#service work

"The people aren't buying enough!!! HOW do we get them to buy more??? What do we teach our salespeople to say??? What more can they do???" You could start by paying them more. Advocate for people to be paid more in general, maybe. You see, the thing about buying stuff is that you need to first Have Money to do that.

Office workers constantly make jokes about how half their work day is just pretending to work because of how little they're actually expected to do, but if you dare to suggest that the average McDonalds employee works harder they'll act like you just shot them and set their house on fire.

My faveoroite part of working in a restaurant that has a lot of foreigners eat there is explain what the fuck a pavlova is

service workers of the world: would you take a bribe from some random guy to give him information

One nice customer really can brighten a retail workers day. Please just try to be that customer.