So, the animation doesn’t play in Jerboa, unless you open the image in a dedicated popup, and now I’m not sure which version is better. The non-animated one kinda feels more like C&H to me.
I’m normally used to being ignored and wear headphones, so when people suddenly ask me if I need help I’m always not ready. Usually can’t hear em either. Why are they looking at me amd moving their lips?
My wife and I tag-team when going to home depot or Lowes. I’ll check isles, and she’ll find assistance faster than I ever can. It’s expedited our trips there significantly
It's a combination of all of the above, I'm sure. Probably some sexism, but it could also be that now that I'm happier I project a friendlier attitude making me more approachable. I guess I'll never know!
I've definitely noticed that women are muuuuuuch friendlier toward me since transitioning which is really nice. Other women meet me eyes instead of averting it and usually flash a genuine smile (not a sheepish one like before), and will usually say something even if just a quick "hi!".
On the other hand, men are much more standoffish and weird around me, which I'm totally fine with lol
“look sonny back in the good old days we’d pay a nickel to the [redacted] on the corner and he’d figure it all out lickety split, sometime we’d even let em keep the nickel. then they gave em equal rights and that’s what really caused the world wars, you see, the balance of power was threatened and germany knew it and…”
not-slowly backing away
(this has been not far off from most of my boomer and older random interactions in public; or something like they are holding a nice conversation with you and then mention the 5G covid nano robots that are going to activate next Thursday and start killing everyone. I just want to buy my thing and go home, please stop talking.)
They’re just trained to approach you pretty much no matter what. Leaving people alone means youre missing out on opportunities for good business I guess. Just annoying to me, especially when I was working at one.
Now I’m imagining you at work and the jackasses from the Northside store come flooding in and asking customers if they need help. Like a home depot turf war, with customers in the crossfire, running and screaming.
The best idea I've ever seen was a documentation about a shop that had baskets of different colours. One meant "talk to me, I may need help" and one meant "leave me alone, I know what I am doing". That is a great idea for everyone.
That’s not my experience. I ask someone where a really strange item is, and they’ll tell me the exact aisle, exact shelf, and exact bin. All from memory in 2.5 nanoseconds.
Depends if you get the old man or one of the kids, the kids just pull out their phone and look it up in the same app is used only to find that it’s wrong since there is no aisle 57E. Old man will know where it actually is and even explain how to use it well if I want
Matters which Home Depot and what hours. If you go during slow time. Some old person who is doing this as a retirement gig will tell you what you really need etc., but I’ve also experienced not being able to get someone while it’s busy and having the department-specific person MIA. Many parts are missing even if the website says they are in stock because people steel them. I had an employee tell me that the didn’t sell the individual plumbing part that I needed, but winked and nudged that I should buy a kit that had it and return it without that piece. He was like, either that or essentially steal the part out of the box when no one was looking. That’s your ghetto Home Depot. In the more upscale town Home Depot, they are better stocked and less busy, so generally more helpful.
Depends on where I am at the time. If I’m in Austin (City) and I ask someone where a really strange item is, I see their eyes glaze over, then they pull out their phone and proceed to check the store’s website.
When I’m in Wyoming and I ask someone where a really strange item is, they ask me what I’m trying to accomplish. Then they proceed to give me a master class in the subject matter as well as a full parts list
I tried that once. I literally showed him a picture. His response was to ask me what I was working on and then when I explained. He was like "oh you should do this instead and pointed me towards something that wouldn’t work for what I was trying to do at all. Then he argued with me about it. I was like… man just show me where this fucking item is I don’t give a shit about your opinions I know what I’m doing. He had no idea and I had to go find it myself.
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