Working retail (or anything public facing) was always super exhausting for me, askye, on top of the drain that just working entails. I hope the coping methods you are developing help. I'm glad to hear the kid's situation is resolved, that was all very fraught.

-t it has been really fraught and Mom has been worried about what is going to happen. I'm just thrilled that he gets to start 2024 in a real home. He moved so he'll be in a new school and a new town which I know can be sad but it also will give him a chance to have a fresh start.

Usually I can spend quite a bit of time not having to deal with customers but in the lead up to Christmas we had more (although not as busy as previous years) and also the customers were really needy and often were asking where something was that they had walked past or were actually standing in front of and didn't realize it. I'm really lucky because I didn't have to deal with anyone rude (although the front end people did).

And the only real customer misbehaving I was around was on Christmas Eve we ran out of hams and right after the manager let a customer know she went and took a ham out of someone else's cart. No one saw it and the woman who had her ham stolen let me know that "some people are just don't know how to act".

Still with the Covid brain here, so I am late to announce that we celebrate the birthdays of Emily and quester today, as well as my DH, so excellent humans all! May all have the best of birthdays and may the year to come bring joy and laughter.

Happy birthday to Emily, Quester, and B!!

lisah, that really, really bites. More than once we have come back from a family vacation and had to go say goodbye to a pet. It is, apparently, A Thing. Which absolutely does not make it easier to experience. I’m so sorry.

I wish I had something helpful to say, Pix. All I have is my love and compassion.

Oh, LisaH, I forgot to say that that's horrible. Sorry about your kitteh.

Thanks everyone.

I'm so sorry, Lisa. We had something similar happen with our kitty Seamus this past summer. It's so hard.

Happy Birthday to quester, Emily, and B! Big day up in here.

I’m sorry about the fraught situation with your dad, Pix.

Lisah, I’m so sorry about your cat.

Just got back from the family Christmas festivities. There are three kids under five involved, so the chaos level is high. It’s fun for the short period I’m there, but it definitely wipes my introverted self right out. Now I’m home under the cat, waiting for a pizza.

Argh. Just got an email from a head of brand asking myteam to do something by next Wednesday that I, for one, do not see how we could possibly do it or why we would even be involved, but my boss has taken the rest of today and tomorrow off, and my other teammate is gone for the day and our VP is on vacation. I'm not going to answer. Hopefully someone else will check their email by tomorrow. If no one else says anything by EOD tomorrow I will just panic, I guess.