Watching the light leave the eyes of people like her as the evil of retail kills their soul was one of the only things that brought light to mine. “Retail should be easy, it’s not a ‘real’ job.” Then find out it’s one of the worst. I knew that once they got out of the dark spiral, they would never again say retail was an easy job and not a real job.
People’s definition of what makes it a “real job” is way too skewed. Some people think it’s about effort but they don’t seem to understand that retail jobs require a lot of actual effort if you want to actually be good at them. Some people think because an individual employee has no real power over society as a whole that’s what makes it not a real job but if that job didn’t exist then society would grind to a halt (at least as far as jobs dealing with food and essentials).
But any job where you get paid is a real job whether you’re servicing customers face to face or a community as a whole. People will never understand that. They don’t want to.
I think the last point is the reason so many people don’t take retail (and other low paid jobs) as “real jobs”
If you take them as a “real job”, the workers should get real wages.
But if it is not a “real job”, you can get away with paying them so little, since it is more like an allowance than an actual wage.
I can honestly say it the same with me. At least when they come I with this attitude., when they are more humble, I do what I can to preserve some.light in their soul.
Yeah, that’s DEFINITELY dumb.
Hey, somebody’s got to do that “lowly retail work.”
presently in need of more money. Hoping beyond hope I don’t get so desperate to go back to retail.
Hire her, let her see what it’s really like.
Watching the light leave the eyes of people like her as the evil of retail kills their soul was one of the only things that brought light to mine. “Retail should be easy, it’s not a ‘real’ job.” Then find out it’s one of the worst. I knew that once they got out of the dark spiral, they would never again say retail was an easy job and not a real job.
People’s definition of what makes it a “real job” is way too skewed. Some people think it’s about effort but they don’t seem to understand that retail jobs require a lot of actual effort if you want to actually be good at them. Some people think because an individual employee has no real power over society as a whole that’s what makes it not a real job but if that job didn’t exist then society would grind to a halt (at least as far as jobs dealing with food and essentials).
But any job where you get paid is a real job whether you’re servicing customers face to face or a community as a whole. People will never understand that. They don’t want to.
I think the last point is the reason so many people don’t take retail (and other low paid jobs) as “real jobs”
If you take them as a “real job”, the workers should get real wages.
But if it is not a “real job”, you can get away with paying them so little, since it is more like an allowance than an actual wage.
I can honestly say it the same with me. At least when they come I with this attitude., when they are more humble, I do what I can to preserve some.light in their soul.
Read the first strip
Yep, callback!