Oh, I love my coworkers plenty, too. They make this shit bearable. And yeah. I do need this job for the benefits. That's why I hate them. They take advantage of people in poverty like me and dangle benefits over our head they know we can't get elsewhere and use it as an excuse to pay us minimum wage that no one can actually live off of. Every retail corporation does this. For someone that's in the same job as me, it strikes me as peculiar that you're unable to understand that and instead feel the need to attack me. You call me an impressionable child when you're unable to notice such a glaringly obvious aspect of the relationship between employer and employee at jobs like this. I made fewer assumptions about you than you made about me, but your behavior in this post does hint at a few characteristics of yourself and your life- you're coming from an immature, privileged point of view and never had to deal with poverty. You haven't dealt with the types of struggles in life that force you to ruthlessly look out for yourself to survive and so you're able to buy into the bullshit this corporation is selling you. You don't need this job unlike many of your fellow baristas who either can't afford healthcare or exorbitant college tuition and don't yet have a degree to find a job that doesn't manipulate them and treat them like disposable trash. You see these drinks we make as fun, people like me see this as bullshit this fucked up system forces us to go through just to be able to earn the privilege of supporting ourselves. I could go through your post history and find shit to throw ad-hominems at you like you've done to me, but I'm not gonna go that low and leave my point at this.