I believe it should be permissible to summarily execute convenience store clerks who jabber away on cell phones when one is trying to complete a transaction and pay for gas, beef jerky,chapstick, a snickers bar or a newspaper. Well, perhaps execution is a bit harsh. What about customer administered corporal punishment? Certainly the cute little lass in this photo would get a reprieve. I cannot however, condone a stay of sentence for the babbling jackass at the Sunoco in the East Falls section of Philadelphia yesterday.
I was standing there waiting to pay for gas while this garrulous twit happily spewed his gibberish into his cell phone while several customers, myself included, waited to pay for our goods and services and be about our business. Clearly the owner or other supervisory personel were absent or this pathetic act of customer neglect would not have been tolerated or continued...at least that is what we hope.
I had filled my car in order to make a trip to a Court appearance in Lancaster,PA. With the vagaries of Southeastern PA traffic, that trip can take an hour and fifteen or two hours. The last thing I needed was to stand at a counter staring through plexiglass waiting for this G.E.D class drop-out to finish his important discussion about which flavor Hot -Pocket he consumed for lunch or whether he was going to "get wit" his girl that evening.
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Absentee corporate owners + low wages + too cool for this job = idiot behavior. Which now seems to be some sort of standard
Or the guy who talks shit non-stop while installing your new appliances...and I mean non-stop for three hours.
It is not just the working class (blue-collar) individuals that are guilty of this impropriety. How many times has one been in close proximity to an "educated" , "professional" , and self-important businessman or attorney that deems it necessary to chatter on a mobile phone while in a bookshop or museum?
It is not just the working class (blue-collar) individuals that are guilty of this impropriety. How many times has one been in close proximity to an "educated" , "professional" , and self-important businessman or attorney that deems it necessary to chatter on a mobile phone while in a bookshop or museum?
You are right, these kids should totally just text under the counter like all the other responsible cashiers.... or anyone at a board meeting or sales conference.... or driving on I-76
I hope that if I ever fall from my already meager position in society that I'll have the dignity to try to conduct myself like an adult, even if I'm clerking at a gas station. It's sad that people like this make asses of themselves and they never even know it.
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