[gonegirl99]

It's like ever since becoming an adult I can't fit in anywhere. Nearly every job I've been to I've always had a problem. And now the main job I need to escape my so-called father's toxic behavior, I've become an outcast.

I've never been in customer service until now. This is only my fifth day being a cashier and management is poor. I get rude customers due to me being too slow and sometimes forget I have to remain professional. Despite barely any of the supervisors helping me out at the register, they haven't been criticized AT ALL!

I have already been complained about for not being friendly enough to customers. Already! rumors are circulating about me being rude when I'm just shy! It's like everywhere I go someone is always criticizing me about what I do.

Is this even normal to be chastised and ostracized and have rumors spread about me?? Am I living on another ****ing planet???

[Clara22]

Originally Posted by gonegirl99

It's like ever since becoming an adult I can't fit in anywhere. Nearly every job I've been to I've always had a problem. And now the main job I need to escape my so-called father's toxic behavior, I've become an outcast.

I've never been in customer service until now. This is only my fifth day being a cashier and management is poor. I get rude customers due to me being too slow and sometimes forget I have to remain professional. Despite barely any of the supervisors helping me out at the register, they haven't been criticized AT ALL!

I have already been complained about for not being friendly enough to customers. Already! rumors are circulating about me being rude when I'm just shy! It's like everywhere I go someone is always criticizing me about what I do.

Is this even normal to be chastised and ostracized and have rumors spread about me?? Am I living on another ****ing planet???

Hi gonegirl
I am sorry that you are going through this. I think that some workplaces are hell. The system sucks and this is to me the main reason why we feel alienated at work. You are a new employee and should be given the opportunity of adapting to the new place first. Instead, you find intolerance. When I lived in the US I met a lot of good people among my colleagues but, on the other hand, I found that work environments were too toxic. At certain point, I was a manager, and it was hell to me, as well. I had to go to a psychiatrist and be in therapy because adapting to the job environment was too hard for me. I hope you can get support in order to cope better. I am sending you a big hug

[bugbear83]

In retail and customer service it's EXTREMELY common for rumors to fly. Literally everywhere I've worked (and I job hopped a lot) had divisions between certain cliques and groups, that merged and melded when they needed to work together and then chatted about each other after.

Try not to take it too hard. The longer you work there the more you'll see, and the more you'll have to chat about with coworkers about the managers when the opportunity strikes.

[Unrigged64072835]

My daughter works retail and she gets rude customers all the time. I'm sorry you're going through this as well.

[Fuzzybear]

[MickeyCheeky]

I'm really sorry. Must be hard to work in such conditions...I wish I had some advice, but... I can only listen and support you

[feeshee]

Sorry you are having to deal with this. I had to take early retirement because of working in a toxic environment. It became really unbearable. Customers were okay. It was my co-workers who became toxic. All were younger. I think because I was older they wanted me out. Very humiliating. Can't work now. Good luck to you.

[Crazylion]

Hang in there girl!! It will be ok.

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

[Fuzzybear]