How is your approach better, both from a moral standpoint and in terms of actual results, to contacting the company’s customer service to complain about their policies, or taking your business elsewhere, or contacting your congressperson to ask them to pass legislation outlawing predatory practices, or donating your time or money to groups that fight predatory corporate practices?
How do I know you’re not just looking for an excuse to treat people poorly by making it look like the moral high road?
You are looking for justification for being a bully. Some people feet satisfaction out of being abusive to others. Part of the job of being in retail is to take whatever abuse the public chooses to dish out, it is perfectly legal and well within your rights to treat them however you want; pretty much any person can come off the street and act however they want towards them. Some people choose to be respectful, others do not. I don’t think I’ve ever worked at a place where a single person agreed with all the corporate policies; some people sometimes try to stand up for what they think is right, they are often let go - are you going to pay their rent because of the nobility of their actions? No, as far as I can see, the only thing you want to do is heap abuse upon people who have to take it. If you were serious about whatever things you want to change you would actually have some sort of skin in the game.
Deliberately treating people poorly is unacceptable.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25:40
Perpetuating misery is not a conception of Christianity that I can understand.
Pretty crappy way to behave, IMO. Especially in today’s economy, most people don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing their jobs based on how their social and economic philosophies (if they even have any) line up with the stated ideals of the corporation they’re working for. They just want a paycheck so they can pay their bills and feed their families.
Seriously–would anybody be a telemarketer if they had a better choice?
You don’t like the company? Don’t do business with it. Don’t take out your dislike on the poor schmucks at the bottom of the pecking order. They get enough crap as it is.
PS: If I was religious, I’d run far away from your church if your pastor agrees with this kind of thing.
I worked as a bank teller. People complained they paid fees and I would explain that they agreed to pay that fee when they signed up for the card and ended up being late on their payment. That’s what my upper management told me to say. But you know what? That late fee you have to pay, pays those peons’ wages.
Trust me, they DGAF about bank tellers feelings. I have been called a cunt by someone like you because I asked a customer for a photo ID. Guess where it got me? A chuckle with my superior and being told to continue to ask for photo ID.
And now, moving this to the Pit since the OP is about speaking rudely (and crudely) about other (real life) people and thus, seems to be more suited for the Pit.
If you want to change the ways of a business send an email to their corporate HQ so the people who actually can create a change from within actually see how their customers feel.
Even better, nowadays, write something on their FB page and hope others join in with likes and comments.
And somehow neither you nor your pastor sees that you’re closer to the money changers than to Jesus. If he came back today, he’d probably cockpunch both of you.
I can almost understand people who yell at retail employees out of anger and frustration after snapping (I’m not saying it’s okay at all, I’m just saying I can somewhat undestand it). I cannot understand anyone trying to justify insulting and yelling at employees as a way to get companies to change their corporate policy. I really cannot understand a pastor being okay with it. I’m hoping you misunderstood him. Or if you didn’t misunderstand him, I’d like to know what church you go to.
Your logic is as repugnant as your ethics.
You wouldn’t have posted this if some part of you didn’t realize how deplorable and vile this is.
You’re not looking for an answer, you’re looking for an approval. Keep looking, but I sincerely hope you never find one.
That sounds as effective as spitting into the wind. You’ve heard that it won’t be effective because the people setting policy will have no idea that it’s happening and wouldn’t care even if they knew. You’ve heard that it won’t be effective because people in retail are told they’re being paid to take flack for the company and so will not be passing the information on. But there’s one more thing.
Check out [. . . None of us are actually planning to vandalize a bank in the criminal sense, but there’s a sense that if enough bank clerks go home crying every day, we will see an end to profiteering $39.95 credit card late fees and such.
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"]who you’re competing with]([QUOTE=robert_columbia;17426543)and who your “message” is going to be mixed with. By being abusive, you’re making yourself just one more asshole, pretty much guaranteeing that anything you say along with your abuse is going to be ignored. Face it, your “mission” assholeness is going to be completely drowned out by all of the native assholeness out there.
Not that I’m accusing you of not having any native assholeness to tap for your mission. Assholeness is a hard thing to fake from scratch.