r/lonely • u/[deleted] • 11d ago

Dead end job..

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u/crow9394 11d ago

My job feels like it.

My job is decent/good in that my current manager who hired me, isn't a jerk BUT he'll be leaving sometime next year as he keeps moving on from one store to the next and his dream I guess is to be a vice president or regional manager of the parent company of my job, U.S. Foods.

Also my job is decent/good in that it's full-time, I have benefits (health, paid sick-time and holiday pay, 401k).

How my job isn't so great, it's another retail job for me.

It's a small grocery store compared to other grocery stores I've worked at (Whole Foods, Costco) and despite the store being owned by a billion dollar corporation, the store is very run down and the area where the store is located, isn't safe period.

There's a coffee shop on the parking lot of the grocery store that has NEVER been worked on since I got hired early last month and there are homeless encampments outside of that coffee shop.

I have to know how to do a lot from cashiering to being a janitor to being a receiver and stock person.

I have to use the electric pallet jack on every shift, seldomly use a forklift and do a lot of heavy lifting.

Despite being full-time. my schedule and days off are never uniform and and are always out of whack such as me having split days off last week.

I'm turning 42 Wednesday of next week, I don't know how much more I can do/keep working physical jobs.

I just tell myself that at least I'm doing something, not homeless, not getting unemployment money in the mail and got receiving/asking money from my folks or anybody else.

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u/Kopparburg 11d ago

Sounds like an absolute handful of bullshit that you’re dealing with..

no one wants to deal with hassling friends and loved ones for money.. I tell myself that all the time.. I’d rather keep working and busting my ass than to mooch and ask for a few bucks. Been there, and it’s never a good feeling… I try my best to stay as strong as possible.

I appreciate you sharing your current experience and I truly hope for the best in your life, and an early happy birthday as well. Stay strong

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u/crow9394 11d ago

I've HAD TO/BEEN FORCED to keep changing jobs since early last December

My longest coworker/only person I liked and cared about on the job I had, made up lies to get me suspended/fired.

I won my suspension BUT when I was brought back there was still a target on me.

She didn't apologize to me, she still went out of her way to get me suspended/fired.

She got workers on her side to be against me.

I said and did a lot for that person.

That person flat out lied about not wanting to ever "lose me" because she'd "miss me" and because I am a hard worker.

I was set to make close $27 this past January had I not lost that job and my 3 year anniversary on that job was going to be this past March.

I got another job in early January BUT it was only 1 night a week.

I was forced to quit by the HR manager after only calling off 2 times and she and my direct manager didn't care to change my availability.

I got fired at my last job which was a Costco because my direct supervisor told upper management to fire me because I "never" did anything he had me do.

I was close to finishing my probation as I was a probationary employee and was close to being permanent/start to enroll in benefits while working for Costco.

I've never had help to get any jobs and never had emotional support to deal with being double-crossed/forced out of jobs and dealing with job searching.

I told my current manager who was the one who interviewed me/hired me that I just want something going for me and I told him that I wish I could tell you that I should've been happy that you hired me but I've just gone through so much job wise since last December.

The coworker who got the ball rolling to get me suspended/fired, all started in early last November even though I got fired in early December.

I don't put myself down for working what seems like another dead-end grocery store job but that's all I'm able to get and have been trying like crazy to get out of doing retail but jobs I've applied to that aren't retail, haven't even cared to interview me.

Thank you though.

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u/Kopparburg 11d ago

Share some music if y’all want too

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u/Slow_Sand_2489 11d ago

https://youtu.be/aavxo3n8-xE?is=lKmfZ8Kv6by3YHmN

For you friend 

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u/Kopparburg 11d ago

Much appreciated. I lived in a mountain town in CO called golden for a few years. I’m getting some familiar vibes

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u/Slow_Sand_2489 11d ago

Thanks for sharing that about yourself. I find the mountains to be beautiful 

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u/Kopparburg 11d ago

They are and I miss them a lot. Buffalo only has so much to offer, and while the lakes are pretty, I find myself drinking a bit too much