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Maitre-de-la-Folie t1_j68a0vn wrote

We don’t have those laws and it’s not a tone of people who do that. Most people stay nice even without harsch punishments.

Well i don’t mind a 70+ guy mowing the lawn nude I don’t think I would freak out about that ether. Even though that would slowly slide into illegal categories even here.

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Calenchamien t1_j68885v wrote

Disagree. Some people do take kindness for weakness, but it’s unrelated to why low-wage workers are mistreated.

Low-wage workers are mistreated because society has an unacknowledged, unofficial hierarchy, in which some people are more socially powerful than others.

Consider: even though customer service workers and doctors are both paid to do a service for the general public, but no one mistreats doctors the way they do CS reps. That’s not because doctors aren’t nice people, nor because there is something unique about their kindness that makes people not see it as weakness, but because the service they provide is high value. Therefore they are high value, and deserve respect.

We’re fine with low value service people being treated like crap and we expect them to be kind no matter what. Or else.

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IntelKick t1_j687zh9 wrote

Be respectful of the customer. If they don’t give you the same treatment, they can kindly fuck off :)

Usually if they start yelling, the conversation ain’t going anywhere anyway so if you force the hang up due to their bad attitude, they’ll most likely call back and most likely keep calm.

Either that or they’ll calm down when you tell them to keep it professional or you’ll hang up

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