Demands

Today at work we had an older gentleman who was in full "demand" mode. Or maybe it was dementia mode. Anyway, the guy was in the cafe berating one of the managers rather loudly for refusing to send out his fax.

You heard me. His freakin' fax. He wanted us to fax something for him. We had done this once before because he had stood at the door of our store manager's office banging on it madly. We did it to get him to shut the hell up.

He came back expecting us to do it again. And, when we explained we were not a flippin' Kinkos he decided to go all grouchy loud on us.

What sort of society have we turned into when it seems logical to just go in to any place of business and expect them to do what you say irregardless of whether or not what you want them to do has any correlation to what the point of the business is? Frak, that was a long sentence. Run on, fair sentence, run on.

We really have turned into a society that believes by acting like a complete asshole you will get what you want...and more frighteningly, by acting like an asshole you deserve to get better treatment. I want to key the car of the person who came up with "the customer's always right."

Nope. Sorry. I've had to look up enough books after being given incorrect titles, no author, sometimes nothing more than "I saw it on tv" to go off of. Half the time, people have no idea what they are talking about. And, within the above "people" I include myself.

I beg all of you. If you need help, ask nicely and don't make unreasonable demands. If the person helping you is a dick, do what you can to make things better. Better yet, if they are a dick, shop somewhere else. Why be an ass AND give them your money?

That is all.

FYI: The last quote was from The Simpsons. Let's see if anyone can get the new one. I'll give you a hint. Think about movies from the 80's.

Quick word to Laura regarding her comment on Once. The film is an indie out in theaters, though I saw it the last night it was in town. Hopefully, it will be available to rent soon. I can sort of see a correlation to Love Actually in the way they have a similar tone--bittersweet--but Love Actually has more laughs in it.