And being a retail employee wears you down bit by bit, and add COVID on top of it and little shit like this makes you snap, sometimes. And she proceeds to freak out, saying “NO, NO, I’M LOOKING FOR AND IT HAS TO BE ” and when I say freak out, she looked stressed and PANICKED. I found it for her, I handed her exactly what she was looking for, even though her description of the product actually matched several different products to make sure I’d done my job thoroughly and that she leaves happy and satisfied and doesn’t bother me again, I then show her more products that match her description so that she knows she has options. Compare this to a customer I helped two weeks ago who was looking for a specific type of supplement for children. I’ve been exposed so much to harassment and bullying, triangulating and echo chambers in forums and threads, and vastly opposing point of views at such an early age that it’s had an effect on how I see the world. I think growing up partially in online spaces has made me more accustomed to conflict and consequence-free arguing than someone who never had to worry about that. I think it even affects how we experience and express stress and frustration. Tell your mom I said we miss her, we need to get together, we forgive her for last Christmas.” Paul is doing great, waiting on his screening results. Compare that to, idk, let’s say you posted on your Facebook (for the first time in 18 months) “All these big and bad grown ass Senators going after actual child Greta Gerwig lol ok, you’re so brave for attacking a CHILD over climate change” and then your aunt, who’s turning “forty-fifteen” in May replies to your post with “So happy to see my passionate niece! Much love from us, hope you’re doing well. We have an inherent understanding of how online spaces work. The dumb things kids have been saying since forever can now follow them. We live in a world where we grew up either knowing right out the gate or discovering the hard way that what we say and do has permanence, the kind of permanence that prior generations have never experienced until today. I really point to the Internet and Social Media as a major influence in how younger millennials (more Tom Hollands and less Seth Rogans-see even there, I feel like there are two different types of Millennials) and Gen Zrs/Zoomers and even Generation Alpha behave and communicate. But how we communicate is sooooo different.
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