people, you will be dead and 4 of you will be sent home early. However, if your manager schedules one person by themselves, you will be slammed.

2. The second you leave for break, something interesting happens.

3. Computers will never fail to piss you off. In fact, the suicide rate of electronic devices such as credit card scanners and paint tint machines goes up tenfold during the holiday rush.

4. The one day a month you PMS, you always have to run into every other woman in the greater metropolitan area who is also

5. You will behave impeccably your entire shift except for the five minutes you do something unfavorable (eating a candy bar or sitting on the counter for instance) and this five minutes will coincide with the five minutes your manager will be within eye view.

6. No one pays any attention to when you show up, except for the one day your alarm clock doesn't go off. Then they meet you at the door.

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