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0 pointsredwall_hp3y ago0 comments

> Patients in COVID have become downright mean. Add this to the problems nurses have management and doctors (who are often rude and arrogant) and it's a poor culture.

So...this is also the biggest reason (besides lack of pay or basic human dignity) that restaurants and retailers are having a lot more trouble finding employees. Rude (and sometimes violent) customers were already an issue, but they've become absolute animals lately. It's increasingly bad for your own health, mentally and physically, to have any public-facing job. In the last few years, we've let go any pretense of expecting people to be civil and reasonable, and adult children are rewarded for their behavior instead of being trespassed.

Teachers are also quitting in droves (and in the middle of the school year, in some cases) for the same reason. Children are awful and the parents are worse. You risk sickness and violence, and are constantly harassed by parents. Then there's the whole attack on the curricula and book banning...

The FAA reported 1099 incidents with unruly passengers last year, up from a normal 100-300 in prior years. Because some sorts of people simply won't do what they're told...and disobeying flight crew instructions is generally a federal crime.

Everyone's increasingly overworked and underpaid, and they have to deal with degenerates like that daily. Of course they want out.

We're having a societal implosion.

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kenjackson3y ago

Everyone thinks that their belligerence makes them Sam Adams or Gandhi rather than just the jerk they likely are. I see this every weekend at youth sporting events. I'm just like, "it doesn't matter why -- if the ump says you need to leave, just leave -- this isn't Game 7 of the World Series".

galangalalgol3y ago

Those unruly passengers are frontline help desk that had to deal with a elementary teacher that had to deal with kids that had to deal with parents that had to deal with unruly passengers. Everyone is on edge because scarcity is making a comeback, and we are all paying that stress forward.

toomanydoubts3y ago

I like that view. Most things are shit nowadays and everybody is sick of it. You get pissed on, and then you piss on somebody else because why wouldn't you? Nobody is caring for you, why will you spend the little amount of mhntal resources you have left to care for someone else?

It's toxic but it's the direction the world is moving to as long as the people in power keep choking their underlings and taking away every piece of joy they ever had.

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