Please, don’t think like that. This is a big place, with a lot of people. I’ve been here for five years and have over 7000 posts, and I still think most of my posts are met with a resounding lack of interest - featherlou who? Thing is, it doesn’t bother me - I don’t post for other people or for the warm fuzzies; I post for me. I say my piece, and send it out into the ether. You will probably need to adjust your attitude to something like that to last here. Either that, or flame out spectacularly - your choice.
Oh, and if a whole bunch of people are attacking your stance, you might want to reconsider your stance. It might still be right, but take a moment to think about it. Are they right? Are they partially right? Can you see any validity in some of the opposing viewpoints?
Oh, certainly. But it would be a little easier to consider these viewpoints if they weren’t attacks; I feel like many people are just making fun rather than attempting to even get any message across.
This is only marginally relevant, except in the sense of withholding snappy comebacks to clueless counter help…
I occasionally buy stuff at Barnes and Noble and have always turned down their offer to have me pay for a discount on purchases (“It’s only $20 (or whatever) now, but you’ll save $$ in the future!”). So the counter idjit yesterday asks me if I have a B&N discount. “No.” (with moderate emphasis). “Well, do you know what the discount is?”. At this point it took enormous restraint for me not to put on a ferocious snarl and say,
There’s a difference between some nobody on the street or behind him in line harassing him, and an employee who is paid to serve customers and expected to treat them with courtesy.
I work at a University, so I come in contact and have to deal with many people every day. During September, I’m having to interact with thousands of students a week. No matter what kind of day I’m having, I treat them with the professional courtesy that’s expected of me, and I don’t step outside that line. That bitchy worker at the theatre is under the obligation of her job to follow the same rules.
If someone who employed at a place I was giving MY money to treated me, unprovoked, with such rudeness as the OP was treated, you’re damn well right it would get under my skin. He has every right to be angry about it. I would tell the manager. She should at least get a reprimand, which might make her think differently about how she treats customers.
I’d say you have every right to be upset and I was in support of your pitting this clueless waste of air–until you went of the deep end with your anger. Cursing her out and calling her creative names would have been fine, but this…
…just sounded creepy. Maybe that’s what people are reacting to.
Call her names, make claims about her sexual preference for goats and felching, or whatever–but your rant focused totally on you and your way over the top anger. As I said, I think you have every right to be angry–but the homicidal rage is a bit out of proportion.
A-fucking-men. You wasted an entire evening stewing over something that was about as important as tits on a boar. No question that bitch-o-rama was out of line but fantasizing about doing her bodily harm is even more out of line. It’s just not a rational response. I’m not trying to attack you, just voicing my never-very-humble opinion.
I, for one, am happy that you weren’t a drive-by pitter and hope you stick around.
Well I for one am surprised nobody has twigged so far to the attack references in the above trimmed quote. WTF? How the hell can one even think that the (admittedly dumbass) remark by a cashier at a movie theatre is an “ATTACK”?
The last time I was attacked, the guy I cut off in traffic smashed the driver’s side window, and broke my glasses by punching them off. Honestly, get some perspective.
It was a stupid, throw-away line, more than likely meant to be “amusing”. It wasn’t to you, but seriously, how do you function in a society if you can’t brush off idiots?
I think you’ve got your “**THIS IS A VILE AND DELIBERATE PERSONAL ATTACK ON THE VERY ESSENCE OF MY BEING!!” ** meter set a little too sensitively across the board.
This is not an attack against you BTW. Merely an observation. I realize that you may feel this deserves a bellowing, gesticulating, spittle flecked retort, but you need to realize that every time you become enraged God condemns an innocent baby’s soul to hellfire. So be cool …you know… for the kids.
Happens every time someone starts a Pit thread these days. There’ll always be someone who says the incident wasn’t worth complaining about or cursing about, as if this wasn’t the place for venting about (usually) trivial stuff and (usually) going overboard wasn’t part of the process.
Speaking as an angry idiot teen, I too would have been the first in line to tell give my opinions on firing the bitch. How incredibly rude of her. She was there to sell a movie ticket, not to voice her opinions or try and force it on the the wife in question. If I had ever said that to a customer while I was working in retail, I would not only have kicked my own ass for being so rude and stupid, but I would’ve been fired on the spot. That is no way to talk to a customer who is paying good money so that you can take home a paycheck every week. Whatever happened to “the customer is always right”, and in that sense, either customer can pay because its right for them.
Perhaps the OPs rant was harsh and maybe even a little psycho, but that girl really didnt have any right.
I honestly don’t see why customers should be respected any differently solely because of the type of establishment they choose to patronize.
Please note that I’m not talking about level of service. Of course patrons at a 5-star restaurant should be served with an extra measure of service – after all, that’s what you’re paying for in a 5-star restaurant. But everyone deserves common courtesy and basic respect, no matter where they are.
I would certainly have told the manager. And written a letter. And made a scene, if necessary. The ticket-window cunt was decidedly out of line. (Yes, I feel the OP overreacted in the extreme, but the twat should never have said what she said in the first place.)
