I wish I was a more confrontational person because there were definitely times I saw a retail worker being needlessly berated and I didn’t confront the person doing it.
I’ve never been in a physical fight and I would almost certainly lose, so I just avoid them.
It doesn’t have to be confrontational at that level.
As a former hot head, when I flipped out on a store clerk for a really stupid reason, the old guy behind me said, “You really taking your anger out on someone paid $6 an hour?” (No confrontation, just calling out the situation)
It was enough. But he could have also said something like, “Go write a email to corporate” or “call up the manager line” because I was out of line for flipping out.
I huffed out of there but I’m kind of glad I did. Because I would have done something stupid. And that old man is what I try to be when I see it.
At least here in Indiana, that would not at all be unprecedented as a reason someone decided to attack someone else physically.
I used to do video journalism for one of the local TV stations. People would threaten me for the camera being in their presence. Not pointed at them, just them being around it. “You point that thing at me and you’re dead.” When they were walking by and my back was too them.
I just don’t have the courage to speak up to people in this environment. I wish I did, but I don’t. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t have that sort of bravery.
That sucks and yeah, a bunch of America is pretty hot headed. Sorry you had to experience that shit. Camera people are just trying to do their jobs.
I think another direction is also just being support. A kind “That dude was a asshole” empathy is also pretty helpful in the moment, when the victim is still processing and stressing.
Now that I have done. Said that to the person afterward.
I don’t know if this matters to them or not, but I always try to look people at the register in the eye at least once during the transaction (usually at the end). Just to show we’re on the same level. Maybe they don’t notice, but I feel like it’s a minor gesture I can make in case they do.
Even if they don’t consciously notice your intention, i’m sure it comes off as a blissfully low-streas interaction. Good on ya, wish there were more folks like you!
I work retail and when customers come up to have a whinge about the store overcharging or what ever valid complaint, I just join in and start birching bitching about the company with them, calms most of them down pretty quick, you get to bitch about your employer with a customer and they feel heard, even tho they weren’t.
I don’t feel that one’s even halfway earned. I don’t hate my fellow man, not even when he’s tiresome, surly, and tries to cheat at poker. I figure that’s just the human material, and he that finds in it cause for anger or dismay is a fool for expecting better.
Limp bizkit is unironically #1 on my live bands bucket list and I’m probably the most elitist metalhead douchebag on all of lemmy
I just love how us 30 year olds now look at this shitty bands with nostalgia glasses on now, I also notice unanimous respect for Linkin Park and it never used to be like that
I was just hitting middle school when Hybrid Theory came out. My mom wouldn’t let me buy it because of the repeated Shut Up lyrics in One Step Closer, but I loved the album and listened to it with my friends all the time. I didn’t feel like Meteora hit as hard, and I really lost interest after Minutes to Midnight. Listening to them now, I still don’t like much after the first few albums, but I’ve come around a bit to Meteora and honestly, Reanimation might be my favorite of the first three albums.
Reanimation is soooo good. Still have my original copy of Hybrid Theory and it’s great, but the edits on Reanimation just work really well. Meteora is good though their constant experimentation can make some stinkers.
Given the albums you do like, did you listen to The Hunting Party? It’s funny how heavy that album is given the ones it’s between. Really felt like it showed how much they were just making the music they wanted, not what they thought gain traction.
I couldn’t think of a specific song on that album, so I put it on for a listen. I wasn’t familiar with the hardcore/punk style on War and Keys to the Kingdom. Funny enough, I had tickets to see them on this tour because Rise Against was their supporting act, but the tour got cancelled because Chester got sick. The pairing didn’t make too much sense to me at the time, but now it makes more sense, even if it was at a time that Rise Against was losing a lot of their melodic hardcore background with Appeal to Reason. Collapse (Post-Amerika) still hit though.
Linkin Park slaps so hard that even parodies of Linkin Park sound good. I always thought the hate they got was good hearted in a ‘guilty pleasure’ sort of way but then they stayed relevant long enough everyone forgot what they were supposed to be feeling guilty about.
Managed to see Limp Bizkit twice during the late 00’s/early 10’s when they shoved their way onto a festival lineup. Second best band of the weekend! Go if you can!
Not related, but I find it wild how $11/ hour can be low for someone in a first world country, while that would be life changing for someone in a developing country (I for once make a less than $5/hour, converting from local currency, and that is already relatively high around here, a lot of people make $2/hour)
I’m not saying that you should be satisfied earning $11/hour, I’m just saying how strange it is that, even earning roughly 5x more, you guys struggle to pay the bills all the same
Yeah, I’m aware. Monthly (very basic tho) food is $40–$80 (converting from local currency) per person. Rent is $200–300 for a 2 bedroom basic apartment.
At the same time, “luxury” things are way more expensive here. Smartphones, computers and cars, for instance, are almost 2x the price. Shoes and clothes that are beyond expensive here are normal in the US.
So our cost of living is way cheaper, but our purchase power is lower still. If you can work remotely, you are paid in dollars, and can travel to the US to buy things, you can live a very comfortable life here with an income that you would struggle in there.
PS: I’m using $1 = R$5, which is not true, because our currency is dying. Using more updated prices only make the discrepancy even greater
(I know, it’s acceptable to use it as is done in the title, but the cartoon dude seemed to me the sort of fellow who might have opinions about the Latin roots of words and whatnot.)
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