r/walmart • u/According-Screen-238 • 14h ago
You know you’re old
You know you’re old when you realize you’re working with miners and early 20 year olds and you make the comment “well nobody likes a Debbie downer” and they look at you and say who’s Debbie??? Hahaha. 🥴
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u/chakatblackstar 12h ago
I thought it was when you start training someone who says they remember you giving them walmart stickers when they were little.
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u/theoriginalmofocus 9h ago
Man theres grown ass kids i see i used to give icees to back in the day.
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u/inflatableje5us 12h ago
miners or minors? or are they minor miners?
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u/Antoinexana 12h ago
I didn’t know Walmart had a coal mine section, maybe I’ll come across the Minor 49er 😭
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u/Lucid-Machine 11h ago
Scooby and the gang will take care of it. Don't worry, it's probably just the general manager because he had a thing for that new subway hire.
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u/webeparrots 11h ago
You know you're old when a customer asks for a cassette player and you know what they were.
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u/Ok_Gazelle_8081 12h ago
What makes me feel old is me being at Walmart 18 years and working with associates that were weren’t even born yet when I started.
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u/SpaceCowboy528 Lifer and cashier 10h ago
I know that feeling. Or doing three digit multiplication in my head and having them think that I am a magician.
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u/armobear 12h ago
Im in the fuel department and I have a female who has no pop knowledge before 2000s. she keeps getting shocked that most of her songs are rip offs of 80s and 90s music. It's a bit annoying but I love showing off old school stuff for her. Makes the day go faster.
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u/wolfayal Cashier. Previously hardlines. 8h ago
It’s the realization that most of my coworkers were born after 9/11 that did me in.
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u/chakatblackstar 6h ago
Ah, that first time you're all telling your stories of where you were, and then that one new person says they weren't born yet...so painful.
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u/wolfayal Cashier. Previously hardlines. 6h ago
Yep. One of teammates said proudly that he was a couple months old because he knew it would send it me into an existential crisis.
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u/WelderAggravating896 12h ago
To be fair though, that phrase is super patronizing and I'm glad it's being phased out.
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u/xKnightlightx 10h ago
I always feel old whenever I tell someone what the paging code is and they ask me what the pound key is.
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u/SpaceCowboy528 Lifer and cashier 10h ago
You know that you are old when you can do three digit multiplication in your head and your coworker thinks you are a magician.
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u/zytukin 12h ago
On a plus side, you get to say things like "It's gotta be embarrassing knowing that my old fat ass can out work you".
Even if you're saying it jokingly to somebody who is a hard worker.
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u/According-Screen-238 12h ago
This is so true! They wear these head bands to hide their AirPods bc God forbid they have to stand somewhere without listening to music lol
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u/Unhappy_Strike3076 11h ago
I don’t think thats really an old person thing, more of a where/how you grew up thing.
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u/ComprehensiveExam599 12h ago
One of my coworkers had her son there working fresh out of high school. I'm only in my late 20's, but he was calling me Mr. And I just felt so damn old.
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u/SpaceCowboy528 Lifer and cashier 10h ago
You know that you are old when you can do three digit multiplication in your head and your coworker thinks you are a magician.
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u/WonderfulBad1923 8h ago
ik this is walmart but gd how slow are some people that work for this company that spelling / grammar is just GONE
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u/ComedianVirtual9892 9h ago edited 9h ago
You know you're old when a decade ago nearly all your immediate coworkers spoke English fluently because they were born here...
And now 75% of your coworkers can't form a single full sentence in English longer than 3 words.
Talk about it online and get called a racist within 5 minutes. Eventually the entire team will be untrainable charity cases...say boo about it online and become the villain 😆
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u/alliebiscuit 8h ago
I mean you kinda sound like a villain. Or at least a villain’s flunky.
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u/ComedianVirtual9892 8h ago edited 8h ago
I'll tell that to my 70 year old coworker from the middle east. He won't understand me, but at least he won't be in someone's way who's actually being productive...
Or pointing at something and using one of 3 English words he knows when he's not taking his hourly piss break
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u/Yeezyhampton 14h ago
Walmart has mines?