• yokonzo@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    If you doubt this actually happened clearly you’ve never worked in customer service/ food service

    • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      I’ve spent my life in customer service/retail sales/food service and I doubt this actually happened.

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        10 months ago

        All 2 years of it I see, my man you gotta open your eyes then. The amount of pettiness in that industry is insane. Your ignorance of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

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          10 months ago

          My man… just because you’ve seen it doesn’t mean everyone else has or that it’s common. Maybe you’ve just worked a shitty places. But that doesn’t mean it’s industry standard.

          • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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            10 months ago

            At least in the US, it seems pretty standard. Never worked retail myself, but everyone I know has hated it. Certainly a lot would like to imagine doing this kind of thing (but few actually would).

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              10 months ago

              I can only say that my experiences in the field has been completely fine- and this includes working for Disney. And I can say that at 52 years old- I’ve been in the business for a long time. Never had a problem with anyone, and no one has had a problem with me.

              If a person has a gripe with an entire industry- maybe the problem is with the person and not the industry.

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      10 months ago

      How many Lemmy users do you think have never worked retail customer facing jobs, or food service? I’m betting it’s a minority, but I could be wrong.

      Either way, whatever internal compass you use to determine another user’s job history needs some tuning because I’ve worked in plenty of service industry jobs.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Y’all are pretty tech savvy around here. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find out that the majority of Lemmy users skipped the retail/CS/hospitality jobs in favor of entry level IT/ tech jobs.

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          10 months ago

          Entry level IT is tech support, which is customer service, but with dumber than average customers.