WARNING!

If this is ever not on my blog, call 911 because I'm either dead or something is very, very wrong

She’s like Sonic

PREACH

Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

I work retail, and have for many years now. I'm not an easily fazed person and have a Talk No Shit, Take No Shit mentality. However, I also have a pretty intense anxiety disorder on top of other mental health issues and when I started 6+ years ago there were some customers who got to me.

So, to all the workers facing Karens and Kens out in the wild, here's my advice - cry.

If you have the type of relationships with your coworkers and managers that will support you, don't try to hold it in. Cry like the overworked, underpaid peon you are.

Nothing terrifies an asshole Karen like the indisputable proof that their actions/words are affecting you as a real live person. They feel perfectly entitled to cuss out a cashier over a wrong order/no cash policy/ face mask mandate but when that person starts to cry and asks them why they'd say such mean things? A whole other story, my friend.

There's no way to make that situation look good to the manager they demanded to speak with, either. My manager literally got a security guard fired for being so verbally abusive he made one of her employees cry.

This strategy has multiple benefits -

1. You're not standing there trying to pen up your emotions, crying is a great physical release for negative emotions and you may very well feel somewhat better afterwards.

2. The person who precipitated the situation is forced to not only see you as a person with feelings, but also has to confront the fact that their abuse has consequences beyond themselves.

3. It can actually give your higher-ups leverage to address these situations. 'They yelled at my employee' is one thing, but 'They yelled at my employee until they were in tears' is a waaaaay worse offense. A good manager can use that. Hell, it can get a security guard fired!

tl;dr: We live in a capitalist hell but we can work the system and cry at work to shame awful customers

Random tumblr thought

You guys know what I love about tumblr? The fact that there's no dislike button. There's an option to like a post if it makes you giggle. There's a button to reblog a post if it's cute or funny in a way that you want it representing you on your blog. There's an option to unlike a post if you've growm past liking it. There's a way to delete posts if you don't want them representing your blog anymore. You can blaze shit now... whatever the actual hell that means.

There are all of these options for helping content grow and keeping things around that bring you joy, but there's no dislike button. There's no thumbs down, because tumblr understands that the true opposite if love is indifference. If I don't like a post on my dash (I normally do because it's like 70% nondelphic posts at all times but that's not the point) I scroll past it. If a post or user makes me uncomfortable, I just hit the block button. No comfrontation or negativity required. And I just think that's nifty.

I just really love the tumblr app and community for that quality, how I rarely ever see any true negativity going around towards other members or content.

All right, that's it thanks for coming to my ted talk guys.

You guys, can I just... Lana Del Ray???

Right next to each other in the feed 😂 (there was an ad right in between unfortunately tho)

"I can't..."

"...trust you anymore."

"...believe you sometimes."

"...stop thinking about you."

"...think straight."

"...be with you right now."

"...see where the problem is."

"...go on like this."

"...seem to understand you."

"...figure it out."

"...be who you need."

"...promise you that."

"...love you."

"...win."

"...stay."

"...leave you here."

"...listen to you anymore."

"...see the issue."

"...fail again."

"...explain it."

"...talk right now."

"...imagine myself without you."

"...do this anymore."

"...be with you tight now."

"...lose you again."

"...believe another word you say."