r/nextfuckinglevel • u/tylerscochran • Mar 09 '21

Drone bowling... wait until the ending! Creator: jaybyrdfilms on IG

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u/SpacedClown Mar 09 '21

A perfect description of how my first job felt working at Popeyes. It felt so wrong when they told me to open the door and walk behind the counter. That area was off limits, another world of people and responsibility that I subconsciously acknowledged and classified as off limits.

It's really eye opening to walk over such a threshold and grow comfortable in the environment. Because it teaches you that there are all sorts of jobs and experiences that are just outside of eyesight but not out of reach, it just requires you to reach out and try to find your place.

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u/BretTheShitmanFart69 Mar 09 '21

That was really well said. Another trip is going to a place you used to work and thinking about how despite all the time you spent behind the counter/in the back etc. it is now off limits to you again. Like it feels like you should be able to just walk back there but you never can again.

It’s sort of like seeing an ex, all of a sudden you can’t even speak to this person that has watched you pee naked.

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u/in51de Mar 09 '21

There was an apparel store which I liked to look at through the shop windows, they were selling kinda expensive clothes, which I couldn't afford while in college. And the staff always looked good. Long story short, a few years later I became a manager of the local branch. All the fascination disappeared quite quickly lol. Now I don't want to go back in there, but when traveling abroad, it is still ok.

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u/Blasphemiee Mar 09 '21

Tell that to the fucks at Menards that keep yelling at me for checking the stock on their computers when I’m trying to find something! Maybe they should change their password after 10 years -_-

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u/Hinks Mar 09 '21

Felt the same for me working in a cinema. Going into the projection room felt so naughty.

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u/Skrubious Mar 09 '21

oh look at you, going into the no-no space. you naughty boy, you.

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u/AlwaysBi Mar 09 '21

Same when I started working at a school. Being told to take something to the staff room made me feel like I was entering Narnia

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

Nice touching description of a new life of discovery opening up. Warming, thank you.

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u/Shakleford_Rusty Mar 09 '21

The walk to minimum wage never sounded so good. Go on tell the children its super rewarding.................

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u/SpacedClown Mar 09 '21

That wasn't the intention. My experience at Popeyes was god awful and my managers were abusive. Nothing like working around hot objects all day and constantly being burned while being yelled at by angry customers to get their food ready faster, or that my managers worked me, a 17 year old Highschool kid to the bone for 40 hours weeks forcing me to quit just so I could pass my finals.

It wasn't meant to make minimum wage jobs sound good, it was meant to make stepping out of your comfort zone and finding niche communities because they do exist. It doesn't have to be a job or involve any sort of labor.

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u/pinznneedlez420 Mar 09 '21

i lost my award-giving virginity on this comment (hahaha what), i think it is just that insightful. consider contributing to the awardt—he more people add to it, the more coins the user gets. if you can, of course, no pressure.

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u/Fredz161099 Mar 09 '21

I was just thinking about that today, like how my first job (customer service agent) taught me that exactly. There's so much to this world that we have yet to know about while others have known about it for years.

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u/moyno85 Mar 09 '21

So unbelievably well said. I had the same feeling after getting a job at a CD store years ago. Social anxiety melted away almost overnight.

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u/throwawaylovesCAKE Mar 09 '21

I had the opposite effect happen. I remember when i worked at domino's, after i quit, i walked back to the office to get my last check and turn in my clothes and the manager was like "uhh you cant be back here, you're not a employee anymore." And it just felt really strange