not me going and adjusting all the shelves not quite seated correctly bc I’m paranoid the things will fall out even though that has never happened once on my shift (which last ended many many years ago)
Me neither. To the point that I have to avoid toy sections in stores, let alone cosmetics. There’s not enough time in the day for that when I’m no longer doing it professionally.
The best bit is when the manager or higher staff see you doing it and give you a discretionary voucher for money off as thanks. It’s like you get that release and are paid for it. Compulsion hooking, if you will.
That’s a nice way of viewing things, and I’m glad Ethan is showing some interest in something here. He isn’t going to suddenly be happy, and smiling again, but baby steps help.
I was actually just thinking that. Like he’s still not looking great but if you jump back to how he was at the start of his depression he’s made some noticeable steps.
I had the same urge once with the DVD aisle. Next thing I know, a woman is asking me where she can find the playstation games and what her thirteen year old son might like, and as she left said she’d complement my boss. I was too surprised to explain I wasn’t an employee.
I imagine someone trying that with Ethan is going to come away knowing a lot more about Transformers and at least one Dinobot that has somehow appeared.
I know it’s not a big storyline but I’m happy to see the Amber-Ethan friendship slowly being repaired and Ethan getting some colour back (on the inside.)
Sometimes, your brain just snaps into work mode when you’re doing random off-the-clock shit (for example, I can’t NOT push in the chairs when I’m at people’s houses, and I can’t hear certain words without snapping into work mode).
It’s a little funny when he’s never worked in a toy store in THIS ‘verse, though XD
Cleaning up the environment is a good thing, of course. But in a capitalist society, doing work that you’re not getting paid to do just hurts other workers.
I don’t see how cooking your own food to save money hurts other workers. You’re not doing the work of restaurant or food service workers for free by doing that.
I would love to live long enough to see a world after capitalism, preferably socialism moving towards an ideal communist utopia.
I can understand cleaning up the aisles in the toys area of a store if you work there and are getting paid to do it, even though it’ll likely get messed up soon after. But nobody should clean up aisles in a store they don’t even work at. Greedy companies will see people willing to work for free and decide that means they can pay their existing workers less, or give them a heavier work-load for the same low pay.
I don’t dine out much anymore, but since it would be bad form for me to take my dirty dishes to a restaurant’s kitchen I scratch the itch by getting everything in a tidy pile with cutlery on the topmost plate before I leave.
This is called pre-bussing and as someone who used to bus tables as a kid I do this at every restaurant I go to. It’s just the courteous thing to do. My boomer aunt gets annoyed at me about it because boomers don’t see food service or retail workers as people, whereas I try to make friends with the wait staff anywhere I go. (Not to brag but I’ve been told I’m a delight to serve. A couple weeks ago I bumped into a bartender who served me lunch on Christmas Day and he asked me to come back to his bar. I must be doing something right.)
I worked on the stockroom crew at a big retail store for most of a year a couple of decades ago and I can confirm that it takes a while to get out of the habit of “this shelf is sloppy; I should tidy up the merchandise and front-face and see if there’s anything in topstock to fill the gaps WAIT NO I’M A CUSTOMER NOW DAMMIT THIS IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY”
The last two panels just remind me that Amber thought they were going to get married… Their body language… The level of comfortable with each other.
And it’s kinda heartbreaking because they’ve spent most of the comic not having that… Amber needing space at first, then the post-Mike apocalyptic levels of “how could you not know?! How could you not tell me?” rage and pain and grief… But you can see how they just used to fit together, and that familiarity, and mutual comfort now, in the midst of their grief. I hope their friendship recovers.
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I worked in retail for years and I relate to wanting to tidy up shelves at stores I shop at, but I won’t do work that I’m not getting paid to do. I’m autistic and I like things neat and tidy, but nobody should do work at a place they don’t work at, that they’re not getting paid to do.
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not me going and adjusting all the shelves not quite seated correctly bc I’m paranoid the things will fall out even though that has never happened once on my shift (which last ended many many years ago)
Me neither. To the point that I have to avoid toy sections in stores, let alone cosmetics. There’s not enough time in the day for that when I’m no longer doing it professionally.
My OCD-like reaction when eveything is everywhere and I don’t work there:
The best bit is when the manager or higher staff see you doing it and give you a discretionary voucher for money off as thanks. It’s like you get that release and are paid for it. Compulsion hooking, if you will.
I need a friend like Amber.
Either that or to be her.
Either way, those Voyagers need to be lined up.
I do that same shit. It just feels gratifying.
right?!
autisma solidarity ^-^
That’s a nice way of viewing things, and I’m glad Ethan is showing some interest in something here. He isn’t going to suddenly be happy, and smiling again, but baby steps help.
Anyone else feel like he is doing better?
nothin like a stim to make you feel more like yourself, if that makes sense
so yes?
Stim?
like autistic stimming ^^
Ah, that makes sense; thank you for the info.
I was actually just thinking that. Like he’s still not looking great but if you jump back to how he was at the start of his depression he’s made some noticeable steps.
He’s out in public and everything!
Yeah, I certainly think so. He’s almost smiling in the last panel.
Not quite. But almost.
I had the same urge once with the DVD aisle. Next thing I know, a woman is asking me where she can find the playstation games and what her thirteen year old son might like, and as she left said she’d complement my boss. I was too surprised to explain I wasn’t an employee.
I imagine someone trying that with Ethan is going to come away knowing a lot more about Transformers and at least one Dinobot that has somehow appeared.
This strip is giving me a nice, simple, and sweet feeling.
This is like if I drop by the store I work at on my day off, and stuff’s not set up correctly. I have to remember I am not on the goddamn clock.
I do love Amber’s smile in the last panel, and the two being on the same page.
It’s not like the 70s and 80s, when every isle was jammed in every inch, all year round.
Ethan needs to get a job in this Target. He also needs to meet Duncan and get irrationally offended.
It can be like the Prequel Era of Shortpacked.
Except good like Clone Wars and not the actual prequels. With Kit Fisto and Ahsoka.
Or him and Duncan finally become friends (or boyfriends…?), which they could never do in the other universe.
Or Duncan walks up to Ethan but Ethan just says “Get away from me, Duncan.”
“I’ve got an idea: Monkey Master: BUCKETS OF BLOOD!”
I know it’s not a big storyline but I’m happy to see the Amber-Ethan friendship slowly being repaired and Ethan getting some colour back (on the inside.)
No but really, a toy aisle of Voyager-class transformers not where they should be will drive someone to drinking.
He then cleaned it so well he was offered a job at the store
Sometimes, your brain just snaps into work mode when you’re doing random off-the-clock shit (for example, I can’t NOT push in the chairs when I’m at people’s houses, and I can’t hear certain words without snapping into work mode).
It’s a little funny when he’s never worked in a toy store in THIS ‘verse, though XD
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don’t bother, someone will come around after and mess the aisle up all over again.
its a lost cause.
not sure if this is sarcasm or a meme or somethin but
like, whenever I hike I make an effort to pick up trash on the trail for more or less the same reason Ethan wants to tidy up the aisle
i ain’t paid for it, i know it may get trashed again in the future anyway,
nor do i expect a reward for it by gods or humans in the future, or even need it
if only because seeing the result of the action, a place you love being prettier, is the reward itself if that makes sense?
Cleaning up the environment is a good thing, of course. But in a capitalist society, doing work that you’re not getting paid to do just hurts other workers.
so if I cook my own food to save money am I hurting other workers?
@-@ I’m just tired of this unstable and unsustainable bullshit, the sooner we all move towards democratic socialism the better
I don’t see how cooking your own food to save money hurts other workers. You’re not doing the work of restaurant or food service workers for free by doing that.
I would love to live long enough to see a world after capitalism, preferably socialism moving towards an ideal communist utopia.
I dunno why people bother breathing in. You just breathe out again anyways.
I can understand cleaning up the aisles in the toys area of a store if you work there and are getting paid to do it, even though it’ll likely get messed up soon after. But nobody should clean up aisles in a store they don’t even work at. Greedy companies will see people willing to work for free and decide that means they can pay their existing workers less, or give them a heavier work-load for the same low pay.
XD Oh Ethan. Some habits die hard across universes.
I don’t dine out much anymore, but since it would be bad form for me to take my dirty dishes to a restaurant’s kitchen I scratch the itch by getting everything in a tidy pile with cutlery on the topmost plate before I leave.
That’s just the courteous thing to do. Any time I see someone not stacking the dishes, I get itchy.
This is called pre-bussing and as someone who used to bus tables as a kid I do this at every restaurant I go to. It’s just the courteous thing to do. My boomer aunt gets annoyed at me about it because boomers don’t see food service or retail workers as people, whereas I try to make friends with the wait staff anywhere I go. (Not to brag but I’ve been told I’m a delight to serve. A couple weeks ago I bumped into a bartender who served me lunch on Christmas Day and he asked me to come back to his bar. I must be doing something right.)
I’ve seen a lot of wait staff online telling people not to do that because they have a specific system at the restaurant
I worked on the stockroom crew at a big retail store for most of a year a couple of decades ago and I can confirm that it takes a while to get out of the habit of “this shelf is sloppy; I should tidy up the merchandise and front-face and see if there’s anything in topstock to fill the gaps WAIT NO I’M A CUSTOMER NOW DAMMIT THIS IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY”
Jealous their Target is actually stocked. Even the one step changers are never in stock I the stores in my area
Don’t voyagers belong in the delta quadrant??
Not if it’s the start or the end of the series.
The last two panels just remind me that Amber thought they were going to get married… Their body language… The level of comfortable with each other.
And it’s kinda heartbreaking because they’ve spent most of the comic not having that… Amber needing space at first, then the post-Mike apocalyptic levels of “how could you not know?! How could you not tell me?” rage and pain and grief… But you can see how they just used to fit together, and that familiarity, and mutual comfort now, in the midst of their grief. I hope their friendship recovers.
The word for the day is “sappy” apparently, brought to you by the letter me and the number it’s early 😅
awww
Target has Voyager toys? But that show ended over 20 years ago!
I worked in retail for years and I relate to wanting to tidy up shelves at stores I shop at, but I won’t do work that I’m not getting paid to do. I’m autistic and I like things neat and tidy, but nobody should do work at a place they don’t work at, that they’re not getting paid to do.