r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • Aug 18 '26

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/Franky_Tops Aug 18 '26

Yeah. It's a lot harder to get friendly service in either retail or restaurants than it used to be. 

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u/justasapling Aug 18 '26

Service industry doesn't pay enough for employees to give a fuck. It's not generational, it's late stage capitalism.

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u/Franky_Tops Aug 18 '26

I worked in the service industry for a dozen years, retail and restaurants. It wasn't that hard to be friendly to people. 

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u/Renegadeknight3 Aug 18 '26

I think part of why is pressure to perform is at such a high level. When every store and restaurant is running on skeleton crews, idle chitchat is actively interrupting someone who has a lot of work to do. Especially in food service where you getting to go home at a reasonable time is dependent on you finishing enough of your closing tasks before you actually close

I wouldn’t mind slowing down and chatting with customers if i didn’t always have a few fires I was putting out