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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 106 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I've seen this a lot in my life. People who are never going to be hungry or will never end up homeless treat the prospect of giving anyone else any amount of money as if it would bankrupt them. People in your life who are poor or have been poor, will just help you

[–] AcidLeaves@hexbear.net 77 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I've seen obvious blue collar workers hand people their own groceries they just bought on public transit without the other person even asking

I've never seen any of my dozens of tech friends other than the one that's a communist ever give a homeless person any money or buy them any food when asked

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 40 points 7 months ago

I'm glad I don't see any of the techie guys I knew from college because they all behave this way, and also have the very obnoxious belief that anyone less successful than them has earned their lot in life. I have one friend who still sees them and I laugh whenever I hear about them racking up insane bills at a restaurant, completely oblivious to how it feels for the normal people they then demand to bill split with. They even charged my friend his share of a hotel stay for a trip he had to back out of, just insane shit

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I used to wait tables and we had a regular who was a prominent local retail estate agent (like, multiple billboards with her face on them prominent). Everyone hated getting sat with her because she would insist on being sat in the party room by herself or with one person she was with (I guess she was too good for a table next to another customer's table) and you'd basically have to split your attention between two sections, neglecting your actual section that your other tables were in, inevitably leading to reduced tips from that section.

Then after like an hour and a half when she finally left she'd consistently tip one dollar. On top of being a ton of extra work, you'd generally net lose income for waiting on her.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah we just need to get back to saying "no" to those types of people.

The anything to appease the rich customer who doesn't even actually earn the company more than a regular customer mentality is so a thing of the past.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

The customer is always right - when it comes to taste.
No one ever finishes the quote. The customer is always right when it comes to stuff like "how you like your food to taste" not "how should this place be run"

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's even bad for business, you can do 3 normal tables in the time it takes to deal with one shitty table and appeasing that person means they'll keep coming back and possibly be more demanding. Staff needing to deal with rude people isn't even good for the capitalist.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 34 points 7 months ago

As a former poor person, I have no issue with buying my coworkers and friends the next round or paying for the uber. But you can bet your grandmothers ass that I will file an expense claim to my employer for that 2$ patch cable I needed.