This was at some department store. The doors had keypads on them so I went back to the entrance to ask this kid if I could be let in. The dude gives me a smug little smirk and radios for someone to meet me back there. No one showed up after like seven minutes and as I left the aformentioned mall operator was going through some poor ladys cart item by item. I was later able to find an unsecured restroom a block away.

Even the strip malls have gone mask-off, this shit sucks.

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[–] 23 points 3 months ago

I have written about this before but 'I DUNNO, CAN YOU?' is just bullying kids for speaking like everyone else. Literally no one says 'may i'.

I also just dont like asking for permission to do things im entitled to. If I gotta go to the can at work or im taking a break, I tell people, I dont ask. People ask me at work if they can go on break when they wanna take one, I know they're just making sure it's a good time to do so cause i'm the one who would know best whether we're about to get slammed or if we're approaching the end of a rush etc. It's also an ESL thing with the phrasing im sure, but part of that kinda makes it feel doubly bad where these phillipino guys twice my age are asking permission to take a break when im not even really their boss. My job just makes it seem that way, im the navigator, not the captain to use a ship metaphor. Anyway. I just repeat that they dont need my permission and to take their time. I'm not gonna debase myself so I can take a shit, to expect it is perverse and weird

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