When you work in retail, you may run out of stock, but you will never run out of customers who are absurdly stupid or are just complete dicks. Today I witnessed one of the worst customers ever, who first made completely unreasonable demands, then started with his verbal abuse, and finished by assaulting my coworker.
I sort of stood there thinking "holy shit" and stared, which in hindsight was not the best reaction ever. Maybe if I had more uh...forcefulness? in me I would've done more. I mean, I did try to stop the scene, but then it escalated out of control and all I could manage was to stay out of it so I don't exacerbate the situation.
It's stuff like this--- and working in retail in general, I think--- that make me think, man, what the fuck is wrong with this world? People are just so... nasty. By nature I am already pessimistic and snarky, but experience has crafted bitter cynicism into me.
However, I won't let things like that worry me. There are many things I like, and very many more things which I don't care about--- and that makes life a lot better for me. I can't say it's a healthy attitude, but it works.
Life is mostly shit, after all.
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