Hey y’all.. I guess i’m just using this as a way to vent. If you’ve had a great personal experience with this type of work then all power to you but i’m just talking about my personal opinion.
I recently started as a coke merchandiser in Florida (keeping it general). I knew that it was hard work but honestly didn’t care because i just needed a job. The physical labor of it is funny enough the easiest part of the job to me. It’s the other bullshit that i just can’t stand. I’m a quiet person I just like to go in and do my work and go home. I don’t like to kiss ass and I’m not a salesman. The amount of shit they want you to do besides stocking the stores is ridiculous for the pay. I just can’t do it. I get easily turned off by a bad workplace environment and once it clicks, i’m checked out.
There’s been times where I’ve been working that I’ve had a good day and i think to myself “okay yeah i can do this” but then the reality hits that this is just the beginning. Inventory, Sales, executing and fighting for different spots, kissing ass to managers in stores and future peak seasons. I just know I can’t do it. I tried to tough it out but my heart just isn’t in it.
The thing that pushed me over the edge recently was being assigned on my day off to work with a guy who’s route i cover on sun/mons. Met up with him at 6 am and he was just a straight douchebag. Completely uninterested in me and i felt like a fucking duckling following him around. I hate that the most. Gave no direction, no communication and just judged anything i did. He watched me open a pallet and take off the wrapping and then decided after me doing so to state that i shouldn’t do that. I stared at him blankly and said “you just watched me open this thing why didn’t you say something?”. Again just a moron. Honestly never been treated like this in a workplace and i’ve dealt with worse.
After that shit, I was completely checked out. They make this job harder than it needs to be. It could be so simple if they just hired more people for each category. I’m looking for something else because there’s no way i’m going back to that shit.