> As an example: one time a lady threw a huge fit about a 2-3 inch smooth brown hair being in her meal when her server was a blond girl and the entire kitchen staff were 35+ year-old Mexicans/ African Americans with completely shaved heads. Now I'm not saying this woman brought the hair into the restaurant and planted it in her meal... but I know for a fact it couldn't have been from any of our staff in the restauran…
About interviews. Take the candidate to lunch and observe how s/he interacts with the wait staff.
While I’m sure this is a real problem, I’ve been on the other side of this equation where you’ve tried your level best to get a problem resolved, and not only haven’t had it resolved, but have been repeatedly screwed even more. For example, many years ago, I signed up for a landline phone (when that’s all there was), and signed up for a particular special service that Ameritech was offering that would allow me to hav…
You mentioned Ameritech, which reminded me of Amerispec:
Many laws, company policies, etc exist to prevent those 5% from causing damage to the rest of the population. So 95% of people have to live with restrictions and bureaucracy that merely exists for those small group.
I'm not following. What are some specific sacrifices we have to make for the sake of the five percent?
I was actually thinking this morning about a rash of surprisingly bad Covid etiquette I'd seen recently, and one thing might fit this "5% rule"... A minority of the bizarre Covid bad-etiquette incidents I think can't be attributed to accident, grogginess, preoccupation, symptom fatigue, etc. Specifically, I've seen a few incidents in the last week or two, of people who really did seem to go out of their way to intent…
If they really wanted to act nasty and annoy germophobes, they could just use the bathroom and conspicuously not wash their hands--no pandemic required. I would assume these are the same people who are amused by intentionally coughing at others, and the coughing probably does less damage, so the net result is an improvement.
Clearly it's performative, and when no applause (from any similar assh#les in the immediate vicinity) is forthcoming, they take it as oppression, and the brainwashing of society in the large. Chip on shoulder, but scaled up by orders of magnitude via mass media assist.
Many laws, company policies, etc exist to prevent those 5% from causing damage to the rest of the population. So 95% of people have to live with restrictions and bureaucracy that merely exists for those small group.
I'm not following. What are some specific sacrifices we have to make for the sake of the five percent?
Speed limits, building codes, the list goes on and on an on. And of course the wealth of society is sapped to pay for enforcement of all this stuff. Pretty much all civil regulation and the associated enforcement costs could be scaled way way way back if the single digit percentage of people who really suck didn't or the low double digit percentage of people who really get bent out of shape over these people got somewhat over it.
Many laws, company policies, etc exist to prevent those 5% from causing damage to the rest of the population. So 95% of people have to live with restrictions and bureaucracy that merely exists for those small group.
I'm not following. What are some specific sacrifices we have to make for the sake of the five percent?
I wonder if you turn this around, could every body have a tendency to be nasty 5% of the time?
I think it's possible. I feel like even the most normal people can have an off day when they just want to be assholes to people for whatever reason. (I've personally done this, and later regretted.) So maybe the sales folks or bartenders are seeing those people on their off days.
Ah I should have added wilfully nasty. The article I thought mentioned discarding "bad days". But then again are the malicious truly aware and holding themselves accountable for their maliciousness instead l just pointing to external circumstances.
Many laws, company policies, etc exist to prevent those 5% from causing damage to the rest of the population. So 95% of people have to live with restrictions and bureaucracy that merely exists for those small group.
I'm not following. What are some specific sacrifices we have to make for the sake of the five percent?
Ever get approved for a home loan? Much of that laborious process is to thwart fraud committed by a small percent of people. If everyone was trustable on good faith, computers could do most of the work almost instantaneously.
How about the entire organized crime bureaus of police forces worldwide?
While I’m sure this is a real problem, I’ve been on the other side of this equation where you’ve tried your level best to get a problem resolved, and not only haven’t had it resolved, but have been repeatedly screwed even more. For example, many years ago, I signed up for a landline phone (when that’s all there was), and signed up for a particular special service that Ameritech was offering that would allow me to hav…
Yes, this was my question. Are 3-5% of people horrible all the time, or are we all horrible 3-5% of the time? Or more likely at any given time 3-5% of us are horrible, with some of us entering the group more often than others.