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submitted 8 months ago by nature_man to c/[email protected]

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Alt text: a text post that reads: Work in retail long enough, and you'll eventually realize the rules for dealing with Customers are exactly the same as dealing with the Fae:

Avoid eye contact.
Never reveal your full name.
Accept nothing They offer you.
Never verbally agree or disagree with anything They might happen to say.
To apologize is to acknowledge a debt owed.
Under no circumstances are you ever to thank Them.
Remember that They are incapable of reading signs in human languages.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

... I don't work with customers and that's exactly how I deal with by coworkers.

And people I randomly meet throughout the day (including eg employees at a store).

For me these are just rules on how to deal with humans.

Now if I see a cat that's a completely different story:

I'll maintain eye contact (and blink slowly),
give them my full name and address for purposes of visiting,
will accept headbutts,
will actively agree with their meows & acknowledge just how right they are,
will apologise when I eventually have to leave,
will thank them for their time (with some more pats),
will live in the knowledge we fully understood each other in our little talk.

Additionally I will vow to visit again.