LogFAQs > #948383015

"This was most counterintuitive to Walmart's guideline that its employees must be friendly and welcoming towards its clientele whenever they came within ten feet of a given employee"

Nobody I know followed this rule and nobody enforced it. It's insane to ask of this as a rule, but moreso at the end of my days there when you have 4 people running the entire front end at wal-mart from 6PM or later on a saturday. You don't even have time to have time at that point. If you were properly staffed then you could attempt to help people like this.

"Now unemployed, I'm beginning to lose faith in my ability to find work that I can actually do properly, given that I was incapable of succeeding in a workplace environment that did not have many, if any barriers to entry to get hired in."

Customers are odd, and I suspect the main part of your hang ups. In an office environment people shouldnt be assholes to you ever, and if so you can talk to your boss or HR or something. Customers can be assholes. Ive been in retail so long it has legitimately helped me grow socially more than ANYTHING ive ever done. But interacting with co-workers is always way easier, and an office is mainly co workers. You can generally predict them whereas you cannot predict customers who are random.

thats the way I see it. At the liquor store I can interact just fine with my coworkers as there are only 6 of us. Even customers are fine because what could go wrong at the liquor store? Not much. People are sorta fine at this job.