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Why you should be nice to your video game clerk
Orbert:
--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 14 May 2008, 10:54 ---Overall, though, in the grand scheme of things, even if you get one of these twats once every shift, that's still on average about one percent of all customers compared to 99% decent to really awesome customers.
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True. But the problem is that it only takes one asshole customer to ruin the whole day, or at least the next few hours. You don't go home that day thinking "Wow, 99% of the people I dealt with were really cool," you go home thinking "I hope that one guy dies slowly and painfully".
That's how it is with me, anyway. It bugs me. They were wrong, I was right, but I still had to take their shit because it's my job. And there's no closure, so it festers. I don't get to tell them off, or see them get their come-uppence. I just have to have faith that Karma will someday catch up with them, which of course won't actually provide me with any satisfaction. I'm working on "just letting it go" but it's tough.
Surgoshan:
I wish I could find my copy of Good Omens, because there's a section right near the beginning that's very applicable to this. In short, a demon working on spreading evil meets up with some of his more old fashioned colleagues. They each regale the others with their tales of delicate subversion of good by seduction/tarnishing of an individual. He in turn tells them that he managed to shut down all mobile phone communication in London for an hour at lunch. At their blank looks he says, "Look, it wasn't easy" and thinks to himself that they just don't understand. You could hear arteries clanging shut across the city. Not only did all those people have their screaming fits, but they then went on to take it out on their waiters, secretaries, spouses, and perfect strangers for the rest of the day and, here's the best part, they thought up all that inventive nastiness on their own. The effective spread of low-grade evil would persist for weeks.
When I was delivering pizza, I always made it a point to help people out, even in rush hour traffic. I like to think it made a difference.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 14 May 2008, 10:54 ---sack up, poor, misunderstood retail workers.
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If you can't brush off one asshole customer and move on with your day quickly, retail is not the proper venue for you to work in. Hell, if you can't brush off assholes and move on, society probably isn't ideal for you and I'd recommend life as a hermit.
Emaline:
--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 15 May 2008, 13:04 ---
I have nothing of value to add, other than calling you all babies, and telling you you need to grow up. Repeatedly.
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0bsessions:
My sincerest apologies. Feel free to continue crying into your blog thread about how unbearably trying the world of retail sales is.
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