Honestly they are just doing us a favor. I really don’t want to see them again either.
“Sir/mam, this is a Walmart. Your loss of business is literally a rounding error in pur profits.”
“…Also all the other local stores were run out of business so there’s no where else to shop.”
I’ve stopped going to businesses for various reasons over the years but I’ve never annouced the reason(s). I just stop going because I don’t care about it enough. I’m not a feedback kind of guy.
As someone who worked retail for a long time, I relished these moments… Their righteous indignation would snap me out of my ennui, and I’d love watching their face when I’d respond, “OK, bye”, or give them no reaction whatsoever.
You have to appreciate those moments in retail because the rest of the time is pretty awful.
25 years ago I worked the registers at Target. One day at the back end of a pre-christmas lunchtime rush, this woman snidely remarks that I should be scanning faster. I bluntly told her that if she wasn’t happy she could simply shop elsewhere. Shocked she threatened to complain to my manager, I simply pointed to thr front dedk and said “go ahead”.
I still have my written warning in a box somewhere. Completely worth it lol
“And I’m not paid enough TO care.”
today a customer thought I was laughing at them. I just had a mouthful of water I was desperately trying not to choke on 🥲😭
thankfully my manager didn’t believe them
Even the tiniest semblance of power can go to a person’s head. You had $25 worth of merchandise in your hands, Karen. The store will be okay without you.
I’ve definitely boycotted companies, but try to make sure my reasoning is sent as high as it can, and even then try to direct it to the company itself rather than whoever I have on the phone.
I’m a big fan of leaving accurate Google maps reviews. Then it actually hurts their business.
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And they’ll all be back next week, simply because it’s the most convenient for them to drive to.
This, 100%. Their lack of shame is almost envious to those of us with anxiety. Some anxious people would avoid a place for months after an ok-conversation with an employee, because they overthink the interaction and become convinced that they fucked up royally. Meanwhile, the employee never thought anything was offensive at all, and in fact forgot the entire interaction by the time they rang up the next customer.
Then there’s people like in the OP who throw a dramatic fit about how much they hate a place, sometimes even screaming at managers, then they show up the very next day pretending nothing ever happened. The audacity is mind-blowing.
On the other hand, I did just tell a bunch of local places I will no longer be a customer because they advertise on PublicSquare.
So I guess I’m those people now.
It’s a little different when it’s a local place, because your business might actually matter, and the person working the register might have a personal stake in it.
But when its a chain, LO- fucking L. Good luck getting the cashier that makes minimum wage to give a single shit about your complaint.
True. I actually told the owners - it wasn’t actually a thing that happened at the registers, so maybe I’m less of a those people I suppose.
What’s PublicSquare?
A list of MAGA affiliated business. Created by them. Which the businesses sign up to voluntarily.
I see, that makes sense.
Yeah and we should be glad they’re so dumb: It has a nice little “in your area” feature where you can see all the ones who signed up near you(no need to give them location data, you can specify the area and check several to hide your real one).
They of course made it so magas could show support. But in reality it’s literally a perfect way to find local business to boycoytt that you might not otherwise know was supporting evil.
I’m actually amazed. There are way less around me than I thought there would be.
Between people boycotting certain brick and mortars for political reasons and the monopoly that is Amazon, there are not a lot of options.
Cory doctrow frequently writes about how voting with your dollars is somewhat ineffective because then the richest people have the most votes.
I still boycott places, though.
When I was a teenager in the 90s I worked a local, Chicago-area chain fast food job, as ya do. One customer was mad that his ribs were taking a while so he came up to tell at the cashier. The General Manager was a older Chicagoan with a Mike Ditka mustache, and came out of the office right behind the cashiers and yelled right back, mad that somebody was yelling at his employees.
The guy shouted that he’d take his business elsewhere and never come back, at which point the GM pointed at the line that stretched to the door and said something to the effect of “you see all these people? I don’t need your business! Now get out of my store!” It was in the middle of the dinner rush, and it’s still a popular chain.
We all really liked that GM before and especially after that. He was one of those “tough but fair” types, the kind of boss you could respect. Good guy.
The point is that yeah, go ahead and take your business elsewhere Karen. It literally makes no difference and nobody cares.
Also if the difficult customers go and take their business elsewhere that means that mostly nice customers remain, so that’s nice.
Why would i want my dinner ruined by some rude asshole yelling at their staff? I’ll gladly take my business to a place free from dicks.
Sales are in the shitter, I’m afraid we’re gonna have to let you go.
I don’t care.
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In my opinion, those sort of businesses are also the ones that end up crying out when they lose to bigger players in the space who are willing with those sort of customers. At the end of the day, are you there to feel good, or are you there to get money? Here’s a little secret: nobody cares about those sort of people, it’s just that some care more about the money they can get from them than others.
For me, it’s right up there with tech support that complain about the trivial bullshit they are called for when it is that trivial bullshit that gives them a job.
If this comic was about a small business with the owner stood behind the counter like “I don’t care” then I’d totally get your point, but I don’t think that’s what it is.
This is a comic about a minimum wage slave working at a branch of some faceless retail supergiant, who gets constantly shit on by customers as if they themselves are personally responsible for whatever policymaking at this enormous company has upset the customer, and as if they could change anything about it even if they tried.
It’s about angry customers putting their vitriolic remarks in completely the wrong place because they just need a human victim and they don’t care who it is. And it’s about learning how to deal with that as an employee so you don’t lose your sanity.
Honestly, that’s not what I see from them. They may have the lowest paid employee working cashier, but the people who handle customer service desks are chosen and trained to handle these sort of situations diplomatically, even when effectively the same thing happens and they just talk bad about these clowns in the staff room. The only places I see people just openly admitting “I don’t care” attitude openly are usually people on a second hand market apps and people with small businesses who have their local market penned in. Might just be my experience, I’m also not in the US.
Companies I boycott:
Bank of America
5/3 Bank
Wells Fargo
McDonald’s
Walmart
That corner gas station that never paid their invoice Planet Fitness
John Deere
Verizon
AT&TNumber of store employees I’ve told that I’m never coming back:
0
Trader Joe’s for being fascist union busters. Amazon for being fascist union busters. Target for being fascist hypocrites. Chick-fil-A for being homophobic fascists. Google for being fascists. Microsoft for being fascists.
Target was the hardest one for us. Went from spending hundreds per month (they were also our grocery) to zero. Fuck them for dropping DEI and bending the knee.
You and me both. Giving Target the finger a few months ago stung because Amazon and Walmart were already longtime members of the blacklist. Costco is getting my money now. I also didn’t tell anyone except the stupid online form that asked why I was canceling my 20 year Red Card membership.
- Adobe for being greedy fascists.
- Nestle for committing crimes against humanity.
- Starbucks for being union busters.
- Walmart for being union busters and exploiters.
- Coca-Cola for being the biggest plastic polluter in the world.
- SC Johnson for knowingly selling asbestos tainted products to unsuspecting consumers.
- Oatly for suing a small family business that also made oat milk.
- Airbnb for driving the housing crisis that plagues the entire world.
- Chevron for selling oil stolen from Palestinians.
- Meta for being fucking fascists.
- Nike for using sweat shops to make products.
- Uber for exploiting drivers and interfering with public transit development.
- Whole Foods for being union busters, same as their parent company, Amazon.
- Apple for using exploitative labor practices overseas where they escape accountability.
- Wells Fargo for rearranging the order of transactions in order to cause overdraft fees.
I could go on and on…
Huh. I never really thought about what you wrote about airbnb, but it hit me hard now. My partner actually works for an Airbnb and they have an enormous amount of property and apartments in rural areas which could’ve housed families. And to think there are many more of these businesses doing the same thing.
I rarely use airbnbs, I prefer hotels, so I haven’t done a lot of contribution there but still, this has convinced me to never use one. Unless, the stay is in their house, or in a small house in their garden etc, which I actually have been in some years ago.
Tell ya partner to slack and steal as much time as possible from his employer, make careless mistakes, and cost the operation valuable time and money.
That’s how ya fight capitalism: by making it unprofitable.
Worried about getting fired?
The truth is that boomers are dying or retiring, and there’s not enough people out there to do the work.
Hiring and training new people costs a lot of money, and a new hire would want a salary just as high as a current employee, if not higher, due to inflation.
Source: I work in public accounting. The rich do nothing but steal from the working class 24/7.
I am sad to hear that about oatly. Not disagreeing with you, but do you have a link?
Not sure why you got downvoted, this is a space where reasonable questions should be encouraged.
Here ya go, my dude:
HP, Siemens, Intel, SodaStream and everything else on this list for supporting and profiting off the genocide of Palestinians
When everyone around you is a fascist, the real fascist is you.
No doubt there were muppets in Nazi Germany who said the same thing.
“Tell me you don’t know what a fascist is without saying you don’t know what a fascist is” speed run challenge.
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