Wow, that got really abusive really fast…
Best Buy Store
Submitted 2 months ago by chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
that escalated quickly
ech@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Those last two are just…wow.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I wouldn’t violate my clients trust or disrespect them. That’s fair.
I thought the “I’m subhuman trash and I’ve only to serve my job” was a bit much
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Client: I clicked every link that said “hot singles in your area” and all I got was every trojan known to man, plus some guy named “James” from Bangladesh remoted into my computer and stole all of my banking information, and now I’m destitute.
GSA: that is all completely my fault, sorry I didn’t show up or message you for a sexy night. Please move in with me until you’re back on my feet, as Best Buy says it’s my fault that you’re an complete moron.
rami@ani.social 2 months ago
wow that one actually made me nauseous.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Attaboy.
ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
A different context, but I think this is actually a pretty good rule for software engineering. A number of times I was sure a problem was someone elses fault, only for them to find my own silly mistake that I was overlooking. Sometimes the opposite also happens to me. Now I really make sure and typically find the actual root cause of problems before I suggest someone else caused it.
Draegur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
man i wouldn’t last a DAY there
i only “have clients” when i’m punched in, on the clock, being paid as we speak.
and that fourth sign, i used to honestly earnestly believe that in my past and it’s taken a lot of work to overcome.
i am dangerously tempted to remove that sign in rather spectacularly destructive ways.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 months ago
You also have to remember: the customer is usually stupid as fuck and doesn’t know anything, so that sign is straight up lying.
Draegur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
People who haven’t worked retail, sales, or customer service don’t realize how staggeringly much of any soft-skills role is figuring out what the fuck someone even wants or needs in the first place because they are so bad at articulating it themselves.
But, to be fair, everyone has their expertise in different areas and things that are common sense to me in my specialized role is completely unknown and novel to people who have entirely different sets of circumstances to deal with on a daily basis.
So yes they’re contextually stupid AND they’re also all too often socially stupid too because they are, via failures of rhetorical conditioning, primed to look down on “the help”. Their extant frustration in the face of unmet needs is, when filtered through an attitude of misguided narcissism, thus transformed into sheer distilled repugnance. The faux “status” posturing of capitalism makes fools of everyone interacting with it.
At the end of the day, the solution comes down to:
taking in the full breadth of the client’s situation,
distilling it down to its actionable components,
mapping out the vector of the conflict wherein needs are going unmet,
generating a set of actions that could each individually OR collectively address the conflict,
convincing them that this actually WILL solve their issue, and then, most importantly, and finally: obtaining their willingness to PAY for it.it’s a far more involved process than most salaried keyboard punchers will EVER realize…
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No clue what your potato took s photo of. Best Buy it looks like, but why?
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The country I live there is no Best Buy
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well thanks for clearing everything up.
FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If I saw this in the wall of a place I wanted to shop at, I’d probably just leave
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I believe that these signs are not visible to customers
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Wow. This place sounds more toxic than extremist politics. If I go to an interview and see this on the walls, I will point to it, say “this view is exploitative, toxic, and unacceptably offensive, and I won’t work here”, turn around, and walk off.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The problem is that’s great for them you are not what they want. I started seeing these as like with spelling mistakes in scam emails they act as a filter for people that are not desperate or people that have enough self respect to not put up with it. That way they get the people they want that they can exploit to hell and back.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I agree. But that’s why I say it loud enough for other employees to hear. It plants a seed. Maybe it’ll grow, maybe it won’t. But if it does, it’ll be fruitful in that (soon to be former) employee, and maybe fruitful enough to cause an exodus.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How are you guys seeing the picture clear enough to read
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In Firefox, I had to middle click the actual text/link itself to open the photo in a new tab, then it loaded the full resolution version. When I clicked the actual photo, I got an unreadable low-res version.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, that did it. I am on Firefox as well and was wondering why so many others were getting a clear picture while I was looking at so much blur.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This handy little trick called zoom
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Zooming into a blurry picture just gives to a closer look at the blur. There is some kind of disparity in what some people are seeing and what others are cause when I pull this up I get basically white lines on black backgrounds no matter how much I “enhance”.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
sorry for bad quality but if you zoom in you can read properly : )
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
I have not created value for shareholders in a some time and I’m pretty pleased with that.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
In a non-dystopian future the oligarchs will send the police of the new empire to hunt you down for committing such a crime haha
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Never say “I don’t know”, instead say “i’ll find out”
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
African or European? Asking for a friend.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I serve Kier in all I do
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Obviously working since everyone knows GeekSquad is the peak of quality and professionalism /s
Godort@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Man, it just keeps getting worse.
The first sign is a reasonable expectation, the second sign removes a little agency but is still decent customer service, the third sign reads like a parody of overbearing corporate attitude, and the fourth is just abusive
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The 4th is straight up a symptom of abuse victims.
People literally have to go to therapy to learn how to stop doing this to themselves.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The fifth should be instructions on how to kneel for the boss to get whipped and not complain
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah kneel to get whipped “whipped” that’s what they are doing and not the other thing.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 months ago
Yes Daddy
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Perfect dark comedy. I bet the corporate propaganda guy is a broken ex-clown, too sad to cry, and only his laughter soothes him.