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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I never used that bullshit voice, simply talked to customers as I would a stranger a friend referred to me for help. Guess what? Hardly ever got disrespected, let alone chewed out.

“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that–”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–”

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

–from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.

tl;dr: Treat people as people and not “customers”. Be amazed.

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