Does anyone else notice service workers are disproportiantely rude to them?

Customer service isn’t what it was 10-15 years ago but I don’t find people really rude…. There are a lot of absolutely lazy useless knobs though…

when I worked in supermarket retail in my teens if someone said.. “ sorry I can’t find the packed lunch meats, can you help ? “..

my reaction would be to bring said customer to them, takes 60 seconds there and back. “ yes I’ll show you, follow me “

now…last year this happened,..I was looking for Hersheys ice cream sauce / syrup… mmmm

” yeah, eh third, aisle over, no sorry, second, and eh yeah, up the top and if you can’t find it just ask someone, yeah “

im asking you ya poxy fûckin dunderhead clown, show me what I’m looking for ffs… ! take 60 seconds out of you x hour shift to assist a customer ! 🤪

He legged it as he thought you were Chad looking for Hersheys.

Part of my job involves dealing with the public buying stuff out of a warehouse, mostly tradesmen.

I approach them with a Hey how're ya doing kinda of thing. If they then stick a sales docket in my face without saying a word then thats the treatment they get back.

I'll process the order and get it to them. No more no less. Which I'm sure is fine by them but I won't be killing myself to get them sorted next time.

Meet plenty of nice folks during the week but some are pig ignorant.

A tip to some. You want good service ? Don't be an asshole.

We have a lot of repeat customers. Guess who gets looked after faster. It ain't the assholes.

A please and thank you cost nothing and goes a long way.

Wtf are Normie's and NPC's?

My local supervalu is exactly this. I normally shop in Aldi for the speed. The staff there would fire through 3 trolley loads while SV were sorting a basket.

That said I appreciate that for many elderly and others this may be their only outlet and social interaction so no I just figure whats 5 minutes of my time when it might mean a lot to the person in front.

The one that boils my piss is in aldi/lidl when they have clear signs saying pack behind at the shelves but nah I'll pack in my bags at the till. And worse, the idiots who don't bother with a trolley or basket and have so much **** at the till they gather it all up in their arms then when they have to pay they have to put it all down again to fish out their cash/card and pick it all up again. Bring a bag you **** **** idiots.

Personally I've not experienced any rudeness from service staff, infact I'd have to say given the stress levels working in a retail environment over the past 2 years, it's quite remarkable how patient many I've seen have been. Customers on the other hand have acted appalling and I've witnessed some extraordinary behaviour, including assaults, astonishing verbal abuse and on more than one occasion Garda interventions and I might add, to deal with people from all walks of life.

Pre pandemic, I decided to try something completely different and worked in the mobile phone retail sector, had previously spent almost 30 years in hospitality. Over a number of years, I couldn't begin to describe the Shyte Mobile phone staff (networks) have to listen too and put up with. Working in hospitality, long hours, extreme pressure was a walk in the park compared to working in retail.

On the medical side of service, I had two very distinct experiences. Broken leg, right at the start of the Pandemic. Ambulance crew, amazing, Hospital (Midlands) essentially empty, had to be patched up, Trauma Team amazing and I had to make my way to a Dublin private hospital for operation at a time when private hospitals doing general Surgeries. Prior to discharge, staff change over and my god a Nurse from hell arrived, won't go into what happened but a formal complaint followed, upheld and written apology issued. Private hospital team we're brilliant, operation done and discharged to recoupriate.

Finally, late November 2021, emergency admission (Midlands hospital again) 8 day stay and honestly I couldn't praise the entire staff enough, despite the obvious pressure they were under and anticipated Covid Surge.

So, I'll simply say, wether it be frontline, Retail, Service staff, of course there'll be an occasional bad moments, experiences but it's my experience generally Customers and service users, perhaps need to look in the Mirror, occasionally.

Having spent too many hours of my life working a till in retail, I can safely say myself and the vast others I worked with do not care if you have autism, socially awkward or anything. The process and spiel is the same.... "Hey how's it going, scan scan scan, that's X amount please. Cash or card?"

Some customers have a chat with you (which is fine) and others don't say anything. Which is also fine. It's all the same.

A 'normie' is a normal person with mainstream cultural attitudes, habits and behaviours.

An 'NPC' is a non-player character. In computer games these are minor pre-programmed characters who rattle off a script when the main player characters encounter them. In internet slang an NPC is someone who is robotic in their social attitudes and behaviours, and this is used as an insult - especially towards someone who repeats political slogans or unoriginal 'talking points' automatically. But it can also be someone who is minor and irrelevant to your life who you are interacting with briefly.

So to someone who defines themselves as a weird outsider, normies and NPCs are basically ordinary, well-adjusted people.

This is a sort of a pride thing since the self-defined weird person using this slang is suggesting they're more original and thoughtful, and definitely edgier, than 'normal people'. But this high self-esteem can't be translated into social success (so they believe).

you shop in Lidl/Aldi i take it?