I think retail may have damaged my brain

I'm glad you decided not to die on this hill. I never did full retail myself so I can never truly understand what you went through but it just bugged me on a black and white morality basis. I think that customers and employees should trust, or at least be civil with each other.

We SHOULD be able to make transactions safely without any kind of screwery going on from either end. I just want the person to hand me the thing so I can go home and I know from my own job how much I want my customer to happily accept the thing and go away so I can breathe.

I've heard stories from friends who do retail about how often they as well as co-workers just steal stuff all of the time. It appalled me but I'm kind of a moral stiff in that regard. I'm the type that always makes sure to put stuff back where I found it and bring shopping carts back to their station because I feel like I have to. I don't expect that kind of neuroticism from everyone else, though. Yeah, I've got some issues.

I WAS a parking attendant once and I feel abnormally spiteful towards people who park incorrectly so I kinda get how you might've found this hill. You've worked in one store so every store since then feels just a bit like your old store. You see things out of place and you get the slightest twitchy feeling like you need to organize things even though you don't work there, because you were just conditioned to You worked in a store full of people stealing junk so you're just a bit jaded towards stores similar to yours now.

You think "ah, this dude probably steals junk, too. Lemme just try to finesse this nerd. I wouldn't be any different from the customers he probably already gets."

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