They turned off the cameras…But we never stopped watching…”Soft Political”
The shelves are picked over.
The lights flicker.
The music overhead is still playing like nothing’s wrong.
But the front door’s wide open —
And management hasn’t shown up since Tuesday.
Still, the place runs.
Somehow.
Not because of a plan.
Not because someone’s in charge.
But because the rest of us —
quietly, tiredly — just kept doing the work.
The Suits Walked Out
They cashed their checks.
They made their speeches.
They sold the store brand to the highest bidder,
then blamed the stock boy when the register didn’t balance.
They weren’t fired.
They weren’t ashamed.
They just left.
And they assumed no one would notice.
But We Did
We saw the corners cut.
We saw the rules bent for friends and broken for the rest.
We saw the blame shift downhill — always downhill.
And while they played Empire,
we kept clocking in.
Kept the lights on.
Kept the customers calm.
Kept sweeping up the mess.
You Don’t Need a Manager to Know What’s Right
We didn’t need a clipboard.
Didn’t need a name tag with a title.
We just knew:
You help the next person in line.
You don’t lie.
You don’t skim.
You don’t slam the door on your neighbor
and call it patriotism.
They Thought the Store Would Burn Without Them
It didn’t.
We kept it alive.
Held it together with tape, kindness, and worn-out hands.
And every time they said it couldn’t run without them —
it ran better without them.
Now the Books Are Coming Due
The receipts are piled high.
The inventory’s short.
But the truth?
It’s all in the ledger.
They thought no one would check.
But someone always does.
And this time, it’s not a whistleblower.
It’s not a hero.
It’s all of us.
The kind of song that plays while you’re walking past empty shelves…
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ltmpYhr87Mk?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enabl#WhosMindingTheStore #WeNeverLeft #QuietMajority #BooksAreOpen #TruthAtTheCounter #StillStanding
Closing Truth
They asked, Who’s minding the store?
Turns out —
we were.Every single one of us
who kept showing up
when the bosses stopped believing in the place.We’re still here.
The books are open.
And the reckoning is near.
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