I can only smile, but not laugh. I luckily never made it up to any management position, but retail is quite soul-crushing. The only joy I got out of it was watching teenagers suddenly find out that they’re now cleaning up after the same messes they used to cause. Watching the light leave their eyes, day by day, that brought the light back for a few brief minutes for me.
It was like watching instant karma in slow motion.
“The light in them died years ago!” I still laugh at this every time I read it!
I can only smile, but not laugh. I luckily never made it up to any management position, but retail is quite soul-crushing. The only joy I got out of it was watching teenagers suddenly find out that they’re now cleaning up after the same messes they used to cause. Watching the light leave their eyes, day by day, that brought the light back for a few brief minutes for me.
It was like watching instant karma in slow motion.