Black Friday is the best–Right? Things you’ve wanted to buy all year (along with some dust-collectors that will be used about once) all at a discount. But along with stores being open, employees must be working. With stores opening as early as 3 PM on Thanksgiving, employees are stuck dealing with rude customers and being literally trampled to death. So please, this Black Friday, be a decent human and show basic respect towards retail employees.
Retail employees deal with some rude people, and around the overwhelmingly consumerist “holiday” that is Black Friday, the amount of rude people they deal with is multiplied. I don’t quite understand why one would feel the need to be rude to retail employees. Sorry, Barbara, but do you really think that I, a part-time minimum-wage 16-year old, am trying to ruin your day by not allowing you to use two conflicting coupons in one transaction? I don’t make the rules, Barbara. I don’t control how the checkout system works, Barbara. I’m only doing as I’m trained, Barbara.
It’s not necessarily difficult to be nice to retail employees. It’s actually quite easy, actually. For those who have difficulty with this concept, just imagine the employee. Imagine the employee as a human being. A non-perfect, actual flesh-and-bone human being. Now imagine yourself. You, too, are an imperfect human being. Do you, as an imperfect human being, enjoy when mistakes you made are picked at? No. Keep that in mind when considering being rude to a retail employee. Being kind, or at least decent, shouldn’t be too difficult.
