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Published: 2006-09-04 06:36:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 1945; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 0
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Subtitle: "So It's Come To This" by Firestar9mm.I really do not understand the submission categories. I don't know if this is in the right place.
Anyway. I am really sad to say that much of this is a true story. Firestar now has an atrocious job in retail. She hates it, and therefore, she vents her spleen by creating art about it.
Danny Fenton, who shows up just in time for the last panel, is the friend of the fabulous Mr. Butch Hartman. I wonder if he had any sucky jobs before he made it in animation?
Done in an HB graphic pencil and inked in F-point and B-point pens.
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That is absolutely how I feel about working retail!
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"Hate" is too mild a word for how I felt about retail.
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This story applies to my job right now. Only Danny and Toph are with me.
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I really didn't like retail when I worked it. Unfortunately, I was really good at it. They gave me a lot of hours, but we were the flagship store, which meant we were always being visited by corporate and open for extended hours. It was awful!
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My sympathies. I still don't like working for retail right now I'm good at it but like you said the hours the corporate and the uniforms! ugh!
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Uniforms? When I worked it we only had to wear what we sold. That was a bit easier.
Still, I'm glad to be away from it. My sympathies to you!
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Yeah uniforms. My job for the present meant meant wearing the clothes we sold I wouldn't have problem. Just no ties. Unfortunately my retail is food and not clothes.
Thanks. well Danny, Toph and my friends on DA make it bearable.
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That's all I can say about this.
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I have to go back and close today and tomorrow, and three more days this week....boo hoo....even my hair hurts....
Where do you work? I hope you aren't in retail too, poor thing!
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Aww, that sucks >_<
I work as a pool attendant. The season just ended, thank goodness! *dies* 
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Yeah, the hellish jobs are great comic fodder. I just spent three extra hours at a "launch meeting". *rolls eyes.*
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Hellish is right! XD Doing a comic will help me get the pain and aggravtion of the job out though 
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that's your job?! great now i am afraid of unemployment and employment! (no offense though!)
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None taken. This is a hell of a ride I'm going through. *chuckles.*
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i noticed...... so that's why my brother dosent go to any work even though he's already 21! he's just studing medicine to become a doctor...... (he's too lazy to work anywayz.....)
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Esta realmente bueno 
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You said it, my friend. It's 3 AM, and I just got in from floorset. I don't even want to think about how many shirts I folded tonight, and my footpaws are killing me.
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Nyar. Retail D: It's cringy, and I'm not even doing it. At least it will provide awesome comic fodder.
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It has already provided awesome comic fodder, and I've really only been there about a week and a half. It's 3 AM right now and I just got in from doing floor set. My footpaws are killing me. Tomorrow I call the office I worked at when I was nineteen and beg them for a reference. XD Another fabulous day in the life of Firestar!
Ima go make a sandwich and eat till I forget how many shirts I folded tonight. XD
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*smiles* I work in a stockroom behind the salesfloor. I just go on auto-pilot....
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Really? Stripe me, you wouldn't believe all the stock checks I have to do, I think the stock guys want my head on a pike. I can't help it everyone wants a size extra small in everything! My walkie-talkie hates me. *small laugh.*
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Mine does too, but all YOU have to deal with is clothes. I have EVERYTHING. TV's that weigh 30KGS!
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Awww I'm sorry 
The comic's cute though. Made me laugh. Reminds me of all the girls at the mall - "Oh my God, this is liek, WAY too big! Claire, can you go out and see if they have anything smaller than a zero?" And I'm like, shut up!! Love the mall, but hate the people in it 
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Well, it's not really such a terrible job to have in context, but when I used to make forty grand for driving a desk and eating nice lunches every day, a body starts to wonder how she's ended up in a state like this. I'm a writer and an artist by trade, but there's been a lot of extenuating circumstances around why I chose to leave my last two jobs in other fields (I used to be in internet sales, and after that I did something else for a while). I don't regret leaving those positions, but I understand now I'm going to have to muck around in some minimum-wage labor for a while before I get something else that pays well and doesn't involve being on my feet for long hours. *shrugs, sighs.*
I hate all the size zeros we sell. I'm a six. The girls in the mall are simply ridiculous, but if you think they're weird, you should see their mothers.
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That must've been a good job, work at a desk, eat good food, and make a good salary 
I'm a five in juniors...I'm not sure what that makes me in the even numbered sizes. Probably same thing 
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It was a good job on paper, but my boss was a horribly temperamental ferret with little to no situational awareness. I'm not really sorry I left, I just miss the money a little. The job market's tight everywhere, though, and the only way to get a job is to just keep trying everywhere you can, or if you're lucky, you know someone and they get you in. I used to want to get a job that involved my writing or my artwork, but every so often I worry that using it as a career will warp and kill my love for it, which would break my art. Sometimes I think maybe it'd be best to get a job in any field that I can stand and keep my work life from contaminating my personal life (not as easy as it sounds).
*smiles.* If you're a five in juniors, then you'd most likely be a four or a two in my store. I'd love to be any of those sizes, but Firestar is 5'2'' and had trouble fitting those atrocious "skinny" jeans they made her try on over her hips.
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Silly. There isn't anything wrong with you. *ruffles CS's fur.*
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Maybe he had a personality disorder or something. I've been reading about those lately to figure out what's wrong with me xD and he might have antisocial or schizoid disorder or something like that. I hate though, how it's so hard to get a job everywhere. My mom's been looking for a medical transcriptionist job for two years (she might have one now...I don't know though 
I could see that, how it would turn from love to stress. That's why writing's gonna be part of my job and not something too serious, like a newspaper with deadlines and all. I'll just work on it in my free time and see editors and tutors more and stuff.
Oh God...I loathe those skinny jeans. They were made to make people show how society wants them to morph into the negative images of celebrities and to show us how we need to lose a pound here or there, lipo, Atkins diet...plus they'd look horrible on me 
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Silly. There isn't anything wrong with you. *ruffles CS's fur.*
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Aww, thanks Fire 
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