What do people want to achieve from being rude?

People do seem to be more on edge in general but particularly on the road with aggressive and dangerous driving.

I think the prices constantly going up in supermarkets puts a lot of people in a bad mood, especially when combined with smaller quantities and poor quality.

That's not the fault of the poor sods working minimum wage on the shop floor though and rude customers shouldn't be tolerated.
 
everyone has bad days..... there is a difference between being less polite than you may normally expect of yourself however and being out and out rude.
another one (and a few at my work are guilty of this). when they don't get what they want and someone dares to say no to them using the..... do you know who I am ? line.
 
I think the pandemic normalised online interactions.

So those who feel it's ok to act rude online, a minority, have started doing it offline.
 
cheesefest said:
Also the lack of patience as well. Ok with queuing outside for 45 mins 3 years ago. Now huff and puff for waiting 45 seconds
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For real though and as asked in your other threads, why not look for alternative non-customer facing employment?

Taking anti-depressants because of customers at work just seems backwards to me.
 
Peter75 said:
Funny that, I have the ability to recognise good days and good people without the need for some ******** sat on the side lines reminding me with their awful behaviour.

It's almost like you're trying to excuse their behaviour... But I'm sure you're not.
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I wasn't, it was just too profound for you.
 
Ayahuasca said:
For real though and as asked in your other threads, why not look for alternative non-customer facing employment?

Taking anti-depressants because of customers at work just seems backwards to me.
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Problem is that I have a lot of medical issues at the moment. If change jobs and need time off work for medical reasons- I will be paid SSP for the first 1-2 year’s employment at my new employer.
 
Something about supermarkets just turns the general public into absolute *****. I once had the displeasure of working at Asda part time whilst in further education, and whilst working there had a customer come up to me and was condescending about the fact a 3pk of peppers was price marked as 99p, and the shelf edge label said £1. I wrote him a smiley voucher for 1p.

I'm sure the penny didn't make much difference to him, he just wanted to be rude to someone. He did the whole look me up and down, before addressing me by name (name badge) to ask if I knew consumer law because Asda now had to sell him these peppers for 99p.

The right way to approach it would have been "excuse me, do you know if these peppers are 99p or £1, as there are two prices communicated". Or better still, just point this out to the person on the till.
 
Jono8 said:
That's the internet's fault.
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My store allowed just 46 in the first lockdown. Worked out two per aisle, back wall and 4 at tills.

Then went to 116.

Had two colleagues- one on door and one by lifts from underground car park. Walkie talkies and communicating between the two. To see how many we had queuing then let them down.

Bloody exhausting and demoralising work especially seeing empty shelves.


We had to have a queue from the lifts as have disabled customers (not all had to shield) couldn’t use the stairs plus lifts go straight into the store.
 
I think it's a combination of people being selfish a-holes and learning that being rude helps them get their own way from their past experiences because it makes other people uncomfortable and want to get out of the situation by giving the rude person what they want.

As a society, we need to stop rewarding rude behaviour.
 
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