At this age I think most of us who work and study will almost certainly be working in retail, and if your a dude you know how frustrating it can be! Here is what I love about retail..
First and foremost how difficult is it to work with females!? No offense to women but lets keep it real you a hand full- all some of them do is bitch and moan “why is my lunch so late”, “Why am I not allowed to do refunds”, “Nah, did you hear what happened yesterday”- whose got time for these little girls doe.
Its overly peak when you get 40yr olds coming into the store to chirps you haha them ones with the “chirps eyes” like Miss Ekundayo would say! Bare asking “have you got a girlfriend, oh its not for me cos I’m married, I’m asking for one of the young girls who work in my store” SKEEN that’s why when you walked past her store there were no young girls in there.
If your manager is woman then eesh she is either gonna despise you because you’re too “”arrogant” or you too buff. Your always going to have that demonic supervisor with the push up face and blonx forehead; don’t worry she is fully on you that is why she so facety- when you look at her she gives you one piece ah cut-eye and then you turn your back and shes bare licking her lips while struttin’ up and down the shop floor like this it’s Fashion Week out here.
There’ll always be that safe manager that will be watching the peng gash with you and will understand when you reject certain CV’s and too fast up to take others! Your Girlfriend comes to see you at work and suddenly time stops as they bare watch her.
You’ll always hear “It’s just a part-time job for you so you don’t care”… all I gotta say to that is DREAM KILLER! ENEMY OF PROGRESS! Like them bait Nigerian films on OBE.
One of them ones when you feel like you cursed to spend eternity here and your tombstone is gonna have the brand you work for carved in! The music oh Lord the music, you’ll be forced to listen to either 80′s disco, techno or the store cd’s! You’ll find yourself knowing all the lyrics and/or recognising the songs outside of work hours. *wipes tears*
Getting so bored at work that you and another member of staff create an entire advertising campaign about tackling abuse at work at the hands of management. “Feeling down at work, is your manager giving you a hard time? try our new suggestion box”- Grace Waller
You will get the occasional stupid customer that will get so rude but you know you cant get rude so you just put on the cheesiest most patronising smile and be like ” I’m terribly sorry sir but I cannot accept this refund due to the company policy” and then call a manger to come an take the rage the customer is about to unleash!
You’ll find that your slowly becoming dim because you don’t exercise your brain at work, when your mates are bussin’ jokes your baffed! Your lecturer is talking and all you can hear is the sound of wooden hangers bashin against each other; when our told to produce an ad campaign you immediately try to draw inspiration from work; you even start to notice when people are wearing their clothes.. Its peak.
Oh well, I guess all one can do is sit tight and pray for the day you land the right job so you can drop the resignation skank!
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About Yang
There are so many young people in London without the right guidance in life and don’t know where to turn. My dream is to set up my own company lending support, guidance and advice to young people so I can share everything I have learnt and will learn in the future with people who need it. Anyone sharing a similar vision get at me, we need to talk. Follow me on twitter