Colleague was so rude to customers we kept him
This was in a videogame / PC hardware shop in the UK in the 2000s.
We hired this young Brazilian guy. He'd only been in the country a couple of months. He had just enough English to do the job, with a strong accent. But he'd worked retail and knew games.
But we had no idea until after we'd hired him that he was incredibly blunt, downright rude in fact, with customers. Every customer that wasn't making a straightforward purchase was fair game.
I remember on his first day, a customer asking where something was:
"Is over there". He said, vaguely waving towards one corner of the shop.
"Um, whereabouts?"
"On the fucking shelf! Stupid!" Luckily they laughed that off. But they still couldn't find it.
"I can't see it."
"IS THERE!!" Pointing angrily at it.
"I still can't see it."
He came out from behind the counter, marched up to the game they wanted, plucked it off the shelf, and practically rubbed it in their face. "Is here! You blind or something?"
Our hearts would stop every time he spoke to a customer like that, (especially if they hadn't earned such treatment), but he came good when we had a really difficult or rude customer, because he'd give them a taste of their own medicine, with interest. He spoke to them like we wished we had the guts to, so we kinda lived vicariously through him, and it was thrilling.
The funniest thing about it was, he'd told us that he was born "on the edge of the rainforest". So every time we had to apologise to a customer for his attitude (and we often did), we'd use that. For anyone who's seen (classic British sitcom) Fawlty Towers, a bit like Basil apologising for Manuel by explaining "He's from Barcelona".
We'd say "Sorry about him, he's from the edge of the rainforest." Amusingly, that'd often be enough to placate them, or perhaps confuse them enough that they'd forget about it. 😅
But his attitude got worse. He'd get ruder and ruder as the frustration of the job grew over time. We started just saying "Sorry about him, he was born IN the rainforest." and then "...He was born in the rainforest, he's not used to civilised society".
By the end of his time, it was "Sorry about him, he was born in the RAINFOREST CANOPY. He's not used to human contact." 🤣
We never told upper management about his ways because we found the whole thing so funny. He left of his own accord eventually.
Izzy-of-Albion
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1 engagementsLooking for an old Story
Looking for an old story about young op away on apprenticeship and found out through a fellow co worker that his ldgf was cheating on him. Co worker showed him pictures of girls he slept with on vacation and one of them happened to be Op's girlfriend. She was taking girls trips with her nurse co workers and meeting up with rugby players in the carribean for sex. Anybody know how to find this story?
Infinitewisdom6333
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2 engagementsHow I look hearing the 5th announcement this year…
5 pregnancy announcements this year… all from close family and friends.
My SIL is due next month with her first
My other SIL is having her 2nd (love her to bits) but it hurts too.
I’m the oldest out of them all and still waiting for my first……supposed to go into my 9th IVF cycle next year too.
deeunittt
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1 engagementsNo sorrow for sin
As the title says, I have recently fallen into a lot of sin I haven’t for a while, and I don’t feel sorrow for them.
The sadness I feel is that God is going to send me to hell (they were mortal), and fear of dying before confession.
I don’t know if I should go to confession though, as I felt dry during Mass today (weekday Mass), and during adoration I just felt distant.
I have also been very very **presumptuous,** and have purposely committed these sins since I know I typically go to confession every Friday.
I was going to talk to my priest during confession for him to discern if absolution is okay, but I wanted some others opinions.
Thank you
Nationalparktravel
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1 engagementsThe “Lanterns” creator’s defense of the season finale is bafflingly tone deaf (major spoilers)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/lanterns-co-creator-explains-why-114459257.html
This guy’s reasoning is literally “the guilt of knowing you murdered someone is worse than going to prison”. I have no words. This is genuinely one of the most insane (and honestly offensive) creative decisions I’ve seen in anything in a long time.
The show has a cop shoot Hal, an unarmed man, who was not only in love with the cop but actively trying to protect her and her son in that moment. It isn’t an accident, it wasn’t a misunderstanding, it wasn’t in self defense, just an outright execution. She confessed and the writers just let her get away with it. The reasoning is that her going to jail isn’t what Hal would have wanted. Uh, I’m pretty sure the woman he loves putting a bullet in his head DEFINITELY is not what he would have wanted.
Apparently, this guy (Tom King) was in the CIA. The fact that he genuinely thinks living with the guilt of killing someone is worse than facing justice is….deeply concerning. I’m absolutely shocked that as much of a hot button issue that police brutality is, they decided THIS was how the show should end.
MasterLawlzReborn
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1 engagementsmaybe it s around the corner
Hi,been on this journey for a couple months now(if interested you can check y other posts so you can get a more clear view)
I am passing right now a period of internal stability. Probably because i moved to a diffrent city with diffrent people and everything seems to be working fine. I made new friends and it s probably the first time in months i feel complete.
During these last few weeks i stopped most of the techniques and focused more on affirmations when i had the time for it. I felt my self concept rising a bit.
Of course,i still spiral but much more rarely than i used to. There are times when i get anxious thinking that me and her will meet somewhere in the college building(we go to the same one) but i didn t yet.
I even started liking some other girls and kind of play-flirting with them,without really going forward but keeping my end state internally. Because everytime i see myself with another girl something in me pulls me behind,remembering me that me and my sp are meant to be.
And that s the interesting part of all. I have that feeling. Yey my mind tends to doubt it and blocks it with logical stuff lead by the current circumstances or the lack of signs in the current 3d.But the feeling is there.
I go to my room and just look at it. And something screams in me that it s just not temporary. I see some random couple on the street and i remeber about us. I used to get sad,now i smile knowing we re there.
I even thought about that. I belive what i am going thru is just a period of transformation,that will discipline me into being the husband and father that i really wish to be.
Thank you for bearing my bad english and long post. Help me with some tips or oppinions,i would really appreciate them
Flaky-Pumpkin3002
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