Something that really fucks me off at work
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Something that really fucks me off at work Hello I’m new to this so be nice pls👋🏼 20F. I’ll give you a bit of backstory, I’ve stuttered my entire life, ever since I could speak. I’ve had on/off speech therapy since I was 7 and it helped me a lot. My confidence has improved a ton. I can make important phone calls, order that a drive thru... things I never thought i’d be able to do. I work in retail (I want to try and get out of retail but tbh my stutter has held me back a lot. Also I’ve got it in my head that I don’t get hired for jobs I go to interviews for because of my stutter) and I usually go on the tills. Any retail/customer service workers on here, tell me if you experience this. A customer will come up to my till and I start talking, usually something like ‘hello, how are you today?’ Or ‘would you like a bag’. Most of the time I don’t stutter/block but sometimes I do. If I do stutter, sometimes said customer will ignorantly mimic or laugh at me. I try not to get annoyed or literally rip their head off because I’m at work and tbh it doesn’t get me anywhere. So I sort of laugh it off while also letting them know I have a stutter, I’ll say something like ‘hahaha yeah I have a stutter’. And the bit THAT REALLY FUCKS ME OFF is when they come back with ‘oh yeah I have one too hahaha’. LIKE NO YOU DONT BECAUSE YOU WOULDNT FUCKING LAUGH AT ME YOU TWAT. I have never once laughed at someone’s stutter or even when I know someone doesn’t have a stutter and is just tripping up on their words, I wouldn’t laugh because I know how it feels to have words literally stuck in your throat. So stop making yourself feel better because you fucked up and just own the fact that you’ve fucked up. I’m not gonna get angry at you, I get more angry about the fact you‘be straight up lied to my face about something you’ll never understand Also, lastly, I wanna add that this happens every time someone laughs at my stutter. But also that most of the time when I stutter in front of a customer, they’re very patient, sweet and reassuring me I don’t have to rush myself. So big luv to them♥️♥️ I just wanted to rant and see if anyone else experienced this at work!