this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
77 points (98.7% liked)
chapotraphouse
13528 readers
832 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's true and hilariously stupid.
They also sometimes combine it with your typical boomer misogyny and you get some real gems.
When I was 21 or so, still in college, and working at a big box hardware store, I had some old, white guy (you already knew) come up to me one day so that he could ask me if I could help him in the paint section. I was very much working in customer service, and I could see that paint had it's typical staff member, which was a woman with something like two decades of experience.
I let the guy know she would be able to help him just fine. He still asked something like 'Are you sure?'
One of my favorite work chores was going to the big box hardware store in full work kit (hi viz vest, industrial radio, random pens and knives and shit, etc) and telling white people I don’t work there.
Yes, for some reason the minorities were either already working there or didn’t ask where their nail was while literally staring at a wall of nails.
Anyway it was incredible how some people, even the young ones, just cannot change their mind that I did not work there. The young ones were cool and laughed it off (while still assuming I worked there) and the old ones just went into this weird mental feedback loop.
I once went into the True Value I used to work at to get something and some lady started asking me questions and I informed her I didn't work there (anymore). She demanded to talk to my manager and I was like "what manager". Some other employer came over and told her I indeed was no longer and employee but she kept demanding to speak to a manager anyway. I just started walking away and she began yelling at me.
What makes people like this? Like, genuinely? It would never even occur to me to behave like she was behaving.
tetraethyl lead
Entitlement.