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My year at Radioshack soured me on typical jobs so much I work for myself now. by Welcome to Omsk 12/12/2015, 4:25am PST You're not wrong. It's not the job market so much as a case of those RadioShack and it's employees fitting and occasionally deserving each other. There was a time when I worked various dead-end shit jobs like this. Most of the other employees working in the stores had something difficult going on: there were family-rejected gender minorities before the gay rights reform package, newly-divorced single parents, people struggling to meet household costs, elderly dinosaurs with no financial cushion you see bagging groceries nowadays, etc. Nobody was there telling me everything was great in his life. Jon makes it sound a little like they staff like a reality show talent scout because he's writing an article to entertain as well as inform. They staff for whoever will put up with their shit. You wanna know who those people are, you're gonna have to think about what the environment they're in is like. I wrote something up about it, but it was more long and rambling than anything I've read by jeep so I'm not gonna put it in front of you unless you ask, and then only as a bad example. I found myself alluding to the mentality of a WASP prison bitch trying to get into a white supremacist gang for protection in describing the kinda people who keep these jobs. Apparently I can't write. I got a rough start in life, maybe I didn't get a leg up like some people get but it got better after I started finding my own footholds to climb with. Radioshack was a bad time for me. I was in this awful existence of being underpaid to lie to people and trick them into overpaying for useless crap which only worked on the senile, immediately making a sale feel awful. For too many hours a week, I did this and had no life outside it, while living in the worst place I've ever lived in, and driving the worst, most expensive to maintain vehicle I've ever had. There were people who shaped my early years though, and they're themselves not so well adjusted. The weirdest, saddest part of this whole thing for me is that the folks that impacted me most were so disconnected from reality that when they bumped into me in that retail hell they said "You're the happiest you've ever been in your life! Car + corporate job + roof over your head = guaranteed happiness!" and maintained this fiction for themselves in later years when I was living in an area with public transportation so good I didn't need a car, making far more money than I did as a third key at radioshack and enjoying a lot more free time. Everyone else that knew me could tell I turned into an angry ghost in retail, there was barely anything left of me except rage and sleep deprivation, but I was the happiest I'd ever been in the eyes of other miserable people who could never create joy or emotional equilibrium in their own lives. If the people who tried to shape me into a soulless automaton/Radioshack employee can take a few meager securities low on the totem pole and round them up to equal a fulfilled and proper existence, if they have that kind of power to accept an awful life and make me accept it for a whole year until I learned how dumb it all was, there are probably all kinds of other ways to get used to this stuff and round it up to okay or even good. I think I've seen that before somewhere.

Grantland.com by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/27/2011, 3:04pm PDT     Slight intellectual slant by Souffle of Pain 11/07/2012, 1:26pm PST         Re: Slight intellectual slant by laudablepuss 11/07/2012, 2:47pm PST             a slight intellectual slant by Vinny Goomba 64 11/17/2012, 9:20pm PST     Is it a bad idea to ask you for a recommendation for a decent site, then? by fucking newbie 11/07/2012, 7:24pm PST         Re: Is it a bad idea to ask you for a recommendation for a decent site, then? by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/07/2012, 7:49pm PST             Nobody is still on the forum at POE News by Siskel and Ebert 11/07/2012, 7:59pm PST                 MUST BE NICE NT by laudablepuss 11/07/2012, 9:32pm PST             I'll give it a shot, ICJ by fucking newbie 11/07/2012, 9:46pm PST                 Your posts make me want to kill myself. What sites NT by would you recommend for that? 11/07/2012, 10:52pm PST                     Re: Your posts make me want to kill myself. What sites by fucking newbie 11/07/2012, 11:57pm PST                         Your shit has a, how can I say this nicely... NT by SLIGHT INTELLECTUAL SLANT 11/08/2012, 12:05am PST                             Saying it nicely on this site? What for? Fag. NT by fucking newbie 11/08/2012, 12:17am PST                                 That's the spirit! Nobody has to pretend to be a dummy at this site! :) NT by Mischief Maker 11/08/2012, 5:13am PST                 Quentinbec reference? I don't think you're a newbie at all. NT by Souffle of Pain 11/08/2012, 6:53pm PST                     I've lurked for a bit and the search results you get for some things are odd by fucking newbie 11/08/2012, 7:22pm PST                         Sacrifice is one of my top 12 all-time games, but takes some doing to run on W7 by Mischief Maker 11/09/2012, 5:48am PST                             huh? by Col. Campbell 12/10/2015, 12:04pm PST     World's Worst Website finally killed by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/30/2015, 1:46pm PDT         I liked that time they made a trans-golf putter inventor kill him/herself by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2015, 1:50pm PDT             I like how it was billed as a hate crime by skip 10/31/2015, 3:43pm PDT         There's still the question of where you can read decent writing online NT by Welcome to Omsk 10/31/2015, 4:36pm PDT             Grantland was never decent writing. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/31/2015, 10:24pm PDT                 Seeing if you found any's part of the hobby. Turns out ICJ ain't got any. Loser! by Welcome to Omsk 11/01/2015, 8:01am PST                     I was all riled up last night for some reason. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/01/2015, 8:43am PST                         Happens to the best of us. NT by Welcome to Omsk 11/01/2015, 6:41pm PST                             On balance it was a pretty good answer though. NT by Welcome to Omsk 11/01/2015, 6:43pm PST                                 Jon Bois on Radio Shack was a great article. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/02/2015, 1:39pm PST                                     You're drunk, Jonsey. Good article, though. Here is a link to it really for real by Entropy Stew 12/11/2015, 12:35pm PST                                         Why the fuck would you stick with a job like that when it pays less than MacDona NT by lds? 12/11/2015, 1:38pm PST                                             Doormat NT by Entropy Stew 12/11/2015, 4:00pm PST                                                 I can't imagine any job market being bad enough where by fabio 12/11/2015, 11:30pm PST                                                     My year at Radioshack soured me on typical jobs so much I work for myself now. by Welcome to Omsk 12/12/2015, 4:25am PST                 That was so dark, ICJ by Cannibal Dave 12/13/2015, 1:05am PST         It's probably good they killed it now by skip 11/02/2015, 4:27pm PST     I'm writing this far too late, but you were right, Caltrops. Thanks. by Welcome to Omsk 12/10/2015, 10:57am PST         Twat. Twat never changes. by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/10/2015, 10:47pm PST             The second person in there is looks like a distraction from pointless content. by Welcome to Omsk 12/11/2015, 4:41am PST                 So many blogs are interchangeable by skip 12/12/2015, 7:24am PST                     Surely bankers never did anything bad to this country. Anyone who says otherwise by is an anti Semite 12/12/2015, 8:17am PST                         Because those blogs are the entire internet. by skip 12/12/2015, 3:07pm PST