RESURRECTING A FIVE-YEAR OLD MEME

[dudski]

REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS CIRCULATING IN LIKE 2009? Man. Who even wrote this first? We'll never know. IT'S BEEN LOST TO THE AGES.

The problem with LiveJournal is that we think we're close, but really, we know nothing about each other. DID THAT STATEMENT EVER EVEN MAKE SENSE? The problem with Tumblr is that it's a nightmare platform when it comes to

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[dudski]

YES AND NO. I miss my Walmart benefits, which is a HILARIOUS COSMIC JOKE because everything I've ever heard on the news or in thinkpieces or anywhere tells me they were TERRIBLE but uh, also, that's the only job I've ever had that's given me benefits. My current job hired me and B simultaneously rather than hiring one person full time and giving them benefits. GOD. HEALTH INSURANCE.DENTAL!!!!!!!!!!!! 401K. STOCK PURCHASING PLAN. PAID SICK TIME. PAID VACATION TIME. PAID PERSONAL TIME. ALSO I really did love working there because I was SO GODDAMN GOOD AT IT and it wouldn't have been possible for me not to love something so consistently challenging where my awesomeness was so thoroughly respected, and there's no denying that I really came into my own there and that I have a lot of confidence in my abilities that I wouldn't otherwise have. I mean, when I quit it was with the understanding that I might want to go back one day and go directly into the management program. A huge part of the decision to leave was just that I would never be able to step back and slow myself down, and they would always take whatever I was willing to give, and if I decided to go management track I'd rise quickly and kick a lot of ass but I'd also be completely sacrificing probably the next five years of my life. And if I stayed but didn't go management track yet, I'd still be on nights because they refused to transfer me to an equivalent position on days because nights were more important and they knew they wouldn't be able to replace me, and on top of THAT I could see how things were going in terms of management changes and things were clearly getting worse instead of better, soooooooooooooo I LEFT. And I miss the work itself, because GOD I WAS SO GOOD AT IT AND IT REEEEEEEEEEEALLY APPEALED TO MY LOVE OF LOGISTICS AND I WAS THE BOSS OF ALMOST EVERYONE AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED FOR ME RESPECTED ME SO MUCH, but also the only thing I need to do in order to NOT MISS IT AT ALL EVEN A LITTLE BIT is to walk into Walmart. ANY WALMART WILL DO IN A PINCH, but the one where I worked is best because goddddddddd is it obvious to me how much that company has started fucking itself over in the last three years. There's literally nothing you could pay me to work there, the way the company understaffs now. It was already a farce by the time I left - 120 hours of work to get done and 80 payroll hours to get it done with - but by all accounts it's disastrous now.

BUT ALSO THE #1 THING I MISS ABOUT WALMART WHEN MY BOSS IS BEING A DICK IS THAT I COULD ALWAYS TELL MY WALMART BOSSES THAT THEY WERE BEING DICKS.