askchapo

I volunteer in a op shop that takes donations at the front counter. People will just dump shit right in front of the signs outside threatening fines for doing so. Some people walk in, right past the counter, and hide them around the store for some fucking reason. Some people try to let themselves in to the employees only area to put them there.

We also don't take a few things for logistics reasons. No room for furniture for example. The amount of people who get mad we won't take their crappy mass produced painting of a vase or something is absurd. "But I brought it all the way out here surely you can just take it!" No and furthermore fuck off. Most of the store is retail space that you have to squeeze through, clearly we don't have a warehouse out back.

That said, one part about it is that the elderly customers aren't usually the worst. They can be, sure, but the younger ones are so much ruder. The olds just want someone to talk to, and that means they sometimes go on for too long, but the younger people are so constantly entitled as fuck. I blame "thrifting" as a concept being popularised among the bougies.

They stay in late and we have to politely ask them to fuck off, they just throw unwanted clothes wherever they feel like, they talk loudly and shout across the store to their friends, they ignore the signs about asking for help and just grab fragile shit. They fairly constantly boast about how they can resell shit for loads more on ebay.

My faith in people my age to be Alright has been shaken massively, I'll admit