is "Today at my retail job" a community, because it should be
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StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Today at my retail job, a customer decided to stand on the paint desk. Just cause he was mad.
theodewere@kbin.social 5 months ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
is “Today at my retail job” a community, because it should be
Customer facing retail workers are a unrecognized heroes of our society. They face the worst of us and have to keep their sanity in check usually for the lowest wages an employer can get away with. Some countries have compulsory military service. I would support legislation making compulsory customer service in a public facing role a requirement.
Though it has been decades since I worked customer facing retail, the cruel lessons I learned about how people treat others they have power over are absolutely foundational to my own interactions with customer facing workers. I work to inject patience, understanding, and respect when I can to those in customer facing roles. If I hadn’t worked retail, I can’t dismiss horrifying the possibility I might be standing on a paint counter today myself secure in my incorrect convictions and ignorant of my hubris.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
. I would support legislation making compulsory customer service in a public facing role a requirement.
If you disobey a direct order do the retail police send you to the warehouse as the brig?
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] 5 months ago
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VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Surprised that the tales from subs from reddit haven’t been copied over.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There used to be a phenomenon on imgur (for people who spent all their free time there and didn’t know what reddit was) called “work stories.” We had a lot of fun sharing those.
muse@kbin.social 5 months ago
Was it Lowe's? Sounds like a Lowe's customer.
Paint department is hell.
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Menards actually. Still a home improvement store though.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How khaki were his cargo shorts?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Ow! Menards!
AnonWyo@startrek.website 4 months ago
Save big money at My Nards!
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What does a pirate say when somebody kicks him the testicles?
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
wtf
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How bad is life going for someone when they get mad enough at paint to stand on a retail sales counter?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I WANT MY YUMMY DETERGENT
noride@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Probably not as bad as you’re thinking, he’s actually been waiting for this moment for years.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
“Color me surprised.”
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Can you just choose to be a POC like that?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not quite following you. Are you suggesting this is pent up righteous indignation? Or like they feel it is an injustice so egregious they now get to “make a stand” or something?
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I think the suggestion is that he’s always wanted to stand on the desk, and was just angry enough to feel justified in doing so.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not very. Or incredibly.
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sometimes I appreciate people like that to an extent. It’s a reminder to myself that I’m not a shitty person.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think I found the poster Mr. PaintStander has on his wall.
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