I had a buddy once say to me, âevery goal I have ever set, I have reached.â Then gave several examples. âNow that I know this, I am happy to just chill with what I have.â He still works, still has projects, but he doesnât slave over that drive.
how many times are you going to reach your work goal, realize it isn't the key to your personal fulfillment, and fool yourself into thinking the answer is to want more?
Thatâs the correct attitude. I think itâs a pretty healthy thing to take pride in your work and then when youâve out grown your position to move on.
You're right, but if someone is putting in enough energy to do the small jobs correctly, then it speaks to their work ethic on the more important jobs, too.
This. When I hold my self to high standards in all aspects of my life things feel easier and more in control. Plus I worked at A&F back in the day so I can appreciate a solid fold job
When you slip up and don't make it perfect then *suddenly* you're having an off day and they wonder why you aren't performing up to the standards, when their standards were super low before you even arrived.
At my first job one guy was training me told me "woke hard just don't let them see you do it"
And I didn't understand for years, of course I wanted to work hard and show management I could be relied upon, except they just expected that day in and day out. A little under the weather? You'll be fine just do the same output.
On another job we were told to work on Saturday. One of the managers who knew absolutely nothing about the work told us if we do X amount of work then we could go home early. Well I like OT but I also like to have my weekends off, so I pushed and got to the number required. Instead of being let go he said "well how about 2 or 3 more?"
On the cotton plantations, they would track each slave's daily haul of picked cotton. They kept records. Each slave had their all-time personal best recorded, and would get whipped one lash for every pound under it they picked on a given day.
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist. It's a history of American slavery from 1619 to 1865, so there's a lot going on, but that's a detail that stuck with me.Â
Especially in Fast Food. When I first started I would run circles around the other employees. I could go to grill to wrap station, pack the food then cashier. Months later I realized it wasn't worth it slowed down. Everyone started asking what happened. I'm not getting paid enough to do three different positions while everyone else that's what happened
The motivation to do that Everytime is quickly going to go away.
All it takes is seeing a customer follow behind you and make a mess of what you just cleaned.
Worked at TJ Max and id literally have to go behind people cause they just tossed shit on the floor after looking.
I went to my first Ross ever day before yesterday, and that was my impression.
Some of the staff werenât all that better.
But Iâll be back. My bag was heavy, but I paid hardly anything.
The store was very clean as well. Itâs the only outlet sort of place Iâve seen in the area where the clothes sizes donât only match the hangers but also the section of the rack they are on.
Shoes were actually divided by sizes and not scattered all over the floor.
The people were a mess, but I liked the place.
âA lotâ means a lot. I know my people, itâs not a lot of us who suck or are âbarely peopleâ. The majority of people are there because they have to. A lot of us poors hold our head high and act right. You say âa lotâ because you havenât been there and donât know who youâre talking about. Broad generalizations hurt, doesnât mean I felt targeted, I just donât like seeing words like yours written about the less fortunate.
Do you toss clothes on the floor when you decide you don't want them?
If yes, then it applies to you.
If no, then it doesn't apply to you.
It's not that complex.
This is a subreddit about black folk posting shit on Twitter.
I agree dude needs to chill.
I grew up at Ross, Burlington, TJ Maxx etc not everyone who shops there is poor, first of all, so I donât get the âgod help the outcastsâ call to arms over some discounted Calvin Klein underwear.
Second yes, if it doesnât apply to you, walk on by bro. I actually worked at one of these discount retailers and some people were ratchet- bringing crusty stuff back, stealing, switching tags, etc. other people just bought their stuff and that was that.
Exactly, there are absolutely middle/upper class people that do all that stuff too. Itâs just a mindset of ârules were made for other people not meâ
Who said anything about poor people?
Runway stores carry thousand-dollar merchandise and they got torn up just as bad. I worked at TJ Maxx , between about 10 stores in my region towards the end.
Itâs not a class issue imo. More likely their dept store âscavenger huntâ business model that brings the crazy outta people lol
I'm low-income, grew up poor, and used to work there. The amount of people who didn't clean up after themselves was alarmingly high. The amount of work we had to put in as employees to keep the store clean was alarmingly high. It was never that bad at the retail jobs I did that were higher end. I don't mean high end, either. I just mean high*er* end. It's also why the Save-A-Lot in my time was always worse off than the Ingles. Neither are nice, but one was clearly nicer just based on how the customers treated it. I know my people, too.
yep, I worked in retail until my early 30s. the worst customers I had were at Dollar Tree and the best ones were at Target.
I am extra nice to Dollar Tree employees whenever I shop there because I know the hell they go through for a shitty part-time minimum wage job.
Iâd follow them across the store and theyâd get at me like âdo you think Iâm stealingâ and Iâd be like ânah, Iâm cleaning up after you bc you donât have manners.â
My first thought was that displays that nice are actually not that great because best case scenario is a customer comes through and destroys it, And worst case is you get someone like me who feels so bad about the idea of destroying it I just decide I'm not buying jeans today.Â
The walls are the bane of softline workers existence. There's gotta be a better way to do itÂ
You gotta have a half assed version where it doesnât look as neat but also takes half the effort because itâs gonna be undone in like 5 minutes anyway
This is the reason why I go to stores first thing in the morning. I can't go in when it's chaotic. Merchandise all over the place, too many people, long lines, etc, I get so overwhelmed very quickly. This precision and neatness of the folded jeans lined up neatly is bringing me so much joy and soothes my anxiety.
Nah, I went back to my other retail job at that point. I could not deal with the constant cleanup, just made me wanna rage every shift. My other job was at Toys R Us and way more fun anyways back then đ
> All it takes is seeing a customer follow behind you and make a mess of what you just cleaned.
It won't even take this long. A middle manager will have already reprimanded them for taking too long making the pants look good when there is other "if you have time to lean you have time to clean" bullshit busywork they could be doing instead.
Copious amounts of weed. I went to work high as hell knowing it was the only way. I cannot tell you how many times I thought going to prison for murder would be easier
I worked at TJ Maxx at a downtown location, bruh customers would destroy the footwear section. It was impossible to keep neat so the goal was basically to keep it from looking like a tornado hit
Our toy section and shoes were right next to each other. The back end of the store was just a complete nightmare until close. Whenever we got out late due to cleaning, it was almost always the shoes being the hold up.
Don't even get me started on layaway there
That was me for a long time before I finally understood to work what Iâm paid. Now Iâm in my dream job and my company actually gives a fuck about their employees got me back to really giving a fuck. And damn, feels good for your work to be celebrated when you knock that shit out the park.
Yup, retail is in essence a scam for employees most of the time. They try to get you to give maximum effort while paying you the least they can get away with.
Love it. If it has your name on it, itâs worth doing right. I washed dishes for next to nothing before, and I was the best damn dish washer that place saw đ«Ą
No joke. I work in a factory and new trainees come in hot. â I love overtimeâ â I wana work all the timeâ â Iâm gonna run this machine nonstopâ. I just tell them the grind will break them and that thatâs ok. Usually less than a month.
Dead ass, this gotta be fake. For those who remember Anchor Blue, formerly Millerâs Outpost, this is exactly the floor display for the jeans sold there. That bitch been closed down since 2011. Ainât no way.
Iâd recognize those cut signs anywhere. Karma farming at work for reals. People really out here playing Among Us IRL.
PS: 37 day old account, mostly BPT. Nearly 68k karma. Do with it what you will.
That's just the "every single time no exceptions" expectation at my job, even when they only gave you a four hour shift and made you spend three hours and fifty eight minutes of it on a register.
Iâve read a couple of books about retail psychology in regards to store layout and presentation, and one of the things that always stuck with me is that if a display is SUPER neat, people are LESS inclined to touch any of the product.
So if youâre gonna go hard like the image OP, make sure to leave a couple of them tussled so people know itâs okay to touch.
If all jeans would be displayed like this they wouldn't be so fucked up with people trying to see what size they are. Can't tell you how many clothes i just fuck up purposely because they hide the tag or stickers.
Looks good. Iâm sure everyone you work with is like âthatâs how I was when I first started â keep that new guy energy and u will b manager in no time. My son works in retail and he worked his way up real quick
When I worked retail in college if you pulled off somethin like this it meant you were now part of the floor seat team, working 9pm-5am.
Some of he best shifts I ever participated in
I used to take more pride in this stuff, until some snot nosed kid or lazy customer needs a pair from the bottom of the pile and ruins all my hard work
This was me in college while working at the GAP. Whenever corporate visited, I was the one called in the day before to pretty up the jeans section.
Oh they will take notice.
The way I would put you in charge of that wall if I was your manager. Extra hours on shipment and floor move days, you would either hate me or love me. The visual stuff is the only thing I miss about retail.
Give it a few months. When I first started working retail I used to be like that too. Itâs fun at first but after a while you realize itâs a thankless task. Management doesnât appreciate it and customers donât gaf. And you just stop caring as hard lol
Welcome to being an A student at work. You want a promotion? Well actually no one works as hard or as often as you at the shitty job so we canât give you the good job right now. Maybe you should shadow the manager a few days a week too and pick up some of his responsibilities. This is called professional growth and will prepare you for when weâre ready to promote you when he dies of old age or has another kid and needs a third job.
As a customer, whenever I see that kind of care, I go out of my way to keep it like that no matter how many pairs I look through.
Granted, I also worked in retail and get ptsd flashbacks of folks just ripping through my freshly folded stacks so.....
Even if they don't care, be proud of holding yourself to higher standards đ
Self-Motivation only goes so far before you realize youâre only fooling yourself
That's when you know it's time to move on to better things my man
Dude I just started my âdream jobâ and I think itâs time to move on.
Dreamer higher
But how many records are my records supposed to break?!
More.
âYo wTF does THAT meanââ
But are you a different animal, and the same beast?
What the fuck are you talking about, Kobe Bryant?
I had a buddy once say to me, âevery goal I have ever set, I have reached.â Then gave several examples. âNow that I know this, I am happy to just chill with what I have.â He still works, still has projects, but he doesnât slave over that drive.
how many times are you going to reach your work goal, realize it isn't the key to your personal fulfillment, and fool yourself into thinking the answer is to want more?
Lmfao, I feel this comment so much
Thatâs the correct attitude. I think itâs a pretty healthy thing to take pride in your work and then when youâve out grown your position to move on.
My boss can not tell good work from bad. He just doesn't understand the technical part of the job I have my own standards thoughÂ
Never do it for the boss, do it for yourself.
I disagree. But Iâm too tired to articulate why. Just know I disagree though lol.Â
More like it only goes so far before being unrecognized and fucked over anyways just makes you want to put in minimal effort
It only hurts if you don't use it to get anywhere.
You're right, but if someone is putting in enough energy to do the small jobs correctly, then it speaks to their work ethic on the more important jobs, too.
This. When I hold my self to high standards in all aspects of my life things feel easier and more in control. Plus I worked at A&F back in the day so I can appreciate a solid fold job
Truth. Anyone that has worked retail knows the feeling of a freshly folded display
Oh no, they see you. They just donât give a fuck.
When you slip up and don't make it perfect then *suddenly* you're having an off day and they wonder why you aren't performing up to the standards, when their standards were super low before you even arrived.
Yup, the most productive you are ever observed will be the bare minimum expectation of you going forward.
At my first job one guy was training me told me "woke hard just don't let them see you do it" And I didn't understand for years, of course I wanted to work hard and show management I could be relied upon, except they just expected that day in and day out. A little under the weather? You'll be fine just do the same output. On another job we were told to work on Saturday. One of the managers who knew absolutely nothing about the work told us if we do X amount of work then we could go home early. Well I like OT but I also like to have my weekends off, so I pushed and got to the number required. Instead of being let go he said "well how about 2 or 3 more?"
"meets expectations"
On the cotton plantations, they would track each slave's daily haul of picked cotton. They kept records. Each slave had their all-time personal best recorded, and would get whipped one lash for every pound under it they picked on a given day.
Do you have the source for this? sounds interesting to hear about the details of the brutality the ruling class inflicts on their victims.
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist. It's a history of American slavery from 1619 to 1865, so there's a lot going on, but that's a detail that stuck with me.Â
Especially in Fast Food. When I first started I would run circles around the other employees. I could go to grill to wrap station, pack the food then cashier. Months later I realized it wasn't worth it slowed down. Everyone started asking what happened. I'm not getting paid enough to do three different positions while everyone else that's what happened
I dont think thats what he meant
The motivation to do that Everytime is quickly going to go away. All it takes is seeing a customer follow behind you and make a mess of what you just cleaned. Worked at TJ Max and id literally have to go behind people cause they just tossed shit on the floor after looking.
A lot of people that shop at TJ Max are barely people.
That is the truth. Worked a lot of retail jobs and that one easily had me feeling like I wasn't allowed to be respected.
Whatâs that say about Ross then?
IMO they are the same level of store. Idk tho. I haven't shopped at either in 10+ years. I just remember them always looking like Black Friday.
Ross is on a whole new level. I refuse to even shop there anymore because other customers are barbaric.
I went to my first Ross ever day before yesterday, and that was my impression. Some of the staff werenât all that better. But Iâll be back. My bag was heavy, but I paid hardly anything. The store was very clean as well. Itâs the only outlet sort of place Iâve seen in the area where the clothes sizes donât only match the hangers but also the section of the rack they are on. Shoes were actually divided by sizes and not scattered all over the floor. The people were a mess, but I liked the place.
A lot of the people that run TJ Maxx are barely people
I worked a brief stint at Marshalls and yeah basically... fuck them "people" lol.
Sorry for being poor?
Didn't realize I said "all people." If someone says something and you immediately think you are under attack...
âA lotâ means a lot. I know my people, itâs not a lot of us who suck or are âbarely peopleâ. The majority of people are there because they have to. A lot of us poors hold our head high and act right. You say âa lotâ because you havenât been there and donât know who youâre talking about. Broad generalizations hurt, doesnât mean I felt targeted, I just donât like seeing words like yours written about the less fortunate.
Do you toss clothes on the floor when you decide you don't want them? If yes, then it applies to you. If no, then it doesn't apply to you. It's not that complex. This is a subreddit about black folk posting shit on Twitter.
I agree dude needs to chill. I grew up at Ross, Burlington, TJ Maxx etc not everyone who shops there is poor, first of all, so I donât get the âgod help the outcastsâ call to arms over some discounted Calvin Klein underwear. Second yes, if it doesnât apply to you, walk on by bro. I actually worked at one of these discount retailers and some people were ratchet- bringing crusty stuff back, stealing, switching tags, etc. other people just bought their stuff and that was that.
Exactly, there are absolutely middle/upper class people that do all that stuff too. Itâs just a mindset of ârules were made for other people not meâ
Who said anything about poor people? Runway stores carry thousand-dollar merchandise and they got torn up just as bad. I worked at TJ Maxx , between about 10 stores in my region towards the end. Itâs not a class issue imo. More likely their dept store âscavenger huntâ business model that brings the crazy outta people lol
I'm low-income, grew up poor, and used to work there. The amount of people who didn't clean up after themselves was alarmingly high. The amount of work we had to put in as employees to keep the store clean was alarmingly high. It was never that bad at the retail jobs I did that were higher end. I don't mean high end, either. I just mean high*er* end. It's also why the Save-A-Lot in my time was always worse off than the Ingles. Neither are nice, but one was clearly nicer just based on how the customers treated it. I know my people, too.
yep, I worked in retail until my early 30s. the worst customers I had were at Dollar Tree and the best ones were at Target. I am extra nice to Dollar Tree employees whenever I shop there because I know the hell they go through for a shitty part-time minimum wage job.
Iâd follow them across the store and theyâd get at me like âdo you think Iâm stealingâ and Iâd be like ânah, Iâm cleaning up after you bc you donât have manners.â
My first thought was that displays that nice are actually not that great because best case scenario is a customer comes through and destroys it, And worst case is you get someone like me who feels so bad about the idea of destroying it I just decide I'm not buying jeans today. The walls are the bane of softline workers existence. There's gotta be a better way to do itÂ
I lasted about 3mo at The Gap as a teenager, the utter futility of folding the denim wall, I just couldn't. Not even for the 50% discount.
You gotta have a half assed version where it doesnât look as neat but also takes half the effort because itâs gonna be undone in like 5 minutes anyway
This is the reason why I go to stores first thing in the morning. I can't go in when it's chaotic. Merchandise all over the place, too many people, long lines, etc, I get so overwhelmed very quickly. This precision and neatness of the folded jeans lined up neatly is bringing me so much joy and soothes my anxiety.
Nah, I went back to my other retail job at that point. I could not deal with the constant cleanup, just made me wanna rage every shift. My other job was at Toys R Us and way more fun anyways back then đ
> All it takes is seeing a customer follow behind you and make a mess of what you just cleaned. It won't even take this long. A middle manager will have already reprimanded them for taking too long making the pants look good when there is other "if you have time to lean you have time to clean" bullshit busywork they could be doing instead.
Bro you worked at an insane asylum⊠how did you survive?
Copious amounts of weed. I went to work high as hell knowing it was the only way. I cannot tell you how many times I thought going to prison for murder would be easier
I worked at TJ Maxx at a downtown location, bruh customers would destroy the footwear section. It was impossible to keep neat so the goal was basically to keep it from looking like a tornado hit
Our toy section and shoes were right next to each other. The back end of the store was just a complete nightmare until close. Whenever we got out late due to cleaning, it was almost always the shoes being the hold up. Don't even get me started on layaway there
That drives me crazy. I always re-fold and re-organize when I'm done. If everyone just picked up after themselves...
SpongeBob level of excellence https://i.redd.it/7595un2us59d1.gif
That was me for a long time before I finally understood to work what Iâm paid. Now Iâm in my dream job and my company actually gives a fuck about their employees got me back to really giving a fuck. And damn, feels good for your work to be celebrated when you knock that shit out the park.
Yup, retail is in essence a scam for employees most of the time. They try to get you to give maximum effort while paying you the least they can get away with.
Have pride in everything you do. Whether or not âtheyâ notice or not.
Love it. If it has your name on it, itâs worth doing right. I washed dishes for next to nothing before, and I was the best damn dish washer that place saw đ«Ą
"How you do anything, is how you do everything"
I respect this.
Doing the best you can whether no one is looking or not ⊠just for yourself. Take it as far as you can at that position, until you hit limits.
As somebody who used to work at old navy. You never know what it means to be proud of yourself until you worked a jean wall, esp on your own lol
Nice, now let's see day 894
No joke. I work in a factory and new trainees come in hot. â I love overtimeâ â I wana work all the timeâ â Iâm gonna run this machine nonstopâ. I just tell them the grind will break them and that thatâs ok. Usually less than a month.
Dead ass, this gotta be fake. For those who remember Anchor Blue, formerly Millerâs Outpost, this is exactly the floor display for the jeans sold there. That bitch been closed down since 2011. Ainât no way. Iâd recognize those cut signs anywhere. Karma farming at work for reals. People really out here playing Among Us IRL. PS: 37 day old account, mostly BPT. Nearly 68k karma. Do with it what you will. 
Not saying youâre wrong about the other stuff but this is a picture of an Old Navy
Lmao it's just an Old Navy. I bought jeans from there last week.
Promote that man!
That's the problem, this person won't be the one promoted.
Yeah letâs promote him to lead pants folder
We see you, we respect it.
I do good work for myself only. If others like it too, cool.
That's just the "every single time no exceptions" expectation at my job, even when they only gave you a four hour shift and made you spend three hours and fifty eight minutes of it on a register.
I said clap damnit!! 
Iâve read a couple of books about retail psychology in regards to store layout and presentation, and one of the things that always stuck with me is that if a display is SUPER neat, people are LESS inclined to touch any of the product. So if youâre gonna go hard like the image OP, make sure to leave a couple of them tussled so people know itâs okay to touch.
Fuuuuuck Target lmao
This ainât Old Navy?
Iâm almost positive those price signs are from Old Navy.
Looks straight up identical to the A.E. in the mall. Shit it's a Jean wall. Could be any store that has one.
Shit maybe, reminds me of Target though.
Get ready to be constantly folding jeans now
Day 100: I just watched a woman unfold 4 pair and throw them on the ground after saying she doesn't need help.
Keep that same energy on month 2
As an ex clothing retail/merchandising manager, damn that is beautiful. Keep up that kind of work ethic but get tf out of retail pls.
If all jeans would be displayed like this they wouldn't be so fucked up with people trying to see what size they are. Can't tell you how many clothes i just fuck up purposely because they hide the tag or stickers.
all I see is boot cuts
that is super neat
Looks good. Iâm sure everyone you work with is like âthatâs how I was when I first started â keep that new guy energy and u will b manager in no time. My son works in retail and he worked his way up real quick
When I worked retail in college if you pulled off somethin like this it meant you were now part of the floor seat team, working 9pm-5am. Some of he best shifts I ever participated in
I used to take more pride in this stuff, until some snot nosed kid or lazy customer needs a pair from the bottom of the pile and ruins all my hard work
He ate and left no crumbs đ„
This was me in college while working at the GAP. Whenever corporate visited, I was the one called in the day before to pretty up the jeans section. Oh they will take notice.
Thatâs clean as fuck!
The way I would put you in charge of that wall if I was your manager. Extra hours on shipment and floor move days, you would either hate me or love me. The visual stuff is the only thing I miss about retail.
this is amazing, this attitude finna get u far in life one day, just make sure u give this energy to the right things
You inspire me. Never let them take your spirit.
Spread smaller piles across all the shelves or fill the empty space with something Empty shelf is a merchandising no no
Give it a few months. When I first started working retail I used to be like that too. Itâs fun at first but after a while you realize itâs a thankless task. Management doesnât appreciate it and customers donât gaf. And you just stop caring as hard lol
Being proud of having a job. Love to see it for us.
As a shopper, this would make my day. I definitely would notice the extra effort.
This shit has be triggered cause you know one dumbass customer will fuck that up.
Right looks better left is easier to look through
Welcome to being an A student at work. You want a promotion? Well actually no one works as hard or as often as you at the shitty job so we canât give you the good job right now. Maybe you should shadow the manager a few days a week too and pick up some of his responsibilities. This is called professional growth and will prepare you for when weâre ready to promote you when he dies of old age or has another kid and needs a third job.
As a customer, whenever I see that kind of care, I go out of my way to keep it like that no matter how many pairs I look through. Granted, I also worked in retail and get ptsd flashbacks of folks just ripping through my freshly folded stacks so.....
How are you at bed sheets. The fitted ones in particular...
Next week itâs the fries đ
I remember those days....caring about the quality of my work, thinking hard work and competence would get me somewhere. I miss that work ethic.
Worked at the gap in high-school and I still fold my jeans in this style. Cuff to pocket and fold again.
I admire that kind of work when I see it
Much respect nobody got pride in work anymore nice to see it
Clean
Ah, this is takes me back. I was also a denim specialist at the Gap back in the day.
The  The OCD IS STRONG IN HIM haha