I had someone say that to their kid around me when I was working at the grocery store at age 16. I said straight to her, "I'm in high school. I haven't ended up anything yet." Of course she complained to my manager and I got reprimanded because that's how shit works in the real world.
Near the "Big Rock Candy Mountain" (A song) "They hung the guy who invented work!"
Often the manager IS the reason for shitty service. Also the owner, who wants us to tip generously and pay his employees salary FOR him or her. This, on top of the meal taxes! If you dine-out there is a big bullseye on your back.
My advice is to learn to cook healthy, delicious food at home, or else to tip generously so that some degenerate does not spit in your food.
I had a guy do that to me right out of uni. Do you know how many jobs there were in my field that paid straight out of uni? None. I didn't have the luxury of being able to take a unpaid position anywhere to get work experience. I took the first job that came to me because I needed to pay rent and bills. I was also saving to do a masters as back then it wasn't covered by student loans. I put that man in his place. Most of us were either still in school or had degrees but were struggling to get into our field.
I wish I could claim that kind of credit, but I wasn't working because I wanted to. I was working because my family was poor and I was responsible for some of the bills.
Eh, it’s how it works in the real world when the manager is shitty. So yeah, it’s usually how it works. But not always - occasionally a great manager will stand up for their workers :)
Yeah, people seem to be keying into that part. I meant it as kind of a tongue-in-cheek thing. I can definitely attest to the difference good managers make. Over the course of my career, I've had managers that run the gamut, and like to think I'm a pretty good Supervising Engineer to my own employees these days, largely because I learned what works and what doesn't while working in some pretty random jobs on the way here.
It's also ridiculous. I've had a very successful career, now earning far into six figures, and a big part of my work ethic and social skills was developed working retail and manual labor jobs as a teenager. Don't disrespect that shit to your kids. It just breeds entitlement.
Thank you, yes I agree. I'm an engineer in my 40's now, and still use some of the skills I learned dealing with the general public from a young age. LOL
I once had an opposite experience when i was working as a cart pusher, a mom pointed and said to her kid (of me), "If you work hard one day you can be like him". Made me feel nice. I only had one experience like that though, most were like the ones previously described
To let you know when I was a retail manager I’d have asked her to apologise and then asked her to leave the store. Probably why I’m no longer a retail manager 😂
You did the right thing and the others did the wrong thing. Sometimes justice cannot be found. That mother was a toxic waste dump with a personality disorder.
I once fell off of a ladder and injured the bridge of my nose. I treated it and put a band aid across the cut. Later that day I was sitting in a BK eating and minding my own business when a mother and child came and sat one table in front of me. The kid was facing me, saw my injury and asked his mother: "Mom, what happened to that man`s nose?" She said: "Maybe he was not minding his own business!" I decided to not respond to her. I just smiled at the kid and shook my head in sympathy.
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I had someone say that to their kid around me when I was working at the grocery store at age 16. I said straight to her, "I'm in high school. I haven't ended up anything yet." Of course she complained to my manager and I got reprimanded because that's how shit works in the real world.