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Kita-Ysabell
I_Write_Ivre
Kita-Ysabell
Yeah, we've had a rash of "you guys suck! I'm never coming back!" posts lately. Sometimes they can be talked around to being more reasonable and less ~drama~-tastic, sometimes... not.
I can't tell anymore, but... are these people trolling (even subconsciously)? It seems like thier ability to be coherent gets worse, as if they're pushing you harder and harder to ask nicely 'Can you make sense?' just so they can blow up.
Or it could be they get worse with every thread.
I dunno, it seems kinda like a noob/immature move to me. When teenagers get on the internet, they don't really
get how to have a discourse. I know I didn't, lo those many years ago.
On the one hand, being a teenager is about learning those things, and on the other, I think a lot of our culture ends up giving them the wrong impression. Formal debates, for example, are held up as the pinnacle of intellectual discussion, when really they're hardly interactive and don't demand the slightest courtesy (a HUGE part of being able to talk reasonably with other people) or the participants. So teens end up at the height of Being Influenced By Stupid Things, and then you spend the next few years un-learning that.
It's fall, there's a new school year, maybe Gaia upped its advertising somewhere.
I don't know where you live, but i've noticed America seems to have gotten some sense of entitlement somewhere (I blame the Karate Kid theory) and it's being blown out of proportion each year.
I quit teaching because my fiance told me (his mom worked for about a decade at a high school) that subs and new teachers don't tend to last long in the field. Not due primarily to the horrible kids, but due to their horrible parents defending their kids stupidity.
((Hope you all don't mind me jumping into this conversation))
I've noticed the whole self-entitlement thing when I started working. My first month of working at the coffee shop consisted primarily of angry customers because their caramel macchiato's hatchet pattern was lopsided, or they weren't getting their drinks fast enough, or simply because I wanted to converse with another human being. Every day it gets worse.
The worst part about it is, people are freaking greedy. Each morning, parents let their kids go up to the counter, order a few drinks --- all the biggest sizes --- before their stupid parents buy them for their stupid brat. The family stands there and bad-mouths how you make the drinks as you're making them. You can't retaliate. It's against the policy. I learned that when a woman ordered five drinks during a rush and had me remake them all four times while telling her son how she's seen faster baristas and how he should go take all the money from the tip jar because I didn't deserve it. She flipped out when I told her off, and it was funny. Completely worth it.
Some of the parents I've seen come into my work place should have their children taken away. Who gives their five year old a quad shot latte? I'm not allowed to tell them that it's bad for their already-bouncing-off-the-wall child, but they like to tell me how they'd like to report me to corporate for "child endangerment". It's hard to win.
Every time someone walks up to the counter, they say, "I need". Well, no. No one
needs it. Really. Nobody does. They just
want it. Most of the time, they can't do anything themselves. If we ask them if they need room for cream in their coffee, they expect us to put it in there for them. I'm sorry, but I don't understand why they can't do it themselves.
I could continue, but I'm sure I've made my point. Plus, my stories would get rather boring after awhile, I think. Don't get me wrong, I do like my job a lot. I couldn't imagine working elsewhere at the moment, but some people just need to be knocked down a few pegs, and I'm not allowed to do so.
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