Huge difference
I can actually work without worrying if anyone can see my moobs. I felt awkward before, and I know I looked awkward, especially during the summer with all my layers. I didn't bind. Instead I wore a tight sports bra with a tee shirt over that. Then my work shirt. And then I had a hoodie I almost always never took off. I used the excuse that I was constantly in and out of freezers and coolers all day, and it did not make sense to take off the hoodie only to put it back on. Plus some people in other departments wore hoodies too that they never seemed to take off.
But now, now I don't need the hoodie. I still bring it to work and put it on when I go into the freezer. But it's just my work shirt usually, and it's great. A girl at my work did try to put a sticker on my name badge which hangs over where the left moob would have been, and I stepped backwards out of reach, only to realize, "Hey, what am I doing?" I laughed at myself a little and let her put the sticker on me.
As for the stocking. It's not so bad. I'm not doing anything I don't feel comfortable with, and it gets easier every day. Before I went on leave, stocking was a nightmare. But for some reason when I am not at work, crap hits the fan. My manager took over my job while I was gone, and he realized just how hard it is. He eased up on the ordering by A LOT. I stock the Deli in a Walmart super center, and often on top of my normal stocking duties, I had to stop what I was doing to help out in the Deli because we were so short staffed. Moral was low, and we had twenty million call ins a week. When I left, they started pulling people in the office and writing them up for all the stuff they had been getting away with for so long. My store went on a hiring craze, and hired six people for the Deli, and a bunch of others all throughout. Now we are on a hiring freeze. HA HA. My stocking gets done so early, I can actually help out in the deli without worrying about all the things I am not getting done. And I can do all the extra stuff I am supposed to do but never had the time for, like clean the cases. It is so weird and great, and sometimes even a little boring! I hope it lasts.
As for any pain, if I feel even a little bit, I stop what I am doing and go do something else and come back later. Or I will try to do it a different way. Reaching up high is still difficult sometimes. Like today, we were trying to hang a sign up, and normally I could reach it, but it did not feel too comfortable. I told my manager I could not reach, and he said, "Wow. Really? But you are taller than me." Then he got a ladder. Only one person knows what my surgery was for, and it is not him. People are starting to ask now, and I just tell them it's personal, and they leave it at that.
