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my anti-rant rant
i worked as a full-time gas station clerk for a few months in Canada, thankfully not a full-serve
Providing high-volume professional customer service and maintaining the store ain't bullshit. It's work and monkeys can't do it. Intelligence actually matters, and if you have it, you solve problems faster and leave many customers happy. It is unforutnete that it pays fucking shit, which is why smart people who get such a job out of necessity don't stick around for too long.
So what you're left with is idiots who are not there because the job is low skilled (all my co-workers, except for management), but because no one else but them will stick around. BIG DIFFERENCE.
So having any expectations of these people is pointless. They don't pay them enough and they dont' care enough.
You know why? Because in North America people really like to look down on the poor people in the service industry. "you work as a server therefore you should serve me like i am god".
Fuck you.
Buying shitty food at a shitty restaurant means you're probably gonna get shitty service. Expecting anything but is silly.
likewise,
Buying shitty gas from a greedy-as-shit corporation, from a punk shit-head who doesn't give two fucks about anything that is happening in your life and actually expecting him to give a fuck is also silly.
Spoler alert... the problem starts at the top, and it's not going to get fixed. Because in our society no body gives a shit about the little guy.
So next time, pump your own fucking gas and let the dumbass clerk daydream for just a little bit longer, cuz in the end you'll both be better of.
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