u/TheBeastHuman

I'm 20M, I feel so lost in life due to my stupid decisions that have costed me, what feels like... Everything and has tbh.

Everything was going well in the beginning of 2025 until we hit a massive financial barrier. My mom who was basically the only one providing for the house of 9 we live in has lost her job. I had a job at a burger king in town but I didn't make much of course so we were about to lose everything. My mom's credit is bad, her boyfriend doesn't do crap but she won't leave him. I had a 750 credit so I took out a loan to help me and my family. I forgot to mention that I totaled my car also after my mom lost her job, hit a ditch I didn't know was there and went off road into a tree. I took out $15k and paid every bill that was past due, paid my mom's car off and bought me a cheap car to drive around and paid bills for months on end. I was making payments, sometimes I will be a bit late but I was making much like I said, I was trying to build very strong credit for myself.

Well.. skip those months, I quit BK due to the stress and new management, I went to instacart and was making so much more. Already burned through everything on the loan for food, bills and mortgage. I was doing well until about August of last year. My account completely stopped working. They did an identity check and refused to activate my account. So now here I am, jobless.

I decided while I look for another job to start scraping things I find on the curb or those big construction bins that are on public road. I was making like $100 a week doing this so it was something.. later in August I was checking a construction bin and found a bunch of aluminum from the gutters. Quite a bit also so I started taking them. It's mixed in with a bunch of dry wall and stuff like that and I knew not to touch the ones that only had metal and said metal only. Well... The police didn't like it. One drove by and pulled over and asked what I was doing. I told him I was grabbing some scrap. They then called the contractor of the site and he came over and talked to the police while I stood by the police car. A little bit later I was placed in handcuffs and brought to jail. They took everything in my car that I took and towed it. Apparently.. the dude that had the thing on a public road, ran all the sites. They hit me WITH 5 FELONY THEFT CHARGES OVER $1K. Bro... My bond was $10k and the judge REFUSED TO LOWER IT. I was in jail from August to about last month. I had to get out on a plea deal because my lawyer wasn't doing a good job, prosecutors had all said in the court and I could be facing 25 YEARS the judge said. I have to pay fucking $18k in restitution, they pulled that number out their ass. I barley made crap but apparently it is against the law for taking stuff on a public curb. So.. yeah. They put a police hold on my car and sold it after a few months. The loan went into collections, I still owe like $12k on it and my credit took a MASSIVE HIT. 750 to 526.

My mom got a job as a cleaner for apartments and door dashed on the side to get income. I got a job but every penny is going towards this restitution. I bike to work everyday and learned that my job in the middle of June is moving to a new store... 5 miles away from my house, that's an extra 4 miles to bike.. idk what to do. My mom won't help me out, I feel hated because all anyone talks about Is me and how I went to jail and lost everything. My mom's boyfriend is threatening to kick me out, i can't save up crap for a car or anything. Wtf do I even do here???

I feel like I'm doing a bad job after seeing my metrics. I just became a key like 2 months ago and I have the worst metrics but honestly it's not my fault. My average basket amount is $11 compared to others being $15+. My LV rate is 2.5% but literally everything has a reason. The way I like to run is by putting my drawer on the smaller register, this register doesn't have a turn table and it doesn't even have a scanner. I put the associates on the bigger drawer with the scanner and turn table thing for the bags.

75% of our food aisles are up front where you can directly see the register, same with medicine. I work on stock in the back of the store (pet, cleaning, etc.) and adjust the numbers. I help out on registers when there is a line forming, all the associate gotta do is press the ringer we have and I'll be up there for anything. 90% of the time, people will have literally 1 item and come to me since I have the smaller register. VV$1 stuff, stuff like that. I will have the occasional times where people will come with a bunch of stuff to me and start literally putting items on the scanner. So it ends up scanning and by me even picking it up, I gotta void it since it scanned again. That doesn't even mention me having to void things for the associate because someone didn't want to pay 17 cents because a digital coupon didn't work. (I'm not even joking, they got mad af and told me to cancel everything but one thing). Like am I under performing or something? Should I be running register more to fix these numbers, I wasn't told anything by my SM yet but I know this DM can be very picky on stuff like this. What do I do?!

Ever since I started 3 months ago, every truck has had constant overstock. Not just cat and dog food, of normal food also. I became a key like a month and a half ago and learned that the OH numbers determine alot of what they send us. We been having 900+ unit trucks with so much overstock. 2 weeks ago, we finally got done with the truck before Friday. I decided to go through everything on our shy shelves. So much of it actually came down, I moved stuff to the correct shelves and everything like that. Next day, OHA. I went through 50% of the food and upped the numbers that needed it. Some things said 2 OH when we had 34. Next truck comes, 825 units. Got it done before Friday again. I continue OH, we went through every bit of medicine and I just posted how I went through all the food. Next day, OH on cat and dog food. This week, we got truck. 700 units. I just finished all food OH today. Hopefully next truck is even lower, I need to go through medicine. Anything else to look for in numbers or any tips to get even lower trucks?

Damn, I should have taken a picture but forgot. Some customer came up to me randomly while I was on the floor and asked about a box of trash bags. Now it wasn't a "do you have these in stock or anything" it was asking for a discount. The reason for the discount.... The box was slightly ripped. Like barely ripped. She said how she would take it for 25% off because she didn't know if she was getting every trash bag... She also said how it's the "last one" which... I just literally recovered the trash bags section and upped counts and I knew that unless someone came in and bought 5 of the ones she wanted and ripped one slightly open in the last hour, then her story is bs. I said that I think the only way we will be able to give a discount is if the actual product is damaged. She said well, I worked at Amazon and if you got them in the mail, you would contact us for a refund/discount......

Your telling me, because the box that your going to open.. just because it's slightly ripped and might be missing a single trash bag, you want 1/4 off the original price?

We usually get our normal truck on Mondays and fresh trucks on Fridays. I was told that another store literally down the road from the one I work at has had their fresh truck moved from Thursday to Tuesday. I checked the schedule and I see where it says for this week that we are getting our normal truck on Monday and then it says we get our fresh truck Tuesday. Why in the world would they set the trucks back to back like that?!

So I heard something.. the Dollar general is am currently working at is going to move to a brand new store. Our building is torn down, like literally ceiling tiles missing, holes in the wall bad. Apparently its also becoming a DG market. Gonna happen sometime in summer? What do I expect work wise when it happens? Ik vendors are already cutting their trucks down so its official and confirmed.

I quite literally was screwed over. Long story short, my credit is like 450. Im stupid af, did some time which lead to my car (which ive never been late on a payment for) to basically be impounded by police. Couldn't do anything about it since nobody could access my account to make payments. The bank ended up selling my car without even giving me a chance and placing my auto loan in collections. Im currently working, making $1500 a month or so but I have restitution so im left with like $400 a month. I can get car insurance covered by someone else, I just need a cheap car rn (preferably $0 down if thats even possible) to get me from point A to B. I also have instacart, i cant work on it because I dont have a car..

Also, my phone bill went under collections which is why it went down so low. Im currently working everything out with it but rn, I feel so low in life and getting some car will help a ton.

I quite literally was screwed over. Long story short, my credit is like 450. Im stupid af, did some time which lead to my car (which ive never been late on a payment for) to basically be impounded by police. Couldn't do anything about it since nobody could access my account to make payments. The bank ended up selling my car without even giving me a chance and placing my auto loan in collections. Im currently working, making $1500 a month or so but I have restitution so im left with like $400 a month. I can get car insurance covered by someone else, I just need a cheap car rn (preferably $0 down if thats even possible) to get me from point A to B. I also have instacart, i cant work on it because I dont have a car..

Also, my phone bill went under collections which is why it went down so low. Im currently working everything out with it but rn, I feel so low in life and getting some car will help a ton.