9:15 I’m helping the guy and walk up to see 3 teenagers standing next to the open sign. They ask me “how do we turn this off?”
BY TURNING THE BIG SWITCH THAT SAYS ON/OFF TO FUCKING OFF!!!
Like are they actually this incompetent or are they playing so I don’t expect anything of them? I’m leaning towards the former since this act of incompetence was actually potentially creating MORE work for them.
They’re acting useless so they are given less work in the future. Realistically these are teenagers working close to minimum wage that probably don’t plan on rising through the ranks so who cares if their performance review is ass.
What are you gonna do, fire them? (This is a rhetorical question, because the answer is so often “no” which, combined with their wages, results in this feigned helplessness)
That I get, but leaving the open sign on after close was potentially letting more customers in and making us all have to stay longer. I assume these teens wanna get home so they can vape and watch videos where heads come out of toilets or chat with older men on Roblox or whatever.
Just seems a weird context to do malicious incompetence, usually maliciously incompetent people suddenly become more competent when competency benefits them.
If they’re at the door to change the sign, they can just tell people that the shop is closed and in the meantime they get to keep stalling so you don’t ask anything else of them.
If the sign says OPEN customers will demand to come in, teenagers saying we’re actually closed but they can’t figure out how to turn off the sign won’t dissuade them.
Heck, the sign being off and the door locked often doesn’t dissuade them, they’ll just yank on the door in the hopes that if they manage to break the lock off we’ll be obligated to assist them.