FYI: service industry is obligated to be nice to you. Please don't flirt back.

Being nice does not equal flirting

Is this an American thing? You guys can't just take an order you need a big smile and then flirt and compliment every single customer?

Sounds rough

You don't need to smile and flirt with every customer... but then NO TIP!! And then you can't afford your apartment's rent. Might not even be able to afford enough food to make it through the month. But it's your choice. Land of the free.

We're tipping convenience store clerks now?

Nah, keep smoking, maybe get cancer, you'll finally have something to talk about at parties.

With Square payment terminals at any store, tips are just a mis-tap away

Please don't be nice back. Verbally assault service workers. They appreciate it.

Tip jars have been a thing in small stores for a long time. Its usually where people drop their pennies and nickles.

Everyone's job tells them to do it, but 10% actually care.

I think with enough spite, we can push that into single-digit territory. Who's with me?

Sounds like someone only has the minimum amount of flare 😬

Welcome to Costco I love you

you'll finally have something to talk about at parties.

Using a cool robot voice

They totally blew it by asking if she was being genuine...

Fuck off, asshole!

Am I doing it right?

I'm pretty sure they aren't supposed to talk you out of your expensive and addictive purchases.

I’m not from be US. The first time I learned about give a penny, take a penny was on My Name is Earl. Is it really a thing?

Flirting and being nice are two different things. However most people don't know that difference. Especially if they never had anyone genuinely being nice to them.

service industry isn't obligated to comment on my looks.

they should just smile and ask me how my day is. don't be personal.

and lots of service people flirt to get bigger tips, and it's fake AF.

Like every other waitress loves to tell me how young I look for my age. I know they are lying trying to get an extra few bucks. The bartenders/waiters don't do that... but they are friendly and chill.

Guess who I tip more?

No. You're suppose to complain about your food being slightly wrong or not having the right thing that you didn't requiest and you're suppose to blame them and then demand a free meal as compensation

Oh, this is what people mean when they say "Don't be a stan"? I thought they were just being racist towards Central Asia...

Tip jars are different than give a penny take a penny. Tips are for the employees.

The penny thing was from back when cash was regularly used and pennies were annoying so sometimes stores would have a little dish thing for pennies to be used for rounding out purchases. The gas station I worked at in the 90s had them because we didn't need to keep as many pennies on hand for making change when we could use a spare penny to avoid giving out four.

Yes this is the cultural reference that Stan originates from. The vest flair guy.

Great, Tashkent is back on the bucket list!

It's also best if the 'right thing' is not available in the store at all. Make sure to complain about things that the store has no control over as well like the CEOs political views. Position this as something for the cashier to solve personally.

If you’re actually serious, being a “Stan” originates from the song called “Stan” by Eminem, where a guy named Stan is an extremely obsessed fan

wait i've read this joke before. the one with a bigger owl?

example: Wait person! There is only one hair in my three hair soup! I demand satisfaction! Pistols at dawn or are you more of a chess boxing person?

yes, our culture is so fucking weird.

and if you don't smile and flirt then you get fired. the customers don't even care, but the management does.

our cashiers also can't sit down, ever.

Oh yes, cancer issues are a party topic favourite.

Okay, tbh that's not on anon this time

So your store relied on charity to steal pennies for the company... sounds about right

We always put a few pennies in when it emptied out and never put pennies back into the register. At best it was the company spending a small amount for customers to trade pennies around both to benefit them and the company.

When I paid with cash I loved the give a penny take a penny.

Are you thinking of those charity jars where people donate loose change? That is something completely different and no we did not have those charity jars in the store.

what is your suggested reply?

Maybe you could ruin your good looks by dating someone like me?

Everyone hates working for American companies when they try and push American customer service onto anyone else.

I don't want to be told thank you for calling the company, I'm calling because there's a problem because I want something not to have a chat. It's so cringe-worthy.

I was only half-serious

The best one I can think of right now would be something like "I get to talk to cute girls more often." But almost anything else would be better.

You can get away with a lot of zingers from behind bullet-proof glass.

As a European, asking how I'm doing is already too far. It was quite confusing when I went to the US.

I gotta level the playing field for everyone else somehow

how are ya doin'?

😱

if you say anything other than 'good, great, swell' we think you're mentally ill and we hate you.

once you learn this, and just say 'good!' it's as if they never asked and you never replied at all.

Oh sure, I had no trouble answering to this after a couple instances. But the first times I was very surprised! I thought the cashier was flirting with me haha. After that I answered "very good, thanks" and basta.

idk what your talking about, someone saying my hair looks like nice clearly means they're dtf

So you're saying there still is a chance?

Not good. I've never been doing good.