At work

This is a thread for stressed teens to talk about their work life. But keep it clean! No language. No sex.

OK, At work, (it's a thrift shop), it was getting pretty hectic. First, the temp manager had to deal with a douche who's been testing the weaknesses of the employees for more than a year (I never asked exactly how long). So the temp manager gets riled up and is stressed out about these old couple who keep squaking and hitting themselves (not each other, themselves) in their car and the temp manager wonders if she should interfere. Then I'm working with a woman on putting the kids' movies in one part of the store in another part where all the other VHS tapes are, and I suggest putting the kids' VHS's on the bottom shelf and the adult ones on top. She says it doesn't matter, but I'm wondering if parents would want the kids to even look at the covers. She says it doesn't matter again, so I let it go. After I go back inside to fix the VHS tapes she just dropped in the shelf, I find her shouting about how I'm imposing and trying to get my opinion throughout the whole store when I really offered a suggestion. She says I was playing God, and that set me off. She's been additudinal lately, and I think I should stay away from her until she can get her head straight. Either way, I won't be blamed for playing God. I admit I was mad enough to say "The bleep (I didn't say bleep) you just say to me?" I am not playing God. First of all, not only did she insult me as a Christian by saying I am pretending to be God by merely looking out for little kids I don't know when I was told for the first two years of my thrift store days to seperate kids films from adult films, and seperate the kids books from the novels, but she insulted God by calling him a controller and a puppeteer! God didn't create people so he could bend everyone's minds into his bidding all of the time. I'm sorry for this, but I need to let off steam. I said something I shouldn't have, but she said I told her to you know what, but I never threw names.

Basically, this thread is for stress at work and blowing off steam. Let's try to talk out our problems out and learn from them. I may be changing my hours there. Or I could apply to the dollar store down the road (once I get my diploma in shaving without cutting.

I'm going to go behind the flaws in "We leave the kid and adult films mixed because we don't dictate what the kids see. The parents do."

1. That IS dictating what the kids see by leaving them mixed because there aren't parents who will protect kids from kids movies. By leaving the films mixed, we are not robbing the parents who don't care of any choice, because... they don't care what there kids watch. However, that IS robbing the parents who did care of the choice to keep their kids from these scary images on the covers.

2. Kids get scared. I don't know what could lead anyone to think otherwise. Babies have cried when their parents walk into the halloween section of the store. Scary bats, bugs, and webs and witches, not to mention werewolves and vampires and stuff like that. Maybe when their a little older, maybe four, kids will watch cleaner movies with witches like The Wizard of Oz. But babies get scared. Kids get scared. I know I wouldn't let my niece watch the X-Men movies. "The Wolverine" gets violent.

3. Is she really concerned about dictatorship, or is she angry that she thinks I was trying to tell her what to do when I was merely offered a suggestion and I didn't order them in kids/adult order like she said not. If anything, she told me what to do. And if I walk in the thrift store and find them organized, someone else is to blame because I left the thrift store right after the argument.

4. I have organized the kids' movies from the adult ones for two years. If my first manager was all right with it, and if my job trainers were alright, why shouldn't she be?

5. I was told that same week, and the week before, to put the children's book away from the adult novels. We have a kid's toy section. We have a baby clothes section and an adult clothes section. So we just leave them alone? What about albums with Parental Advisory stickers? What about scary posters? Do we put the kid's squirt guns with the AK-47's?

Those are five reasons as to why this woman is wrong.