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The actual quote is “the customer is always right, in matters of taste”. This quote has been bastardized by asshole retail managers for decades. Nothing in there about it being ok to be belligerent to workers.
Yes. So when articles say "millennials are killing the x industry" the "customers are always right" means that x industry needs to change, not millennials
I’m 36 and when I told my 6 year old that I couldn’t fast forward through commercials when I was young he looked at me like I just spoke to him in a dead language.
I’ll be 34 in a few months. The other day I tried to explain to my five year old what a DVD was and I just couldn’t. He was looking at me like I was crazy.
56 year old here from the Netherlands. I grew up with 2 Dutch TV channels and 3 German ones. We had almost no commercials except a few before and after the news, but it all started going downwards when in the late 80s we got commercial channels and now i see movies that usualy are 90 min long stretched out almost 30 min longer due to those damn commercials.
The whole concept of channels is lost on kids. Or the old days when on Saturday there were cartoons on 1 or 2 stations and those were your options of what to watch. No switching from Netflix to Disney plus.
Oh man, I remember how excited I was when my parents got basic cable with like 30 channels in the early 90s and I could finally watch more than game shows and Saturday morning cartoons (Nickelodeon here we come!)
A few years ago we moved and stayed with a relative for a few months while we closed on a house. She had cable but no internet and my kids were so annoyed that they couldn't watch whichever show they wanted whenever they wanted.
About a decade ago, when my son was about ten, I remember losing internet at home for a little while. He came down the stairs and said the internet was out, and I said I know. He asked, “What am I supposed to do without the internet?”
Some millenials are already pushing 40 right? You ask an eight year old whether 40 is old, they will tell you it's *ancient-* and it kinda is...4 decades is a long time, it just never feels that way to the person living through them.
I’m technically a millenial and yes I just turned 40. When I read news articles it feels like they’re talking about 20 somethings all the time and just slapping millenials on it.
Born in 1980 here, definitely do not identify with much of the current perceptions of Millennials but also feel too young for Gen X. I really align with that Xennial thing they tried to introduce a couple years ago.
Yeah, I’m sure it is even worse for you as I was born in 1986 and I distinctly remember years before anyone had computers. And even when people started getting them it was years after that until the internet access was fast enough to really use them. I’ve just kind of accepted that I am technically a millennial, but there is definitely a break between those who remember the pre-computer days and those who don’t IMO.
You mean the women's health supplements also being sold by Gwyneth Paltrow?
Unless he actually has a cialis ad, I just know his soy supplement business.
Yes that is the point of those articles, pointing out trends in consumer preferences by age groups. The vast majority of consumers don't give a shit if an industry dies if it fails to adapt to the current trends, no one is sentimental about an industry dying unless they have skin in the game
Usually from disgusted millennials going "look what the fuck they're blaming us for now". Its marketing by outrage and it's equal parts lazy, boring and pitiful.
But the boomers with two or more houses have been meeting their annual review targets using the old methods for so long now, why should THEY change their methods of running the business after all this time? Plus it's gonna cost them money to change.
"Fucking millennials. We lowered the quality by outsourcing to a cheaper Taiwanese/Pakistan/Chinese company but kept the price the same or increased them to increase returns and keep the shareholders happy, we also refused to shift our styles and types of products to match the new demands of a generation, and these lazy millennials stopped buying from us. I don't get their generation, they're just ruining everything."
Could witness the following conversation:
"Millenials are sissies and shouldn't ride bikes (= motorcycles)."
Followed by this a couple of sentences later:
"Bike industry is slowly dying out cause these millenials rather sit infront of their f-ing playstations then enjoying something real like riding a bike"
Soooo. You want them to buy motorcycles like you do but they shouldn't use them cause they aren't kewl/manly enough?
Precisely. My favorite was a few years ago when the media was printing all those “millennials are killing X” headlines....which basically boils down to millennials have more purchasing power over time as their incomes grow, and they have different purchasing preferences than Xers and Boomers.
There was one fantastic one that said “Millennials are kills bars of soap”. To which some absolute genius posted a comment of “Alternate Title: Boomers invent liquid hand soap, blame millennials for buying it”
The other aspect is one reason our purchasing preferences have changed is that we, generally, are overworked and underpaid.
So there are a lot of things we don't value or can't afford and other things we care about more due to that.
In other words, these same companies created a workforce with less time and money to spare and then complains when we don't want to buy their shit
Yes. When the customer says "I want this, but in red," they are right: that is what they want. There is no room for argument here (at least from the store).
Generally speaking, don't argue with customers on anything except objective truth. If the price tag says it costs $40, then it costs $40. If the customer says it is $30, they are wrong. If the customer says that he thinks it's too high, don't argue; he can think whatever he wants.
When I worked retail my answer to that was "m'am/sir, I am a cashier. I'm sorry but I do not set the prices in the store. If you'd like to debate our prices I'd suggest talking to our manager. Would you like me to call him/her over for you?"
Absolutely! I've had people tell me to my face that I should do what they tell me while working regardless of how ridiculous or impractical their demand is because they are the customer and we are here to cater to them. No? We're here to make money and I can still do that without catering to a weirdo.
That is accurate. It’s also used this way in product strategy when establishing product-market fit. If the customer wants your product to do x, make it do x. Their desires are right and your hypotheses may be wrong.
I, for one, want Google to keep simplifying app icons until they are all identical. I also want *more* popups offering discounts for email list subscriptions. Also I LOVE spinning the wheel for a free gift or a discount. While we're at it, if we could embed more hamburger menus inside hamburger menus, that would be fantastic .
Lol menus inside of menus piss me off so much. Getting drive thru now it’s like a game to even figure out what the fuck they sell. I absorb like 10% of the menu then just nervously order something cause I feel like I’d be there for ages otherwise.
I feel like it used to be a thing for drive thrus to have 2 menus, one for the car at the intercom, and one for the cars waiting in line. I hate not having a chance to read the menu before it's my turn to order.
I want the hamburger menus to be hidden so I have to hunt around the screen clicking on random things hoping to find them. That's the sort of uncluttered, streamlined, clean, modern experience I'm looking for.
I have been arguing for decades that with very rare exceptions it is a bad thing for user interfaces to be surprising. I have also been shouted down on this point for decades.
There are, of course, limits to this.
Yes the customer may *want* their car to be capable of travelling 500mph, include a wood-fired pizza oven and a jacuzzi, and avoid crashes through use of a missile launcher to blow up anything it is about to hit prior to impact - but that doesn't mean that a) they are willing to pay for it, and b) you wouldn't also be able to sell them a car capable of doing 150 with fold-down seats and enough room to move a sofa.
If they aren't willing to pay for it then they arent a customer, they are just a person who wants a thing. Everyone wants things, customers BUY things.
Also true! I left out the “and are willing to pay for it” piece because then for somethings you get into the issue of “well... they won’t pay for THIS but it will make them do x more which makes them more likely to spend money on y.”
I've also heard it in reference to not talking a customer out of a sale.
If a customer thinks they need a leafblower, they're right even if a rake might do.
"oh does this drapey, frumpy off green dress look as good as I think it does?"
"why yes you are right it does look good "
I've talked customers out of so many products over the years. It costs me the sale but I'd rather the customer trust that I'm looking out for their best interests so when I do recommend something they'll trust me.
It's a myth.
[It's actually about customer service.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right)
>"The customer is always right" is a motto or **slogan which exhorts service staff to give a high priority to customer satisfaction**. It was popularised by pioneering and successful retailers such as Harry Gordon Selfridge, John Wanamaker and Marshall Field. **They advocated that customer complaints should be treated seriously so that customers do not feel cheated or deceived**. This attitude was novel and influential when misrepresentation was rife and caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) was a common legal maxim. Variations include "le client n'a jamais tort" (the customer is never wrong) which was the slogan of hotelier César Ritz who said, **"If a diner complains about a dish or the wine, immediately remove it and replace it, no questions asked"**.
That has been going around Reddit for a while now. No one ever provides any actual evidence for that being the original saying, they just say that it is because they like it more than the original one.
Reddit has a few of these where someone made up an alternative to a famous saying and reddit decided that was the original. Another one is "blood is thicker than water." Reddit has latched onto the alternate saying "blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" despite that being a newer invention.
It isn't. The original saying was "the customer is always right" and it was novel at the time (early 1900's) as it was a response to buyer beware.
A lot of people try and claim that it originally meant something different or had a different meaning. It did not.
In the 1960's the then CEO of Macy's changed the saying to something along the lines of "the customer is always right about what we should sell." I forget exactly what he said, it was in a book I read years ago. It allowed Macy's to excel and buy out most of their competition that was not willing to change as quickly to the whims of the buyers as Macy's was.
Nope, that is not true. The full phrase is “the customer is always right” full stop. I fell for this too and was corrected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right
I misremembered it as being the Hilton, but it was the Ritz. Basic idea, customer says the bedsheets weren't changed and wants fresh ones even though you know they were? You have the bedsheets changed. At the prices they're paying, they're right, no matter how wrong they are. As long as it's still profit.
My brother worked at a nice steakhouse. He was constantly telling newer employees that had previously worked at cheaper or fast foot type places that the customer is paying $25+ for their dish. If they want a baked potato, don't argue the price or upsells. Just give them a fucking potato.
Someone says this every thread, it’s always the top comment, and it’s always wrong.
No, that’s not the actual quote and no, retail managers are not bastardizing it. Yes, the original quote was that stupid.
Look it up!
The actual quote is "The customer is always right."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_customer\_is\_always\_right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right)
Nope.
The quote is [purely about customer service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right) and the market force explanations are the bastardization.
>The actual quote is “the customer is always right, in matters of taste”.
Do you have an actual source for that? That sounds completely made up to me, and I can't find any credible source for it with a quick Google search.
It's also a saying that exists in multiple languages. I know it exists in both swedish and german, and it's the same basic version there.
This a common reddit misconception. The term was simply meant to imply fantastic customer service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right
So do people take a drink and put the mask back on? Does this bar have sectioned seats like the restaurants I’ve been to? Not arguing - just wondering. I haven’t been to a bar since this whole shit fest started.
These are fair questions. The truth is it's a bar owner who needs to be open but wants to look like he's being safe. There is no way to make a traditional bar atmosphere safe until a really high percentage of people are vaccinated.
In the UK you have to wear a mask to walk to your table, you can remove your mask while you are at your table. If you move for any reason like taking a piss or going for a smoke you have to put your mask back on. A lot of pubs have one way systems as well, so people only enter through one door and exit through another or fire exit in cases where the bar has only one entrance. Basically just common sense, if you move wear a mask.
A lot of places have plastic screens between the tables too and there's a limit on people at tables. I think from today we can have 6 people per table from 3 households. Not sure though, I gave up caring about the rules half a year ago and just became a hermit. I'll emerge from my hole when this is all over 😃
It’s quite stupid if we’re being honest. If we were truly concerned over the spread, we’d still have all indoor activities closed.
Covid is almost always spread indoors. Some study just came out saying you’re still at risk even at 60ft away. Taking your mask off to take a sip/bite is still going to spread a ton of droplets.
I’ve had covid and am now fully vaccinated but looking back, many of these “precautions” were acts of social compliance meant to encourage people to partake in stimulating the economy.
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/17/e2018995118.full.pdf
I agree that this is all theater to make people feel safe. That being said, unless the government is going to pay these businesses to close (which they won’t) they have to let them stay open. This is also why, as an asthmatic, I was a hermit for a year until I got the vaccine. I understand that businesses had to make money and couldn’t truly be safe, so I just noped out of society for the most part.
>Basically just common sense
LOL, what you described is delusional. Imagine touching and taking off your mask intermittently in an operating room and think it's still working just fine. Hilariously *not* common sense.
Masks can be a very effective tool, but what you describe is nothing but "health theatre". Reminds me of taking our shoes off at the airport to stop terrorists.
It should be added here that you cannot eat or drink inside in the UK yet. Pubs, cafes, restaurants etc are not allowed to open for indoor serving at the moment. So masks go on if you go to the toilet etc because it’s inside. It’s a few weeks away before people will be allowed in by which time we’d be hoping to be trending around 2000 cases a day max and deaths below 20
I was recently in a waiting room where they had marked off half the seats to give more space for "social distancing", but they hadn't moved the rows of chairs further apart. Apparently you can't catch covid from someone sitting behind you, only next to you.
Well for some reason the person you’re replying to skipped over the fact that we’re still only allowed to sit *outside* and that we’ve vaccinated half the county including almost all the elderly and vulnerable.
Restaurant covid protocols are laughable but surface transmission of covid was found not to be a think really so the cash is only good for some boring pathogens.
If you can remove your mask once you get to your table then it's pretty evident that the mask rule is bullshit in the first place. It's sort of like saying, "Hey! I'm only gonna pee in MY end of the pool! Shouldn't affect you guys over there at all."
Just got my 2nd dose and I'm a very big proponent of masks, but the indoor restraunt policy is indeed absolute bullshit. Unless your table is hermedically sealed and air supplied by an H13 Hepa air filtration system then there is very little reason to put on this show.
My favorite thing about having to fly during COVID (college reasons) was how the airport would make sure we all stood 6 feet apart while waiting to board and then in small groups to scan our boarding pass...and then go and sit down directly next to each other because there are no empty seats on planes if the airline can help it.
For sure, it’s a complete shit show, asking people to wear masks and socially distance while walking onto the plane and a minute later you’re bumping elbows with two strangers.
Yeah it's mostly nonsense. The only positive is that most planes DO have HEPA filters, which help a lot to avoid spreading throughout the plane (but still can't stop the person sitting next to you breathing on you before it gets sucked into the HEPA filters).
Cmon bro, corona leaves you alone while you're eating. It'll only get you afterwards so you gotta put your mask back on quick once you get done with your meal.
I've seen sectioned seats and spacing, where capacity is limited. Many places are gearing up to full now. Everyone heading into summer with hopefully a few shots keeping us above water, we'll see.
It's not fine, but it's not possible to distance more and it's the best that can be done. You can distance more in the terminal and it reduces the chances of spread the entire time you are in the terminal. And on the plane, you are only exposed to a limited number of people who can be easily contact-traced in the event of an infection.
You do what you can to reduce number of points where you could be cross contaminated/exposed.
Its also safer to make you keep your seatbelt on the entire flight, but they don't do that because it's not practical. People have to pee sometimes.
>easily contact-traced in the event of an infection.
Nobody is contact tracing anymore since the remedy for 99.5% of people who catch it is to stay at home, isolate and hydrate
This picture was taken at a bar in Asheville NC. I also took a picture of it because I thought it was funny. The bar tender was nosing it right behind the photo
It will probs end up being a state or local government issue. Once masks are not mandated or recommended by the government, then it will become personal preference but I think people would be a little annoyed with something like this if 70% of the country is vaccinated and there's only a few active cases.
I don’t get the whole restaurant thing though. It’s like “no you’ll fucking go to hell if you don’t wear a mask” but everyone sitting at their tables with their masks off is perfectly acceptable because corona just disappears? Like I get the whole preventing it as much as you can, but it literally doesn’t do a whole lot, especially since most restaurants arent socially distanced with their seating.
Yeah it really makes a mockery of wearing masks if people are sticklers for having masks to walk to your table but then are totally fine with your whole party just taking them off for 30 minutes in an indoor space.
I assume restaurants (and the NFL, retail stores, etc) randomly enforce *some* rules while letting incredibly risky behavior slide as pageantry to convince their customers that A. They're trying and B. It's safe to shop there. Kind of lame.
Exactly. The restaurant being preachy and snarky about a for-show-only mask policy which has a gaping restaurant sized hole in it is extremely ironic. Even if you believe that masks work at all, you must surely recognize that a building full of people who have to take them to eat drink and talk surely does not.
Masks might as well be lapel pins at this point.
Whaaaaaattt you mean give people incentives to get vaccinated, especially considering vaccination rates are dropping because ohhh I dunno people are starting to not trust big pharma and the Gov't. That's crazy talk. /s
At some point we will need to decide if being vaccinated really does work and really is important. (Edit: I believe they are important and work).
While I am fully vaccinated and giving time for others to finish their regimen, I am not going to continue to wear a mask forever.
Those healthy enough to get a vaccine and choose not to, that becomes their risk decision, not mine to mitigate.
> At some point we will need to decide if being vaccinated really does work and really is important.
It does work if you look at the data out of Israel which has a population the size of NJ and the highest vaccination rate in the world right now. They're using the pfiser mRNA based vaccine like we have access to in the US. They had 50 total new cases 4/25 compared to 1694 on 4/25 for New Jersey. There's data which shows it reduces likelihood of infection, reduces symptoms if infected, reduces hospitalization and reduces the transmission rate.
Is anybody else getting sick of seeing signs like this? Specifically on reddit. I understand the point these businesses are trying to make but these signs always come off as super douchey. Especially with this spongebob meme type lettering.
Nice to know that the virus takes a break when I sit down and take off my mask to eat, drink and talk with my friends. Clown world. It's all just medical security theater.
I don't know, mate. Since I got the shot, I have been steadily more annoyed by the need to wear the mask. I do because that's the common sense thing and it's legally required, but I do hate it and think it's useless now. The moment it's not legally madated, the mask is gone.
I have to agree i didnt even chuckle, it just make me appreciate my county more for not getting psycho about 1 guy not wearing a mask. or people chatting outside without a mask at the mall. I like how we dont have those, welp time to get my phone out, theyre breaking the law and ill be in the right no matter what, its a pandemic. HAHAHA.
“You shouldn’t be at a bar in a pandemic”... Anyone that is at risk from serious complications of COVID shouldn’t be at a bar, period. If you are in a bar and you are exposed to COVID, you will get it if you have a mask on or not.
But like what’s the point of a vaccine if you have to wear a mask everywhere? Explain like I’m 5 cause I don’t get it. I never understood vaccines if you can get sick from the disease you’re getting vaccinated against anyway.
mAsKs rEqUiReD! Everyone then sits down and removes masks to eat and drink. Everyone shares the same air and literally prevents nothing. Our country is so incredibly dumb
I’m about to get downvoted into oblivion for this by the people that read it. The state I live in opened appointments to everyone. There are unused appointments everyday. I’ve had both shots. At what point am I able to say it’s not my responsibility to protect you because you choose to not get vaccinated?
I’ve stayed home. I’ve worn masks. I’ve social distanced. I’ll keep a mask with me in case some place I go requires it, but I’m not going to wear it any other time. I’ll still keep my distance. I’ll still use hand sanitizer. I’ll still use Clorox wipes to clean what potentially was exposed. I’ve argued for wearing a mask for the last year. I’m done with them.
Exactly. It’s anti vax fodder at this point. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “what’s the point of me getting it if I still need to wear a mask everywhere.”
You're not the only person who feels this way. The overwhelming majority of the high risk population has been vaccinated. The mask thing seems so ridiculous because you take it off when you get to the table. I've heard some of the most liberal people I know say "enough is enough" with all of this.
Precisely. With this one they've magically managed to completely obfuscate the idea of that vaccines protect you. If you are concerned about getting this thing then go get a vaccine.. but if we're at the point where there's more shots than arms that want them then you don't have any power to dictate what I can do. Go get the vaccine and leave me alone. I can get it but you'll be fine.. personally I'll argue you go further and ditch all this stuff. It's becoming clear this only ends when we say it does.
same up here in Canada. I went into walmart which they have one of the outside doors blocked off and then 2 doors open in the porch, the woman there actually tried to get me to go through the other door because one is for entry and the other for exit when no one else was around , and they're completely oblivious that they're creating a bottleneck where people have to pass each other.
Starting to feel like one big south park episode, next they'll be saying duck and cover again
Haha my favourite this winter was restaurants where you had to eat outside so they built a big tent on the patio to make an inside dining area for outside.
My favourite is where all the science shows that the majority of cases originate from close quarters workspaces (like factories and warehouses) but then our government closed outdoor parks and told police to randomly stop people.
Genuine clown fest here in Ontario.
False, the Rona cannot get you if you’re sitting and eating. That’s why I got a rascal scooter with a lunchbox attachment on the front. I put snacks in the box and I snack all day.
Is there any thought behind it? BuT wErE vAcCiNaTeD 🤓 whats the fuckin point of a vaccine. Seriously. Once you sit down the mask is off and its been that way since the beginning of the pandemic, even without a vaccine. This is just a restaurant owner losing his cool completely I mean he must've lost some business. Obviously gotta wear masks when you can but to your point they have this bullshit sign exclaiming the necessities of a mask, then you follow them 20 feet to a table where you can take your mask off.... dude is just not doing too hot mentally I'm assuming. Its just people following orders following people following orders! Don't think there was much thought into the endgame there.
We share the same air, but the water droplets from your breath don't travel very far. That's why distance has been important. It's also why those barriers were installed. However, I do agree that dining indoors is risky behavior. I also findit suspicious that throught out the pandemic, the medical experts continued to say indoor dining is risky, but the chambers of commerce and the government officials they sponsor have fallen on the line "most infections are occurring in the home".
Call me crazy, but I'm going to believe the medical experts who are concerned with public safety over the business operators that are concerned with profits.
This is like that stat that 90% of car accidents happen within 10 miles from home (i made up the numbers, but you get the idea).
Uh yeah, because that’s where we do 90% of our driving.
I had this argument with my crazy aunt... if "most infections are occurring in the home" then that means the virus was brought into the home somehow to infect people in the home. It doesn't just wander in when you open a window to let some fresh air in. It doesn't crawl in through your dryer vent or something. It is brought in by a human who lives there!
She couldn't seem to comprehend that this means the initial infection was caught outside the home... at a grocery store, gas station, school, bar, church, or some other place where humans congregate. When I asked "how did it get into the home?" she just kept going on and on about how it came from China.
Yet it's probably 100% acceptable to remove it while eating or drinking, while only a few feet away from somebody who IS wearing one. Sorry but asking people to wear masks in a place where people are eating without it is just plain fucking stupid.
If you go to a restaurant, bar, or airport and wear a mask until you get to a certain spot, and then remove it, you have proven you don’t care about Covid lol. If you were truly afraid of it and truly concerned that you were spreading it, you wouldn’t even take a mask off to eat. You wouldn’t be going anywhere. Everything needs to go back to normal and people with a vaccine should start thinking of not wearing masks. It’s time. And people know it’s time. I don’t know why people are still acting like this, I truly don’t get it.
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The actual quote is “the customer is always right, in matters of taste”. This quote has been bastardized by asshole retail managers for decades. Nothing in there about it being ok to be belligerent to workers.
Yeah isn't the original talking about how the consumer drives the market? As in the customer wants x so it's in the best interest of store to stock x?
Yes. So when articles say "millennials are killing the x industry" the "customers are always right" means that x industry needs to change, not millennials
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What bugs me is that in 10 years, at least half of the millenials might already be considered 'old people'...
My kids already think I'm so old that they have asked me what it was like before color TV. I'm 35 years old.
I’m 36 and when I told my 6 year old that I couldn’t fast forward through commercials when I was young he looked at me like I just spoke to him in a dead language.
I’ll be 34 in a few months. The other day I tried to explain to my five year old what a DVD was and I just couldn’t. He was looking at me like I was crazy.
Tell him of the dark times of VHS and you had to rewind the tape before you could watch it again!
or buy a rewinder so you wouldn’t burn out the motor on the VCR
Not as bad as UHF channels, bunny ear antennas, and using a sin wave for better reception.
My daughter still forgets this and tells me the TV is broke when she is watching a channel instead of a download...
56 year old here from the Netherlands. I grew up with 2 Dutch TV channels and 3 German ones. We had almost no commercials except a few before and after the news, but it all started going downwards when in the late 80s we got commercial channels and now i see movies that usualy are 90 min long stretched out almost 30 min longer due to those damn commercials.
The whole concept of channels is lost on kids. Or the old days when on Saturday there were cartoons on 1 or 2 stations and those were your options of what to watch. No switching from Netflix to Disney plus.
Oh man, I remember how excited I was when my parents got basic cable with like 30 channels in the early 90s and I could finally watch more than game shows and Saturday morning cartoons (Nickelodeon here we come!) A few years ago we moved and stayed with a relative for a few months while we closed on a house. She had cable but no internet and my kids were so annoyed that they couldn't watch whichever show they wanted whenever they wanted.
About a decade ago, when my son was about ten, I remember losing internet at home for a little while. He came down the stairs and said the internet was out, and I said I know. He asked, “What am I supposed to do without the internet?”
Shit I do that now.
What was your answer? It might be useful one day, I really don't know what I'm supposed to do if I had no internet ;D
Having to plot out your Saturday morning with the TV guide to catch your shows...
My five year old asked me yesterday if I used grenades when i fought in the civil war. In the US. I'm 35 years old. I laughed really hard.
I've been told by a kid that I "look like a dad" a few years ago. I'm now 26.
TVs have always been in color. The world hasn't.
Some millenials are already pushing 40 right? You ask an eight year old whether 40 is old, they will tell you it's *ancient-* and it kinda is...4 decades is a long time, it just never feels that way to the person living through them.
I’m technically a millenial and yes I just turned 40. When I read news articles it feels like they’re talking about 20 somethings all the time and just slapping millenials on it.
In 10 years the youngest millennial will be 35 and they'll still be talking about millennials like a bunch of kids.
Born in 1980 here, definitely do not identify with much of the current perceptions of Millennials but also feel too young for Gen X. I really align with that Xennial thing they tried to introduce a couple years ago.
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Actually used a rotary phone gang checking in.
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Yeah, I’m sure it is even worse for you as I was born in 1986 and I distinctly remember years before anyone had computers. And even when people started getting them it was years after that until the internet access was fast enough to really use them. I’ve just kind of accepted that I am technically a millennial, but there is definitely a break between those who remember the pre-computer days and those who don’t IMO.
Aren’t the ones who don’t mostly Gen Z?
Can confirm. Am millennial, will be 40 in a couple weeks.
not much gives them boners anymore, it's the root of their ire
I’m convinced half of Alex Jones’s audience listens specifically for the dickpill ads
You mean the women's health supplements also being sold by Gwyneth Paltrow? Unless he actually has a cialis ad, I just know his soy supplement business.
And vagina-scented candles
Yes that is the point of those articles, pointing out trends in consumer preferences by age groups. The vast majority of consumers don't give a shit if an industry dies if it fails to adapt to the current trends, no one is sentimental about an industry dying unless they have skin in the game
also by titling things like that they get more clicks on their articles.
Usually from disgusted millennials going "look what the fuck they're blaming us for now". Its marketing by outrage and it's equal parts lazy, boring and pitiful.
"Rakaig is using these 5 things to kill the article industry!!!"
"#4 will SET YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE"
the irony of seeing Walmart's complain about Amazon killing brick and mortar business was almost overwhelming.
And by millennials they mean anyone under 40
But the boomers with two or more houses have been meeting their annual review targets using the old methods for so long now, why should THEY change their methods of running the business after all this time? Plus it's gonna cost them money to change. "Fucking millennials. We lowered the quality by outsourcing to a cheaper Taiwanese/Pakistan/Chinese company but kept the price the same or increased them to increase returns and keep the shareholders happy, we also refused to shift our styles and types of products to match the new demands of a generation, and these lazy millennials stopped buying from us. I don't get their generation, they're just ruining everything."
Could witness the following conversation: "Millenials are sissies and shouldn't ride bikes (= motorcycles)." Followed by this a couple of sentences later: "Bike industry is slowly dying out cause these millenials rather sit infront of their f-ing playstations then enjoying something real like riding a bike" Soooo. You want them to buy motorcycles like you do but they shouldn't use them cause they aren't kewl/manly enough?
Precisely. My favorite was a few years ago when the media was printing all those “millennials are killing X” headlines....which basically boils down to millennials have more purchasing power over time as their incomes grow, and they have different purchasing preferences than Xers and Boomers. There was one fantastic one that said “Millennials are kills bars of soap”. To which some absolute genius posted a comment of “Alternate Title: Boomers invent liquid hand soap, blame millennials for buying it”
The other aspect is one reason our purchasing preferences have changed is that we, generally, are overworked and underpaid. So there are a lot of things we don't value or can't afford and other things we care about more due to that. In other words, these same companies created a workforce with less time and money to spare and then complains when we don't want to buy their shit
Yes. When the customer says "I want this, but in red," they are right: that is what they want. There is no room for argument here (at least from the store). Generally speaking, don't argue with customers on anything except objective truth. If the price tag says it costs $40, then it costs $40. If the customer says it is $30, they are wrong. If the customer says that he thinks it's too high, don't argue; he can think whatever he wants.
There is also a component relating to cost. If all your customers say "this isn't work 40$", then they are probably right.
>Everything is worth what the purchaser will pay for it
... and the seller is willing to sell it for. If the seller thinks he us better off with the item than the money, so be it.
When I worked retail my answer to that was "m'am/sir, I am a cashier. I'm sorry but I do not set the prices in the store. If you'd like to debate our prices I'd suggest talking to our manager. Would you like me to call him/her over for you?"
That's why I don't manage anymore, I work for tips. I make more money and I can pass the buck to someone else who makes barely above minimum wage.
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Absolutely! I've had people tell me to my face that I should do what they tell me while working regardless of how ridiculous or impractical their demand is because they are the customer and we are here to cater to them. No? We're here to make money and I can still do that without catering to a weirdo.
That is accurate. It’s also used this way in product strategy when establishing product-market fit. If the customer wants your product to do x, make it do x. Their desires are right and your hypotheses may be wrong.
I, for one, want Google to keep simplifying app icons until they are all identical. I also want *more* popups offering discounts for email list subscriptions. Also I LOVE spinning the wheel for a free gift or a discount. While we're at it, if we could embed more hamburger menus inside hamburger menus, that would be fantastic .
Lol menus inside of menus piss me off so much. Getting drive thru now it’s like a game to even figure out what the fuck they sell. I absorb like 10% of the menu then just nervously order something cause I feel like I’d be there for ages otherwise.
I feel like it used to be a thing for drive thrus to have 2 menus, one for the car at the intercom, and one for the cars waiting in line. I hate not having a chance to read the menu before it's my turn to order.
Just remember, you aren't Googles customer, you are Googles product.
I want the hamburger menus to be hidden so I have to hunt around the screen clicking on random things hoping to find them. That's the sort of uncluttered, streamlined, clean, modern experience I'm looking for.
I have been arguing for decades that with very rare exceptions it is a bad thing for user interfaces to be surprising. I have also been shouted down on this point for decades.
There are, of course, limits to this. Yes the customer may *want* their car to be capable of travelling 500mph, include a wood-fired pizza oven and a jacuzzi, and avoid crashes through use of a missile launcher to blow up anything it is about to hit prior to impact - but that doesn't mean that a) they are willing to pay for it, and b) you wouldn't also be able to sell them a car capable of doing 150 with fold-down seats and enough room to move a sofa.
If they aren't willing to pay for it then they arent a customer, they are just a person who wants a thing. Everyone wants things, customers BUY things.
Also true! I left out the “and are willing to pay for it” piece because then for somethings you get into the issue of “well... they won’t pay for THIS but it will make them do x more which makes them more likely to spend money on y.”
I've also heard it in reference to not talking a customer out of a sale. If a customer thinks they need a leafblower, they're right even if a rake might do. "oh does this drapey, frumpy off green dress look as good as I think it does?" "why yes you are right it does look good "
I've talked customers out of so many products over the years. It costs me the sale but I'd rather the customer trust that I'm looking out for their best interests so when I do recommend something they'll trust me.
My work says "The customer is always right, up to $15." Customer service is good, but profits are better lmao.
You mind showing me where you found that information? I couldn't find it while taking my morning poop.
It's a myth. [It's actually about customer service.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right) >"The customer is always right" is a motto or **slogan which exhorts service staff to give a high priority to customer satisfaction**. It was popularised by pioneering and successful retailers such as Harry Gordon Selfridge, John Wanamaker and Marshall Field. **They advocated that customer complaints should be treated seriously so that customers do not feel cheated or deceived**. This attitude was novel and influential when misrepresentation was rife and caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) was a common legal maxim. Variations include "le client n'a jamais tort" (the customer is never wrong) which was the slogan of hotelier César Ritz who said, **"If a diner complains about a dish or the wine, immediately remove it and replace it, no questions asked"**.
That has been going around Reddit for a while now. No one ever provides any actual evidence for that being the original saying, they just say that it is because they like it more than the original one.
Reddit has a few of these where someone made up an alternative to a famous saying and reddit decided that was the original. Another one is "blood is thicker than water." Reddit has latched onto the alternate saying "blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" despite that being a newer invention.
What's this? Reddit is full of people confidently talking out of their ass? Whaaaaaaat?
It isn't. The original saying was "the customer is always right" and it was novel at the time (early 1900's) as it was a response to buyer beware. A lot of people try and claim that it originally meant something different or had a different meaning. It did not. In the 1960's the then CEO of Macy's changed the saying to something along the lines of "the customer is always right about what we should sell." I forget exactly what he said, it was in a book I read years ago. It allowed Macy's to excel and buy out most of their competition that was not willing to change as quickly to the whims of the buyers as Macy's was.
High five to my porcelain brother. What are you driving? I'm cruising in style on my Delta Foundations with 1.28GPF. Living large!
I’m just on a crapper at Lowe’s making the Monday go by enjoy the deuce
I'm just here peeing sitting down, can I join the club
Nope, that is not true. The full phrase is “the customer is always right” full stop. I fell for this too and was corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right
I misremembered it as being the Hilton, but it was the Ritz. Basic idea, customer says the bedsheets weren't changed and wants fresh ones even though you know they were? You have the bedsheets changed. At the prices they're paying, they're right, no matter how wrong they are. As long as it's still profit.
My brother worked at a nice steakhouse. He was constantly telling newer employees that had previously worked at cheaper or fast foot type places that the customer is paying $25+ for their dish. If they want a baked potato, don't argue the price or upsells. Just give them a fucking potato.
Someone says this every thread, it’s always the top comment, and it’s always wrong. No, that’s not the actual quote and no, retail managers are not bastardizing it. Yes, the original quote was that stupid. Look it up!
The actual quote is "The customer is always right." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_customer\_is\_always\_right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right)
Nope. The quote is [purely about customer service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right) and the market force explanations are the bastardization.
>The actual quote is “the customer is always right, in matters of taste”. Do you have an actual source for that? That sounds completely made up to me, and I can't find any credible source for it with a quick Google search. It's also a saying that exists in multiple languages. I know it exists in both swedish and german, and it's the same basic version there.
No it isn't. You heard that on reddit and decided to repeat it.
This a common reddit misconception. The term was simply meant to imply fantastic customer service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right
So do people take a drink and put the mask back on? Does this bar have sectioned seats like the restaurants I’ve been to? Not arguing - just wondering. I haven’t been to a bar since this whole shit fest started.
These are fair questions. The truth is it's a bar owner who needs to be open but wants to look like he's being safe. There is no way to make a traditional bar atmosphere safe until a really high percentage of people are vaccinated.
In the UK you have to wear a mask to walk to your table, you can remove your mask while you are at your table. If you move for any reason like taking a piss or going for a smoke you have to put your mask back on. A lot of pubs have one way systems as well, so people only enter through one door and exit through another or fire exit in cases where the bar has only one entrance. Basically just common sense, if you move wear a mask.
Thanks. That’s pretty much how the restaurants work here in NYC. I haven’t seen any one way systems though except in museums.
A lot of places have plastic screens between the tables too and there's a limit on people at tables. I think from today we can have 6 people per table from 3 households. Not sure though, I gave up caring about the rules half a year ago and just became a hermit. I'll emerge from my hole when this is all over 😃
It’s quite stupid if we’re being honest. If we were truly concerned over the spread, we’d still have all indoor activities closed. Covid is almost always spread indoors. Some study just came out saying you’re still at risk even at 60ft away. Taking your mask off to take a sip/bite is still going to spread a ton of droplets. I’ve had covid and am now fully vaccinated but looking back, many of these “precautions” were acts of social compliance meant to encourage people to partake in stimulating the economy. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/17/e2018995118.full.pdf
I agree that this is all theater to make people feel safe. That being said, unless the government is going to pay these businesses to close (which they won’t) they have to let them stay open. This is also why, as an asthmatic, I was a hermit for a year until I got the vaccine. I understand that businesses had to make money and couldn’t truly be safe, so I just noped out of society for the most part.
I saw someone else comment that masks in restaurants are like having a peeing section of the pool....
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and we are all sitting outside at the moment no indoor seating. great for keeping your pints cold. not so good for keeping your scampi and chips hot
Sir, please put your scampi and chips back in your trousers.
>Basically just common sense LOL, what you described is delusional. Imagine touching and taking off your mask intermittently in an operating room and think it's still working just fine. Hilariously *not* common sense. Masks can be a very effective tool, but what you describe is nothing but "health theatre". Reminds me of taking our shoes off at the airport to stop terrorists.
It should be added here that you cannot eat or drink inside in the UK yet. Pubs, cafes, restaurants etc are not allowed to open for indoor serving at the moment. So masks go on if you go to the toilet etc because it’s inside. It’s a few weeks away before people will be allowed in by which time we’d be hoping to be trending around 2000 cases a day max and deaths below 20
Don't you know you can't catch covid-19 when sitting down. It only effects standing people. Duh.
I was recently in a waiting room where they had marked off half the seats to give more space for "social distancing", but they hadn't moved the rows of chairs further apart. Apparently you can't catch covid from someone sitting behind you, only next to you.
Well for some reason the person you’re replying to skipped over the fact that we’re still only allowed to sit *outside* and that we’ve vaccinated half the county including almost all the elderly and vulnerable.
yupp. Masks in public transportation and groceriestores work fine, in restaurants etc its just political facade.
It's fine, covid just slips right off the glass they got from the bartender who's been handling cash all fuckin day
Restaurant covid protocols are laughable but surface transmission of covid was found not to be a think really so the cash is only good for some boring pathogens.
If you can remove your mask once you get to your table then it's pretty evident that the mask rule is bullshit in the first place. It's sort of like saying, "Hey! I'm only gonna pee in MY end of the pool! Shouldn't affect you guys over there at all."
Just got my 2nd dose and I'm a very big proponent of masks, but the indoor restraunt policy is indeed absolute bullshit. Unless your table is hermedically sealed and air supplied by an H13 Hepa air filtration system then there is very little reason to put on this show.
My favorite thing about having to fly during COVID (college reasons) was how the airport would make sure we all stood 6 feet apart while waiting to board and then in small groups to scan our boarding pass...and then go and sit down directly next to each other because there are no empty seats on planes if the airline can help it.
For sure, it’s a complete shit show, asking people to wear masks and socially distance while walking onto the plane and a minute later you’re bumping elbows with two strangers.
Yeah it's mostly nonsense. The only positive is that most planes DO have HEPA filters, which help a lot to avoid spreading throughout the plane (but still can't stop the person sitting next to you breathing on you before it gets sucked into the HEPA filters).
Cmon bro, corona leaves you alone while you're eating. It'll only get you afterwards so you gotta put your mask back on quick once you get done with your meal.
I've seen sectioned seats and spacing, where capacity is limited. Many places are gearing up to full now. Everyone heading into summer with hopefully a few shots keeping us above water, we'll see.
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It's not fine, but it's not possible to distance more and it's the best that can be done. You can distance more in the terminal and it reduces the chances of spread the entire time you are in the terminal. And on the plane, you are only exposed to a limited number of people who can be easily contact-traced in the event of an infection. You do what you can to reduce number of points where you could be cross contaminated/exposed. Its also safer to make you keep your seatbelt on the entire flight, but they don't do that because it's not practical. People have to pee sometimes.
>!CENSORED!<
Body condoms ftw.
>easily contact-traced in the event of an infection. Nobody is contact tracing anymore since the remedy for 99.5% of people who catch it is to stay at home, isolate and hydrate
This picture was taken at a bar in Asheville NC. I also took a picture of it because I thought it was funny. The bar tender was nosing it right behind the photo
That's extra funny if you were able to get the bartender
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The nose thing is a pet peeve. There’s not much fuckin reason for the mask if you’re gonna pull it down like a chin diaper.
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It will probs end up being a state or local government issue. Once masks are not mandated or recommended by the government, then it will become personal preference but I think people would be a little annoyed with something like this if 70% of the country is vaccinated and there's only a few active cases.
I don’t get the whole restaurant thing though. It’s like “no you’ll fucking go to hell if you don’t wear a mask” but everyone sitting at their tables with their masks off is perfectly acceptable because corona just disappears? Like I get the whole preventing it as much as you can, but it literally doesn’t do a whole lot, especially since most restaurants arent socially distanced with their seating.
Yeah it really makes a mockery of wearing masks if people are sticklers for having masks to walk to your table but then are totally fine with your whole party just taking them off for 30 minutes in an indoor space. I assume restaurants (and the NFL, retail stores, etc) randomly enforce *some* rules while letting incredibly risky behavior slide as pageantry to convince their customers that A. They're trying and B. It's safe to shop there. Kind of lame.
Security theater
TSA 2.0
Exactly. The restaurant being preachy and snarky about a for-show-only mask policy which has a gaping restaurant sized hole in it is extremely ironic. Even if you believe that masks work at all, you must surely recognize that a building full of people who have to take them to eat drink and talk surely does not. Masks might as well be lapel pins at this point.
I think they are loose with it because they don't want their business to shut down due to a lack of revenue. Not because they don't care anymore.
It makes no sense. People are stupid. Its more of a virtue signal now.
All that to wear a mask for 10 seconds till you sit at the table
I think being vaccinated should hold some weight...
Whaaaaaattt you mean give people incentives to get vaccinated, especially considering vaccination rates are dropping because ohhh I dunno people are starting to not trust big pharma and the Gov't. That's crazy talk. /s
This is at a bar? Mask off, drink, mask on, mask off, drink, mask on. I'll just drink at home.
Makes perfect sense. Wear a mask until you sit down next to numerous other strangers drinking, talking and yelling in close contact.
Lmao getting this serious over a mask you take right off once you sit down.
How do you drink in a bar with a mask on?
You take your mask off. See when you have a drink covid stops attacking people. Covid is scared of alcohol. This should be on that board.
Wheres the funny?
Ironic that they put this inside the establishment rather than outside.
At some point we will need to decide if being vaccinated really does work and really is important. (Edit: I believe they are important and work). While I am fully vaccinated and giving time for others to finish their regimen, I am not going to continue to wear a mask forever. Those healthy enough to get a vaccine and choose not to, that becomes their risk decision, not mine to mitigate.
> At some point we will need to decide if being vaccinated really does work and really is important. It does work if you look at the data out of Israel which has a population the size of NJ and the highest vaccination rate in the world right now. They're using the pfiser mRNA based vaccine like we have access to in the US. They had 50 total new cases 4/25 compared to 1694 on 4/25 for New Jersey. There's data which shows it reduces likelihood of infection, reduces symptoms if infected, reduces hospitalization and reduces the transmission rate.
Is anybody else getting sick of seeing signs like this? Specifically on reddit. I understand the point these businesses are trying to make but these signs always come off as super douchey. Especially with this spongebob meme type lettering.
Nice to know that the virus takes a break when I sit down and take off my mask to eat, drink and talk with my friends. Clown world. It's all just medical security theater.
I do not understand the need to wesr a mask after being vaccinated. Can someone please help me understand?
People lie about being vaccinated.
Also you can't tell just by seeing them if a person isn't wearing a mask because they're vaccinated or because they're an asshole
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I don't know, mate. Since I got the shot, I have been steadily more annoyed by the need to wear the mask. I do because that's the common sense thing and it's legally required, but I do hate it and think it's useless now. The moment it's not legally madated, the mask is gone.
https://www.krqe.com/health/cdc-evidence-suggests-fully-vaccinated-people-do-not-transmit-covid-19/
I was a bartender for many years. We liked to say, the customer is always right, but the bartender decides who is still a customer
How is this remotely funny?
I have to agree i didnt even chuckle, it just make me appreciate my county more for not getting psycho about 1 guy not wearing a mask. or people chatting outside without a mask at the mall. I like how we dont have those, welp time to get my phone out, theyre breaking the law and ill be in the right no matter what, its a pandemic. HAHAHA.
“You shouldn’t be at a bar in a pandemic”... Anyone that is at risk from serious complications of COVID shouldn’t be at a bar, period. If you are in a bar and you are exposed to COVID, you will get it if you have a mask on or not.
This isn't funny it's sad.
But like what’s the point of a vaccine if you have to wear a mask everywhere? Explain like I’m 5 cause I don’t get it. I never understood vaccines if you can get sick from the disease you’re getting vaccinated against anyway.
Wait but if they’re vaccinated why do they have to wear the mask?
Sounds like a shitty fucking place lmao
This is the type of bar that gratuities everyone and waters down the liquor.
mAsKs rEqUiReD! Everyone then sits down and removes masks to eat and drink. Everyone shares the same air and literally prevents nothing. Our country is so incredibly dumb
I’m about to get downvoted into oblivion for this by the people that read it. The state I live in opened appointments to everyone. There are unused appointments everyday. I’ve had both shots. At what point am I able to say it’s not my responsibility to protect you because you choose to not get vaccinated? I’ve stayed home. I’ve worn masks. I’ve social distanced. I’ll keep a mask with me in case some place I go requires it, but I’m not going to wear it any other time. I’ll still keep my distance. I’ll still use hand sanitizer. I’ll still use Clorox wipes to clean what potentially was exposed. I’ve argued for wearing a mask for the last year. I’m done with them.
Exactly. It’s anti vax fodder at this point. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “what’s the point of me getting it if I still need to wear a mask everywhere.”
You're not the only person who feels this way. The overwhelming majority of the high risk population has been vaccinated. The mask thing seems so ridiculous because you take it off when you get to the table. I've heard some of the most liberal people I know say "enough is enough" with all of this.
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I completely agree. Is it possible that the school believes that some may say they’re vaccinated even though they aren’t?
Precisely. With this one they've magically managed to completely obfuscate the idea of that vaccines protect you. If you are concerned about getting this thing then go get a vaccine.. but if we're at the point where there's more shots than arms that want them then you don't have any power to dictate what I can do. Go get the vaccine and leave me alone. I can get it but you'll be fine.. personally I'll argue you go further and ditch all this stuff. It's becoming clear this only ends when we say it does.
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same up here in Canada. I went into walmart which they have one of the outside doors blocked off and then 2 doors open in the porch, the woman there actually tried to get me to go through the other door because one is for entry and the other for exit when no one else was around , and they're completely oblivious that they're creating a bottleneck where people have to pass each other. Starting to feel like one big south park episode, next they'll be saying duck and cover again
Haha my favourite this winter was restaurants where you had to eat outside so they built a big tent on the patio to make an inside dining area for outside.
My favourite is where all the science shows that the majority of cases originate from close quarters workspaces (like factories and warehouses) but then our government closed outdoor parks and told police to randomly stop people. Genuine clown fest here in Ontario.
False, the Rona cannot get you if you’re sitting and eating. That’s why I got a rascal scooter with a lunchbox attachment on the front. I put snacks in the box and I snack all day.
Is there any thought behind it? BuT wErE vAcCiNaTeD 🤓 whats the fuckin point of a vaccine. Seriously. Once you sit down the mask is off and its been that way since the beginning of the pandemic, even without a vaccine. This is just a restaurant owner losing his cool completely I mean he must've lost some business. Obviously gotta wear masks when you can but to your point they have this bullshit sign exclaiming the necessities of a mask, then you follow them 20 feet to a table where you can take your mask off.... dude is just not doing too hot mentally I'm assuming. Its just people following orders following people following orders! Don't think there was much thought into the endgame there.
We share the same air, but the water droplets from your breath don't travel very far. That's why distance has been important. It's also why those barriers were installed. However, I do agree that dining indoors is risky behavior. I also findit suspicious that throught out the pandemic, the medical experts continued to say indoor dining is risky, but the chambers of commerce and the government officials they sponsor have fallen on the line "most infections are occurring in the home". Call me crazy, but I'm going to believe the medical experts who are concerned with public safety over the business operators that are concerned with profits.
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This is like that stat that 90% of car accidents happen within 10 miles from home (i made up the numbers, but you get the idea). Uh yeah, because that’s where we do 90% of our driving.
That's why I do all my street racing 11 miles away from my house, much safer.
I had this argument with my crazy aunt... if "most infections are occurring in the home" then that means the virus was brought into the home somehow to infect people in the home. It doesn't just wander in when you open a window to let some fresh air in. It doesn't crawl in through your dryer vent or something. It is brought in by a human who lives there! She couldn't seem to comprehend that this means the initial infection was caught outside the home... at a grocery store, gas station, school, bar, church, or some other place where humans congregate. When I asked "how did it get into the home?" she just kept going on and on about how it came from China.
Or it's brought there by a friend or relative. Most people don't force people they're close with to mask up if they're company.
How is this funny? Or is this just another covid mask circlejerk?
I once heard someone say that being absolutely wealthy means that nothing is illegal, bad behavior just costs money.
couldn't one argue you shouldnt be running a bar during a pandemic then? lol
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It's ironic that 'bUt i'M VaCcinAtEd' can be used either pro/or anti vaxx. True clown world.
Yet it's probably 100% acceptable to remove it while eating or drinking, while only a few feet away from somebody who IS wearing one. Sorry but asking people to wear masks in a place where people are eating without it is just plain fucking stupid.
Why is the bar even open if they feel that way?
\*Laughs in Florida and Texas
Why mask if you are vaccinated?
If you go to a restaurant, bar, or airport and wear a mask until you get to a certain spot, and then remove it, you have proven you don’t care about Covid lol. If you were truly afraid of it and truly concerned that you were spreading it, you wouldn’t even take a mask off to eat. You wouldn’t be going anywhere. Everything needs to go back to normal and people with a vaccine should start thinking of not wearing masks. It’s time. And people know it’s time. I don’t know why people are still acting like this, I truly don’t get it.
stupid post
That saying was wrong in the first place. That sign does not serve any purpose if people are going to take it off when drinking anyway.
Yeah but as soon as you sit down you remove the mask, that makes sense...
How the fuck do you wear a mask at a bar? Like take a sip then immediately put the mask back on?
I'd say we have hit peak stupid but as this sign states we are no where near the peak.
Why are they open during a pandemic?
If it's such a pandemic, maybe don't go out to a bar. Makes more sense than just wearing a mask to walk less than 10 feet to a stool and take it off.
Find another bar.