I'm always amazed at people willing to take front-line employees to task for corporate policies. I'm sure they're just fed up with the bullshit, but why take down some poor kid over it? I promise you that cashiers are getting fucked by store policies at LEAST as much as customers.

She wasn’t “hassling” the checker. She was mostly thinking out loud in the form of a non-Karen-esque dialog with the checker for however long it took her credit card to process. It was a friendly enough interaction.

Stop getting distracted.

bammer really fumbled the messaging on this anecdote

That he did but he’s also surrounded by wokes here who will focus on or ignore various elements of said anecdote.

Don't hold us responsible for your shitty storytelling.

This is where you burst out laughing at the very idea of America as a place where we don’t give charity to business, I’ll bet.

Now imagine bammer didn't fumble the messaging on this anecdote...

Next time I witness something like this, I’ll convey it more clearly.

Lesson learned.

"Would you like to round up to help th--"

Nope.

I went to my kid's 5th grade science fair last night and had several kids tell me about their projects. I'm gonna lay off of Bammer a little bit.