comment: >
  
  That's great you're enjoying your experience. I worked in retail at VS as stock at 6AM, and at 10PM on inventory nights so had a bad sleep pattern. The only issues I'd have were management's over-scheduling habits while I was in college. Also as a policy, they pat you down after your shift so you don't steal, and sometimes they'd pat me more thoroughly than the other girls (who were indeed stealing and got fired). Once on black Friday, my manager unlocked the door and was push down and trampled by shoppers. People stole drawers full of bras and underwear and trashed the place.
context: You got middle management written all over you >
  
  It isn't the first or second rude/entitled person you deal with. It's the 500th. Give it time. Eventually every person that walks in the door you'll assume is going to be an arsehole in some way.
  If you never feel this way, congratulations! Retail is for you >
  
  As if everywhere else you could work is free of rude people.  They aren't exclusive to retail or even work.  It's not a valid reason to hate retail any more than "I have to breathe while I'm there" is. >
  
  True but in retail you deal with much more people than non customer facing jobs. I work in a very busy electronic store and deal with 30-50 people a day on average. What makes retail difficult is having to deal people en mass and having to keep your energy up and stay smiling for 10 hours a day >
  
  Give it time, the slow grind of humanity in retail hasn't had a proper chance to crush you yet.  Post about this again in 2 or 3 years. >
  
  Is it really gonna get that bad? >
  
  Depends where you work. I worked at a liquor store and most people were tipsy and cheery, some bad apples though. >
  
  I guess you must have some funny stories from your time working there >
  
  One of the best was some drunk girl was hitting on me and bought me a scratcher ticket along with hers. I won $70 lol. >
  
  The idiocy of the customer is always right philosophy will get to you at some point. The customer is hardly ever right >
  
  6 months of experience “I know everything about this job” >
  
  No kidding, probably has seen everything by six months.... >
  
  Aww.... my young flower. >
  
  Summer children, amirite? >
  
  It’s not that retail work is difficult, it’s that its under appreciated. You won’t get the raises or recognition you might deserve, even if you are great at dealing with ‘the Karen’. >
  
  This depends a lot on the store. Smaller speciality stores are a lot more laid back than larger chains. Mainly due to lower traffic. High traffic stores suck because statistically you are bound to encounter someone having a bad day. >
  
  
  in specialty stores you usually know way more than the customer and they actually need your help, so they usually have to be nice to you. >
  
  Dude, you haven't been there long enough. I've literally had to get between customers because one of them said something blatantly racist just to piss the other one off, had them go on hateful rants at checkout just for the hell of it, and had them lose their shit because they couldn't return like 100 miscellaneous items at the one open register with no receipt and a line forming behind them. I've had managers that said my availability was just a suggestion and schedule me when I had other responsibilities I told them about well ahead of time. I've had to skip breaks and meals because I was helping customers and missed my break time by like three minutes, then go hungry the rest of the shift. Yes, it really is that bad.