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luckone

(21,646 posts)
17. + Entitled and cheap asses in restaurants but for service workers as a whole it's not new
Thu Nov 18, 2021, 02:28 AM
Nov 2021

Just getting worse right now
Here’s another good read
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/pandemic-american-shoppers-nightmare/619650/

As Americans return en masse to more types of in-person commerce, the situation only seems to be declining. At its most violent extreme, workers have been hospitalized or killed. Eight Trader Joe’s employees were injured in one such attack in New York, and in Georgia, a grocery-store cashier was shot over a mask dispute. Far more frequent are the accounts of short-fused shoppers becoming verbally abusive or otherwise degrading over slow service or sold-out goods.
Earlier this month, a restaurant on Cape Cod reportedly was so overwhelmed with rude customers that it shut down for a “day of kindness.”

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the author should do the customers a favor and get a different job nt msongs Nov 2021 #1
? Skittles Nov 2021 #2
Odd reaction Hekate Nov 2021 #3
YES!!!! Totally agree. And what kind of restaurant is this Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2021 #4
Agreed, this person would likely whine no matter what. Jon King Nov 2021 #7
I am glad that your family has had that experience with this work. ramen Nov 2021 #9
Wow PJMcK Nov 2021 #20
And when she does, the reaction will be: "What? No sticktoitiveness?" Aristus Nov 2021 #22
I think we're still in the period when soldierant Nov 2021 #5
Huh? Lots of folks go to restaurants these days. Jon King Nov 2021 #6
You may not live in an area where you are surrounded by MAGAts. soldierant Nov 2021 #8
That does make a huge difference!!! If I get to travel Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2021 #11
Definitely true in the red areas. I've heard many servers complain about the way they're treated. catrose Nov 2021 #12
Wonder why that is? Because diners don't give a flip Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2021 #14
Yes, exactly. catrose Nov 2021 #15
I pick up food from restaurants Skittles Nov 2021 #10
Yes and that is a new phenomenon. Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2021 #13
I call it "pandemic tipping" Skittles Nov 2021 #16
+ Entitled and cheap asses in restaurants but for service workers as a whole it's not new luckone Nov 2021 #17
I have gone my entire life without ever being mean to a service worker Skittles Nov 2021 #18
Yep, I'm with you, Skittles PJMcK Nov 2021 #21
I appreciate them, they are performing a service for me Skittles Nov 2021 #23
My wife and I have gone out to eat regularly even before Tomconroy Nov 2021 #19
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