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Nothing is more irritating than someone outside my field trying to mansplain my own job to me. I promise whatever groundbreaking ‘tip’ you’re giving me is something I learned years ago.
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Anonymous 21h

oh my god my dad does this it’s so annoying😭😭 “you might not know this about psychology” yes robert i promise i do

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Anonymous 20h

no this is so true. unfortunately i work at a grocery store right now, but i work in like a booth so im not a cashier, i help with customer service. tell me why these people genuinely think idk what im doing. ive been there for almost 4 years, i know that place up and down

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Anonymous 20h

Had a customer yell and scream at me when I was 16 and working at a diner bc he didn’t know how to read a receipt and basically accused me of putting in a tip when I didn’t I had worked there for a year I know what I’m doing 😐 it’s not that difficult to use a credit card machine

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Anonymous 18h

Or when these people also are like that’s not what you do for your job as if they know what we do in our own fields.

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Anonymous 17h

Even though I’m a man, I have this happen a lot with conspiracy theories. People attempting to explain how AI or code works or pseudo-psychological bullshit is irritating af

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Anonymous 20h

Well if you did it then they wouldn’t keep saying it…

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

Point to where I said it was recurring from the same person.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

Omg this but their insight is completely wrong too 😭 I get this so much as a fellow psych student. “Have you heard of the psychology fact where if you have a dream about someone it means they have a crush on you?” Like that’s not….okay

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 20h

THIS OMG 😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

Where

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 20h

Additionally had a customer tell me how to do my job when I was doing the way my boss had told me to she also apparently didn’t even know who my boss was to be yelling at me like that (in the middle of a rush mind you) bc she assumed my boss was a man my boss was a woman the owners are men and did not train me

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

My dad trying to teach me about my major that he has never studied a day in his life

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 16h

Let me be delusional

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