Yeah, several ppl today were like, “hey, how’s it going?” And when I replied with “terrible” they acted really confused. When I said I was upset over the election they were like, “oh that thing? Is that really a big deal?”

My mom and I cried on the phone together this afternoon. She’s in a nursing home, and the lady down the hall from her was crying so hard last night, the aides gave her a sedative. What an awful day it’s been. I haven’t felt so sad, defeated — heartbroken — since 9/11.

It’s really bizarre to see people who are treating today like just any other day (instead of alternating between crying and wanting to set fire to something, like me). But I suppose that’s the magic of privilege - you get to have a normal, boring Wednesday while the rest of us keep hoping to wake up from this…

Same here. My husband took me out to lunch after seeing me ugly cry to cheer me up. People at the restaurant were going about their day as usual, talking and laughing. It felt so alien to me. I felt completely disconnected and tbh angry at whoever thought and felt today was a day like any other.

I already had an unavoidable call with my MIL today. She immediately went for the erasure of LGBT rights. She told me she was happy to get them ‘out of her face’. She said she admires Pence and thinks Trump is pretty Democratic. She hates Muslims, and can’t even identify Sikhs. She thinks BLM is a joke.

I work in a federal office, so we have to comply by the Hatch Act. No politics in the office. But I’ve been crying on and off all day in my cubicle. I haven’t eaten today, or most of yesterday. I barely slept last night. I’m a wreck.

I never thought election results could make me cry and feel like I’m at a funeral. That’s how I feel right now, as if someone dear to me has died.

Is there a reason why people do this? I mean link to their earlier comments to prove that they were correct in their predictions? Do you want us to congratulate you?

“Voting is fine, but it’s not enough about me. How can I make it less about other people and more about my perception of myself?”

*shrugs*

I’m a doctor, in an ED, and management hired “mystery shoppers” to come in recently. We found out when we got an email detailing how they’d wandered around for a while looking “lost” on purpose and no one had helped them to find anything. This was apparently bad, super-bad, and we were all fuck ups. Mention was made…

People were doing that after the attacks in France. Like “Oh my god this hits so close to home, I went to France for my senior year class trip”.

First, one of the only positive things about the time I lived in North Carolina was having a Harris Teeter right up the street.

I was a grocery cashier for like 2 years. Safeway/Vons forced you to thank the customers by the name printed on their receipts and if you had a secret shop you would get a 0% automatically for failing to do so, even if you were perfectly lovely to the shopper. Most people, however, do not like this. Responses would…

Gawd, I only lasted a month at a place where they insisted we do that - I hate being followed around a store being chirpily asked how I am or if they can help, so why would I do that to everyone?! I do ask if people need help, but generally I left people alone and only stepped over if they looked confused or were…

I hate that. Because my personal life right now is sort of limited. It just makes me feel self-conscious to have to think of something to say without sounding like a complete loser.

If you do it at the top of the hour and the bottom of the hour, it’s like you came twice at once.

I thought she was talking about wasting that hour, though. . . ?

This and having another 57 minutes to peruse Jezebel.