chapter three

I can’t believe they oblitered straight men like that

@tabbran please add lemon man story to this

PRESENTING LEMON MAN

The richest and poorest areas in northern Europe.

Here’s a question that no one ever has a good answer for: why are cashiers forced to stand? Who decided people need to stand for 4 hours straight between breaks when they don’t MOVE?

If you find out, let me know so I can punch them.

Good question! It’s actually because cashiers sitting down appears lazy and unproductive to the kinds of customers who would complain about that sort of thing! Americans generally can’t accept when retail people don’t look like their job is excessively hard, so cashiers aren’t allowed to sit. It’s been shown that standing for so long, even on padded rubber mats many cashiers have, has a detrimental effect on the knees.

The American retail atmosphere is very different from most other developed nations. I’ve heard Americans describe grocery cashiers in Europe as “rude” and “lazy” because they get to sit down and they don’t have someone bagging your groceries for you. I’ve seen many Europeans genuinely shocked at how aggressive and in-your-face American retail employees are and even more surprised to learn we’re forced to be that way by our employers. Hired spies called “secret shoppers” are used to assess the quality of service, and at any time if you don’t greet and question every customer, if you don’t constantly have a smile on your face, if you’re sitting down for any reason, you could get fired. It’s a constant system of pomp and circumstance awash in paranoia meant to put us in early graves.

This system is seen as desirable by the people in charge because it ostensibly gets more labour out of people for the same salary and it drives many to quit. It’s much, much cheaper to hire and train new people and use them up than it is to pay the wage of someone who’s been with the company a year or two.

Americans are terrifying.

THIS IS WHAT I’M SAYING….. we need to let ppl sit, there is no fucking reason whatsoever that cashiers and retail workers can’t sit while doing their jobs

I’ve worked with several pregnant women, all of which were forced to stand on their feet for entire shifts without rest, because sitting down made them “look lazy.”

[softly, but with a lot of feeling] what the fuck

#CommonCore This is how the Government gets the unemployment rate.

What. The. Fuck. Is. This. Shit.

what “progressive” education in america is turning into.

THE FUCK’S THIS SHIT

what the hell is that supposed to even mean? I had to read over the explanation twice, and I’m taking algebra 2. 

I’m taking fucking Calculus and I don’t get what the teacher is trying to do.

8+5=13. You can’t take 2 out of 5 and have 3 left over and just sitting in the side with nowhere to go. Math doesn’t work like that. AND, MR OR MRS TEACHER, YOU CERTAINLY CAN’T ADD 3 TO 8+2 BECAUSE YOU STILL GET 13

YOU ALREADY DID 8+2=10 YOU GOT 10 WHY DO YOU ADD 3?! YOU WON’T HAVE 10 ANYMORE YOU’LL HAVE 13

WHICH IS WHAT 8+5 IS SUPPOSED TO FUCKING EQUAL

GODDAMMIT

My post with 129,000 notes is back in my dash again

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

How tall are you?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

smh…

entirely fed up with this world 

Damn….

Racism right here.

White people steal, and it’s BRUSHED OFF AND OTHER PEOPLE HELP

Black person? MOB of people come to attack him.

*lies down*

but it’s all in our heads though

This shit is infuriating

They helped the white girl steal it. Not just let her steal it, but HELPED her steal it.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH STRAIGHT BOYS

Alex at the British Museum in London today

Basically, tumblr wants to be twitter.

I JUST WANT TO WEAR CHRISTMAS SWEATERS AND SEE SNOW AND DRINK HOT DRINKS FROM STARBUCKS BUT NO I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA WHERE IT’S 40 DEGREES OUTSIDE DURING DECEMBER

40 degrees is really low :o try living in California where it’s 70 degrees in December

America, this is why you need to get with the metric system.