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re: Worse job: retail or food industry?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:14 pm to fouldeliverer
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:14 pm to fouldeliverer
quote:Teachers are the biggest crybabies out there. Must be really tough working part-time hours and getting a full-time paycheck
Teaching. I'm a teacher; trust me it's so bad that I have to spend more time complaining about it then actually doing it.
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Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:14 pm to JetsetNuggs
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I think the real question is "which industry voluntarily bitches and complains more?"
Teachers and it ain't close.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:17 pm to ClientNumber9
Working at a high end retail clothing store is better. You can go out after work without smelling like a dumpster.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:21 pm to TH03
I was just more speaking as a monotonous and unfulfilling job mainly. Gotta be boring as shite
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:24 pm to ClientNumber9
I've worked extensively in both and retail is by far the easier gig. Let's put it this way, people usually do not come into a clothing store expecting you to have exactly what they want and to have it immediately placed in front of them.
People are highly irrational when it comes to getting fed.
People are highly irrational when it comes to getting fed.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:28 pm to TH03
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Teachers and it ain't close
I guess I don't know enough teachers, but I do know a good amount of people that work in the food industry and all they do is complain about the job that they voluntarily chose.Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:32 pm to Jackie Chan
Greatest 3 years of my life was in college when i was a stock guy for the Limited clothing store. Had about 30 workers- 29 women and 1 man.
Damn, i miss those years...
Damn, i miss those years...
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:32 pm to ClientNumber9
I would rather wait tables no two ways about it. I've done both. Much prefer waiting tables.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:47 pm to ClientNumber9
Is retail that bad? Seems like the guys working in lumber and selling floor at Lowe’s have it pretty good. I know certain positions where I live pay $16-$18. Seems like a good gig for someone without a college degree.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:49 pm to ClientNumber9
Retail
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:53 pm to ClientNumber9
Fast Food. I worked it growing up and the shifts always flew by... versus standing around on a sales floor bored all day.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:55 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
When people are shopping, they go into this absent minded haze where they become the dumbest people imaginable. Smart people become idiots, idiots become vegetables. It’s absurd. Lack of special awareness, inability to see something right in front of them, inability to recognize when they are in someone’s way, etc.
It’s the damnedest thing.
It’s the damnedest thing.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 3:58 pm to Displaced
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Probably retail, food service can be a bitch with customers, but the staff always has a blast.
Pretty much this. Food industry peeps like to party.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 4:00 pm to ClientNumber9
Done both, Food Industry, once you work in on restaurant you don't want to eat there anymore
Posted on 10/20/17 at 4:05 pm to ClientNumber9
retail
especially selling Christmas trees, frick THAT!!
especially selling Christmas trees, frick THAT!!
Posted on 10/20/17 at 4:10 pm to CHEDBALLZ
Real Christmas trees or fake Christmas trees?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 4:16 pm to TH03
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When people are shopping, they go into this absent minded haze where they become the dumbest people imaginable. Smart people become idiots, idiots become vegetables. It’s absurd. Lack of special awareness, inability to see something right in front of them, inability to recognize when they are in someone’s way, etc.
It’s the damnedest thing.
Nailed it.
Also, not all retail is created equal. Most here have talked about working in clothing. That sounds like a cakewalk compared to the grocery side of retail.
Grocery is fast paced, heavy lifting, and dealing with rude, mindless customers.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 4:25 pm to Undertow
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Grocery is fast paced, heavy lifting, and dealing with rude, mindless customers.
Yea, there’s no comparison to folding clothes.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 4:30 pm to ClientNumber9
My first few jobs were in kitchens, never worked retail. Working in a kitchen blows but you don't have to deal with customers so I would think retail is worse.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 4:57 pm to ClientNumber9
I slung car audio at a shop while in college. Was on commission and would make 40-45 a year. Was perfect gig while in college. I don't think I would have been able to wait tables.
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