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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever wanted to Date someone [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)Women, not a few women but the majority of the women I worked with in the past 15 years and that's a lot of women, think it's inappropriate for a customer to ask them out and quite frankly wish they would not.
Women (and men, lets not make this a sexist thing because it's not) working in public-facing positions get fired all the time as the result of customers unwanted advances and as the result of the rejection of those advances.
That asking out of the hypothetical waitress is often not-harmless. It's not. You saying it is, is never going to make it so. It's been shown to you that it's not and you're being willfully obtuse because the truth of the matter would require you to modify your behavior.
None of this is derived from textbooks, it's derived from real-life experiences earned working in the service sector that directly rebut your "no it's not because I say it's not" absurdity of a defense.
Edit: Don't you hate it when you write a well-crafted response in an argument only to discover that the person you're responding to got shown the door while you were writing it? Me too. Oh well.