Are you emotionally drained at work?

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Those working at the retail stores can attest to how difficult it is to serve some customers. They are many that will make you feel angry, happy and some disappointed with their actions. Do you feel drained emotionally after each working day?
 
Back in my retail days, without a doubt, still drained these days but not as bad.
 
Henrywrites said:
It is never easy. I sometimes wonder why some customers decide to make it so difficult for the sellers or sales representatives.
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Because some people's lives are miserable and wish to spread it.

I still remember some key people that would come into my local Staples store and if you weren't chain to the registers, you went running to the back to hide from them.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Because some people's lives are miserable and wish to spread it.

I still remember some key people that would come into my local Staples store and if you weren't chain to the registers, you went running to the back to hide from them.
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There have been many people over the years that have told the manager(s) to either get them off the register and onto the sales floor or they were going to quite. When you're chained to the register, you're the first person that everyone will see coming in and you're the last person everyone will see going out.
 
As it is now: Physically maybe, but if it's emotional then there's something wrong that has nothing to do with me.
 
WitchAssassin said:
There have been many people over the years that have told the manager(s) to either get them off the register and onto the sales floor or they were going to quite. When you're chained to the register, you're the first person that everyone will see coming in and you're the last person everyone will see going out.
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Yep, those days sucked.
 
Yeah, I've been drained at work, and its been getting pretty dicey lately.

I work at a casino, in the beverage department, and I've been doing up to three jobs at once, sometimes working 16 hour shifts, because nearly half the people who were hired over the summer just stopped coming to work.

In a way, I don't blame them. You only get one summer a year in this state, and every other season here feels like the 9th circle of hell, so you want to spend that time with your family. That being said, it doesn't help that I work from 12AM to 8AM 5 nights a week.

I would then turn around, immediately after my shift, and drive my grandparents to a clinic 7 days a week, assuming I am even allowed to go home at 8AM. They've been fighting a lot lately, and it's been getting violent, to the point where the police got involved.

The combination of the chaos at work, the chaos at home, and the lack of sleep because of the hours, as well as the stress from family disputes took its toll, on me physically. I thought to myself: "That's just life, you just gotta grin and bear it! Take it like a man!" My perspective changed when I ended up catching pneumonia.

I was an essential worker during the entiriety of the pandemic, and I have dodged every variant of the coof like Neo dodging bullets in the matrix, and the thing that nearly did me in was pneumonia. Feeling like a whole a** invisible person is sitting directly on top of your lungs, being unable to sleep because you might end up being too heavy to inhale really makes you see things differently.

I learned a lot from that experience. Namely, hard work doesn't work if you can't work. Working yourself to death is useless if you're dead. "Hard work" is the lie that the corporate tell the masses to benefit those at the top. It's the lie the sweatshop owner tells the wagies - the lie the taskmasters tell the slave at the mill to work faster. You will not see the fruits of your hard labor. You will look in the mirror and see the youth and optimism die slowly, as you tirelessly give a little piece of your soul to someone else's bottom line. Those 'self made success stories' didn't get there because of "hard work;" they got where they are because they worked smart. They worked efficiently - everything we were taught not to do in school.

I watched a video by Joshua Fluke a few years ago that described this pretty well. The best quote I heard was something like: "In the end, nobody is going to look back at their life, wishing they spent more time at the office."


I don't care who you are, or what you do for a living; If you're stressed out, call the **** out. Go on vacation or something, because your life is more important than a job.
 
Mascot Tom said:
Yeah, I've been drained at work, and its been getting pretty dicey lately.

I work at a casino, in the beverage department, and I've been doing up to three jobs at once, sometimes working 16 hour shifts, because nearly half the people who were hired over the summer just stopped coming to work.

In a way, I don't blame them. You only get one summer a year in this state, and every other season here feels like the 9th circle of hell, so you want to spend that time with your family. That being said, it doesn't help that I work from 12AM to 8AM 5 nights a week.

I would then turn around, immediately after my shift, and drive my grandparents to a clinic 7 days a week, assuming I am even allowed to go home at 8AM. They've been fighting a lot lately, and it's been getting violent, to the point where the police got involved.

The combination of the chaos at work, the chaos at home, and the lack of sleep because of the hours, as well as the stress from family disputes took its toll, on me physically. I thought to myself: "That's just life, you just gotta grin and bear it! Take it like a man!" My perspective changed when I ended up catching pneumonia.

I was an essential worker during the entiriety of the pandemic, and I have dodged every variant of the coof like Neo dodging bullets in the matrix, and the thing that nearly did me in was pneumonia. Feeling like a whole a** invisible person is sitting directly on top of your lungs, being unable to sleep because you might end up being too heavy to inhale really makes you see things differently.

I learned a lot from that experience. Namely, hard work doesn't work if you can't work. Working yourself to death is useless if you're dead. "Hard work" is the lie that the corporate tell the masses to benefit those at the top. It's the lie the sweatshop owner tells the wagies - the lie the taskmasters tell the slave at the mill to work faster. You will not see the fruits of your hard labor. You will look in the mirror and see the youth and optimism die slowly, as you tirelessly give a little piece of your soul to someone else's bottom line. Those 'self made success stories' didn't get there because of "hard work;" they got where they are because they worked smart. They worked efficiently - everything we were taught not to do in school.

I watched a video by Joshua Fluke a few years ago that described this pretty well. The best quote I heard was something like: "In the end, nobody is going to look back at their life, wishing they spent more time at the office."


I don't care who you are, or what you do for a living; If you're stressed out, call the **** out. Go on vacation or something, because your life is more important than a job.
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Feels like my retail days, hopefully your work hours even out.
 
I thought I had it rough working in retail.

I only have to go home to my hubby and the cat. We never get the cops called to our house. Luckily, we're the quiet neighbors.
 
Henrywrites said:
Those working at the retail stores can attest to how difficult it is to serve some customers. They are many that will make you feel angry, happy and some disappointed with their actions. Do you feel drained emotionally after each working day?
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Am not emotionally drained at work place because I drive joy in my job.
 
It's called work and not fun activities. A work is meant to drain you. It's why they are paying you for wearing you out.
 
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