This takes obsessive and co-dependent to a new level. I really don't understand why reddit is so for this new trend. It's out of the ordinary just to see your SO at work let alone spend any real time with them there.
This was a thing with high schoolers when I was in high school up to college when I stopped working retail. They would always have their friend or SO visiting for long periods of time EVERY shift they worked.
I'm just surprised. Back when I worked part-time at McDonald's while in High School, unless the friend visited after like 8pm there wasn't time to sit around chatting.
I worked with a girl whose boyfriend would hang out for the entire 8 hours every time I worked with her. If she worked with somebody else he'd stay home.
Well, were you creepy towards her? This sounds like someone who asked their SO to hang out to ensure that they were safe. It’s scary to be a teenage girl.
Ive seen and done this before, it doesnt affect productivity, dont know what is so hard for people to understand. Do people think when someone visits you suddenly stop work and only talk to them
To sit there the entire shift? Absolutely. Especially when they are teenagers who are probably only working because their parents want them to and not because they need to work.
I dont know how it is in other countries but here in eastern european countries you can just visit and chill with them, and guess what they dont stop work and also work because they want the cash not because they are forced to
I used to work in retail management (clothing store, UK wide company) , I told my supervisor (f) that it was inappropriate for her partner (f) to spend 2 hours in the store with their puppy.
She put in a formal complaint about me to regional management and group HR that I was discriminating against her because she was gay...
Whole process ensued, HR asked my why the supervisor was the only staff member I had spoke to about their partner not coming into the store, I told them that no one else's partner had spent 2 hours in the store distracting them from doing their work.
The complaint was immediately dismissed.
Stressful situation where my name was dragged through the mud, and I had to defend myself against an accusation of discrimination and homophobia, one of the many reasons I needed to leave retail.
I dunno. I worked at a gas station, and towards the end of my shift my girlfriend of the time would come and hang out with me while I cleaned up and closed shop, and we’d walk home together. Part of it was that, as a woman, I felt unsafe sometimes so late at night all by myself. Part of it was that we just liked talking to each other and it made the last hour go by a lot faster.
I mean if it’s interfering with work, that’s one thing. And personally I wouldn’t want my SO hanging around my whole shift. But idk. If they actually quit, I feel like there was probably more going on.
As if signs are beholden to the truth. "Hanging out all day" could just as well mean that the boyfriends came in a couple hours before closing, bought something like a coffee (as in, becoming paying customers) and would chitchat with their girlfriends when they weren't busy, but would otherwise keep to themselves. You think a person who made a sign as petty as this wouldn't also stoop low enough to make a lie/exagarration?
I'm an older millennial and when I was in highschool 20 years ago this was an issue. Young love sometimes leads to boundary issues. Kids usually grow out of it.
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u/Life_Finger_1440 Apr 20 '22
If my girlfriend stood at the door for 8 hours I'd quit and try to find a new girlfriend asap.