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[โ€“] Alice@beehaw.org 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rough ๐Ÿ˜” customers are huge bitches. So you don't care enough about Christmas to shop in advance, but you care enough to yell at me??

I just find this season depressing, I don't know. I've seen shipping out so many candies and electronics made by slave labor while the radio sings about peace and love. Most of these tacky plastic trinkets are going to landfills or the ocean. Most of these companies are complicit in genocide, or other violence against the global south. I want to do something radical but I've seen other people of my status martyr themselves and change nothing.

I know I'm a downer and my friends are tired of it. I was turned away by my first choice of a therapist, my second choice doesn't work on either of my days off, and the only other therapist available through my job wanted me to sign a really sketchy contract. ๐Ÿ˜

I really can't wait for Christmas to be over. I know it won't fix the world, it'll just make it easier for me to ignore the world, and I know that's bad. But I'm only making the world worse by being a downer about it.

[โ€“] SilverShark@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh man, I'm so sorry about all this! I can't belive this thing about the therapists! Its always so hard to find a good therapists! It really shouldn't.

You're description of not caring enought to buy things on time but caring enough to yell at you really hits the nail on the head when it comes to asswholes in retail.

Christmas should be a good time, but so many people get so stressed. And the whole consumerism side of it is so bad. I wish you can go over it to have peace of mind after it.

[โ€“] Alice@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago

Thank you โค๏ธ holidays are always stressful for me but at least they're almost over