“Sir/mam, this is a Walmart. Your loss of business is literally a rounding error in pur profits.”
“…Also all the other local stores were run out of business so there’s no where else to shop.”
“Those side road weeds sure look tasty.”
As someone who worked retail for a long time, I relished these moments… Their righteous indignation would snap me out of my ennui, and I’d love watching their face when I’d respond, “OK, bye”, or give them no reaction whatsoever.
You have to appreciate those moments in retail because the rest of the time is pretty awful.
25 years ago I worked the registers at Target. One day at the back end of a pre-christmas lunchtime rush, this woman snidely remarks that I should be scanning faster. I bluntly told her that if she wasn’t happy she could simply shop elsewhere. Shocked she threatened to complain to my manager, I simply pointed to thr front dedk and said “go ahead”.
I still have my written warning in a box somewhere. Completely worth it lol
How ever would you find another minimum wage job?
And they’ll all be back next week, simply because it’s the most convenient for them to drive to.
This, 100%. Their lack of shame is almost envious to those of us with anxiety. Some anxious people would avoid a place for months after an ok-conversation with an employee, because they overthink the interaction and become convinced that they fucked up royally. Meanwhile, the employee never thought anything was offensive at all, and in fact forgot the entire interaction by the time they rang up the next customer.
Then there’s people like in the OP who throw a dramatic fit about how much they hate a place, sometimes even screaming at managers, then they show up the very next day pretending nothing ever happened. The audacity is mind-blowing.
On the other hand, I did just tell a bunch of local places I will no longer be a customer because they advertise on PublicSquare.
So I guess I’m those people now.
What’s PublicSquare?
A list of MAGA affiliated business. Created by them. Which the businesses sign up to voluntarily.
I see, that makes sense.
Yeah and we should be glad they’re so dumb: It has a nice little “in your area” feature where you can see all the ones who signed up near you(no need to give them location data, you can specify the area and check several to hide your real one).
They of course made it so magas could show support. But in reality it’s literally a perfect way to find local business to boycoytt that you might not otherwise know was supporting evil.
I’m actually amazed. There are way less around me than I thought there would be.
It’s a little different when it’s a local place, because your business might actually matter, and the person working the register might have a personal stake in it.
But when its a chain, LO- fucking L. Good luck getting the cashier that makes minimum wage to give a single shit about your complaint.
True. I actually told the owners - it wasn’t actually a thing that happened at the registers, so maybe I’m less of a those people I suppose.
Even the tiniest semblance of power can go to a person’s head. You had $25 worth of merchandise in your hands, Karen. The store will be okay without you.
“I’M NEVER SHOPPING HERE AGAIN”
“Oh thank gods, I thought you’d never take a hint. You are objectively an awful person and no amount of spending on your part was ever going to make dealing with you worthwhile. Yes, PLEASE leave and never show your face here again.”
“And I’m not paid enough TO care.”
I’ve stopped going to businesses for various reasons over the years but I’ve never annouced the reason(s). I just stop going because I don’t care about it enough. I’m not a feedback kind of guy.
I’ve definitely boycotted companies, but try to make sure my reasoning is sent as high as it can, and even then try to direct it to the company itself rather than whoever I have on the phone.
I’m a big fan of leaving accurate Google maps reviews. Then it actually hurts their business.
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Honestly they are just doing us a favor. I really don’t want to see them again either.
I always either thanked them, or congratulated them for making their first adult decision ever and let them know I woshed them luck as they continued on their journey of self discovery.
Sales are in the shitter, I’m afraid we’re gonna have to let you go.
I don’t care.
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This is a bit of a grey area because there are some asshole companies and asshole employees
I’d recently had an experience with a racist aldi employee only bag checking my mother because we where not one of the white people in line and that same aldi employee happened to lie about bag checking the white people ahead that we visibly saw her not check
This happened in Australia, but we live in one of the towns in Queensland not known for progresiveness
I’m planning to move to Brisbane or Melbourne once I am able too just to get away from all of the non progressive people here in my hometown
The comic isn’t about boycotting locations as a whole, It’s just done through a lens of someone working a minimum wage job who has to deal with people yelling at them. Especially about issues they’re having and saying they’re never going to shop there again. It doesn’t impact them personally and getting angry at them personally won’t help.
today a customer thought I was laughing at them. I just had a mouthful of water I was desperately trying not to choke on 🥲😭
thankfully my manager didn’t believe them
In my opinion, those sort of businesses are also the ones that end up crying out when they lose to bigger players in the space who are willing with those sort of customers. At the end of the day, are you there to feel good, or are you there to get money? Here’s a little secret: nobody cares about those sort of people, it’s just that some care more about the money they can get from them than others.
For me, it’s right up there with tech support that complain about the trivial bullshit they are called for when it is that trivial bullshit that gives them a job.
If this comic was about a small business with the owner stood behind the counter like “I don’t care” then I’d totally get your point, but I don’t think that’s what it is.
This is a comic about a minimum wage slave working at a branch of some faceless retail supergiant, who gets constantly shit on by customers as if they themselves are personally responsible for whatever policymaking at this enormous company has upset the customer, and as if they could change anything about it even if they tried.
It’s about angry customers putting their vitriolic remarks in completely the wrong place because they just need a human victim and they don’t care who it is. And it’s about learning how to deal with that as an employee so you don’t lose your sanity.
Honestly, that’s not what I see from them. They may have the lowest paid employee working cashier, but the people who handle customer service desks are chosen and trained to handle these sort of situations diplomatically, even when effectively the same thing happens and they just talk bad about these clowns in the staff room. The only places I see people just openly admitting “I don’t care” attitude openly are usually people on a second hand market apps and people with small businesses who have their local market penned in. Might just be my experience, I’m also not in the US.
The right attitude.
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