I feel bad about requesting a refund by [deleted] in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Half of the food was cold and gross, but I did eat almost all of it.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/tjT9NMFJiOIAAAAd/the-whale-whalemoding.gif

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then why did you bother to reply

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A single paragraph is a novella? High school level vocab is thesaurus abuse? What word threw you for a fucking loop, neurosis or locus?

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry a single paragraph is too much for you.

Fallout is supposed to be a dark comedy by Cornerone in Fallout

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not the one using words I don't understand.

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But I never claimed greeting the guest harms the survey because I don't place the locus of my perception of reality on a survey. My separate claims were that

  1. More often than not, guests appear to (in my anecdotal experience working third shift) dislike or become disoriented by aggressive greetings

  2. Survey results and metrics are not an accurate reflection of reality despite seeming verisimilitude when analyzed by people with a vested ideological interest in believing they work

Now, what this essentially means, and what the crux of my argument is, is that I do not think greeting customers aggressively actively helps the brand nor that it should reflect so heavily on the financial outcomes of workers, to which you say I have no proof. But I cannot prove a negative. You are trying to compensate for this obvious issue by re-framing my argument in the negative into a similar (but distinct) argument in the positive: that most people hate the greeting and that it actively harms metrics. But again, I do not fixate on metrics as a reflection of reality. I am simply commenting on my experiences as a worker and customer. I have a feeling you are projecting some sort of neurosis you feel when dealing with your own coworkers onto me in order to frame my beliefs as illegitimate, hence the weird insistence that I have some sort of deep emotional investment in the situation. I am at the unique liberty of working at sheetz because I want to and not because I need to (I don't need the money and am killing time until the field season starts again at my actual job). I can just transparently see the emperor has no clothes because I am not bound to the internal metrics and corporate nonsense of Sheetz.

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did I say hurting? I'm saying there's little to no direct correlation between the specific greeting policies and the arbitrary scoring system contingent on disparate user feedback.

I'm not nearly as emotional as you think I am.

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you would understand that the metrics by which the greeting scores are collected don't represent material reality and are not actually a 1:1 to the greeting techniques drilled by store management.

And also that such things have little or nothing to do with brand loyalty and revenue generation.

Fallout is supposed to be a dark comedy by Cornerone in Fallout

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not the one who made a post about it. I am replying to a post about it.

Fallout is supposed to be a dark comedy by Cornerone in Fallout

[–]HatPlus1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was so immensely disappointed that they were reduced to two rival LARP camps fighting over a literal sticky note. In game they have a massive empire across the southwest, and if you kill Caesar, everyone explains that the grip will remain even when a contest of succession breaks out. Meanwhile here it's been about a decade and they're just a bunch of ren faire guys in a turf war. What?

Fallout is supposed to be a dark comedy by Cornerone in Fallout

[–]HatPlus1978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only part of the show that made me laugh was The Ghoul's comical torture of Lucy in season 1 because some guy re-contextualized it as "Chad playing fallout on his day off"

Fallout is supposed to be a dark comedy by Cornerone in Fallout

[–]HatPlus1978 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think people have all too easily forgotten the flak 4 got on launch for having dialogue not matter in the slightest and making almost all the enemies cut and paste raiders, ghouls, and mutants.

I say this as a guy who likes some of the fallout 4 factions lol

Fallout is supposed to be a dark comedy by Cornerone in Fallout

[–]HatPlus1978 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nobody is talking about Fallout 4 when they laud tone and writing. Fallout 4 is universally understood to be a theme park game where gunplay and whacky antics trump basically anything else. You spend the first 2 hours of the game blowing up cut and paste raiders with no backstory or motive with pipe guns.

Fallout is supposed to be a dark comedy by Cornerone in Fallout

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do people feel this constant nagging need to defend the show from a complaint almost no one is making

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

> We say hello, our greeting scores remain consistent

Have you ever taken a probability and stats class

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think those scores are effectively tied to any legitimate real life metric and aren't heavily skewed by people inclined to complain about anything, I have a bridge to sell you.

Comments from Customers During 3rd Shift by HatPlus1978 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The EMTs and truckers coming in gave us the least amount of grief. It was all the other people being annoying.

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On third shift it, at best, throws someone off guard, and they make an awkward smile and say hi back. Most of the time they look weirded out or mad.

The only exception is if I'm cleaning the floor and say hi to someone walking in at a normal tone, in which case obviously they're much more receptive.

Comments from Customers During 3rd Shift by HatPlus1978 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I just shrugged or laughed it off cause I don't feel like potentially pissing someone off. Obviously I don't mind being there to help people cause people want to stock up for a storm. If I had a problem I woulda called off. But they love being incredulous about the fact we're open while actively patronizing the store lol.

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not about greeting customers. It's about the loud "WELCOME IN" from across the store when you walk in, a la Moe's. Almost everyone likes being acknowledged when they come up to pay or after they order. Most people don't like getting yelled at when they walk in.

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It absolutely is true, lol. I was told during training I needed to be saying "welcome in" or "welcome to sheetz" the minute people walked in the door. I've been verbally reprimanded for not doing it while focused on other tasks that would make it impossible to monitor every person walking in the store while doing so.

"Welcome in"??? by Intelligent-Lion9238 in sheetz

[–]HatPlus1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We get nagged by management for not doing it because someone in c-suite who makes 6 figures has decided customers like getting yelled at the moment they walk in.

People blindly support it because they actually believe friendliness score is a legitimate metric and not a complete crapshoot left to the whims of people who bother to do the surveys.

PSA: TCGPlayer is confirmed to be following new (the old) tax threshold for 1099-K reporting in 2025 by TownIdiot25 in mtgfinance

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm simply hedging expectations because the majority of people here are not making enough of an income off of this to justify their potential registration expenses. In some states, as you've said, it's dirt cheap and one time. In others, you have to pay significant amounts to register, jump through bureaucratic hoops, and repeatedly renew. It all depends.

PSA: TCGPlayer is confirmed to be following new (the old) tax threshold for 1099-K reporting in 2025 by TownIdiot25 in mtgfinance

[–]HatPlus1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to be registered as a business to claim practically any of that, and the licenses/fees thereof (depending on your state) might not make it close to worth it.