doctorbluesmanreturns:

Things to remember:

1) Not every retail or food services employee is some perfect angel who can do no wrong, there’s a range from incompetent to malicious that we need to be aware exists so that we don’t end up getting hurt (I’ll try to link it to this post later but there’s a whole giant post about food services employees ignoring customer requests about food allergies and nearly KILLING customers, and also a post where employees at (I believe) Starbucks who put their blood and other bodily fluids into the drinks of white middle-aged customers “as revenge for Trump”)

2) Our generation is NOT any better at dealing with retail employees than our parents or grandparents’ generations were, because we only hear about the negatives from older generations (my parents for instance have ALWAYS treated everyone with respect no matter their job, even the people who are incredibly incompetent) and there are P L E N T Y of entitled Millennials out there who will scream when they don’t get their way. Plus, we’re the first generation that I know of to have a shoplifting FANDOM, aka people who literally do not care about how their actions affect retail employees.