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Mozi posted:I really hope that 'pulling her espresso' isn't a euphemism. Keep that attitude to yourself or else I'm cutting your hours! You're on the clock, so you'd better service that customer
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 22:40 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 01:31 |
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Kelp Me! posted:Man, it sounds like you work for a company that specializes in doing all the really boring stuff that the other airport employees don't want to do. That blows. You work at an airport in Alaska? I guess that explains why you don't have the golf cart things, but I've seen them at most major airports. I'm from Ireland, and my three Irish friends worked as TSA airport luggage checkers in Logan Airport in Boston in 2002. No work visas, they got it because they just finished university in Ireland. They only worked the summer, and were outright told to only check the brown skinned people and let all the whites pass. They left back for Ireland, and two weeks later their flat mates from Czech were busted with a fuckton of cocaine. If they were there they would be doing jail time as well.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 23:00 |
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mozi posted:I really hope that 'pulling her espresso' isn't a euphemism. Maybe she would have tipped better if it was.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 23:56 |
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This comic strip was posted in the politoons forum and I thought it might fit in here
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:00 |
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Screw retail.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 08:21 |
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about two days after following the passed out wino (by the way, it turned out that a separate customer, probably upon hearing the man snoring in the stall, was the one who took a poo poo in the urinal and then promptly left without a word) an incontinent old man came in during yet another of my coworkers closing shifts and promptly poo poo all over the floor. I was told it was as though he just poo poo himself (which I think he did, he "didn't make it") and swung the underwear around. the underwear and pants supposedly had to be abandoned. aside from that we were scammed by a sampler so that was entertaining
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 08:35 |
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When I was still working at a store we had a kid yelling in a long line for a candy bar. It's the day before a holiday 20 minute long lines kid is screaming parent has 2 carts of food. You get the picture. They get to the front and the kid wants a few now and the mom is arguing finally says no candy. Kid threatens to poo poo their pants, this kid is 8 or 9. The mom holds her ground, and the kid shits the self. Mom caves in as the kid starts making a scene saying how their mom forces them to poo poo themselves and won't take them to the bathroom. Kid ends up for more candy than before the threat to shut them up and we end up having to close the register because the kid got poo poo all over the floor and the mom was appalled that we even asked her to clean it up. She didn't poo poo the floor it was the kid, and the kid is going to come back and clean it up as punishment, but you know after the calm down in an hour. So of course we cleaned it, and I don't think she came back to give out the lovely punishment.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 12:52 |
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pixaal posted:When I was still working at a store we had a kid yelling in a long line for a candy bar. It's the day before a holiday 20 minute long lines kid is screaming parent has 2 carts of food. You get the picture. They get to the front and the kid wants a few now and the mom is arguing finally says no candy. What makes this worse is that that kid has learned that making GBS threads themselves gets them what they want. Like, you KNOW this isn't the only time they've poo poo themselves for a Mars bar.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 12:54 |
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Fil5000 posted:What makes this worse is that that kid has learned that making GBS threads themselves gets them what they want. Like, you KNOW this isn't the only time they've poo poo themselves for a Mars bar. you'd be surprised just how often making GBS threads yourself gets you what you want
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 14:07 |
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ladron posted:you'd be surprised just how often making GBS threads yourself gets you what you want Not a second date.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 14:22 |
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spog posted:Not a second date. I guess it depends which dating service you used.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 14:23 |
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Fil5000 posted:I guess it depends which dating service you used.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 14:37 |
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I didn't even intend that but yeah, that's actually pretty good.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 14:39 |
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pixaal posted:When I was still working at a store we had a kid yelling in a long line for a candy bar. It's the day before a holiday 20 minute long lines kid is screaming parent has 2 carts of food. You get the picture. They get to the front and the kid wants a few now and the mom is arguing finally says no candy. As someone who spends summers as a councilor at kids camps these kids are the best. They are so used to the screaming/crying/etc getting them exactly what they want right that moment that it breaks their brains when a person's response is not to immediately cave. I don't know what it is in boys, but any hint of public ridicule works disciplinary wonders (in my experience). There was one boy, who was 9, and would just scream his head off, with tears pouring down his face, whenever anything didn't go exactly his way. He wasn't in my group, but I was usually near by and just started smirking at him when he would pitch a fit. Like, a real arrogant "I'm smirking at you because what you're doing is funny to me" face. He couldn't deal with that and quit pitching a fit whenever I was in the area. I imagine he's a real piece of poo poo person if nobody intervened in his life.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:08 |
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spacetoaster posted:As someone who spends summers as a councilor at kids camps these kids are the best. I don't know how much public ridicule is going to affect a child who shits himself in the checkout line in order to get chocolate.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:11 |
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Fil5000 posted:I don't know how much public ridicule is going to affect a child who shits himself in the checkout line in order to get chocolate. I bet if the cashier and a few strangers started pointing and laughing the story would be different, but as it is most of the ridicule was probably aimed at the mom for not being able to control her kid. Sometimes a child just needs a smack, and it's kind of silly that you have to worry about a stranger calling CPS or something over it.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:16 |
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Fil5000 posted:I don't know how much public ridicule is going to affect a child who shits himself in the checkout line in order to get chocolate. Seems like a great opportunity for a public hosing down.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:19 |
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Kelp Me! posted:I bet if the cashier and a few strangers started pointing and laughing the story would be different, but as it is most of the ridicule was probably aimed at the mom for not being able to control her kid. Or maybe just not giving him the loving candy would help. I mean for gently caress's sake.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:21 |
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Fil5000 posted:I don't know how much public ridicule is going to affect a child who shits himself in the checkout line in order to get chocolate. Probably not, it's an entirely different situation from a summer camp. That's a one time thing for the person working there, where at camp you've got a couple of weeks to actually try and accomplish some improvement.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:25 |
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Fil5000 posted:Or maybe just not giving him the loving candy would help. I mean for gently caress's sake. If you're at a point where your non-retarded child is intentionally making GBS threads his pants in a public setting to get what he wants, I think there's way deeper behavioral concerns to be addressed than "did he get the candy in the end" Like, even regular old screaming/crying tantrums are something that should be mostly weeded out by the time they're like 5-6 tops, but even more hosed up is that a kid that age doesn't understand how horrifyingly embarrassing the action he took was. That kid's going to have some serious boundary issues even if he does learn to stop being a spoiled brat. I'm talking the kind of person that hits high school and genuinely thinks farting out loud in a classroom or picking his nose during a conversation is ok.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:30 |
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Kelp Me! posted:
Hitting children is bad.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:43 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:Hitting children is bad. Hitting and spanking are different things entirely, but the end result of a blanket "physically touching your child is bad" mentality is those parents you see who are clearly on the verge of a mental breakdown as they try to calmly rationalize with a 4-year-old as to why they can't have any candy
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:54 |
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Kelp Me! posted:If you're at a point where your non-retarded child is intentionally making GBS threads his pants in a public setting to get what he wants, I think there's way deeper behavioral concerns to be addressed than "did he get the candy in the end" Oh yeah, I was mostly just meaning that as shorthand for actual parenting. I mean it's pretty basic - you don't reward the bad behaviour. Even if you want to avoid negative reinforcement by not punishing the bad behaviour, you don't give them candy to stop the screaming shitfit.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 15:54 |
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Say Nothing posted:Screw retail.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 16:37 |
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Kelp Me! posted:Hitting and spanking are different things entirely, No.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 16:46 |
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Counterpoint: yes.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 16:51 |
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Fifty years of research disagrees.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 16:58 |
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This is going to be great.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 16:58 |
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if a cashier is rude to me, I hit them to improve their behavior
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 17:06 |
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at the very least I obviously hated it as a kid but now that I'm older I'm glad that when I was was about to make an rear end of myself in a public place my parents would pull me aside and furiously whisper to knock it off and threaten to beat the crap out of me. Now I'm the kind of person who does their best to not be in the way or waste as little of people's time as possible when out in public. I don't get why people stand directly in the paths of others, slowly put their poo poo away in their wallets/purses while a line forms behind them, stand and chat with other people in a doorway, etc. Idk what it took for that to be instilled in me but it would be nice if other people had that sense. I mean, I'd rather not see a kid get whacked, but I'd appreciate if the parent can do something to get their rear end in a top hat kid under control. to that end, I don't think I told this one- four loko lady seems to have grand children. She would bring them in pretty frequently, and one day one makes the other one cry by poking them in the eye. So the woman, with her long gross nails, pokes the eye of the offender and says: "How does that feel??"
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 17:14 |
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Problem with condoning parents hitting their kids for good reasons is that they'll see it as equally appropriate to hit their kids for bad reasons.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 17:16 |
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Inescapable Duck posted:Problem with condoning parents hitting their kids for good reasons is that they'll see it as equally appropriate to hit their kids for bad reasons. It's also confusing - when you hit a kid for hitting his sister, the lesson he'll probably take from it is "It's okay to hit someone as long as you don't get caught."
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 17:19 |
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Elizabeth Gershoff is an idiot and her study is bad. Pththya-lyi posted:It's also confusing - when you hit a kid for hitting his sister, the lesson he'll probably take from it is "It's okay to hit someone as long as you don't get caught." That's a pretty good lesson for life though.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 17:27 |
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That study is flawed in multiple ways: https://www.cardus.ca/organization/news/303/banning-spanking-does-more-harm-than-good/ posted:Proponents of spanking bans often cite a 2016 University of Texas at Austin review that found the appropriate use of reasonable force caused children to have aggressive or other negative tendencies. However, Dr. Robert Larzelere, Endowed Professor of Parenting at Oklahoma State University, notes that almost all the studies examined in that review failed to distinguish between spanking and abuse. He also notes the review failed to determine whether aggressive behaviour observed in children came before or after the use of reasonable force. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-says-and-doesn-t-about-spanking/ posted:Yet some researchers remain skeptical. First, although the new analysis did attempt to separate the effects of spanking from those of physical tactics that are considered harsher, research has shown that many parents who spank also use other forms of punishment—so “you’re still not really isolating spanking from overall abusiveness,” explains Christopher Ferguson, a psychologist at Stetson University in Florida. In other words, the negative effects associated with spanking could still be driven in part by parents’ use of other tactics. Inescapable Duck posted:Problem with condoning parents hitting their kids for good reasons is that they'll see it as equally appropriate to hit their kids for bad reasons. I agree with this to an extent but I'd say that's more a problem with the parents' behavior than the kids. Pththya-lyi posted:It's also confusing - when you hit a kid for hitting his sister, the lesson he'll probably take from it is "It's okay to hit someone as long as you don't get caught." Agree with this too. It's situational. What you said is true, but if you smack a kid in the butt because he's literally weeping and shrieking over a candy bar, that's a bit of a different story I think. It's also IMO important to follow that up with an explanation. You can't just spank a kid and be done - they need to understand that the reason for the action, so they understand that public tantrums, and not candy, is the reason. But anyway I'm not a child psychologist and this derail's getting a bit long in the tooth. I've just seen too many verge-of-tears-themselves parents trying to explain the concept of delayed gratification to little Brayden as he shrieks and tears products off the shelves.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 17:29 |
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This article has the perfect example of a terrible customer. Man buys squash thought it was cheese. I hate how people think they deserve free stuff over what is usually a simple mistake. On my lunch break a while back, I went over to a nearby mall for food. I had agreed to grab something for my coworker. While I was waiting for his food, the woman came up to the counter and started screaming at the employee. It seems she asked for no banana peppers on her sandwich, and there was a sliver of one in her sandwich. The manager was right there, and she said she would remake the sandwich for her. While she was waiting, she yelled out, "I need to get a drink for free too because I drove all the way over to this particular road and had to turn around and come back!" (Said road was literally less than 2 minutes away) The manager agreed(because the markup om fountain drinks is ridiculous), and then this lady got EVEN greedier. She ordered one of the most expensive specialty drink they have on the menu($6) with a bunch of extras thrown in. I could see the manager from the angle I was at, and holy poo poo she was trying so hard to not go off on this woman. She did an excellent job. The woman snatched the bag and drink from her, turned away, and stomped away, taking her cloud of entitlement with her. Canned Panda fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jul 26, 2017 |
# ? Jul 26, 2017 18:14 |
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My favorite thing working in a grocery store was finding meat from the cold isle stuffed into the back of a shelf to rot.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 18:18 |
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It still bugs the hell out of me to go into a store and find stuff in the wrong place. Worst is the sheer loving laziness of some people. Like they've grabbed a bag of chips, decided they don't want it and just toss it in another slot. It wouldn't even have taken a single step to put it back properly
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 19:04 |
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Kelp Me! posted:Hitting and spanking are different things entirely,
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 19:25 |
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Get the gently caress out of this thread with that parenting debate bullshit please and thank you.
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# ? Jul 26, 2017 19:27 |
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Yawgmoth posted:No, they aren't. There is literally zero difference and if you really think that striking a child with any amount of force for any reason is acceptable ever, I hope your balls get microwaved while still attached. lol
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