1. Your "employee discount" quickly takes away your employee paycheck.

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2. You only make the mistake of wearing heels once.

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"Beauty is pain" will go out the window after you walk around on a hard floor for nine hours asking customers if they are finding everything is okay like a record on repeat.

3.You will know the store's exchange policy better than you know your name.

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4. "Checking in the back" is the best excuse to check your phone - in the back.

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5. Your appreciation for rotating hangers will have you hating every white plain plastic or metal wire cardboard one have ever put into your closet at home.

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6. Senior citizens will always pay with cash. They just do.

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7. The customer is always wrong.

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Whether it is the availability of a product that has been out of stock since September, a size that we do not carry, or a nonexistent return policy, customers have time and time again proven to be the most wrong group of people.

8. A month in, work becomes a paid gossip hour.

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You will know more about your coworkers than their own friends do. They will also learn your entire life story between the hours of 9 and 5.

9. Closing time becomes your new favorite hour on the clock.

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You check the time on the register, on the apple watch you use to secretly text during your shift, and on your phone during your bathroom breaks. Anyone who comes into that establishment within an hour of that sacred time might as well be pulling out teeth while they're there because they have already made your last five minute the worst half hour of the whole shift.

10. The phone will ring all day, but there will only be the same three questions on the other side of the line...

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"When do you close?"

"Do you have *insert random item that hasn't be in the store in 6 months* in stock?

And, my personal favorite, "Can I speak to the manager?"