Retail and Food Service: Yes, It's a Job

Everyone who knows me, knows me as an impatient and stubborn person. I am also not the type to give people the benefit of the doubt. Once you piss me off, you've pissed me off, and it will take a while for me to get unpissed off. Sorry, that's just the way the story goes.

I'm also often told that I'm needlessly mean to retail associates and servers. I think that is true. And mind you, being "mean" is not the same as being "disrespectful". I do my best to respect people as people, regardless of whether they are working behind the counter or leading a department meeting. I try to be polite and gracious, as social norms generally require me to be.

When folks and I say that I'm mean to retail and food service workers, I think the more accurate way to describe it is that I have particular (and very selfish) expectations, which come from my own years of working in retail and food service.