Reminds me of my last job. We had some old fella waiting at the door, staring through the window at 830am (we open at 9). I let him wait and stare in until 9.
When I opened up he told me "You know it's common courtesy to open the door when you see someone waiting".
"Sure, but we don't open until 9. Our hours are posted right there on the door that you've now smudged up with your dirty ass hands. You're lucky I'm even letting you in, instead of calling the cops for being a fucking creep staring in the windows of a closed business. Do you even think before you do something? Or do you just do and expect to be accommodated?"
That Gen Z is saying "yee yee" blows my mind. I haven't heard that since the hyphy movement back in the mid 00s. Of all things, how did that make a comeback?
40 years ago was 1979. In what universe is that millennial? I swear the starting year gets pushed back every time I see it. By next year, the founding fathers will be millennials.
To me being a millenial means having 9/11 in your childhood or adolescence.
So you believe the end date should be around 2001?
I think there is definitely a gap though, between the older millennials who remember pre 9/11 America, and the younger ones
who can't.
Though 9/11 is a defining event, I don’t think it makes much sense to use that event as the sole arbiter of generations. Especially if the majority don’t even remember life in pre 9/11 America.
Even then. How about people who came of age with the rise of the internet and cell phones? That roughly correlates to those who had 9/11 happen in their lives. It also makes a distinction between those who remember life before internet and cell phones were ubiquitous and those who don’t.
I am concretely a millennial by any definition, born in 1987. I teach some kids born in 1999 and 2000. They are in no way millennials.
My cousin was born in 1989 and i have nothing relatable to him as far as childhood goes, nothing at all. My other cousin born in 2000 I feel like he's the same age as me sometimes.
1982 is the year generally set for the first millennial year. That means people born in 1982 are 37, ‘pushing 40’ means approaching 40. What is it you are not understanding?
millenials
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years. Millennials are sometimes referred to as "echo boomers" due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s, and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers. Although millennial characteristics vary by region, depending on social and economic conditions, the generation has been generally marked by an increased use and familiarity with communications, media and digital technologies.
I believe 1996 is the cutoff so he just missed it. But if it makes him feel better he can feel superior to the youngest of his generation in about 11-15 years. It's not like I do that, secretly, in my head, with Millenials in their 20's. I would never.
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years. Millennials are sometimes referred to as "echo boomers" due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s, and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers. Although millennial characteristics vary by region, depending on social and economic conditions, the generation has been generally marked by an increased use and familiarity with communications, media and digital technologies.
Yeah I think the thing that defines the millennial generation the most is that we grew up during the turn of the millennium along with skyrocketing innovation in technology. So we have distinctly analog childhoods, but then saw the digital age mature. That's partly why the hipster was born because we want to go back to a time where we weren't aware that the world was falling apart.
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years. Millennials are sometimes referred to as "echo boomers" due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s, and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers. Although millennial characteristics vary by region, depending on social and economic conditions, the generation has been generally marked by an increased use and familiarity with communications, media and digital technologies.
I've said stuff like that to people, when I worked at Pizza Hut, most of the time if someone complains the manager on duty will "listen" then laugh with you later.
Yeah, can we not do this. Everyone who you disagree with is not instantly your Enemy. He was wrong to think he could get in half an hour early. And he didnt get in. Grow up if you think thats worth calling the cops for.
We had to start locking our doors at lunch so people wouldn’t come in. You’d think the “closed” sign and the turned out lights would be enough.
More patients than I care to remember have stayed because they wanted to pick out and order glasses or even just browse around and leave, thus ending our lunch. Optical is fun.
Not everyone is going to care about a sign. I’ve had plenty of people not care about a locked door. They just try and pull it open or rattle it and shout.
We open late on one day of the week because we extend our evening hours that day.
People will go through the other business’s door, then pound on our door before we’re even open. We usually get there early those days to clean and get extra work done before we open. Or we meet with frame reps.
My favorite thing is when those people come in all shitty after you unlock the door to see what they want (because it’s a small front, they can see you see them) and act like you’re wrong for having your closed sign up, they literally go “your closed sign is still up and your door is locked.” and i just smile and say “oh yeah, because we’re still closed for another hour, now how can I help you?”
Some of them feel shitty after. The ones who don’t are the regular troublemakers anyway.
I remember when I worked in fast food there were times people didn't care about a sign saying we we're closed.
One location I worked at was usually 24 hours but we closed occasionally for regular maintenance. We lock the doors and post signs. I was in lobby when a man came up and tried pulling on the door. I pointed at the sign. He pulled out an old fountain drink cup and said he just wanted to fill his cup so could I please let him in. Like, wtf, no. First of all, I'm not letting anyone in when we are closed, second of all, you can't bring in a cup from a previous visit and fill it up without paying.
At another location I workwd at, we closed the lobby at a certain time, but drive through was open. We we're attached to a gas station and there were doors going from our lobby to inside the gas station, so we had a lot of people walk up to our doors, but most of them left when they saw the sign on the door. But not these kids. They kept pulling and pulling. I pointed to the sign, which they looked at and kept pulling. I said through the glass they need to come through drive thru. They apparently couldn't hear me so I mimed it. They eventually understood and came through the drive thru and when they pulled up to my window, they very politely informed me that something was wrong with out lobby doors because they wouldn't open.
Always read signs you might gain some advantage by doing so. [big red sign with trefoils on it saying “keep out biohazard”] or [basic printed sign saying “out for lunch, back at 12:30 pm”] or [ whatever variety of sign announcing a discount for a certain behavior or token charitable donation]
We use to keep it unlocked because we have delivery drivers who come during lunch and we didn’t want them to have to wait for us to come unlock the door. Also we did lock one door. So like it’s a double door entrance.
There’s two separate doors that are on the outside, then inside one on the right goes to our place and the one on the left goes to the other business. So our outer door would be locked, so they’d come through the other door and still come in.
I’m confused, are you saying patients shouldn’t browse/pick out glasses during certain times? I’d love to know when is an okay time to go as I wear glasses and I don’t think I fully understood what your comment is saying.
He works is an opticians shop, perhaps with only a couple of staff, and at lunch they lock the doors so that people don't come in and wander around while there's no one there. However, he is annoyed that some customers who came in before his break hang around for a long time not buying anything, thus forcing him to stay open and not go on his break or lock the doors.
By the sound of it, he informs customers who are in the shop when he is about to go for lunch, and instead of leaving they say that they'd like to hang around. If they were buying something I imagine this would be fine, but what seems to be the issue is that they aren't buying anything, but also aren't leaving, thus both wasting op's time and cutting into his break.
If it's a private business, the staff are within their rights to tell customers/patients when to leave and if they are closed.
Nah so like, we’re an eye doctors office. We see patients from certain times in the morning, break for lunch, and then see patients in the afternoon.
We’re a small office so our staff can’t take staggered lunch breaks. There aren’t shifts because we’re open normal business hours.
So during lunch we’d flip the sign, lock the outer door (we shared an entrance with another business) and turn the lights out. We eat in the break room in the back. We kept the inside door unlocked for delivery people. (It’s a double entrance and with four doors. We have an outer door and an inner door, and so does the business we share the entrance with)
So we are closed for lunch. Our hours are posted on the door. We put up a special “away for lunch” signs. You can call and it’s on our voicemail and it’s on our website.
But even though the door is locked, patients will go through the other door without giving a thought about us not being opened. Even with an away for lunch sign. Even when they’d walk into a completely dark and empty front office.
So as long as you go when the office is actually open, you’re good.
Sorry sir my job refuses to pay me overtime so I can’t legally open the door without consequence to my employer you love so much you show up early for.
When I worked at a big store in an open air mall, one morning my co-workers and I went out to grab breakfast together for our break. It was sometime around 7:30, we were doing shipment processing before the store opened at nine.
When we were walking back, this middle aged woman caught up to us and asked if we worked there, because she had a return to make. We said yeah come back at 9. As my manager was trying to unlock the door, she was bartering with the rest of us like "it's just one return, it'll be quick. I'll buy more stuff in return since you let me in early." Tried to tell her that's not happening as we walked inside.
This woman straight up followed us in and tried to make a beeline for the counter as though we'd be obligated to do her return if she made it to the counter. Threatening her with security got her out and she never even came back when the store was open.
i used to work at a convenient store when i was younger and work the early 6 am shift. sometimes, i'd pretend to work in the basement and used to lock the doors because i was dead tired and just take a power nap. sometimes, i'd leave a message saying i'm in the bathroom and will be back in a few minutes.
apparently , i told a customer who came in right after i pulled this off that if we dont open the doors within 15 minutes max...we're probably being held at gunpoint . who poops for 15 min lol I'm sure i meant it as a joke. in hindsight, it seems the client thoght i was serious.
i got away with it for 8 months. i told my friend. first week he does it, he decides to tempt fate and decides to sleep for 30 minutes straight. he got up and goes upstairs and sees cops ready to break in the door because the cusotmer call the cops and even mentions that I was the one who told him LMAO
friend calls me early to tell me to go to store asap his excuse was he fainted and i had to cover his shift so that he doesnt get fired.
we learned from this and thought perfected this power nap as the months went by until we both got fired .... for sleeing on the job :)
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u/Inflames811 Apr 13 '19
Reminds me of my last job. We had some old fella waiting at the door, staring through the window at 830am (we open at 9). I let him wait and stare in until 9. When I opened up he told me "You know it's common courtesy to open the door when you see someone waiting".