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As a person who has spent most of his adult life working with customers I love visiting sites that poke fun at the interactions between Customers and Cashiers allowing us to know we're not alone.
I'm noticing a shift on the Cashier side of things though. More and more stories with nuance where neither side is wholly right or wrong in the transaction being treated like the Cashier is some hero and the Customer is a literal brain dead moron.
The comments sections explode into a series of downvotes if you so much as point out how the communication between the two parties broke down.
It's rolling over into other scenarios now too, "Teacher did a bad thing" "Gasp why wasn't teacher fired" "(nuanced answer that looks at all variables)" downvoted to oblivion. "Yeah I know right totally should have been fired Nuclear option all the way every time" 20,000 upvotes.
I wonder when we stopped getting nuance when we stopped paying attention to the details and then decided that our ignoring the nuance somehow makes us smarter than the people that do.
Any ideas?
I'm noticing a shift on the Cashier side of things though. More and more stories with nuance where neither side is wholly right or wrong in the transaction being treated like the Cashier is some hero and the Customer is a literal brain dead moron.
The comments sections explode into a series of downvotes if you so much as point out how the communication between the two parties broke down.
It's rolling over into other scenarios now too, "Teacher did a bad thing" "Gasp why wasn't teacher fired" "(nuanced answer that looks at all variables)" downvoted to oblivion. "Yeah I know right totally should have been fired Nuclear option all the way every time" 20,000 upvotes.
I wonder when we stopped getting nuance when we stopped paying attention to the details and then decided that our ignoring the nuance somehow makes us smarter than the people that do.
Any ideas?
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