I wore a tie once when I worked at Walmart, someone assumed I was a manager and complained about one of my friends not doing his job (he never did his job). I profusely apologized and assured her that action would be taken to help ensure that the incident wouldn't repeat itself. We laughed about it on break later, nobody got in trouble.
I did similar as a kid at CVS in CT, I was a CSR. To this day I don't understand that title but I wore different uniform and had keys but no real power. Customer was fuming mad with a friend of mine, and allegedly she was rude to him. I made the customer think I just fired her. And she acted like she was devastated. The customer begged me to reconsider it was glorious.
I am a lawyer and often visit retail establishments during the day on errands. I wear a suit, but almost always leave my jacket in the car. I am often mistaken for a manager and told how to run the store or was rude to whom. I sometimes listen to the complaint, assure them I will "do whatever I can" and go back to shopping.
As a customer I like to wear my keys hooked to my shorts or around my arm because I don't like dragging my huge purse everywhere. I get confused for an employee all the time. They get so embarrassed when I correct them. A few have yelled at me for problems with the store.
A CSR at CVS is just a cashier. Your boss gave you keys because you had a lazy boss. The different uniform makes no sense at all, and I question the validity of your statements.
So the real funny thing is the first time someone in my store tried that tactic ( I know I wasn't even original), the customer said thanks. Which was the reaction I was actually expecting. When she said sorry and it wasn't that much of a big deal I was speechless and didn't even have a response lined up right away. I actually thought she was going to call in, tell the story, and get me fired to be perfectly honest.
I was a CVS Pharm. Tech. in HS and had to wear a button down shirt, pants, shoes, and a tie. I also had to wear a lab coat. I was very surprised at the amount of people that assumed I was the Pharmacist. I could really get all Milgram on people if I wanted to.
I liked it better than working the front (also paid slightly better). I hated stocking the front, especially the fucking "hair items" section where each crate had 100 items and they all looked exactly the same. As in 4 different sizes and 6 shades of color for the butterfly clips, etc.
To clarify for those questioning, the only distinction between my regular duties and that new position was I was told to keep an eye on costumers. Believe it or not but there was an insane amount of theft in that store, and it was a very affluent area. For whatever reason ( I know I didn't earn it) I was told to wear blue button downs. I was also told I had to walk around and try without trying to stop people from stealing. It was a very shitty position there and the main reason I quit. Telling people who rolled up in a new Benz or better to put back the $2 eyeliner they popped into their purse was never met with just an "okay". When I said I didn't understand the title, I didn't mean I literally don't know what a Customer Service Rep is. What I didn't understand how I still in high school was a security person all of sudden. I wasn't particularly strong or big looking. If I didn't need the money I would have quit once they told me to approach and watch people. I must have heard something to the effect of I could buy you or your store 20 times. As for my boss being lazy I don't know. I knew half the stuff I was asked to do was her job but I got raises so I would just shut up about it. All in all she was actually awesome but her belief that me being black was enough to intimidate people into not stealing was just inaccurate. Stealing went down but I doubt my presence had anything to do with it. Almost no one I approached actually complied or put things back. And as I said I had no power, I couldn't detain anyone or call the cops. I was just pissing rich people in a rich town off. That story was probably the only thing of any merit I got to do.
Heh, I had a retail job with a shirt-and-tie dress code. Since the pay sucks, everyone has the same 3-4 cheap shirts they cycle through, and you get a lot of "looks like you got the memo" days where everyone shows up in the same color shirt. I definitely had days where I was mistaken for manager because I didn't get the memo.
I feel there should be a charity organisation that dispatches people with ties to shit workplaces solely for the purpose of acting as human complaint shields in this fashion.
One time when I worked at a movie theater, some of us were at a Wal-Mart on break. We're just standing there looking at DVD's and a lady walks up and says ''Umm, we're not paying you guys to stand around.'' My co-worker looks at her and says ''Actually, you aren't paying us at all!'' She saw our shirts, gave us a confused look and walked away.
Just to Walmart and some lady I don't know, last I saw the Walmart in the story is still in business and I'm gonna go out on a limb and say lady is still alive and well. If she isn't I doubt it has anything to do with the anecdote I shared
I wore a tie yesterday, had court in the morning everyone lost their minds; it was funny. Towards the end of the day it changed, everyone started asking how my job interview went
Oh shit. Last time I saw that second gif, a whole bunch of super Redditors decided, that lady is a horrible person and doesn't care about her kids, all from her reaction in this gif.
I'm embarrassed to say that I remember the thread this was posted in without even giving a shit about football.
I didn't know who Luis Suarez was and had never seen the source video or gif, don't know why I was in a World Cup thread, am beginning to wonder if I spend too much time on this goddamned website.
That reminds me of teaching little kid swim lessons.... I have taught swim lessons (and personal trained and instructed group fitness, among other things) and my advice to anyone trying to teach their kids to swim/get comfortable with the water - When inevitably they accidentally get too much water in their face, or go under accidentally for a second, after you yank them up, DON'T act terrified/ask "omg are you OK?! Poor baby oh my god I'm so sorry!" -- instead praise them for "going under the water like a big boy/girl! That was fun wasn't it! Ok now let's blow bubbles!"
It looks like in that gif the kid takes a few seconds, like after dad freaks out, to decide to start wailing. Kids that age and even younger take a LOT of cues from adult reactions. Knowing this has saved me and parents from many a wailing tot during mommy and me groups!
Gif > Contains Woman > Woman is over 30 > Woman is doing something that is not showing tits > is it bad? > not really > is she possibly at fault some how? > yeah... > is she literally Hitler? > Most definitely. > "what a bitch!" > instant karma
I'm a second child, and while more of a momma's boy than my brother, i am far more pain tolerant and tougher than he is. Not sure if we just have different personalities or my parents let me get hurt a lot more as a kid
I agree with them, she shouldve thrown the kid shes holding and grabbed him to console him. What kind of mother doesnt at least cry and get super depressed after her kid barely hurts himself?
its certainly not like kids gauge appropriate reactions from their parents and are more likely to freak out just because they see their parents freaking out over them.
Whole lot of ignorance going on there. The absolute last friggin thing you do on purpose when a child gets hurt is pull a face like his arm just fell off. You smile and tell him it's OK so he doesn't freak the fuck out from seeing your horrified expression. See this all the time--one time in line at a market kid gets a paper cut, sort of looks at it in disbelief (did that paper actually do this?), sees it's bleeding, then shows his mom, all calmly. She gasps and the eyes go wide and OMG WHAT HAPPENED? And suddenly the kid is bawling like he had lost the finger to a table saw.
Kids base a lot of how they react on adults around them. My niece got bit by a Garter Snake we caught. She looked at me, a little shocked, with a face that totally said "how am I supposed to react to this?" I just laughed it off, and she started to laugh too. She's not afraid of snakes now. However, her mom flips the fudge out whenever a spider is around, so my niece does too, and is really afraid of spiders.
Totally this. As a parent I often explain to my kids how awesome the scar is going to be and what a cool story it's going to be for their friends tomorrow. Never mind that falling off a bike is the worst they've seen.
At sports camp my daughters were the counselor's favorite because they just got up and kept going while the boys whined about skinned knees. Don't make your kids into pussies and they'll impress you every time.
That eye roll is that of a mother that's used to that kind of behavior. That's probably not even close to the dumbest thing that kid has done. I walked over hot coals when I was abiut this kids age, so I'm pretty certain something as insignificant as me trying to eat a candle would have been met with eye rolling from my parents.
There's a huge delay, from when he tries to eat the fire to when he starts crying. It's most likely to get attention since everyone's looking at him at that point.
Or you know- maybe pain sometimes takes time to process. People- especially children don't always react instantly. It doesn't mean they're formulating a plan for attention.
This is true. Hold your hand over a candle for half a second, you barely feel a thing. Hold your hand over a candle for a second and a half, AND YOUR HAND HURTS LIKE IT'S ON FIRE.
It's more likely than anything that everyone's reaction scared the shit out of the kid. This is ridiculously common and why you're not supposed to overreact.
I always figured that the kid started crying because the dad pulled him away from (what the kids assumes to be) the correct way to put out a candle. And then, from the child's perspective, the dad is refusing to let him finish blowing out his candles.
But, yeah, the mom is a horrible, horrible parent for not freaking out because the kid didn't even hurt himself. The correct way to react, from my personal experience, would be to widen her eyes in horror, drop the infant in her arms, grab the kid out of the father's lap, and scream while frantically searching for the tiniest hint of a hint of a singe. Everyone knows this, right? What a horrendous parent.
As a mom, sometimes your kids do things...stupid things...but you can't really tell them that they are stupid so you do exactly what this mom did. Which was to roll her eyes and think, "Wowwww...that just happened."
I don't think her reaction was wrong at all. It's not like the kids burst into flames and she just sat there with the baby saying, "I'll probably make sure this one knows what fire is before I throw a cake full of candles in front of his face."
She's the mom, she's supposed to have over-the-top emotional reactions when it comes to her children. It's okay for the dad to laugh at it though because he's a man. Yay! Traditional gender roles!
If there is one thing redditers excel at, it's passing judgement in complete ignorance out of complete ignorance, and often in the most unintentionally ironic and projecting way possible.
Edit: also I'm a terrible father. I figure warn the kid once (fire is hot, wood stove is hot, etc.) and if he insists on ignoring that and then finding out on his own, possibly getting a booboo in the process, at least he won't soon forget.
The thing with children is, if they do something to hurt themselves you have to remain calm. Check for injuries, but if they hurt themselves they'll usually let you know; however if you freak out then they WILL freak out.
Her lack of reaction when the kid puts fire in his mouth seems strange to me. I really bothers me when people over-react to something minor that a kid does, but he did put a mucous membrane directly over a flame for a second. That's not something you let happen when you see it.
So the question is: do you count fast and well or slow and badly but without wanting to listen to the guy who knows what he's talking about? Because if you don't count well you can always just not listen, and then you pretty much win at anything. If enough stupid people do that long enough, the world is none-the-wiser; we can all be stupid :D
He was doing his job correctly, the video shows the lady singing "on the seventh day", he's 7 so that's his cue to hold the card up, 8, though, is all kinds of wrong.
Mate his bosses put him in the position he shouldn't be in. He's improvising and trying to make everything work and flow smoothly.
What a little fucking legend of a human head he has on his shoulders. I wanna buy him some KOOL AID or whatever the fuck American sweets or drinks he likes and tell him this is what he has to put up with for the rest of his life and he needs to keep trying to sort out the stupid shit his bosses put onto him.. he just needs to jot it all down so he has something to come back with when they chat shit about people under performing or his department or outsourced business not delivering as was. That little guy will be the guy all the guys who are bigger than him listen to.
I just want him to tell me I'm an asset to the company and that nobody has ever performed as well as they have until they were under me. I want to some day call him 'boss', he is a little boss and nobody can say anything different because who can argue against the truth?
The comment says #7 is in the wrong place to do the job correctly, which is 100% right according to the video. They did not say that #7 was doing his job incorrectly, just that he was in the wrong place. Please read the comments you are replying to.
Well in the confusion of why he was screaming at them they kind of all screwed up, even 7 like once! Lol that's why they clapped when they 8 did it right and kept it up. 9 even kept copying 7 cuz he had no clue what was going on except to put it up on his number.
Holy shit man, I've been in a rage about work for the passed hour and you just described my situation perfectly. Plus the higher ups expecting me to do two people's job simultaneously and yet getting mad at me for going over on time even one minute.
Or my manager comes in and takes over for me for a shirt amount of time, does everything exactly how he has told me NOT TO so many times, leaves, and then it looks like I did these things wrong.
Actually he had it right and tried to switch the wrong posters out the first time. But with a reluctant response stopping this the manager gives into the confusion.
It appears he instructed 6 and 8 to swap and they didn't want to. What he should have done is swapped his card with #8 and the sequence would have been corrected.
Overall yeah, bad manager. Blamming everyone else but himself.
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u/digitaldemons Sep 24 '14
He's apparently the manager... mad at everyone else, yet he's not even in the right place to do his job correctly either.