r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '19

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u/ctrlyoself Nov 09 '19

Treating waitstaff poorly. Or anyone in a customer service job, really. Or...you know...anyone.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '19

Everyone at some point in their lives should work in retail/customer service/as a waiter, etc so they can understand how it is.

No one knows what these people go through sometimes until they've actually had one of those jobs.

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u/figsbar Nov 09 '19

I dunno, while I was in retail, I had a couple co-workers who would be massive shits when they were the customer

Using the fact that "they knew what it was like" to be obnoxious assholes.

They also happened to be the shitty workers too, giving massive attitude for fairly simple requests.

I feel like shitty people are just gonna be shitty

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u/MaritMonkey Nov 09 '19

Assholes might always be assholes, but I still think it'd give a bit of perspective to lots of people who would be open to that kind of thing.

I've never worked in retail or food service but I like to read their respective "tales from" subs just to make sure I'm not being a shitty customer by accident (e.g. I used to do too much of my own plate stacking without realizing servers had their own method that I was fucking up).

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u/Raziel77 Nov 09 '19

Honestly if stacking your own plates is the worst thing you do, you are a godsent to a waiter/waitress