It really, really isn't just me

[Food Lady]

i have a coworker who works in clothing and is just wonderful. Customers have praised her, saying she was so nice and stuck with them until the desired item was found. She was by the fitting room today when customer A's cart was blocking the entrance, making it so customer B was having trouble getting in. Coworker had to ask custy A twice to please move the cart. This wasn't as issue; no one got angry. It was just that the first move didn't quite get it out of the way. But next thing coworker knows, customer B's daughter came out yelling that coworker was rude to her mom. Coworker hadn't even spoken to custy B! She offered to get a manager, flagged one down, and continued to get yelled at. Seriously??

[Evannah]

That makes no sense at all. Customers are so hard to understand... :/

[MoonCat]

Some people just live to cause trouble.

[MelindaJoy77]

It's people in general, they are impatient and they expect us to work miracles and for everything to always be about them. Not all people, but a great many of them these days...

[Jester]

That makes no sense at all. Customers are so hard to understand... :/

See, that's your problem. You're actually trying to understand them. I gave up trying to figure them out sometime in the late eighties or early nineties.

Now I just sit back and observe them like the foreign species they are, mocking them mentally at the time, mocking them verbally to my coworkers later, and mocking them with the written word even later to you folks.

After all, it's really just free entertainment.

[Jay 2K Winger]

See, that's your problem. You're actually trying to understand them. I gave up trying to figure them out sometime in the late eighties or early nineties.

Now I just sit back and observe them like the foreign species they are, mocking them mentally at the time, mocking them verbally to my coworkers later, and mocking them with the written word even later to you folks.

After all, it's really just free entertainment.

You also mock them to their faces sometimes. That whole "Does that [outside] look like Minnesota [or wherever] to you?" story springs to mind.

[EricKei]

i have a coworker who works in clothing

Probably a good idea. There are very few places where it is both allowed, and a good idea, to work nekkid.

[Jester]

You also mock them to their faces sometimes. That whole "Does that [outside] look like Minnesota [or wherever] to you?" story springs to mind.

Oh, I often mock them to their face. But I never try to understand them. And I mock them to others far more than I mock them to their faces.

That being said, I am not adverse to making it clear to them that they are being idiots.

"In Detroit, we do it like this."
"See all those palm trees out there? Does that look like fucking Motown to you?"

Probably a good idea. There are very few places where it is both allowed, and a good idea, to work nekkid.

Few, yes. But not unheard of.

After all, I used to be a DJ at a clothing optional roof deck bar.

'Nuff said.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Oh, I often mock them to their face. But I never try to understand them. And I mock them to others far more than I mock them to their faces.

Never said you tried to understand them.

I've often tried to see things from their point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my own ass.

[dalesys]

...but I can't get my head that far up my own ass.

... and if you did, you'd be lying from behind your own teeth ...

a human Klein bottle