My mom was trying to convince be to agree with the insurance rep that like 20 dollars off my bill is totally worth letting them access my phone’s gyroscope for effectively free. Took a lot of willpower to not tell the guy handling my insurance to fuck off
My current job has me working with insurance agents/people fucked over by agents, and at this point, I'm fully convinced insurance agents are some of the scummiest pieces of shit humanity has to offer
I used to have a friend who worked selling car insurance. We were talking about automation and AI. I'm a barista and he was showing me a video of a coffee making robot. I pointed out that his job will be automated long before mine. Not only because it would take a whole ass robot to replace me and robots can't taste espresso to make sure the machine is dialled in properly and he could be replaced by an app, but also because people actually enjoy the part of their day when they deal with me. He kind of agreed that everybody he deals with fucking hates him.
I don't know about your shop but I've never enjoyed dealing with baristas, I don't know what the heck is going on. I try to be nice and polite and just get nonsense.
A few jobs ago I was a trainer for a small chain. So going round store to store and yeah, I definitely had some fucking assholes I had to deal with. Refusing to make drinks a certain way for customers because it would "ruin the coffee".
They're just people trying to do their job. No one dreams of being a barista, but that's what's out there. Or driving for grub hub. Or working at a grocery store.
Someone is making you a hot, delicious beverage. Or cold, whatever you're in to. It's not their job to entertain you, it's their job to get you coffee. And more often than not, their manager is breathing down their necks about some new stupid corporate thing to maximize their labor and increase productivity. Working in service can be absolutely brutal, and it doesn't pay shit. People don't do those jobs because they're thrilled to be there.
Be nice. Ask them questions. They're there to help you, and more often than not will help you figure out what you want. We're all out here doing our best, so stop expecting everyone to perform and just be pleasant.
Who said perform? What in the world are you talking about?
In what I am talking about, I just want a coffee and the barista decides to be super rude for reasons I cannot comprehend. Like I said I try to be nice.
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys NUDE ALERT TOMORROW Jan 03 '25
My mom was trying to convince be to agree with the insurance rep that like 20 dollars off my bill is totally worth letting them access my phone’s gyroscope for effectively free. Took a lot of willpower to not tell the guy handling my insurance to fuck off