@Art-by-Aaren
Straight- single- white female- over 21.
let's face it, this blog is a mess but so am I. literally anything that interests me can be found here.
one time in my last job a woman came up to the register explaining that when she bought stuff a day prior the clerk forgot to scan a pair of socks worth less than €2 and it was only right for her to bring it back to the store and pay for it proper. unfortunately my manager was directly next to me at the time and took over the register to handle this serious issue. the receipt she had brought with her said which register performed the previous transaction that forgot the socks and the manager could find out who was running that till on that day. poor dude had a manager yell at him for a half hour about how much of an incompetent fuck up he was, he left the job immediately after but i couldnt tell you if he quit or was fired
i think about this moment a lot. the customer seemed like a sweet woman with only good intentions and when she paid for the socks she had a look on her face that said “i feel good because i did the right thing”. and a guy lost his job because of a pair of socks. if shit like this ever happens to you and a clerk forgets to scan an item just think of it as a small blessing or that you had good luck or something. keep it.
I vividly remember mom and i having this. Our cashier was obviously tired and just done with the day. She messed up and missed a number of items, probably because of a popup or something on the screen. When we got in the truck we looked at the receipt and mom was all “oh darn, she missed these, lets go back in and let them know,”
And i was just, “mom, no, dont you dare. Right now, no one knows. Its just missing stock. Its insured. They’ll have a meeting about it and be told to keep a better eye out for shop lifters. If we go in and let then know she let us walk out with this, all we will do is get thay poor girl in trouble, written up, and likely fired. The only good it would do is give the company money. Its better for all of us if we don’t.”
A terf posted this calling it “gaslighting” and “terrible” but I thought it was sweet so I’m reposting it from them.
People really do just throw around “gaslighting” to mean “making me consider how my actions impact other people” and “telling me things I don’t like hearing” and “calling me on behavior that harms other people”, huh?
The hostility between Hawke’s companions in Dragon Age 2 makes a bit more sense when you remember that the whole game is told from Varric’s perspective and he has to keep audiences engaged with juicy drama.
Like @uchidachi says in this post (x), “You can’t go 7 years fighting beside someone and hate their guts 100% of the time. That’s exhausting.”
i like the term “gallows humor” because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like “i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution”
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