{"id":91105,"date":"2016-07-25T17:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/25\/blasphemous-lies-and-deceit-krem-de-le-creme\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T17:56:40","slug":"blasphemous-lies-and-deceit-krem-de-le-creme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/25\/blasphemous-lies-and-deceit-krem-de-le-creme\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

blasphemous-lies-and-deceit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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krem-de-le-creme<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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thesmilingfish<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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gritsinmisery<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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1980sbusinesswoman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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punlich<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One time I used my retail voice on a coworker and she was like, \u201cDon\u2019t use your customer voice on me, I know you\u2019re dead inside like the rest of us, it\u2019s just frightening and weird\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The other day I asked for a table for two in my customer voice and the waitress squinted at me and I cleared my throat and said \u201cSorry, still in service mode\u201d and she dropped hers and we swapped stories about our day and my boyfriend was like \u201cYou two just became two entirely different people in like .5 seconds\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can be bitching up a blue streak about a customer-from-hell while the store is empty, and when the phone rings swap over to my retail voice practically in mid-sentence. I even have managers and salespeople from other stores in the chain fooled into thinking I\u2019m infinitely friendly and helpful, and my manager\u2019s husband thinks I\u2019m one of the most professional people in the store. One assistant manager\u2019s daughter dubbed me Perky-Pants because she mostly dealt with me over the phone, and was shocked to the core when I dropped an F-bomb at her graduation picnic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The acting required in the service industry is beyond the pale. My cousin freaked out when she came to see me at work because I was all smiling and nice while helping someone who was asking inane questions and who basically forced me to walk them to the product and put it in their fucking hand but I was nice as pie until I turned around to walk away and my demeanor changed back to normal and I muttered \u201cwhat a fucking moron\u201d under my breath as I got back to my cousin. She just looked at me shocked and said \u201cno wonder you\u2019re so exhausted when you get home.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

this is actually referred to as emotional labor in criminology, and is considered one of the hardest forms of labor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The art of bullshit is strong in the service industry\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s why it irks me when people act like my job isn\u2019t hard and there\u2019s no reason to be exhausted at the end of the day. Yeah I\u2019m at a desk, but dealing with people isn\u2019t easy!!\u00a0<\/p>\n

And like, I do tech support, so I have to be friendly, I have to figure out what their problem is, then I have to figure out now to solve it, and then I have to explain it to them in a way that they understand, all the while assuring them that they aren\u2019t idiots, and sometimes things happen, and it\u2019s perfectly okay that they called in. Or I have to soothe someone that\u2019s pissed off long enough to figure out how or if I can help them.<\/p>\n

Hubby doesn\u2019t understand why I prefer to work evenings, but it\u2019s because I\u2019m so exhausted by the time I get off work, that I\u2019d have zero energy to do anything if I had to work and then go to school. Also why I generally need quiet when I get off.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m a natural extrovert. I don\u2019t know how introverts can do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

blasphemous-lies-and-deceit: krem-de-le-creme: thesmilingfish: gritsinmisery: 1980sbusinesswoman: punlich: One time I used my retail voice on a coworker and she was like, \u201cDon\u2019t use your customer voice on me, I know you\u2019re dead inside like the rest of us, it\u2019s just frightening and weird\u201d The other day I asked for a table for two in my customer … <\/p>\n

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