r/facepalm • u/silent_kni8 • 16d ago
It's same as coming on reddit.😬 Not Facepalm / Inappropriate Content
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u/BWWFC 16d ago
i just jeep thinking we really need a decent mental health system...and a society more focused on connection than consumerism. how bad is it out there that they'll take a moment of relief getting their frustrations from everywhere in their life out on a stranger representing some faceless uncaring corporation. arguably knowing it wont really help their situation.
truly believe for the vast majority it is a very temporary fix and are genuinely internally disappointed and embarrassed by their actions shortly after. not unlike a junkie deep into addition. in the moment the desire to be heard, to have control over some aspect of their life, no matter how brief, goes primal.
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u/samtt7 15d ago
we really need a decent mental health system
Or just preventing needing it in the first place would be nice
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u/BWWFC 15d ago
would be nice but think unrealistic, like the goal of always being 'happy'. there will always be moments of personal challange out of one's control (lol or even in our control, dumb humans after all). there should be easily accessible and safe places to turn for comfort and help. no man is an island
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u/i_want_that_boat 15d ago
The people that have to work with the general public should be the highest paid people in the world. The more you deal with the public the higher you should get paid.
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u/silent_kni8 15d ago
I totally agree with this, listening to the bullshits of people is one hell of a job.
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u/I_Consume_Shampoo 15d ago
Really can't wrap my head around people being so comfortable just verbally berating strangers.
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u/Beautiful_Plankton97 15d ago
TV and their peers cause their parents are working 2-3 jobs to get by.
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u/castfam09 15d ago
Amen! I work in customer service as well and you’d think that when someone is trying to help you, you’d stop complaining and let them help you. But they continue saying how stupid we are, we can’t do anything right, blah blah blah. And then wonder why you can’t do something (because another dept has to handle their side of things first). It kills me … “well, why didn’t the last person do it?” I cannot speak for someone else
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u/Wickedscifi 15d ago
After so many years working as a support agent, ive learned not to give a shit and really show it in my tone of voice. It pisses people off immensely if you dont acknowledge it.
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u/Thecleric001 15d ago
Gen x… sorry about that. We thought telling them they can achieve anything and there’s no such thing as a wrong answer was a good idea…
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u/joecarter93 15d ago
I worked in restaurants when I was in high school and college. One of the biggest takeaways that I got from that experience, is that there are wayyyyyy too many people walking around out there who will flip out and lose all of their dignity over a $10 meal.
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u/OCTM2 16d ago
Last time a customer got rude, I pulled out a glock nine and started clapping👏
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u/FlyWereAble 15d ago
You pulled a gun on a customer because they were rude? That is messed up, not cool or badass, just terrifying.
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u/SpearCatcher1 15d ago
Perhaps parenting and schooling since the 1960s are skewed towards sympathy without the offset of self discipline (which includes manners). Learning discipline traditionally tended to be backstopped by the father (yes, bell curve, some mothers are disciplinarians, tiger moms etc, but on average), although of course it helps with any parenting goal for the parents to work in tandem.
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u/50_cal_Beowulf 15d ago
A hardcore left wing friend of mine took a job at the unemployment office a few years ago. She voted for trump in 2020.
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u/theundercoverpapist 15d ago
coughboomerscough
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u/SpearCatcher1 15d ago
How does this even make sense? Or is it just a catch all? Rainy day: Boomers! Acne flare up: Boomers! High rent: Boomers!
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u/Diablo_19 15d ago
Honestly? The 4 years I previously spent at 5 guys(aged 16-20) taught me that most of the elder generation(not all, there are outliers as with all things) has very little respect for retail workers or anyone younger than them in a similar working environment. The amount of times me or my coworkers got bitched at for taking 8 minutes(our maximum allowed time to get an order out from the time the ticket printed) instead of 5 minutes "like they usually get" was insane considering I'd recognize a fair bit of them as regulars who usually come in during slow times but chose to come in during lunch rush once and dont seem to realize that its busier than usual(a packed house vs 4-5 customers)
Edit: im not saying its solely the older generation, there are dickheads at every age. I personally had more issues with 45+(so milennial verging on boomer and boomer)
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u/theundercoverpapist 15d ago
Not at all... But the OP said, "Who raised" entitled, rude little shits?", etc. Who raised them? I'm a tail-end Gen Xer/Xennial, so I got to be present for the whole of the Boomets' progenies' childhoods.
I watched Boomers attack schools because their spoiled brats weren't being treated like royalty, given recognition, made to feel special, etc. I watched boomer parents give their brats every little thing their heart desired. I saw them do away with any and all forms of punishment and favor "sitting down and having a grown-up conversation with their kids about their behavior." (You can't have a grown-up conversation with a 5 y/o, by the way... because they're children, not grown-ups.)
My mother has a box full of my participation trophies and ribbons. My parents never stopped trying to get me into "gifted" classes, while I just wanted to skate through school and do nothing because I was sure my parents would take care of everything for me. Talk about rude awakenings! And damn near every Gen X/Millennial I come across had the same experiences.
Boomers raised a generation of dependent assholes... dependent on them!... and all the while, they took the largest proverbial dump in modern history on the economy, into which they eventually sent their precious, special, yet wholly unprepared little brats.
I had to enlist in the Marine Corps to break from the parental teat and grow the fuck up. Unfortunately, many still suckle from their folks' dried up bosom... in their 40s and 50s. That's pathetic no matter how you look at it.
Of course, many Millennials have their own families now, but a huge portion of those are raising their kids the same way their own parents raised them. And many are still relying heavily on (boomer) grandparent support to raise those grandkids.
So, you want to know "WHO RAISED" the rude, entitled fucks with which our society now seems plagued? The answer is, "The fucking Boomers raised them."
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u/snksleepy 16d ago
First borns...
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u/unusedusername42 15d ago edited 15d ago
What?
You might want to look into the big brother/big sister issues that you seem to be displaying here, dear Internet stranger! ;)
I'm the oldest of five by a seven year margin, thus having a first born/only child mentality according to the contested and outdated Adler's sibling theory but that does not make me behave as if I have any of the negative traits listed. If you were serious you are being both rude and prejudiced i.m.o. and if you tried to be funny I think that it failed. That is just this one person's opinion though
EDIT: Oops, wrong URL. Fixed. Sorry!
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u/Night-Roar 15d ago
What's wrong with entitlement? I don't understand this criticism. Should we all be undemanding lambs? What's important, of course, is to have impeccable manners. But manners and entitlement go very well in hand.
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u/KittenInAMonster 15d ago
There's no reason to act like an entitled dick to some person working a minimum wage job.
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u/VaguelyFamiliarVoice 16d ago
How is this a facepalm?