'My job is keeping me single': Retail employee gets dumped (again) after telling her man she works as a cashier, judgement unfolds in the comments

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 3, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Being in the dating game in your late 20's and early 30's is a lot like playing 4D chess. While some people are married with children, others have focused on their careers and make 6 figures. Then there are others living at home with their parents and some are just trying to work hard to pay off their student loans. Everyone's on a different page of the same book, so unveiling the details of your personal life to a strange lover can be dicey. 

In this case, one woman, a cashier at a retail store, got career-shamed by a single guy she matched with at a mixer. Hopeful as ever, she was excited for her second date with this guy until he found out the truth about what she does for a living. Keep scrolling to read the full ghost story and the judgey aftermath that occurred in the comments section. For more dating flops and timeless singledom wisdom, check out these timeless SATC quotes from the queen of single life, Samantha Jones.

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  • 01
    Font - Posted by u/carlykerfuffle 14 hours ago r/r/retail ^ Guy rejected me because I work in retail. Sorry my career isn't noble enough for you, pal!
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    Font - I (f28) recently suffered an embarrassing rejection in my personal life because of my job. A few weeks ago I met a guy at a singles mixer and we were matched.
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    Font - We started texting, but he rudely stopped talking to me after I told him what I did for a living. Naturally, this completely devastated me. My dating life was already a complete nonstarter before this, but this was the final nail in the coffin. I realized my job is keeping me single.
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    Font - I get it, guys like girls who are career oriented and bring something to the table, and the fact I work in retail doesn't exactly scream career oriented and brings something to the table.
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    Font - I'm not in my f ing job because I love it and I'm oh-so passionate about selling handles of Captain Morgan to grizzled Vietnam veterans. I'm in my job because I have hit the ceiling and there's nowhere left for me to go. My boss
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  • 06
    Font - only hired me because he doesn't have any standards and he'll literally hire anyone off the street who can count money. Believe me, if a better opportunity presented itself tomorrow I wouldn't think twice about quitting. But I'm
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    Font - stuck in this shole indefinitely unless a miracle happens and I find a "respectable" job that will make me more appealing to a man. My friends who are spoken for all have "respectable" jobs. Just because I'm not in a "noble" enough job doesn't make me undeserving of love.
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    Font - The only people who are interested in me at all are the dirty old drunk perverts who come in every day and insist I ring them up because "she's prettier." Maybe one of those wrinkly old farts is single.
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    Font - PLACE Organic Popcorn - 8 hr. ago I get it, guys like girls who are career oriented and bring something to the table And these are also type of guys who gets super b tt hurt when women makes more than them.
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    Font - Catfaceperson. 6 hr. ago And expect them to quit their jobs the second they are pregnant.
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    Font - potato_gnucci. 5 hr. ago "She has to make more then average, but when we have kids I expect her to quit and raise them!" • The guy who rejected OP
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    Font - kitkat6270 1 hr. ago Don't forget taking care of HIM on top of taking care of the kids and house. Alone.
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    Font - iconic_ironic_trash. 7 hr. ago Came here to say this. Seems like the guy wouldn't have treated OP or retail workers in general very well.
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    Font - carplord 9000 4 hr. ago Or they just cant make their mind up, have unrealistic expectations or secretly just want some anime wifu.
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    Font - Maleficent_Amoeba_39. 7 min. ago You know what I expect from a potential partner? The same things I expect from myself. Have a job. Pay your rent and bills. own Don't rely on someone else to play mommy/daddy for you. If the fact that OP is able to do this isn't "good enough", that's the guy's problem.
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    Font - Fragrant-Ad-925 - 10 hr. ago Ugh, I reckon you dodged a bullet. I can't imagine he treats service workers with actual respect, and that is so disgusting to me. We're all just doing what we need to do. That guy sucks.
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    Rectangle - carplord 9000 6 hr. ago he was looking for somone to sponge off of. The guy was probably a huge manchild
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    Font - Active-Succotash-109. 2 hr. ago Just what I was thinking. He wants someone to be his sugar mama.
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    Font - GS ARE MKÄY itsjusthowiam Probably has a hard time treating service staff at 3 hr. ago . restaurants with any respect & is as too. Anyone who thinks anyone is 'beneath' them for the job they perform is human trash anyway. I agree you dodged a giant bullet. y tipper
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    Rectangle - Teddy Tuffington - 10 hr. ago As a guy working in retail and depressingly single I feel this big time. I hope u don't give up n find someone special
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  • 21
    Font - ValenwoodForever 2 hr. ago I love talking to cashiers, we always have funny work stories and we're always easy to chat to. Idk why it's a bad thing.
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    Goggles - IWantToPlayGame. 10 hr. ago You dodged a bullet. You're gainfully employed. He didn't deserve you.
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    Font - Princess_Jade1974 - 7 hr. ago Back in the day when I was using the apps I swear there was a complete tonal change in the conversation whenever I told someone I was a cashier, I actually grew to love this, perfect way to weed out judgey a hats.
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