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When I was a teenager, I was a little asshole to fast food and phone tech-support workers (basically falling into the "Karen" stereotype of people). I feel pret
by tombert 4y ago
When I was a teenager, I was a little asshole to fast food and phone tech-support workers (basically falling into the "Karen" stereotype of people). I feel pretty bad about that now, because of course these people don't make nearly enough to put up with me being a douchebag to them. It's entirely possible that I ruined at least a few people's day by being a dick, for no other reason than I was unwilling to realize that people making minimum wage really shouldn't be yelled at unless they're mean first (which they generally aren't).
Nowadays I try and be extremely polite to people serving me food or checking me out at the grocery store, and make a point to only be mean to people whose job it is to be yelled at.
- circlefavshape 4y agoHow about not being mean to anyone?
- tombert 4y agoI don't think that's always the best policy; I agree that 99% of the time you should be nice to everyone, but there are times when a company simply will not do what you need them to do unless you're a bit of a douchebag to them. I'm not saying you get personal and insult their mothers or anything, but being impolite and slightly aggressive is (sadly) sometimes necessary.
- Cd00d 4y agoJust note that it's going to be very, very rare that the person you're being "impolite" to has influence to change the company in a way to "do what you need them to do".
- whataboutery 4y ago