Monday, April 23, 2007

Were your vitums at? (Or why retail really sucks)

*We now break from our regularly scheduled PG program for a rant. You’ve been warned.*

Yep, Vitums. What the hell is a Vitum you ask? In do time my friend, in do time.
So I’m standing there straightening an isle when some lady walks around the corner and calls out from about fifteen feet away and asks... “Were you vitums at?” yep just like that. I have no motherfucking clue what the hell she is talking about. “Vitums?” I ask. Hoping she will clarify herself, but no such luck. “Yeah, vitums wher’d day at?” She asks again. I figure, fuck it, I’ll just start guessing things right? I mean if she can’t be bothered to speak clearly using normally accepted words in the English language I don’t have to be that nice to her do I? After a few guesses it dawns on me that she is asking for vitamins. You might be thinking, yeah, duh dumbass, but trust me you wouldn’t have known what she was talking about either so shut up. I hate people like that.

Retail sucks. The pay sucks, the job sucks. They expect more work done with less people getting paid less money. Guess what? They get what they want. How, I have no idea. Big Box retail is the perfect model of everything that is wrong with the capitalist system, and I have to work at one right now. I wish we could burn the fuckers down.
Anyways, I’m write something about Veganism soon since this is suppose to be a vegan blog.

Talk to you later.

-Matt

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, I found your blog as a link from Yahoo Answers ... totally relating with you on the retail thing. I've worked a lot of retail/restaurant jobs and like you said ... people just cannot be bothered to speak in a normal manner ... drives me nuts.

I'm interested to read some more of your blog entries! I'm a new vegetarian working my way towards veganism.

Veganramblings said...

Cool! I'm kind of in a rut at the moment and rather be outside than writing, but I will try and get some more stuff up soon. Thanks for the kind words!

-Matt

Veganramblings said...

Oh, BTW check out Veganfreak.net if you haven't already. Vegan Freak Radio is a great podcast and it will help you go Vegan for sure.

Anonymous said...

I just checked out the site, it's great! I've been looking for a site with helpful info on how to make the jump ... and not feel like such an outcast. Thanks so much! :)

Anonymous said...

(from Lillyian)

Ug, I am so sorry. Retail sucks. My favorite was when I was behind a counter, and I held out my hand for money, and they would go *around* my hand to toss thier money on the counter.

What next? They would hold out their hand so you could politely place the change.

This happened about 400 times a day.