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I am very glad to be out of retail hell now, but the christmas eve shift I did a couple of years ago was depressing with the amount of people that would come in looking for their children's main gift, like a PS5 or an Xbox, and then yelled at us because we ran out of stock of those high-value items on Christmas eve. The worst was someone who started screaming at one of our nicest staff members that he had "ruined Christmas" for her and her whole family when she came in ten minutes before closing and we didn't have the laptop she wanted for her son in stock. Some of the younger christmas temps got told off for laughing at her and it took two security guards and the staff member activating his bodycam for her to leave.

I bought an artificial one second-hand which felt like the most sustainable option - not cutting a tree down every year and not paying for virgin plastic either. Charity shops here are usually filled with pretty nice ones since a lot of people seem to replace their plastic trees far more frequently than they should.

You can use uBlacklist with a list of AI websites to filter out a ton of crap in search results. It's good for blocking out AI slop websites but probably won't be too effective for individual YouTube videos.

The day after Halloween in Asda, Underneath the Tree. I usually like christmas music but I was already having a bad day and that song is so overstimulating when you're in a busy supermarket.

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Same here. There's a few set hours of the day we have to be there but otherwise so long as you get your 40 hours in over the course of the week you're alright. In all the office jobs I've worked there wasn't really such a thing as "being late" or even being late back from lunch

I'm glad it's back, but I really wish they'd hand the reins over to someone new. RTD's writing has been really poor the past two series.

I love mine. It's pretty unobtrusive but there's a ton of open-source applications available on the store. Probably the most similar to the original Pebble (besides the new pebbles of course) right down to the MIP display. Tried a pinetime but it's very limited by comparison and an IPS screen on a smartwatch is a terrible idea.

I thought to myself right as they approached Kasel that it would be really funny for them to get deutsch bahn'd so close to the runners again on the same day and then it happened. Would have watched it either way, but deutsch bahn really made the runner up episodes worth watching.

I don't think this place is big enough yet for my conspiracy theory to make any sense, but if I was the CEO of a company like Reddit and I wanted to prevent users moving to Lemmy I would make a bunch of accounts on here and spark as much drama and infighting as possible. And there's been so much of it lately, whether it be callout posts on different instances or people concern trolling under posts, that it does feel so inorganic. When you come on here hoping for a better place and you see users writing mini manifestos calling out another user's character flaws, it is extremely offputting.

This is why I need to have a room set aside as an office when I next move house. Having the work laptop in my living room means I can be doing something at the weekend or on a day off and get a pang of panic that I need to be back at my laptop.

I've gotten more aggressive with blocks lately. Feels like there's been a lot more arguing and drama on here lately than usual, and I haven't been on as much because of it. Blocking at least drowns a lot of that out.