Poll of the Day > Just worked my last shift at Walmart ama

(+) Yeah! (+)

very glad to be done with that
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Nice, what's next?
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What will you do now?
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I'm going back to school
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Make sure your grades don't slip, so your mom won't cancel your soda subscription
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green dragon posted...

Make sure your grades don't slip, so your mom won't cancel your soda subscription

D:

there is truly no worse fate
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Still studying business? Or was it Econ...?
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MrMelodramatic posted...

Still studying business? Or was it Econ...?

oh heavens no that was the worst haha

doing english now
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I bet the lighting was harsh and too fluorescent.
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Nice. Any particular era or genre?

I have a friend doing her masters in 16th century women authors in England :b very specific study.
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MrMelodramatic posted...

Nice. Any particular era or genre?

I have a friend doing her masters in 16th century women authors in England :b very specific study.

oh that's dope. i'm not that far yet but i'm doing english lit. lots of general stuff in my first year it looks like but it should be fun
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jramirez23 posted...

I bet the lighting was harsh and too fluorescent.

oh yeah for sure. I actually kind of dislike a lot of grocery stores for that reason. too much sensory input or whatever
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I'm having trouble finding friends at school. People always tell me to try to form study groups and actually talk to people in class. While I haven't done the former, I have done the latter. The problem is, that there's hardly any time to socialize before class starts and after class ends. I'm very awkward in social situations. I often don't know when a conversation is over or not, which is why I have a tendency to make a motion to leave while the other person is starting to talk again after I had assumed that they were done doing so. Just yesterday, I had this conversation with this bloke about a class we had last semester and its final exam. I was about to make a quick conversation and then go to the water fountain to refill my empty bottle of water. And I was so scared about what he would think of me if I left. So I just stood there for many long seconds trying to anticipate if he had anything else to say. He then asked me if I had vector calculus with him, which I confirmed. Then I left to refill my bottle and re-entered the room. Later on, I tried to have this conversation with some other people also in my previous semester's class, and I somewhat succceeded in doing so. I had a back-and-forth with some blokes and it was a fun conversation, but didn't really lead to anything resembling a friendship. Sure, we might get along, but I just can't see how these conversation lasting less than ten minutes can lead to any friendships of any sort, especially when we will get interrupted by the thing that brought us to the classroom to begin with. And even if I did ask to "hang out" with people after class, I am very confident that I am not a good conversationalist. I am the most boring person whom I know, as I've reiterated many, many times on this board. So naturally I'd be too afraid to "hang out" because I'm very afraid that I will have absolutely nothing to say. Additionally, I'm scowling all the time, which makes it more likely for people to be intimidated by me, and to be scared if I approached them, which is why sometimes people give me strange looks that can be interpreted as being afraid of me. As a result, I don't really feel comfortable approaching those people if I feel like they're intimidated by me, which makes me feel even worse about myself. I just don't feel very comfortable at all smiling all the time, that's all. I know that it's very sad when I'm first learning social etiquette when I'm twenty-four-years-old, and should be doing many things, such as living on my own, and paying rent and such. But I'm just not normal, and I can't work enough hours at my job to cover a seven-hundred dollar rent in this state because I must allot time to attend school and do homework. Even if I did work enough hours to cover rent, food, and utilities, I'd be even more alone and moreover without emotional comfort of any sort. I'm also really tired and exhausted nowadays, partly because I'm so miserable and friend-less all the time. It's a really sad life, and lately, I'm getting tired of living it. I don't mean that I wish to off myself; I just mean that life gets mundane, tiring, and it's very hard for me to feel any genuine happiness. I am aware of the possibility of befriending some bloke will not rid me of all my unhappiness, but I really do want to make friends. So how would you suggest finding friends in college, TC?
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Learn to parse text ffs
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Eclair why do you always do this

did you notice your store going downhill

cause i did and i needed out. now im elsewhere and much happier.

Chewster posted...

Eclair why do you always do this

I'm not sure what's more annoying, his walls of text or when he used to be on the Harry Potter board and end every question post with "I must have these answers."
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i didn't read any of that eclair and at this point im tempted to think you do this on purpose. please learn to space your text or don't derail my topics again thanks
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argonautweakend posted...

did you notice your store going downhill

cause i did and i needed out. now im elsewhere and much happier.

idk if my store was ever uphill tbh. it's a smaller, older store, it needs renovations pretty badly. the one advantage it has is that it's close to the universities and it gets the students coming back to town (i am thankfully missing that rush). there are many newer, bigger, cleaner stores in the area, i never chose to shop there in my off time. also because we're a smaller store there's just a general lack of motivation to do stuff well because we literally couldn't compete with larger stores with more services.

i doubt it will close or anything but especially compared to my first store back in alberta it was a big jump. but it was close to my home so i stuck around. i don't regret it but i'm happy to be moving on
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Nightengale posted...

I'm going back to school

Not for nothing, but couldn't you have done both? What will you be doing for work while going to school?

Nightengale posted...

green dragon posted...

Make sure your grades don't slip, so your mom won't cancel your soda subscription

D:

there is truly no worse fate

How do you feel about the news that Pepsi is either bought, is buying, or thinking about buying Soda Stream?

Nightengale posted...

MrMelodramatic posted...

Still studying business? Or was it Econ...?

oh heavens no that was the worst haha

doing english now

Well, you had a tough choice there: Either learn economics or support Bernie Sanders =p

MrMelodramatic posted...

I have a friend doing her masters in 16th century women authors in England :b very specific study.

What are they going to do with it?

EclairReturns posted...

I'm having trouble finding friends at school. People always tell me to try to form study groups and actually talk to people in class. While I haven't done the former, I have done the latter. The problem is, that there's hardly any time to socialize before class starts and after class ends. I'm very awkward in social situations. I often don't know when a conversation is over or not, which is why I have a tendency to make a motion to leave while the other person is starting to talk again after I had assumed that they were done doing so.

1) Walk up to somebody.

2) Say something along the lines of, "Hey, how are you doing? My name is ___"

3) ????

4) BFFs with matching tattoos!

But seriously, if you're having trouble talking to somebody before class, show up a little bit earlier or something. And, while you're all leaving class, you can walk and talk instead of hoping that people just stay by their desks. Of course, you'll want to do this at the start of a semester when everybody is getting to know each other.

Otherwise I'm even touching the rest of your wall o' text.
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Nightengale posted...

i didn't read any of that eclair and at this point im tempted to think you do this on purpose. please learn to space your text or don't derail my topics again thanks

I think it can be partially explained away by... you know, but considering how many times people have told him it's weird and that he needs to break up the paragraphs, you'd think he'd stop doing it by now, or at least not keep doing it with walls of text.

Chewster posted...

I think it can be partially explained away by... you know

I don't.
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I know
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Well it's partially a thing with not understanding social norms, though I don't think it should cause any issues with memory... so yeah, after like ten times of doing it and then getting embarrassed and apologizing you'd think he'd remember that's what happens and stop doing it.

Chewster posted...

Well it's partially a thing with not understanding social norms, though I don't think it should cause any issues with memory... so yeah, after like ten times of doing it and then getting embarrassed and apologizing you'd think he'd remember that's what happens and stop doing it.

Look at WorstPoster. Some peeps can't grasp social norms. You expectin different results is the definition of insanity.
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I worked at walmart too once upon a time. It was terrible
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I worked at one for like two months seasonally years ago

Some of the other workers were out of their damn minds like no where else Ive ever worked
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Questions were not answered. This AMA is a lie!
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

Look at WorstPoster. Some peeps can't grasp social norms.

Yeah but it's obvious that ICO has no shame whereas Eclair seems like he at least wants to be a better person

And to actually ask a question... when you moved did Walmart help you transfer to a new location or did you have to apply again like new?

Because tbh I didn't know you still worked at Walmart, or if I did I forgot. I kinda thought you quit with the move. And if you did reapply, why Walmart again instead of something else?

Chewster posted...

FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

Look at WorstPoster. Some peeps can't grasp social norms.

Yeah but it's obvious that ICO has no shame whereas Eclair seems like he at least wants to be a better person

Gotta believe he faked havin shame for a while. No?
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Chewster posted...

And to actually ask a question... when you moved did Walmart help you transfer to a new location or did you have to apply again like new?

Because tbh I didn't know you still worked at Walmart, or if I did I forgot. I kinda thought you quit with the move. And if you did reapply, why Walmart again instead of something else?

technically i applied like new, but since i'd left within three months (to move) they hired me right back and i still had the same hire date and everything.

i went back cuz they were having a hiring fair and i had just had my time wasted by a shoe store i did two interviews with and was pretty sure i was gonna get hired at. i don't love walmart necessarily but i'd been out of work for like two months and i needed money
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And that's when I realized Kana had me blocked.


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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

end every question post with "I must have these answers."

I do that on this board, too. <<';

Zeus posted...

1) Walk up to somebody.

2) Say something along the lines of, "Hey, how are you doing? My name is ___"

3) ????

4) BFFs with matching tattoos!

But seriously, if you're having trouble talking to somebody before class, show up a little bit earlier or something. And, while you're all leaving class, you can walk and talk instead of hoping that people just stay by their desks. Of course, you'll want to do this at the start of a semester when everybody is getting to know each other.

I'm too shy and I feel like I'd be too uncomfortable talking to people for so long. I'm just too anxious to manage conversations lasting more than five minutes. :(

Chewster posted...

Well it's partially a thing with not understanding social norms, though I don't think it should cause any issues with memory.

Oh, so you mean that I have a type of autism.
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