Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

yeah, nobody policing in here, just metaphysically shaming

I mean you could make the same argument about disabled seating. "How do you know who's disabled? And maybe sometimes a young healthy person is just tired and wants to sit in the disabled seats on a crowded train at rush hour"

xxpost to NV - Oh of course I'm aware that the conversation w/ that guy proves nothing but for the purposes of that conversation I took him at face value and it made me stew. Find this shit too annoying on a day to day basis to be anything other than cynical regarding the motives of these people, even when logic dictates that I should be more mellow about it

i mean, i've expressed the same thought upthread i think, it's just that the price of not singling out one section of society is that other sections get to be dicks sometimes if they wanna

have strollers etc.

ah, the heart of the matter

I had a DISGUSTING SAVAGES moment when a couple cut in front of us at the Pet Shop Boys concert where he was 6'2" and she was 5'11" (I am 5'7" and my wife is 5'1") but shortly before the show started the woman in the couple turned around and said to my wife "Can you guys see? Do you want to switch places?" which was a valuable lesson in realizing that some people only resemble disgusting savages and you must always give them a chance to make you feel like you are the real disgusting savage.

maybe the escalator is scary

If I can carry my stroller, 30-pound toddler and bags up seven flights of stairs when the elevator is broken

jesus christ will you please stop blocking the stairs there are perfectly physically healthy ppl behind you trying to run up them

Oh come on NV, it's pretty clear that this is about self-absorbed teeny-boppers playing Angry Birds or w/e, not looking around to see who else is waiting, and nimbly hopping into elevators to avoid ONE FLIGHT of an escalator while someone pushing a stroller or w/e is stuck outside (or crammed against a wall). The DS thread is all about policing/judging other people on snap judgments, not sure why this one needs a white knight.

otm

we're on the Internet, everything needs a white knight

i think it's cos i work with people who can't use the stairs but don't appear to be disabled and even they cuss out not-disabled-looking people getting into lifts

The DS thread is all about policing/judging other people on snap judgments

quis custodiet ipsos custoses

I got in the elevator with two women in my work building. One of them, a healthy-seeming woman who seemed to be in her mid-20s, went up only one floor. The remaining woman said, "Ugh, 1 floor, are you kidding me?"

I lied and told her that the other woman had bone cancer. For the rest of the ride she sputtered and went, "Oh no! Oh my god! I'm such a jerk!"

lol

well done

hahaha awesome

Je55e is one of my favorite type of savages

If I can carry my stroller, 30-pound toddler and bags up seven flights of stairs when the elevator is broken and I got five hours of sleep, I don't want to hear someone complaining that they're "too tired" to walk 30 feet to the escalator and stand on that instead of in an elevator while a bunch of old people and pregnant people and parents stand around waiting.

so you can't carry your stroller and 30 pound toddler up the escalator but you can carry them up seven flights? likely story, buddy!

DJP's cautionary tale is otm.

truly it is us who were the disgusting savages all along.

and posting in this thread, we have truly "listed them all" ;_;

you can't bring a stroller on an escalator

Only those who dare to be bold may bring strollers onto escalators.

I see strollers on escalators all the time, especially when the alternative is to lug the thing up stairs.

but every escalator has a sign on it that says "NO STROLLERS" because I think the combination of the two will make them explode or something

It's harder and more dangerous to take a stroller on an escalator - you can't really put the thing down but you can't go forward (assuming there are other people on the escalator), so you have to just kind of hold the thing in the air and balance.

A lot of CTA stations have escalators but no elevators (if they have either *sigh*) and no signs prohibiting strollers. It looks precarious, no doubt.

CTA stations are not models for accessibility by any stretch of the imagination so I'm not saying that their approach is correct. Just that it's the reality.

overly aggressive restaurant/fast food joint cleaners. on the one hand, as a customer, i appreciate your attention to cleanliness. but on the other hand, i don't enjoy my feet being slammed around by a broom while i'm eating because you can't possible be bothered to wait until i'm done eating to sweep under the table/counter.

lies, who doesn't love a good foot slam?

yeah those dudes who play mop hockey under your chair -- probably they just hate their jobs

i can't say i blame 'em, but i also kinda feel like it would make their job easier if i wasn't in their way. although i think the blame probably falls to the shitty store managers that constantly scream at their employees about how they "MUST CONSTANTLY KEEP THE FLOOR CLEAN"

You got time to lean, you got time to clean.

haha omg my boss at my first job washing dishes in high school said that unironically all the damn time

I don't actually condone hitting someone's feet with a broom but are you guys seriously saying restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, should clean less

did you not even read the first part of my post where i was appreciative of the cleanliness? i just think there's a sweet spot where they could sweep the floor under my table when i'm not still there.

My shit-job bosses did trot that gem out once in a while, but it is true that if you are always looking for stuff to do and then doing it in those kinds of jobs, they don't ever have to say it to you and everybody's happy.

Would never have cleaned around/under a customer though, that's just crazy and unwelcoming.

A guy I used to wait tables with came up with horrible management phrases he'd use if he became found himself a manager. My favorite that I remember was "Don't ask why, just comply."

"Time to lean/time to clean" was right up there with "Aces in places" at my first restaurant job. God almighty. The problem is that there is always more stuff to do, so if you are industrious and seek out tasks, they're still going to seek out more tasks for you, even while Goofus chills out napping in the rear server staging nook that they don't use during lunch. (note, we all took turns with the nap system back there, so my hands are not clean)

or, judging from the stories i've heard about subway, "you got time to slack, you got time to dip your balls in the container of mayonaise in back"

thaaaaanks for that one

i also hate the smell of cleaning fluid while I am eating

xxpost gives new meaning to "hold the mayo" amirite

fwiw that is actually one of the least disgusting stories i've heard about subway over the course of my life, something about that place attracts the people really into doing disgusting things to food

my friend worked there in college all he did was hook us up with sandwiches

"Time to lean/time to clean" was right up there with "Aces in places"

What the hell does that even mean?

know when to hold em/know when to fold em

you never count your money while they're sitting at the table
there'll be time enough for counting
when the eating's done

Aces in places was supposedly about matching skills up with tasks, but was also just a bullshit way of saying you were going to do extra work that didn't fall under your job description, because you were an 'ace' and there was a 'place' waiting to be filled.

Bear in mind, this is the same job where we had to toil hard to be "Constant Caring Friends" to the customers, known as "Everyday Heroes." We had to "close the circle...and go the extra mile" (with associated finger gestures). For some reason the word "Shazam!" was also involved.

This was a step up from the previous customer-service training regimen, called "Fanatical Customer Service." I never found out what that meant (burning down rival chains with torches? Torture equipment installed in the hotel gym?), and I don't want to.

I worked at Pizza Hit briefly in college and corporate would send out management briefings with like, monthly buzzwords and the one in use while I worked there was STELLAR and our weird uptight mid-20s eyes on the corporate prize manager would walk around saying STELLAR like a broken freaking record.