Daniel C

An Honest Opening

It’s September of 2012, and there I am standing in the cashier area of my local Target’s Electronics Department eagerly waiting for closing time so I can get the hell out of there. I’m about three weeks into what will eventually become a month-long stint at my first official retail job, and I absolutely detest it. In my short time there, I’ve already experienced some of the usual occurrences while working in such an environment: some customers who make the work much harder than it needs to be, coworkers plastering on fake smiles while they sneak in their disses on others, team leads pretending to be allies only to count the employee feedback they encourage against the poor souls who fall into that trap.