Ahhh, retail! The job everyone thinks is so easy but can easily be one of the worst jobs, especially during the holiday season. Here is a day in our lives. After getting ready for work you lay in bed contemplating calling out. You just don't know if you can handle work today.

You walk into work and see that it's already super busy. You instantly regret your decision of not calling out.

After clocking in, you check with your manager and you're on register. After calling over the next guest you find out it's a return. It's way past the policy timeframe, and there's no tag on the item. After politely telling them you can't take the item back they start telling you some elaborate story on why they couldn't come sooner.

Now you tell them how sorry you are, but there's really nothing you can do except give them store credit for half the current value of the product. The customer is not happy and starts yelling at you.

Now it's time for your manager to step in. In a perfect world they would back you up, but this customer is extra nasty so your manager gives in. After getting what they want the customer gives you a nasty look. Cue the eye roll please.

After that horrible incident you're already over your shift and want nothing more than to go home. But now your manager wants to speak to your privately about your "tone" with that horrible customer. You don't really have an excuse and apologize for how you handled the situation.

Welp. You've only been here for twenty minutes and are already on your manager's shit list. Time to get on their good side. Now the phone rings and the customer wants to know if you're having any sales. Before you know it they're telling you their whole life story.

Now your work bestie finally shows up and you know the day is bound to get better...

...or not! You realize the section you worked so hardly to make look nice has been destroyed by the savages that shop at your store.

Now a customer asks for your help and treats you like you are stupid. Most people think that because you work in retail that you're not educated (this is simply not true). You're trying really hard to not lose your cool.

Now it's finally time for your lunch break and you feel like a queen in the break room. Nothing can ruin these 30 minutes, nothing.

Those minutes went by quicker than you could have ever imagined. Now you make your way back onto the sales floor feeling refreshed and ready to take on the rest of your shift.

Now you hear a customer fighting with one of your co-workers. You don't want to get involved but you enjoy watching from afar. Customers are crazy, man.

Now for the duration of your shift, these past few instances occur over and over, except for the break part, and you start to question humanity.When it's finally time for you to leave you don't waste anytime grabbing your things and clocking out.

When you finally get home, you lay in bed before falling asleep, dreading getting up tomorrow to do it all again.

However, you find comfort in the fact that this is not your forever job, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel.