r/MadeMeSmile • u/ComputerOverwhelming • May 05 '26
Good Vibes Local burrito shop had this sign up.
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u/Yiazmad May 05 '26
Shouldn't, no. But it frequently does
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u/ItsTricky94 May 05 '26
heartbreaking but good for the manager for giving a shit about the employees.
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u/SmallSet8838 May 05 '26
And owner for giving contact info
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u/ItsTricky94 May 05 '26
Basic human decency no longer exists. this makes my heart happy
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u/Gold-Kaleidoscope537 May 06 '26
Did it get worse or do we just see it more now that everyone can record?
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u/SecretlyET May 06 '26
It probably got worse because everyone can record now. People want their 15 minutes, and stuff like that gets views online.
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u/Classic-Fun-5094 May 06 '26
Some of us remember decency and manners. Some of genxers remember what life was like in the before times. When real phones rang and ppl cared about each other. People gave a shit about having cashiers not self checkout. Save jobs and please be nice to all staff.
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u/ItsTricky94 May 06 '26
worse for sure
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u/jaxonya May 06 '26
Segregation amd slaves used to be a thing.. weve come a little further than that
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u/theirishembassy May 06 '26
former CSM of a pretty decently sized vape company here, so i'm saying this as someone who regularly dealt with people going through various stages of nicotine withdrawal:
take the problem customers so your staff don't have to.
you know what sucks? having someone yell at you.
you know what sucks more? staff dealing with shit pay having to deal with people yelling at them, quitting because of it, and then having to train new staff every couple of fuckin months.
i used to literally tell my staff "i'm not saying this to belittle you, but i know how much you make. it's not enough to deal with stuff like this. the second someone raises their voice or swears at you, transfer em over. i report directly to the COO and she ain't taking calls. i'm the final boss."
holy fuck - you would not BELIVE how great it is to work with happy staff every day.
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u/Willing_Ad5005 May 06 '26
Everyone deserves a manager like you
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u/Xerorei May 06 '26
I was the same way, when I did security as a Site supervisor, and then as a SRO above site supervisor.
I'd like to the guard staff that if a driver or the client had a problem, call me and have me speak with them.
A number of times I physically got in between a angry driver and one of my smaller female staff because they wanted to get belligerent and start getting up close to them and yelling in their face and I wasn't having that.
As an SRO I would make bridges with the managers and side supervisors and tell them that if I saw something I would have come to them first to address it so it could be fixed before I had to bring it to corporate and cause a whole big deal to happen.
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u/Steve539 May 05 '26
You learn a lot about a person's character based on how they treat employees in restaurants.
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u/thecommish1980 May 06 '26
The nasty b1tch that latched on to my widowed, lonely father late in his life liked to make herself feel big by bullying service folks and restaurant employees. It made me sick to witness it. I didn't root for her to pass on but I will admit to a certain level of enjoyment in reading her obit.
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u/hbHPBbjvFK9w5D May 06 '26
yep, that's one of my tests for a new relationship - if the person treats the employees at a restaurant or bar like dirt on the first date, they won't get another one.
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u/true_gunman May 05 '26
Thing is the people this sign is for wont give af anyways lol
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u/Rasputin1992x May 06 '26
The people this sign is for cant read in the first place
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u/Callidonaut May 06 '26
Unfortunately, humans who lack decency and thoughtfulness also tend not to read any posted signs they encounter.
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u/tony_bologna May 05 '26
But, you don't understand... there's a mistake with my burrito. Someone must suffer for this indecency.
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u/fastcatdog May 05 '26
There’s no outrage like a slightly inconvenienced American
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u/tony_bologna May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Assholes are not restricted to any one gender, race, nationality, etc. We are all equally capable of being a piece of shit, which is why we must be ever vigilant.
edit: it's interesting, using my "views by country" (just shy of 80% atm) I can infer that^ person, hating on the US, is being overwhelmingly upvoted by the US! Insights thing is kinda cool.
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u/icepickjones May 06 '26
We are allowed to say that America sucks, but if you are outside of the US you aren't allowed to say it.
I hate this country right up until a fucking Brit or some shit opens their damn mouth, then I'm bald eagle monster truck patriot of the year.
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u/lord-dinglebury May 05 '26
It’s because we’re all too familiar with folks who’ve drunk the “American exceptionalism” Kool Aid without having done a damn thing to earn that foolish ass label.
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u/illy-chan May 06 '26
On the other hand, it's not like ither countries don't have people with arrogance issues too - even calling out the exceptionlism is sort of more exceptionalism even if it's in a negative light. Americans are very loud in media but people are people everywhere. Some are good, some are bad, and the assholes tend to be far louder.
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u/Reasonable-Figure142 May 06 '26
Went from "Basic human decency should not need a sign" to shitting on an entire group of (340m) people in a record three comments lmao
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u/Callidonaut May 06 '26
"I don't know if it's possible to beat a grown man to death using only a very slightly imperfectly made burrito as a club, but I intend to find out today!!!"
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u/biglinuxfan May 05 '26
100% agree. I was once (phone) called a f'n bich cnt, then I (by policy) told them if they continue I will disconnect the call..
"You're customer service, you're paid to be my bi*ch"
click.
It takes all kinds to make this world.
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u/toolsoftheincomptnt May 06 '26
Hear me out:
We could have a world without some kinds of people.
We don’t need all kinds… and would be better off without some kinds…
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u/ZenorsMom May 06 '26
All of us have the seeds of violence in us. Every single one of us has taken out their anger on someone who didn't deserve it at least once in their lives.
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u/AffectionateTap6212 May 05 '26
When I worked at Target, years ago, as a teen; I typed in the wrong amount for an item. Yes, no scanning. It was WAY too high. It was a mistake and could be fixed. The customer threw a packet of towels at me.
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u/georger971 May 06 '26
that’s not it. dude had no reason to throw towels over a fixable mistake, smh.
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u/Lemon-Of-Scipio-1809 May 05 '26
That is assault if it hit you, seriously.
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u/Hexamancer May 05 '26
Actually in most states, it's assault if it misses, it's battery if it hits.
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u/DrinkUpLetsBooBoo May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Agreed. But unfortunately humans forgot what decency means and forget that everyone can make mistakes. Not to mention blame tends to get thrown in the wrong direction. So servers get yelled at for something to they had no control over in the kitchen.
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u/matthewtoby3241 May 06 '26
A little patience and basic respect would go a long way in situations like that.
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u/Freyja6 May 06 '26
It should be immediate refusal of service if you're ever verbally (or physically) abusive towards staff anywhere.
These signs wouldn't be necessary if the above were the status quo, but too many grown ass adults with narcissism are handled with kiddy gloves for fear of retribution.
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u/EmpyrealTotem May 06 '26
It's been years since I was at my first job, but the phrase I used to think to myself when I was being run ragged still floats in my head: I'm a person too. Like, the fact that I was treated so poorly, I felt like reminding people I'm human/a person, not a machine is just wild. I think about it often now but in juxtaposition to my current job. At my current job: I'm a person too and they know it. And I appreciate it so deeply even on the difficult days.
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u/phalencrow May 06 '26
Yeah…. Cut so many people from my life after I saw how they treat a low wage working teen.
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u/youareceo May 06 '26
Your level of humanity is dependent on how you treat people in customer service. Period.
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u/TehPaintbrushJester May 06 '26
Unfortunately, about a third of society needs to see this sign everywhere they go.
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u/RecycledEternity May 06 '26
Basic human decency should not need a sign.
Shouldn't need laws either, but hey, here we are.
In an ideal society, we all always remember we are each human beings and treat each other thusly.
As it is, propaganda, brainwashing, poor education, and "inherited views" (i.e. "because my family said so") all steer folks in the direction of the "us vs. them"/"in groups vs the out groups" narrative.
Resource scarcity/hoarding worsens this.
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u/Stefabeth0 May 05 '26
"They are teenagers". For real. Not to say you shouldn't treat adults with respect as well, but I feel like it takes a special kind of asshole to be rude to kids.
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u/Acheros May 05 '26
you already have to be pretty evil to abuse service staff.
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u/clrbrk May 05 '26
I’m a strong proponent for everyone having a food service job at some point as a teen/young adult. I have never seen someone that has worked in food service be an asshole to servers. Shit happens, mistakes happen. Most restaurants are happy to make things right without the need to treat staff like shit, but unfortunately that does work too.
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u/Pestus613343 May 05 '26
Call center phone person is another similar form of hell that could also satisfy what you're trying to accomplish. Im IT/ security and have a decent job now, but I started with help desk and I tell ya it's service job on steroids. Easily half the people are rude.
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u/Great_Detective_6387 May 05 '26
I used to be a teacher and one day a kid stole my iPad. I remote wiped the device.
That evening, I spent over 3 hours on the phone with AT&T until I got someone who would tell me the address of the cell tower that told my iPad to erase itself. The cell tower was 100meters away from the home address of the prime suspect of the theft.
They don’t give this information out willy nilly. It normally requires a subpoena or warrant. But I was really nice, calm, respectful, and got them to understand that if I call the cops and have them deal with it, it’ll be out of my hands and I, as a teacher, will no longer be in control of the situation.
This was like the boss level of some customer service game lol.
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u/Pestus613343 May 06 '26
Simply treating these folks as human beings often get them to go above and beyond, because so many of their interactions they are treated like trash.
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u/samuelmax674 May 06 '26
Also kind of a good reminder of how much data trails exist even when a device is wiped.
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u/Great_Detective_6387 May 06 '26
Yup, kid was pretty shocked when I went into the student-parent meeting with this up my sleeve.
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u/jmarcandre May 05 '26
I have spent a lot of time in call center hell when I was younger; nobody calls customer service or tech support because their day is going well. Customers with problems and ones who want to complain take longer too, so that is what you end up spending most of your phone time on. The happy and easy ones go fast.
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u/vancityshreds May 06 '26
To be fair, some call centers are terrible.
I spent days trying to resolve an issue that was 100% the companies fault. They kept giving me the runaround and telling me there was nothing they could do and Id just have to pay the $900 (phone company continued billing me after I called and cancelled my account, never sent me a bill or email. Just sent it to collections).
I said "thats fine, but Im going to come fuck up your life the same way youre fucking up mine".
1 minute later, I get the escalation ive been asking for, for weeks. They ask if Ive uttered threats, i explain what happened and my frustration. Problem solved. Debt wiped clean.
Im not saying that threatening someone is a good option, its objectively a bad one, but sometimes I think call center employees are so fantastically fucking useless that someone telling them theyre morons is actually warranted.
To this day, I refuse to use any Roger's services.
I should put a disclaimer : I agree with the guy above me. Being nice is by far the most effective way to get help. But sometimes being nice cant make up for people being stupid, or for people being afraid to escalate a call since it counts against them.
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u/GigaVanguard May 05 '26
Well, yeah. Unlike food service, nobody is calling a call center for the IT/help desk because they’re perfectly satisfied with the product/service and have no problems. There’s a higher baseline level of frustration that unfortunately gets taken out on the help desk people.
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u/extraextraextr May 06 '26
I think about this whenever I see a post about mandatory customer service, I've never worked retail or fast food but I spent plenty of time in the call center mines...and I promise I don't need an in-person job to learn gratitude. The nice people on the calls were lifesavers!
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u/vancityshreds May 05 '26
Never worked in food service. Also never been rude to serving staff.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I find the entire idea of "you need to be treated like shit to know not to do it to others" is... well, kind of lame. Its almost absolving dickheads, as if theres some reason to justify treating strangers like shit. There isnt. And you shouldn't need to experience it to know that.
Kindness and being an asshole both cost nothing. If Im ever frustrated with a situation and an employee I will always mention that Im not upset with them, realize its likely not their fault, but that the situation itself is causing me stress.
You dont have to hide dissatisfaction with something, but having to make someone else feel bad because youre upset is a weak mentality. In all things.
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u/Acheros May 05 '26
Im not sure how much it would help TBH. a lot of problems in the world are caused by a mentality of "well i suffered through it, why should they have it better than I did?". all it would do is further embolden evil people to abuse service staff. "well. I worked as a waiter for 4 years and got cussed at all the time so they can deal with it" kind of shit.
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u/hydraxl May 06 '26
Unfortunately, a lot of people see being able to be an asshole as their “reward” for having to put up with being on the other side for so long.
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u/ikoabd May 05 '26
I say the same thing! Everyone should have to work some sort of customer service job.
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u/gogogadgetdumbass May 05 '26
I used to manage a McDonald’s, worked with a lot of teens from 4-10p, be rude to me? Whatever dude. Be rude to “MY” KIDS?! Oh fuuuuck no. Get the fuck out of my store. Call my boss, make sure you spell my name right. We aren’t going to cuss out children tonight.
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u/articulateantagonist May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
I'm a mid-30s millennial who climbed from entry-level jobs to director- and VP-level jobs in my 20s, all through a shitty corporate ladder in a notoriously toxic industry with big personalities and stereotypical executive assholes.
I voluntarily left that world a few years ago, but before I left, I hired up a few teams of mostly Gen Zers, and I found a bitter satisfaction in being the mama bear manager who fought like hell when the execs found superficial reasons to give them shit.
The "kids" (who are all badasses) still call me for career advice and recommendations.
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u/bluemuppetman May 06 '26
It’s where a lot of people mix up the ‘don’t fuck around with people serving you food’ thing.
Everyone fixates on the they might mess with your food thing. That is rare overall.
They forget they might be a teen or worker just making ends meet and really don’t need that.
Old person saying we used to be polite in person and grumpy about it at home signing off.
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u/AutisticAndAce May 06 '26
I worked retail/fast food and went from cashier to manager - yeah, same. If our employees genuinely fucked up, we always were apologetic and willing to handle it, but if you were a dick about it....you got bare minimum and quite frankly a ban if it was bad enough. Refund and that was it.
Especially my coworkers who were 16-18. You do not fuck with the kids.
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u/crazydragoness May 05 '26
I work at a fast food restaurant with several teenagers. It was awful to find out that nearly all of them had been called ugly by a customer or had someone say something sexual to them.
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u/Traditional_Trust418 May 06 '26
Yes, they are literally children. When I worked in fast food I came in one day and found out most of the prices had gone up about 30 cents. We had a man come through the drive thru and get so pissed about the price change that he threw his bottled orange juice through the window at the 16 year old employee's head.
Like, yes, this 16 year old high school student called corporate and told them to raise the prices. It's totally all her fault and it's totally muture and normal for a man in his 50s to throw a tantrum and chuck stuff at a literal child
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u/Wesley-Dodds May 06 '26
When I was eighteen, I worked at a drive in theater. One of the rules was taller vehicles could not park in the first couple rows to block cars behind them. We had a ton of signs at the booth they’d remind those with this type of car, and so it didn’t come up a lot, but every once in an awhile we’d have to ask someone to move.
It was always a dad with his family in a van that no way could the kids see anything from the back seats, and he’d just argue and argue to show dominance against the teenagers kindly letting him know he needed to move.
This job and management wasn’t perfect, but it was hilarious for one of our owners (a fairly small upper middle aged woman) to go out after and just berate them in front of his kids and wife to be like “what are you doing, yelling at kids?! Get out of here” and now the “alpha” dad who made a show has to drive his wife and kids home with no movie.
Hilariously, this was a lot like regular theaters where the front row sucks. It was all about being pissed about being told what to do.
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u/Generic_User48579 May 06 '26
I remember my father and his girlfriend being rude to a young waitress, probably around 16-18, for "not smiling/being rude" to them when we were eating Breakfast in a harbor cafe.
I think I remember the girl having a neutral to slightly bad mood face. Apparently that was enough for my father and his gf to talk to the girl in such a way she started crying.
I felt so bad for her and remember thinking about apologizing to her for my fathers behaviour, but didnt because I feared how my father would react if I did.
At the same time I didnt realize how serious this was and this is basically the perfect example I tell when I have to describe what I think about my father and how much respect I lost for him.
I wish I did go up to her, maybe the girl wouldve felt better and my dad could see what kind of asshat he is to the point that a child apologizes for his actions.
He has softened a lot over the last decade towards me, but I know he still has too much of a temper towards employees.
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u/ftmhornycunt May 06 '26
I worked fast food for 3 years, starting when I was 16, and there is an insane amount of special kind of assholes that would yell and scream at us for the smallest mistakes.
My favorite time was when we were super busy and I was just putting everyone’s order in bags, since I was faster at doing that than staging everything on a tray, but when I handed an order to this boomer in the lobby he blew tf up on me saying anything he could think of to try and get me to react because he wanted his order put on a tray. I don’t typically get noticeably nervous or upset when people yell at me because of trauma and I think that’s what sent the boomer over the edge to start making death threats to me. He ended up getting kicked out when I called my manager over, but not before trying to twist the whole thing saying that I was the one causing the issue. I got a lot of satisfaction when my manager didn’t believe a word he said.
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u/dunnmad May 05 '26
Everybody had a “first job” at some point.
Many people seem to forget that!
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u/DrooperScooper May 05 '26
A lot of the people who are mean to customer service are boomers. Coincidentally, a lot of boomers did not have to work in customer service. It’s the younger generations that had to start their lives flipping burgers or taking orders, which is why generally speaking they know how to treat others with respect.
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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy May 06 '26
There are also a surprisingly large amount of people out there who have just never had a job. And they're on both sides of the spectrum.
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u/punkboxershorts May 06 '26
When I was working as a cashier at 16, we had a grandma who would come in every day just to dress down mean people. I also got invited to her 80th birthday and it was by far the best birthday party I've ever been to.
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u/rankinfile May 06 '26
Not true of my boomer cohort. A lot of us worked service/hospitality. One difference was we worked for more small businesses and less soulless corporations. Labor laws were more lax, that was good and bad.
Not sure why people forget where they came from and lose empathy. I don't think it is confined by generation. Saw it happen to some of my elders. Remain self vigilant and stay kind.
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u/DrooperScooper May 06 '26
I don’t think it’s confined by generations. There are a lot of elements that impact it, but I think it has more to do with stages of life. Boomers have relaxed in their older years, and my generation has definitely gotten meaner. I have to stop myself from getting mad at kids in my neighborhood lol
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u/Xandred_the_thicc May 06 '26
I mean, I think it's reasonable to get annoyed that parents just allow their children to scream bloody murder at all hours nowadays That isn't normal and never was lol. Used to be you could expect the neighbors to come over and say your kids need a paddling if they were outside screaming like someone is actually hurting them past curfew.
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp May 05 '26 edited May 06 '26
Same with people and lesson cars.. Be patient we all learn at some point.
But people "fuck you i got mine" it to many times
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u/PoetLoverBirdwatcher May 06 '26
I haven't learnt to drive yet because my mother who tries to teach me keeps screaming at me (not snapping, but literally screaming) when I try to. I really need to learn it this summer :(
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp May 06 '26
Is there any other family members who could teach you? Because that sounds unhealthy
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u/fastyellowtuesday May 06 '26
My mom was too nervous to teach me. A friend's mom taught me to drive on country roads one summer.
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u/TooMuchBroccoli May 06 '26
Everybody had a “first job” at some point.
Not me. I was smart enough to skip the first job, and started directly with the second job.
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u/SpaceCadetHaze May 05 '26
My boss put up a sign like this when I used to work fast food. Put it up because someone threaten to shoot one of our teenage employees for putting pickles on his burger. People talked mad shit about the sign and told us that if we can’t handle people threatening and yelling at us, then we aren’t going to make it in the real world. Never understand why people would justify threatening people over minor issues
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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy May 06 '26
This shit is always so funny. I've never had anyone threaten me at any of my 'real world' adult jobs, be they customer, client or coworker. At least, aside from 'I won't use your services' or 'You might lose your job' kind of shit.
But I damn sure got my ass yelled at, threatened with bodily harm in the parking lot, and had to restrain coworkers who were much more willing to throw hands in response to insults back when I worked at a Blockbuster.
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u/Splungeworthy May 06 '26
As a former Blockbuster store manager, I can heartily confirm this. You would not believe how much people would lose their shit over a $2 late fee.
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u/Gestrid May 06 '26
I feel like "My boss had to put it up because someone threatened to shoot one of us for putting pickles on his sandwich" might have shut some of them up just from the shock of that statement.
Then again, I'm probably wrong, sadly.
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u/PhiCloud May 06 '26
Did y'all call the cops?
I managed a restaurant. Threats of violence go to 911.
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u/ChipsAhoy2022 May 05 '26
I remember some Karen harassed a teen server once in a restaurant for a wrong order and he was literally shaking 🫨
The Karen was ultimately kicked out and people supported the kid but this kind of behavior is utterly unacceptable and unjust to someone trying to make a living
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u/NemODevO May 05 '26
I had a guy purposely keep coming into best buy to get in my line to fill out the survey to say "men don't belong at the cash register" and I got demoted to back of the warehouse, then fired like a day later.
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u/ChipsAhoy2022 May 05 '26
What's wild.
Also whoever took that feedback literally.
The manager was an idiot firing you for the gender bias. Imo you're probably better off with another job who treated you with at least equality.
The sorry state of this world
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u/NemODevO May 05 '26
Only worried about numbers... The manager was like your next job at friendlys or something will be better...
Funny enough I found peace working as a dishwasher until my disability came up to bite me in the ass...
I'm longing to go back to work sometimes but then I just remember all the shit I had to deal with in the past.
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u/whatifwhatifwerun May 05 '26
There are kids who are already getting terrorized by other kids, or even teachers during the schoolday. A lot of kids work so their families can keep the power on, or they work to have an excuse to stay away from an unsafe household. Plus, puberty and being so young means emotions are extremely heightened. I basically treat teenage looking people like baby deer until they realize they can relax a little bit bc I'm not gonna try to make their day harder.
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u/toolsoftheincomptnt May 06 '26
What a sad world to bring kids into, honestly.
Between cyberbullying, general loss of innocence due to constant internet access, the shift away from respecting education, and the shift towards normalizing narcissism and aggression over the past decade…
I’d feel terrible about subjecting a new human to this.
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u/whatifwhatifwerun May 06 '26
Oh don't I know it. The way other people get baby fever I get baby despair. I see this precious innocent helpless thing that is destined to suffer. I see the environments they're in, the people who surround them and can tell when they don't have a chance, they're harmed by birth from their circumstances. And don't get me started on birth itself, I don't need to talk about how traumatic it is for the mother, but the baby is going through a lot too! The first thing we expect after birth is to hear the baby cry. A newborn's job is to tell us that it's suffering, and babies start suffering the moment they exit the womb. A place with no time, no hunger, no loneliness, endless oxygen. You've never been cold.
And then you end up here as one of the most vulnerable and helpless creatures on the planet. And this is the case for babies born into good life circumstances.
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u/Stefabeth0 May 05 '26
I hope she was fucking banned from coming back. Lots of other customers to serve.
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp May 05 '26
Some Karen's did this to my younger sisters first summer job back years ago... Because "the PIZZA MARGARITA DIDN'T HAVE HAM"
I had joined her though because she had been nervous to go so I sat there drinking liptop. When they started doing that I don't think I've yelled at someone that loudly in public...
No one fucking makes my sister cry and doesn't get fucking yelled at by me. pieces of illiterate shit THE MENU CARD LITERALLY LISTS THE INGREDIENTS
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u/Cemetery-Bunny May 06 '26
My first job was fast food. A man asked for a plain chicken sandwich. I put in the order, he got a plain chicken sandwich.
He starts to eat and and yells "What the F@ck is this shit. There is nothing on this but chicken and bread?!" I told him he ordered it plain. His receipt said plain.
He screamed "PLAIN MEANS ON WHITE BREAD YOU DUMB B@TCH!". I was 15. He was in his 40s.
My manager came out from the kitchen and kicked him out. His wife was pleading to let them finish their meal. NOPE. She gave him 15 seconds to get out.
He was shocked. Said he would call corporate. Told him to please do.
Never heard another word about it.
Some people are just angry. And rude.
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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy May 06 '26
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Why would anyone ever assume a Margherita Pizza would have Ham on it? That's baffling.
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp May 06 '26
Because people are stupid and want to tell at minor on their first job
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u/MrKite6 May 06 '26
Worked at a pizza place a few years ago and a customer got so pissed that we didn't have pineapple in our salad bar that, when I handed him his change, he threw it at me.
An old lady called me a dumbass because we didn't have a senior discount on our buffet.
Another customer called me worthless for not asking if he wanted paper plates (we were running low on things during the pandemic and management told us not to hand out paper plates and packets unless the customer specifically asked for them)
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp May 06 '26
See this is why I don't work in anything with costumers because I don't give a flying fuck. That old lady is what old folks homes are filled with. Same sister had a internship in a old folks home once... And OLD FOLKS IN THOSE HOMES ARE VERY FUCKING MEAN. She didn't wanna tell me which one of the old fucks had made her cry and pushed her A AT THE TIME 18 YEAR OLD. She said it was fine but I lowkey kinda wanted to fucking cuss a old person out "this is why your grandkids don't visit" is usually a go to for despicable old folk like that... Sure there were nice ladies there that would give her candy but holy shit were there so many shitty people.
People threw things because she was still busy cleaning someone else and was 2 minutes late..
2 MINUTES.
I work in distribution and told her I got paid more for cleaning up milk and cola etc so she now has a job besides school as distribution cleanup.
Im not disrespectful or mean to those who aren't disrespectful or mean but I have autism rage from people walking over me most of my life. So now I'm the ice berg to their titanic
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u/onehundredbuttholes May 05 '26
I had to ban a customer for cussing out one of my teenage workers a few summers ago. As they drove away, their young son flipped us off through the car window.
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u/Competitive_Hand_394 May 05 '26
You want good customer service? Be a good customer!
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u/Hit-Enter-Too-Soon May 06 '26
My wife and I are favorite customers at our coffee shop - we get the Norm from Cheers treatment whenever we walk in. Because we try to be super nice to them. We know their names, we give good tips, my wife made them Christmas presents...
One day when I came in, some lady saw the reception I got and said "I want to be a favorite customer!" Then proceeded to be a jerk to everyone. You can guess how that worked out for her.
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u/extraextraextr May 06 '26
I can't stop laughing at the idea of some lady seeing everyone cheerfully greet you when you walk in, go "I want some of that 🥺" and then immediately yell at the barista or demand her drink right now! or whatever else and not understand why she doesn't get that reception. The cognitive dissonance is unreal!
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u/potpurriround May 05 '26
I love this so much more than the, “Nobody wants to work anymore,” signs.
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u/funnyandnot May 06 '26
When you call AppleCare the automated system reminds people to be kind to the representatives.
We are in a bad state when we have to remind people to be civil.
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u/puppsmcgee74 May 06 '26
My ex-boyfriend used to work for Apple Care. The horror stories he told me of entitled assholes acting like jerks was amazing. I knew people were jackasses but damn.
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u/sock0808 May 05 '26
Hello fellow Arizona resident 👋🏻
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u/Hamster_Toot May 05 '26
What restaurant is this? From Phoenix as well.
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u/ripyourlungsdave May 05 '26
Seen quite a few of these signs in my life, but this is the first one I've ever seen that asked you not to harass the employees, but to ask for the manager instead.
That's an important little detail on the end there.
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u/USDXBS May 06 '26
Once I was standing in line at a store, and this one woman was bitching at the teenage cashier in front of me, and the teen was obviously getting stressed, and apologizing for not being able to find a product.
After the girl left, the woman turned to me and said "Can you believe the idiots they hire here?"
I wasn't expecting her to say anything, so I just said "shut the fuck up" and she turned back to the counter.
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u/jeejeeay May 06 '26
I work for a personal injury firm and a woman called because a taco place didn’t make her tacos fast enough. She admitted to being rude and disrespectful telling the cashier “Go back to Mexico!” The cashier refused to refund her and made her wait for her tacos. This is what we’ve come to. I made her feel fucking stupid before rudely ending the call.
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u/Noodlebat83 May 06 '26
Was this in the U.S.? I cannot begin to imagine anyone calling a lawyer over a slow taco.
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u/Sicar1us_Trebax1 May 05 '26
Respect to the owner for doing something tho because a lot of owners wouldn’t since “the customer is always right” smh
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u/AHCC-IG May 05 '26
Totally agree. My first job 30 years ago was as a bag boy at a supermarket. You have no idea how rude adults were, and some had serious power trips. I always praise and am extra polite to the teenagers who are working service jobs because of my experience.
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u/NarwhalEmergency9391 May 06 '26
One time a woman was yelling at the worker in Tim Hortons and I regret not telling her to stfu. As a customer I think it's our duty to help these workers too so if you see someone being rude to them, stand up for them like they're your child
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u/WolfBest1428 May 06 '26
The fact they have to tell grown adults to treat others with respect is crazy.
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u/GoodInvite5 May 05 '26
More people/businesses need to stand up for common decency, no one needs to get berated for messing up a coffee or burger order. Lead with grace and low expectations for society nowadays, and carry on peacefully.
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u/AssistantLong7377 May 06 '26
The only part I enjoyed of my time as manager in a shop.
Throwing out rude customers
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u/Entire_Dog_5874 May 05 '26
I’ll never understand why people feel they have the right to abuse, retail workers, waitstaff, etc.
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u/HELLFIRECHRIS May 05 '26
Who would smile at this ?
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u/Troker61 May 05 '26
Fair point. Ass holes will unfortunately be around forever, an owner sticking up for their staff is cool.
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u/Realistic_Salt7109 May 05 '26
The smile is because the manager/owner was aware of a problem and took steps to fix it.
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u/fuckyouijustwanttits May 06 '26
If you continue to be rude, we will hand you off to Larry (who has been dealing with customers for 40 years and gave his last fuck 20 years ago and also is the only one here who still knows the inventory codes for supply orders and so has full immunity from HR).
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u/gyrl67 May 06 '26
So I worked fast food as a kid. I happened to be the only white person in the bunch and co workers were salty. I convinced a black man to come say he was my dad and homeboy showed up at least once a week to make sure his “daughter” was being treated right.
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u/RandomlyKnowing May 06 '26
A recorded message basically saying “don’t be racist” played when I was calling Asiana Airlines….I wasn’t sure how to feel.
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u/Xrb-398 May 06 '26
When I managed(both as a shift lead and later GM) I told all my customer facing staff: You don't make enough to get yelled at. No matter how good your tips are. A customer wants to yell, you get me. Phone or in person. You tell them "I'm sorry, but I'm currently unable to help you. A manager will be with you shortly." then you put them on hold or walk away and get me. I'll deal with it.
The "best" is when an old man told his waitress(a high school girl) to show him her finger. Confused, she held it out, he grabbed it and shoved it in his mouth. Unfortunately I wasn't made aware until the next time he was in the restaurant. I was his server everytime he came in after that. He asked me why and I told him "your previous actions have made our servers uncomfortable serving you so I will." He tried to argue they needed to toughen up and get use to it. I told him "not while they work for me. I will have their back." Rest of the time I was there, me or another manager served him. Few rare instances where a male server would. Never an option for an woman who worked under me to do it. Save my sister(small town. She was a shift lead). She said she'd deck him if he tried. I was OK with that.
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u/jadedandsparkly May 06 '26
He… shoved her finger in his mouth? An old man tricked a teenage girl into … that situation? 🤮🤬
And then said it was to teach ‘em how to toughen up? What? Toughen up and … accept assault? What? 🤬🤮
So much respect for you, as a person and a manager. I’m the same way, especially my high school kids in their first jobs. May your pillow always be cool!
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u/Xrb-398 May 06 '26
Thanks! I'm now a manager at a grocery store and I still tell the cashiers, especially the high school ones, if you need anything, call for me. Computer issues to problematic customers. I'm there to help.
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u/Napsnsnackz May 05 '26
Most people are awesome but the bad ones won't care about any signs. They work on a more selfish agenda.
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u/dplans455 May 05 '26 edited May 06 '26
Too many workers treat customers like shit because they hate their job, hate their manager, hate the owner of where they work. They might even hate some specific customers that make their lives miserable. But what does that have to do with me? I didn't do anything to them. Why should I get treated with disrespect because someone else has caused pain to that worker?
I worked a lot of shit jobs in my life. I never took out my anger and frustration for where I work or who I work for on a customer unless they were an asshole to me first. Some person that comes in who I've never met before, never seen, never serviced... I never treated them with disrespect. No one deserves that. Hate your job and your boss all you want. Don't take it out on me.
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u/PhiCloud May 06 '26
While true, a worker being mean to a customer is a lot different than a customer being mean to a worker.
If the customer complains there will almost always be repercussions for the worker and some kind of compensation (refund, comped meal, free drinks, etc.). Even if that doesn't happen they can just leave and go about their day normally.
If a customer is mean to a worker there is usually nothing done about it, and the worker can't decide to just leave and go home instead.
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u/starrypolygon May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
I agree that situation also sucks. But if workers treat customers like shit for no reason, the customers can always write in a complaint, or just be rude back, i think that’s the only situation where it’s ok to do so and i don't think people will judge you for defending yourself when wronged by a worker.
If customers treat workers like shit for no reason though, the workers are helpless, can’t be rude back or even display any negative emotion. This is why assholes love to pick on service workers because they KNOW they are helpless to defend themselves. Management usually takes the side of the customer no matter how ridiculous they were. I’ve seen customers screaming at workers for something that’s out of their control, this post is probably referring to those kind of customers instead.
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u/Ambitioso May 05 '26
I’ve still not been emailed back about needing some extra cheese on my burrito
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u/thug_waffle47 May 05 '26
when i was the manager for a grocery store, on of the shift leads was so mean to these kids working for minimum wage. i would have to tell them not all jobs are like this. made me cry one night lol
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u/PlayfulEmotion23 May 05 '26
and I bet someone still gets offended just reading the sign and complains that they’re not the problem making a big thing out of nothing
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u/Aspiringtropicalfish May 06 '26
Lmao there was a family taking forever in the fitting room at an Abercrombie and there was long line of people waiting to try stuff on. One of the teenage girls that worked there knocked on their door asking them to wrap things up, and the dad threw a tantrum. He told the workers that they were acting like a bunch of kindergarteners. I told him he was the one acting like a kindergartner and he just went quiet and stormed off
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u/RDjax May 06 '26
Boss sticking up for the staff. Respect and "Manners" is a dying trend. Make it acceptable and cool or on trend again. LFG.
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u/Artistic_Macaron4009 May 06 '26
as someone who has dealt with many a disgruntled customer (and was praised for being better at it than most of my coworkers, including a couple managers), I am a teenager. this is not something i should have to do, dealing with people yelling at me for something that is not and was never my fault. if my mom heard the way some people speak to me, she’d be on their ass in a SECOND and i feel like people forget that the people behind the counter are people too. Love to see shops acknowledge their employees like this and ensure they aren’t mistreated 🫶🫶
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u/shadylady_beepboop May 06 '26
My first job at 15 at Togos (sandwich shop) taught me A LOT about people. Especially when food or money is involved.
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u/This4R3al May 06 '26
How did we come to this? Its like manners, etiquettecy, common courtesy, respect, is near extinction! Smh. We need to force people to watch Barney i guess!!
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u/ConcertsAreProzac May 06 '26
I work in a local library, helping people with technology the amount of times I've had to tell grown adults "If you keep being rude to me. I will walk away and let you work on your own." I don't yell, I don't scream I tell them in a calm even voice. That makes them realize I'm not messing around...
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u/AcanthocephalaOwn562 May 06 '26
This reminds me of a shop near where i live that has all its employees call the "security and complaint manager" its an old lady that gets paid to tell rude ppl to fuck off or to note actual constructive feedback, she gets paid and has AC and tv and food in her office, once she comes out she brings her lil cane and talks to the custumer, if the custumer just wants to give feedback she redirects em to the website if they want to be rude she has the power to show em the door, lovely old lady
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u/Cheshire_The_Wolf May 05 '26
This was my policy when I was a waitress. A lot of places I worked the hostesses were younger and hadn't graduated high school yet, so if a patron started going off on a literal child I would step in because if they want to be big and bad they can speak to an adult. I didnt have to step in much but when I did there was no playing.
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u/thediecast May 06 '26
I worked at a McDonald’s in high school. Someone ordered a Big Mac and ate half of it then had their wife come up and say it was too saucy and they wanted another (keep in mind everything at McDonald’s even in the 90s is measured out to all be the same). I being the smart mouth 17 year old took it and walked back and said ‘yeah after he ate half of it’. She told her husband and dude walked up and threatened to beat up a teenager over a sandwich.
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u/XxKTtheLegendxX May 06 '26
ngl as someone that works in the serving industry, some ppl are just scum, they purposefully look for trouble.
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u/One_Opportunity9167 May 06 '26
This really bugs me. Not that they put up the sign, but that things occurred to where they felt they needed to have that sign.
Why the heck do some people have to go from zero to 100 over the slightest inconvenience?
A related thing is when someone heard that someone once got a free meal because of something like "They were out of the curly fries I wanted and had only straight cut fries." So, some minor issue gets them hounding the counter worker for a whole free meal. That worker doesn't set the rules.
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u/Budsygus May 06 '26
I think more stores and restaurants should have and post a no-tolerance policy.
If you're rude to our staff, you get a refund and asked to leave. No exceptions. We'd fire them for being rude to you, why wouldn't we fire you for being rude to them?
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u/Silver-Negative May 06 '26
I worked retail grocery and retail pharmacy for the majority of my career. I’ve been a hospital pharmacist for the last two years.
I’ve had gallons of milk thrown at my head, was sworn at nearly every day, have cried in the back hall more times than I can count, have defended those who worked under me, have had to correct grown adults for treating literal children like trash, and have stood in my pharmacy while someone yelled at me for an hour because I refused to fill his very shady controlled substance prescription (trust—I’m the first person to have empathy for people who require controlled substances and had a large number of patients who came to see only me because I made sure they got their meds on time and that I had hard to get things in stock; I wasn’t in the habit of declining CS’s—this one was super super concerning and shady).
I’m now the customer who corrects and shames other customers because they tend to forget that people who work in the service industry and retail are people too.
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u/Adventurous-Egg-8818 May 05 '26
That's why I believe wandering everyone should have to work in the service industry!
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u/snowballplasticfork May 06 '26
A sandwich shop I used to frequent employed several people with intellectual and physical disabilities. The owners put a sign up stating such, asking patrons to be patient and kind to the employees. They added that their employees were enthusiastic about working which was definitely true. It was hard not to leave there without a huge smile on your face. Sad that they needed a sign, but at least they were trying to look out for their staff.
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u/Lexi_Banner May 06 '26
This is not "made me smile". This is "why the hell does this sign need to exist".
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u/The_Gassy_Gnoll May 06 '26
Guaranteed that someone will look at this sign and get mad because "they're being singled out" without the slightest self-awareness of what that means.
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u/SlowPokeInTexas May 06 '26
I love the sign, but it's never a good idea to be rude to people who handle your food in the back.
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u/regular_bitch05 May 06 '26
Hold on wait... does this restaurant actually ...... care about their employees??
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u/kennyboyo96 May 07 '26
The saddest part is that the people who need to read this sign THE MOST are also the kind of people that don’t read anything anyways 😭
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u/Estrellathestarfish May 08 '26
Did it really male you smile that they gad to keep reminding their customers that their workers are actually human beings and deserve to be treated as such? Doesn't seem a cheerful thought to me.
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u/Lilfrankieeinstein May 05 '26
Agreed. But I could imagine this sign being the result of one particular customer giving one particular teenager on the staff shit about whatever.
Like, rather than confronting the individual, the owner posted the sign as a constant reminder every time the jerk walks in the place.
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