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  • This is a bit of a grey area because there are some asshole companies and asshole employees

    I'd recently had an experience with a racist aldi employee only bag checking my mother because we where not one of the white people in line and that same aldi employee happened to lie about bag checking the white people ahead that we visibly saw her not check

    This happened in Australia, but we live in one of the towns in Queensland not known for progresiveness

    I'm planning to move to Brisbane or Melbourne once I am able too just to get away from all of the non progressive people here in my hometown

    • The comic isn't about boycotting locations as a whole, It's just done through a lens of someone working a minimum wage job who has to deal with people yelling at them. Especially about issues they're having and saying they're never going to shop there again. It doesn't impact them personally and getting angry at them personally won't help.

  • Even the tiniest semblance of power can go to a person’s head. You had $25 worth of merchandise in your hands, Karen. The store will be okay without you.

  • In my opinion, those sort of businesses are also the ones that end up crying out when they lose to bigger players in the space who are willing with those sort of customers. At the end of the day, are you there to feel good, or are you there to get money? Here's a little secret: nobody cares about those sort of people, it's just that some care more about the money they can get from them than others.

    For me, it's right up there with tech support that complain about the trivial bullshit they are called for when it is that trivial bullshit that gives them a job.

    • If this comic was about a small business with the owner stood behind the counter like "I don't care" then I'd totally get your point, but I don't think that's what it is.

      This is a comic about a minimum wage slave working at a branch of some faceless retail supergiant, who gets constantly shit on by customers as if they themselves are personally responsible for whatever policymaking at this enormous company has upset the customer, and as if they could change anything about it even if they tried.

      It's about angry customers putting their vitriolic remarks in completely the wrong place because they just need a human victim and they don't care who it is. And it's about learning how to deal with that as an employee so you don't lose your sanity.

      • Honestly, that's not what I see from them. They may have the lowest paid employee working cashier, but the people who handle customer service desks are chosen and trained to handle these sort of situations diplomatically, even when effectively the same thing happens and they just talk bad about these clowns in the staff room. The only places I see people just openly admitting "I don't care" attitude openly are usually people on a second hand market apps and people with small businesses who have their local market penned in. Might just be my experience, I'm also not in the US.

  • Me, a driving instructor: "If you don't want to learn, there's the door. No. No need to slow down or stop, I have my own brake pedal here, thank you"

    • Who pays to learn and then complains like that? Sounds you ran into a lot of silly people

      • I suspect with driving instruction in particular -- I can tell you for sure this is exactly how it works with people taking motorcycle courses, from personal experience -- people expect to be able to just show up and do whatever, engage in whatever risky behavior or bad habits they've developed in the context of operating their vehicle, and breeze through with nobody correcting or critiquing them.

        Which is obviously not how it works. And since nobody thinks anything could possibly ever be their fault, then they get butthurt over it.

  • You'd be surprised. I've had people absolutely not listening to me in the past. It's not overly common, but definitely not unheard of.

    People will literally get in my car expecting that I teach them to park then take them for their driving test after just a few lessons.

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