• dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    I’ll admit it; I want to say things like those customers in the comic. Sometimes I do. But I also understand and appreciate that the person I’m talking to both doesn’t care, and can’t do anything about it. So when possible, I try to take some marriage advice I saw somewhere online:

    Never say the first thing that comes to mind. Don’t even say the second thing. Say the third thing.

    This works really well in emails or online forums, where you can revise many times until you hit send or post.

    And for anybody who has read any of my past replies and feel inclined to point out that I still say stupid shit: just know that those stupid shit were the third things that came to mind. 😊

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    702·
    3 months ago

    See, what you gotta do is threaten them with absurdity.

    Don’t say “I’m never coming back”. Instead, walk across the street to the bus stop. Wait for them to come out to their car. Memorize it.

    Now come back to the parking lot every day for a week. Wait for them to leave their car, and go inside. Once they’re inside, you walk over to their car, and write down their liscense plate number.

    Now go home, and use public records to do a search to find their name and address.

    Now go back to the store, and take a picture of them with your cell phone.

    Now, sit across the street from a police department, and watch for a cop arriving to work. Take note of his liscense plate, and search his name/address.

    Now write a letter to the clerk, threatening to wait outside his work with a giraffe. Tell him “Giraffes have 15 inch tongues, thick as a beer can. I’ve trained this one to stick their tongues into your butthole, and grab your waist with their teeth. You’ll be 19 feet in the air, getting tongue fucked by a giraffe. If you try to escape, you fall. See ya at Costco, Gary!”

    And you use the cops name/address as the return address. Now if he tries to go to the cops, they’ll protect their own, and find something to arrest him with.

    Checkmate, Gary!

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
    49·
    3 months ago

    Companies I boycott:

    Bank of America
    5/3 Bank
    Wells Fargo
    McDonald’s
    Walmart
    That corner gas station that never paid their invoice Planet Fitness
    John Deere
    Verizon
    AT&T

    Number of store employees I’ve told that I’m never coming back:

    0

    • quetzaldilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      331·
      3 months ago

      Trader Joe’s for being fascist union busters. Amazon for being fascist union busters. Target for being fascist hypocrites. Chick-fil-A for being homophobic fascists. Google for being fascists. Microsoft for being fascists.

        • quetzaldilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago
          1. Adobe for being greedy fascists.
          2. Nestle for committing crimes against humanity.
          3. Starbucks for being union busters.
          4. Walmart for being union busters and exploiters.
          5. Coca-Cola for being the biggest plastic polluter in the world.
          6. SC Johnson for knowingly selling asbestos tainted products to unsuspecting consumers.
          7. Oatly for suing a small family business that also made oat milk.
          8. Airbnb for driving the housing crisis that plagues the entire world.
          9. Chevron for selling oil stolen from Palestinians.
          10. Meta for being fucking fascists.
          11. Nike for using sweat shops to make products.
          12. Uber for exploiting drivers and interfering with public transit development.
          13. Whole Foods for being union busters, same as their parent company, Amazon.
          14. Apple for using exploitative labor practices overseas where they escape accountability.
          15. Wells Fargo for rearranging the order of transactions in order to cause overdraft fees.

          I could go on and on…

          • bipedalsheep@programming.dev
            8·
            3 months ago

            Huh. I never really thought about what you wrote about airbnb, but it hit me hard now. My partner actually works for an Airbnb and they have an enormous amount of property and apartments in rural areas which could’ve housed families. And to think there are many more of these businesses doing the same thing.

            I rarely use airbnbs, I prefer hotels, so I haven’t done a lot of contribution there but still, this has convinced me to never use one. Unless, the stay is in their house, or in a small house in their garden etc, which I actually have been in some years ago.

            • quetzaldilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Tell ya partner to slack and steal as much time as possible from his employer, make careless mistakes, and cost the operation valuable time and money.

              That’s how ya fight capitalism: by making it unprofitable.

              Worried about getting fired?

              The truth is that boomers are dying or retiring, and there’s not enough people out there to do the work.

              Hiring and training new people costs a lot of money, and a new hire would want a salary just as high as a current employee, if not higher, due to inflation.

              Source: I work in public accounting. The rich do nothing but steal from the working class 24/7.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
        16·
        3 months ago

        Target was the hardest one for us. Went from spending hundreds per month (they were also our grocery) to zero. Fuck them for dropping DEI and bending the knee.

        • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          You and me both. Giving Target the finger a few months ago stung because Amazon and Walmart were already longtime members of the blacklist. Costco is getting my money now. I also didn’t tell anyone except the stupid online form that asked why I was canceling my 20 year Red Card membership.

      • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
        115·
        3 months ago

        When everyone around you is a fascist, the real fascist is you.

        • quetzaldilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          3 months ago

          “Tell me you don’t know what a fascist is without saying you don’t know what a fascist is” speed run challenge.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 months ago

      even worker owned, don’t cater to those who disrespect you.

      all relationships are built on mutual trust. if someone breaks the trust before you have even begun then you simply cannot afford to have them as a customer.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    422·
    3 months ago

    An interaction I had when I was in my final days of my fast food “career”:

    Karen: “The service here is terrible I’m NEVER eating here again if you don’t fix this RIGHT NOW”

    Me (actually said to them): “Oh no, please don’t, the giant multinational corporation with billions in revenue that is [Big burger fast food joint] will notice and cry”

    Karen: “I…yea…well!” Storms off

  • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Me, a driving instructor: “If you don’t want to learn, there’s the door. No. No need to slow down or stop, I have my own brake pedal here, thank you”

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        I suspect with driving instruction in particular – I can tell you for sure this is exactly how it works with people taking motorcycle courses, from personal experience – people expect to be able to just show up and do whatever, engage in whatever risky behavior or bad habits they’ve developed in the context of operating their vehicle, and breeze through with nobody correcting or critiquing them.

        Which is obviously not how it works. And since nobody thinks anything could possibly ever be their fault, then they get butthurt over it.

  • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    You’d be surprised. I’ve had people absolutely not listening to me in the past. It’s not overly common, but definitely not unheard of.

    People will literally get in my car expecting that I teach them to park then take them for their driving test after just a few lessons.

  • Killer57@lemmy.ca
    19·
    3 months ago

    My absolute favorite response to these types of people is “can I get that in writing?”

    • melisdrawing@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      For real! The ones that make a big deal and repeat that ‘customer-is-always-right’ bullshit while simultaneously demanding something outside any normal accomodation, those ones always come back.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    3 months ago

    During my penance in food service in my earlier years, I worked for a while for what was literally the only pizza joint in town that had delivery. (This was well before all the food delivery apps and in fact in the pre-smartphone era.) When we would not accede to whatever ridiculous demand a customer was having a tantrum about and they threatened to never order here again, my boss would just say, “Okay, fine, see you next week.”

    He was usually right, too.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      3 months ago

      I worked for a while for what was literally the only pizza joint in town that had delivery.

      In New Jersey, they call these, “Pizza Deserts”