You dont know stupid until you've had to work with the general public. Especially retail or in a call center. Sweet Jesus.
Replies
This is the third leg of my public service trifecta mandate. First: Riding the school bus as a child. Second: Summer camp counselor. Third: Working in a retail job. Forget this other military crap. This is where and how you learn all the things you ever need to know.
jul 22, 2025, 10:09 am • 0 0 • view
Also how weird. The reasoning for purchases I heard were wild. I’ve worked in cosmetics and a men’s department which included taking measurements 🙃
jul 22, 2025, 2:21 am • 2 0 • view
I strongly feel like everyone should have to work a year in retail or a call center for empathy building reasons.
jul 22, 2025, 1:22 pm • 5 0 • view
Man listen.
jul 22, 2025, 2:07 am • 3 0 • view
Criminal defense lawyer here. I absolutely depend upon that stupidity.
jul 22, 2025, 3:04 am • 15 0 • view
😂😂😂😂
jul 22, 2025, 3:08 am • 3 0 • view
Or your a general public instance and have to deal with stupid call center people. Sweet Flying Spaghetti Monster.
jul 22, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 1 • view
OMG!!! As an Ob/Gyn I have so many stories. One of my faves, when a patient came in with a GI bug: Me: Hi, I'm Dr. Jones...what was the last thing you ate? Patient: You mean food? Me: *stares incredulously* Patient: I had a muffin about an hour ago. Me: Well, that's definitely food. 🤦🏾♀️🤣
jul 22, 2025, 5:21 am • 3 1 • view
I have a few follow-up questions, ma’am….. let’s start with your family tree: How many goats are in your on your mother’s side?
jul 22, 2025, 11:37 am • 2 0 • view
My best stories from my call center days
jul 22, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Or in EMS.
jul 22, 2025, 10:59 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t forget waiting tables and bartending. Ain’t nothing like interacting with the GP when they’re drunk.
jul 22, 2025, 2:32 am • 9 0 • view
omg yes. have worked retail and as a bartender/server. alcohol multiplies stupidity like people who haven’t worked f&b can’t imagine. also people are not only stupid they are gross 🤢
jul 22, 2025, 3:30 am • 4 1 • view
It’s like when you show up late to a party, sober, and everyone is tossed, but they’re not your friends.
jul 22, 2025, 6:20 am • 1 0 • view
bro this is a great way to describe it lol
jul 22, 2025, 10:00 am • 2 0 • view
I just watched nazis steal an election, and then an entire country go "Oh well, I guess he won". So I've got a pretty good idea, yeah.
jul 22, 2025, 8:27 am • 9 0 • view
You were alive during Hitlers reign? If not, you wouldn't have any idea what a true Nazi is, even if one were alive today to kick you in the shin.
jul 22, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
Get fucked you clown ass dildo, I know how to read a book, and I was kicking the shit outta nazis in the pit 30 years ago. Simping for those motherfuckers is bad for your health.
jul 22, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Lmoa. You wouldn't know a true Nazi if they kicked you in the shin. Berating and name calling means you lost the argument. Have a great day!
jul 22, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I bet you get name-called a lot lol. Sometimes there's actually nothing that can be said, I think he and I just read your post and realised there was no poi t, you dont have the capacity. Hope you dont have any trans or Hispanic or Haitian friends, bc you wont once you open your dumbass mouth.
jul 23, 2025, 7:42 am • 1 0 • view
Hear hear!
jul 23, 2025, 7:45 am • 0 0 • view
I bet you have not worked with legal and illegal immigrants on your farm the last 30 years. Btw, Haitian and Hispanic. Wife is Hispanic. Only you "elite" leftist know it all. Just ask them. You should probably go talk to your therapist a few more sessions.
jul 23, 2025, 3:53 pm • 1 0 • view
just block and keep it moving. dont let them muthafukkas play with your peace.
jul 22, 2025, 7:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Good advice man, gotta master that art.
jul 22, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
You're a fucking idiot.
jul 23, 2025, 7:41 am • 1 0 • view
And we still have morons supporting this fascist regime. Unbelievable 🤦♀️
jul 22, 2025, 11:29 am • 2 0 • view
Or healthcare.
jul 22, 2025, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Did two separate stints at a call center and I think I lasted a combined three weeks.
jul 22, 2025, 2:19 am • 1 0 • view
i worked at the ticket booth of a comedy club when i was 17. took about a month of being asked “what time does the midnight show start” before i started hating everyone.
jul 22, 2025, 3:07 am • 24 2 • view
They've reinforced my belief in a higher plower. I'm convinced some of these people are still alive because of benevolence. Left to their own devices, they would've perished 50 times over.
jul 22, 2025, 3:14 am • 7 1 • view
Exact opposite effect for me.. Aint no way a God made this many people this gotdamn dumb.
jul 22, 2025, 3:17 am • 13 0 • view
Valid.
jul 22, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
My issue with stupid people is that they ALWAYS think I'm the stupid one. And they never see that they are being stupid in the first place.
jul 22, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Try hotel front desk clerk! No ma’am I don’t know when the northern lights start. No sir I don’t not know where the moose are. You say your room’s too dark, have you tried rolling up the blackout shade? (No of course you haven’t.) Wish I could be as snarky as Michele from Gilmore Girls sometimes.
jul 22, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
You do not know stupid until you work in garbage. The amount of people who can not figure out the difference between landfill, recycle, and compost is the saddest thing I have ever seen at street level. And I have worked at the Post Office.
jul 22, 2025, 4:20 am • 4 0 • view
This.
jul 22, 2025, 10:53 am • 0 0 • view
Try education…
jul 22, 2025, 3:58 am • 4 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣
jul 22, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
Honestly, this is probably the real answer. If the vast majority of people who recognize and understand the education problem in this nation worked on some element of educational infrastructure, then maybe the entire world would have to worry a whole lot less about tomorrow.
jul 22, 2025, 10:18 am • 3 0 • view
Precisely. Educators are perpetually raising the next generation of society. Which gives teachers a unique view into the current state of things. For the ones working in low income areas, Title 1, or urban areas, this can be exceptionally difficult to cope with. But it also provides opportunities.
jul 22, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Nurses know this.
jul 22, 2025, 6:37 am • 6 0 • view
Nurses have a power differential to their patients that retail workers do not have over their clients. And with that power, Nurses mostly default to treat everyone like they're stupid from the start. Retail workers generally have to still treat stupid people with respect.
jul 22, 2025, 10:53 am • 3 0 • view
Even average IQ people display a shocking ignorance about how their body works, what meds they're on, how those work... I'd ask what they know about "" body part and start there
jul 22, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The take home instructions we have to give out are at 4th grade reading level to be sure most can read them. Ask your RN for more info.
jul 22, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
*stupid people's opinions
jul 23, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone should work retail for a bit, might be a more polite society
jul 22, 2025, 3:56 am • 29 6 • view
Agree!!
jul 22, 2025, 9:54 am • 1 0 • view
More homicides too though
jul 22, 2025, 4:20 am • 5 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣🤣
jul 22, 2025, 5:16 am • 3 0 • view
Waiting tables...
jul 22, 2025, 10:40 am • 3 0 • view
Or in healthcare....
jul 22, 2025, 4:30 am • 3 1 • view
Working in a call center has taught me that literally nothing on this planet is “self-explanatory”
jul 22, 2025, 9:37 pm • 6 3 • view
There's something about being told to simultaneously "be an advocate for the customer" and "tell them the truth, but not the whole truth".... That's why HAL flipped out and tried to kill everyone.
jul 22, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I absolutely feel your pain. Humans are the worst.
jul 22, 2025, 9:11 am • 3 0 • view
And people wonder how Trump got elected.
jul 22, 2025, 4:59 am • 3 0 • view
I work on a legal team for a retailer. Stupid doesn’t even begin to describe it. The general public is stupid and mentally ill.
jul 22, 2025, 2:26 am • 11 2 • view
Done both... Try Computer Tech support sometime... 😐
jul 22, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
My screen is blank. Is the computer on? It doesn't have a computer, just the screen. Are you sure? There should be a computer connected to it. Nope Do you see a box with cables coming out of it? Yeah Ok. That's the computer. No it's just the monitor. Ok I'll send someone out to you.
jul 23, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, we could say that working in retail or at call centers is stupid, but everyone is just trying to survive in a world ruled by fake value commerce that we call capitalism. 🤑
jul 22, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Apples and oranges.
jul 22, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Every company who has a call center should have management work there for a week in order to justify their insane decisions.
jul 23, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
The best part is just when you think youve seen the dumbest shit, someone out does it.
jul 22, 2025, 3:21 am • 5 2 • view
With consummate ease.
jul 22, 2025, 3:28 am • 1 0 • view
Sometimes it's impressive. Sometimes a bit horrifying
jul 22, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
On rare occasions, it's both.
jul 22, 2025, 3:43 am • 2 0 • view
Worked retail once. Watched a man spend 15 minutes attempting to remove a pair of Jordans from a display. They were built into a frame AND behind plexiglass. I ended up propping my chin up on the counter and documenting the shenanigans. Yes, we did have security. They watched from another angle.
jul 22, 2025, 3:14 am • 6 1 • view
I worked for a small shoe store and the owner would make up different sales if he was trying to get rid of certain inventory. One day he had an all flats were like $5 dollars off. This lady came in and proceeded to pick up every heel in the store; and I’m not talking about a kitten heel. I was like…
jul 22, 2025, 10:09 am • 1 0 • view
She didn't know a flat wasn't a heel? I mean, it has a lil something, but...
jul 22, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
It took everything in me not to start throwing flats at her.
jul 23, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
You want to see the seedy side of the business class? Work overnight at a business hotel with a bar/club. Literal trauma.
jul 22, 2025, 3:41 am • 5 0 • view
Worked as tech support for a cable company's phone and internet. Guy told me his internet wasn't working so I asked what lights on his modem were on. He told me none because his power was out. He didn't realize his modem needed electricity to work.
jul 22, 2025, 3:18 am • 23 3 • view
Now I’m sad
jul 22, 2025, 6:55 am • 1 0 • view
Me too.
jul 22, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
🤦🏾♀️🤣
jul 22, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
How do these people manage to remember how to breathe??
jul 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
God only knows.
jul 22, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Ever seen MAGA?
jul 22, 2025, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
I worked in fast food and bars, and I encountered a lot of stupid, but Army bootcamp is where I met people so incompetent that I was shocked they had stayed alive to that point.
jul 23, 2025, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
I have seen my fair share of stupid at every layer of this society. America has lost its common goal and common sense. Hate has filled the hearts and minds of people who don't see any financial justice or criminal justice. It's a double-edged sword.
jul 22, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 1 • view
I’ve done tech support, worked my way up to director. Started my own architectural photography business so fewer people. COVID killed that. Now I work retail again. Social Security and Medicare need to be there in 16 months. I’m sooo close!
jul 22, 2025, 10:16 am • 2 0 • view
Rich self entitled stupidity, the Jedi of the dumb.
jul 22, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view
People will think you've become an elitist working with the public, but goddamn there are a lot of people who should go home and smack their momma in the mouth for borning them dumb.
jul 22, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view