Remember, EM POC only!

I’m a very tired Angel right now. It’s about to be 2 AM, but since it’s Monday, I might as well go ahead and get up this EM POC weekly thread.

You know how it goes! Any EM POC vibes are welcome here.

  • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    A former coworker of mine would call the holiday season ‘racists season’, since all the racist fucks would come out of the woodworksand say horrific things. Looks like its racist season has official begun, had some old wretch and her large adult son flip out about my name tag (I have a very Latino name) after saying it a bunch of times and then go through a speedrun of the usual shit, focusing on my name, ‘you speak English well’ before flipping out about some nonsenical conversation that prevented me from offering ‘good service’, I didn’t speak to anyone before addressing them it was weird af and then while they left they started the ‘we can’t understand you’ bs. A few customers later some old lady rants at me about the usual ‘I don’t know what’s going on, all they do is hire illegals’ while storming off since her return went poorly.

    Anyway, I caught up with another former coworker since I’m on the job hunt (don’t want to stick around for racists season if I don’t need to) and I found out I’m apparently blacklisted at the local college between some whistleblowing I did at my old school and probably my tiny bit of student organizing. That’s good to know, I thought such things only lasted 6-12yrs or so.

    I did manage to find some teach English place online I may look at since I actually have a TESOL cert I never used. I absolutely need to get out of this job, I’m lucky to have it, but holy shit if its not a recreation of clerks its every 5th customer is a retailhell story.

      • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        6 days ago

        Christmas already, have decorations and nonsense anyway.

        In the near dystopic future, holiday decorations never go down and stay up all 12 months of the year, and the only music that plays in stores is off beat non-popular Xmas tunes, minus that Mariah Carey one.

        • In the near dystopic future, holiday decorations never go down and stay up all 12 months of the year, and the only music that plays in stores is off beat non-popular Xmas tunes, minus that Mariah Carey one.

          Even at best, the longest-running Christmas in a country only starts at September, so that’d be an extreme change… then again, I don’t think much of us put down our Christmas trees down, after tis done

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            5 days ago

            Lol, wanted to be dramatic and release some steam with some doomy futurecasting. Have all sorts of non-work family trauma related to the holidays, so this just amplifies it all. I don’t celebrate much of anything, too expensive.

            There are Xmas themed stores that are open year round, they’re terrible lurid places of wanton consumerism to visit.