• partial_accumen
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      7510 months ago

      How bad is life going for someone when they get mad enough at paint to stand on a retail sales counter?

      • @[email protected]
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        2310 months ago

        Probably not as bad as you’re thinking, he’s actually been waiting for this moment for years.

        • partial_accumen
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          510 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?

          • @[email protected]
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            1310 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.

            • norbert
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              1210 months ago

              I’m imagining a grown man indignantly yelling about his Warner Houses Velvet Peacock actually being Royal Garter but secretly having the time of his life standing on the counter. So happy he can see soooo far, almost to the other side of the store! “It’s like I’m a giant, rarrrr!” he thinks.

    • theodewere
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      3810 months ago

      is “Today at my retail job” a community, because it should be

      • partial_accumen
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        3510 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.

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          210 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?

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          810 months ago

          Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

      • @[email protected]
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        410 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
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      910 months ago

      Was it Lowe’s? Sounds like a Lowe’s customer.

      Paint department is hell.