Yep. Did my time in customer service. Fast food, and retail (department store). They say everyone should do at least one year. I’ve done about 3 years of it in my life.

I wasn’t that put off by legitimate customer complaints if I felt I could help them. These days I’d say something like “this is 2026, you know corporations don’t care about you, or me… the least us little guys can do is be decent to each other,” but then they complain to customer service or whatever and I’d be shown the door… funny how savage people are to appease people who don’t care about either of us. Like, will you get a coupon for 10% off your next order if you got someone fired for trying to level with you, and took food off their table? So yeah… but nah, it was the scammers I really didn’t like. I’d rather stock and block (or face, in some stores: moving product to the front, making it look good). You don’t get scammed, Karens/Kevins leave you alone for the most part, you can help people, and you can play with kids (to an extent, like hide from them when they spot you, or wave a toy at them you think they’d like). And you really get to know the store so when people ask where something is or if you have something, you don’t really have to think about it. I also liked working photo.

I thought retail was uniquely shit in that shit people rise to the top. That was when I was 16-20. Over half my life ago. Yeah, that’s everywhere.