“Sure!”
next day
“Hello mom I’m here to help, what do you want me to get started on?”
“Oh my god you’re stressing me out! I need to watch home improvement YouTube videos in my PJs for a bit before we get started!”
“I mean you literally asked me to be here at this time but okay.”
later
“Why haven’t you started helping me with anything!”
“You didn’t tell me what you wanted me to do.”
“Oh my god your sister will be over soon we need to clean out the kitchen! Start making mashed potatoes, put this pictures I’ve had on the floor for a month up!”
“Weren’t you off the two days before thanksgiving?”
yeah my family never understands this is the hardest time of the year on my body and it gets worse each year
every muscle is strained my shoulders are blown out. rotator inflammed. two co-workers are out with injuries. i’ve had to work between multiple departments (all the ones involving non-stop heavy lifting)
rough estimate is i’m lifting (pick up and put down) about four to five tons of weight in 8-9 hours. and it’s like restaurant work in a way, like fuck the company and the store but you will just get an endless barrage of upset customers if you can’t keep up so you have to keep up unless you feel like spending hours talking people down. one “dive into the backroom” means 10 other people aren’t getting things they need
oh and on top of it all the SNAP fuckery caused a backup of unsold product which was unceremoniously dumped on us. basically an entire couple weeks of warehouse stock was just forcefully sent to the stores. it’s difficult to work when every cooler is packed to the door and any staging areas are crowded with stuff. i’m talking maybe one single space for a pallet is all the flexible space you have.
oh and since it’s a holiday hours get cut mercilessly so cool to know there’s stuff sitting there but nobody to put it out. capitalism = efficiency
i’m done complaining. fuck thanksgiving. i opted out this year i’m not driving 3 hours.
Thanksgiving is one of a multitude of reasons I am beyond glad that I don’t live in the US.
Thank you for your service. Not sure your unit, but I served in the best buy black friday brigade, and fuck that. And grocery bagging before that. Until the past couple years, Thanksgiving has been an absolute scourge
same to you. I did a year in the same unit and currently am in groceryso at least black friday for us is just “everyone has had leftovers and is stuffed” and we get a few day reprive to get caught up before the stream of product starts up again for xmas
We had drive up where you’d load groceries in cars (way before covid) and I’d just hide there all day - or have my friends stash carts in the farthest corners of the parking lot so I could kill time going to get them. Honestly I’ve worked worse, and at least people might tip around the holidays rather than just be rude. Hope it’s smooth sailing for you friendo
LMAO sounds like my family
You must set up a provisional Thanksgiving dinner and get the cool family members to come to your place.
A multipolar Thanksgiving
They want the expectation but they don’t actually know what they WANT. My family is very much the same. Fortunately in my case they live almost 3000 miles away…I don’t envy your position.
