What's with the ads condemning rudeness to fast food employees?

I haven't stepped foot inside a fast food joint for years, but surely the rude customers are not bad enough to warrant government advertising? We all have tough jobs. In fact, I'm willing to bet most of us with careers have a much harder time at work than McDonald's staff.

Granted, most people in these positions would be kids or others who aren't equipped to handle verbal abuse, but if this has become sort of pandemic among hospitality workers then surely the burden should rest on the company, not the customers. If the government is worried about mistreatment of retail staff, then perhaps they should force employers to kick out or refuse to serve rude customers. That's a lot more reasonable and realistic than socially engineering people to be less rude or demanding that they change.

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      • +2

        You need to visit better venues. Or perhaps their service is a reflection of you?

        • -1

          If you think customer service is good now you are an idiot. I've run retail businesses and it's a disgrace what's going for customer service these days. Maybe you do all your ordering and shopping online so all you see is a smiling model advertising the products.

    • Once again commenting on something you haven’t seen and/or have no knowledge about.

      It’s not Government advertising, it’s retail workers representatives telling people to stop being assholes to their members. And yes, those people copping the serve are victims of aforementioned assholes.

      This thread has shown that there really are some assholes who treat people like shit and then get cranky when told not to. Probably the same people who were recently saying ‘not all men’

      • I'm commenting on the basis they a TV add is not going to change domestic violence, gambling, nicotine use and certainly not abuse to service staff.

        I unequivocally oppose uncalled for rudeness to anyone.

        • +2

          It’s about awareness. Take domestic violence. It was always around in Australian households but was the taboo topic, never spoken about. Women suffered in silence. Most people thought, surely it’s not that common. But it is.

          Same as abuse towards retail workers. The awareness it brings starts conversation and brings it to attention as something that does happen all too often

  • +8

    Or being a service advisor at a Ford dealership when Mustang/Raptor owners bring their shit heaps in…

    • Are these new Mustangs really that bad? Genuine question.

      • No, they are ok. They have their share of issues. Have a mate who owns one. Seems to spend more time in the shop than what it does in his garage. But usually the owners are insufferable.

        How do you know someone owns a Mustang? Don't worry, they'll tell you… :D

        • +9

          Ah so Mustangs and their owners are the Crossfit of the automotive world, got it.

          • @AdosHouse: OMG! yes. This is the best analogy I have ever heard.

          • +1

            @AdosHouse: yes they are the vegans of the automotive world.

            i had a vegan tell me he didn't like to tell people he was vegan because of, "you know the stereotype".

            he didn't see the irony

        • No, they are ok

          Seems to spend more time in the shop than what it does in his garage.

          They don’t sound very ok

    • Joke is on the owners, how do you get to a dealership if the car wont drive there?

  • +1

    What's Hawkeye been up to lately: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/506488?

  • +1

    They have a few going, I can remember seeing ones for fast food "restaurants", bus drivers and some Hardly Normal type retail shop.
    I think they are trying to say "don't be a dick to people"

  • +3

    Not sure if removing customer would work.

    When it happened to me, I took longer to deal with the customer or until they stopped being rude or became quiet. Sort of like training a dog, when they shut up or became quiet I gave a treat(did the job) .

    I never worked in retail & never thought I could do it. I wasn't confident enough. I did it, you don't realise how sh+t people are until you do it.

    • -8

      How so? If customers are being rude, don't serve them. If they get aggressive, call the police…or the local security guard at the shopping complex. People will get the message eventually.

      Of course that won't happen because it would mean the corporations need to start turning away paying customers in order to protect their staff. That right there tells you how much (little) they value you. Like I said, the problem starts and ends with them, rather than trying to socially engineer people to be polite.

      • +5

        “Socially engineer”? Really? It’s just saying “don’t be a jerk”. It’s not that hard.

        • -7

          Yet you don't realize that nobody is a jerk intentionally. It happens due to multiple factors. People may be having a bad day. Maybe the guy being rude just lost his job and got left at the altar. Shit happens in life and lashing out is a natural human response. Instead of trying to surpress it, we should be teaching people the most important skill life can ever teach you: not to let words hurt your feelings. What ever happened to "sticks and stones"?

          • +13

            @SlavOz:

            we should be teaching people the most important skill life can ever teach you: not to let words hurt your feelings. What ever happened to "sticks and stones"?

            Or bloody control your self as youre an adult, not a toddler.

            Maybe the guy being rude just lost his job and got left at the altar. Shit happens in life and lashing out is a natural human response.

            What happened to stick and stones?

            • -2

              @Ughhh: Don't think you understand what the saying means.

              "Sticks and stones may break by bones, but words can never hurt me". We've been teaching this moral to kids for a long time now. When did we think it would be a good idea to stop?

              • +5

                @SlavOz: My friend, you've completed missed the point.

                Maybe the guy being rude just lost his job and got left at the altar. Shit happens in life and lashing out is a natural human response.

                Maybe you should tell the sticks and stones story to the angry customers?

                Must be a big man tough man to pick on vulnerable teenagers.

                • -2

                  @Ughhh:

                  Maybe you should tell the sticks and stones story to the angry customers?

                  Err, no you're not getting it. In my scenario, the customer is angry because they were dumped at the altar or fired from their job. Those are not "words". They're the "sticks and stones". They're actions. Actions can hurt you. The point of the saying is that you should not let the sounds that come from other people's vocal chords hurt you. They're just words.

                  Is this concept seriously new to you? I thought it was mandatory learning in kindergarten.

                  You'd seriously need to be made of jelly if words from someone you don't even know can hurt you.

                  • +3

                    @SlavOz:

                    They're the "sticks and stones".

                    If you consider those to be 'sticks and stones', maybe you need to toughen up at Maccas, another angry customer will make you stronger.

                    • -3

                      @Ughhh: So you think being yelled at by some soccer mum at Maccas is worse than losing your job or being dumped on your wedding day?

                      Well, can't argue with you if you're resorting to self delusion. Cya.

                      • +5

                        @SlavOz: Why not compare to being burnt alive? Being fired is nothing whimp.

                        Thanks for the laughs.
                        You like worms.

                        Hope the ads didn't hurt your feelings too much! Living under a rock has made you a strong tough man!

                  • +1

                    @SlavOz: Maybe they lost their job or got left at the altar because they didn't treat others - like service workers, their boss or significant other - with respect. If only there was an ad that had made them stop and think about their behaviour.

              • @SlavOz:

                When did we think it would be a good idea to stop?

                When we discovered that words can actually hurt. Look up Brodie’s Law.

          • @SlavOz: Having a bad day doesn't give you the right to treat everyone like shit. We all have things going on in life.

      • +1

        You know how few f&cks the police or security give about people in those jobs.
        Those people often F off before anyone arrives after throwing things about, carrying on and threatening staff and get away with it.
        I've seen the other side where staff have been threatened and told that they'd be back "with the boys" etc and sure enough end of day waiting in the car park a bunch of intellectually challenged idiots who are backing their mate with threats of violence because their buddy is just a roided up loose cannon who cant live in the real world. Probably with a job in construction or concreting come to think of it.
        Police were called, employees locked in store until they were cleared, police couldn't do sh!t.
        And you think for the sh!t money retail pays for students or other younger employees just trying to pay their bills fresh out of school that thats OK and to be expected to deal with in your day to day job?

      • This is proof you don't leave the house mate.

        Employers have a legal obligation to ensure your safety on the job.

        Why would you want an abusive customer it ruins the experience for everyone else, even in a pure capitalistic sense an abusive customer is better off trespassed.

  • +2

    If the government union is worried about mistreatment of retail staff

    FTFY

  • +2

    It would be rude to advertise "Please don't abuse our borderline underpaid staff for our terrible food, thank you"

  • +1

    Maybe this is obvious to most of us, but when dealing with anyone with lower perceived status (which I try to consciously reject, but the undercurrent is there), just be polite and say please and thank you. More likely to get what you want.

    Eg, free cheese on burgers from uber eats where they fail to list the ability to add extras.

    Having worked in hospitality, the workers "have to" engage with you. Why not make it a little pleasant for them.

    Edit: also, glad to see the ad on the website was a white woman screaming rather than the typically "defensible" use of a white man. Noticed the image they use on the "9/10 people pay their fares" bus ads?

  • +7

    I haven't stepped foot inside a fast food joint for years,

    So you don't know anything about the situation, according to you, but …

    surely the rude customers are not bad enough to warrant government advertising?

    Some ads really got under your skin because you made up a fictional tale about how they aren't needed.

  • +1

    Noticed a few fast food places have video ads or wall posters about abusing staff. You get the same notices in Centrelink and bulk billed medical centres.

    • +2

      Yep. They’re a good, constant reminder to customers about standards. And they’re only there because they need to be there. If some customers weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t need to have them.

  • +1

    My guess is that the there is a lot of anti-corporate sentiments brewing, and the SDA (a typically toothless union, actually run for employers and not employees) is trying to get ahead of it, by appearing as 'one of the good ones'. In as cheap and low effort way as possible

  • +5

    This is the first scientific paper I found by searching "can advertising shift social norms".

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4942845/

    It seems to be an effective technique. (This case was drink driving)

    If the money spent on ads is less than the projected savings in mental health treatments, lost time, lost tax, etc then the ads are worthwhile.

    Do you know a better way to shift social norms? I do like your idea of companies kicking out jerks, but unfortunately companies themselves are jerks and wish to maximise profits. Maybe customers should refuse to spend their money at stores that enable jerks?

    • -7

      You answered your own question. If people really felt outraged about this then they would stop shopping at McDonald's or other places that let their staff be abused. But they won't, because deep down they don't care. It's just for show.

      And I think the mental health comment is a stretch. If someone needs therapy for being yelled at by a junkie at Maccas they're not really going to get far in life. We do not want to raise egenerations of snowflakes.

      • +4

        If people really felt outraged about this then they would stop shopping at McDonald's or other places that let their staff be abused.

        Seems a bit of a no true Scotsman to me.

        Most people do not like other people to suffer needlessly. Most businesses accepts money from jerks. However, most people continue to shop at businesses, because there's no repository of businesses who eject jerks, it's hard to find alternatives, maybe the alternatives are unaffordable, social conformity, etc etc.

        This does not necessarily mean people like shop assistants being abused, it could mean that either they haven't thought about it enough to connect cause and effect, or their perceived personal burden of punishing the business outweighs the assumed benefit in reducing jerkosity (after all, it would take a significant proportion of the population to join a boycott for businesses to adjust their behaviour… so we have a bit of a catch 22).

        And I think the mental health comment is a stretch.

        I'm glad to hear you are mentally resilient. Not everyone shares your good fortune.

        If someone needs therapy for being yelled at by a junkie at Maccas they're not really going to get far in life.

        Not if they're surrounded by jerks with that attitude, no. Maybe if they had a bit of emotional support they might be able to.

        • +1

          Rekt

      • +1

        And I think the mental health comment is a stretch. If someone needs therapy for being yelled at by a junkie at Maccas they're not really going to get far in life. We do not want to raise egenerations of snowflakes.

        Typical SlavOz troll thread.

      • +1

        And I think the mental health comment is a stretch. If someone needs therapy for being yelled at by a junkie at

        You are here because some ads triggered you.
        Let that sink in.

      • +2

        I needed therapy after being abused at the workplace. Words fricken hurt. More than any physical injury I've copped. Either way. I've gotten pretty far in life, retiring before 30 and all.
        Your comments are ridiculous and dangerous.

  • +7

    You have clearly never worked a hospitality job, you are completely out of touch and have no clue what it's like. Doesn't matter how 'tough' (I doubt it) your or any other job is, dealing with customers face to face is a unique type of unpleasantness.

    • -1

      dealing with customers face to face is a unique type of unpleasantness

      I don't dispute that. What I'm asking you to tell me is why this certain type of unpleasantness is worth combating more than others?

      Do you honestly think McDonald's is the hardest place to work, or that other occupations don't have equally tough challenges? Come to the construction site on a 45 degree day carrying cement and sand bags and you'll be begging to go back to the Maccas counter, under the nice air-con dealing mostly with kids and soccer mums.

      I know a few people with their own business who could use a hand tomorrow. $400 cash per day. Clearly it's easier than Maccas so let me know what time they can expect you.

      • +3

        The average 16 year old who works part time at a fast food place isn't looking for a job in construction. Get some context here and compare the same thing.
        Plenty of construction workers couldn't work retail or hospitality either, even knowing how "easy" of a job it is.
        Seen plenty of Karens rip in to kids over a couple nuggets missing from an order, that the ice cream machine isn't working on a hot day or some other trivial BS out of their control, is that really needed?
        A bit of a step back and take it in that their fat little kid only got 9 nuggets not 10 because the kid out the back is only a handful of years older than her own kids couldn't hurt.
        Then the late nights where you get bored teens wanting to F around with the kids who're working then the drunks coming in and wanting to punch on with customers or staff.
        They're not there to be security or bouncers, they're mostly KIDS working a lot of these jobs.

        Its more about people in general just being total sh!t c#nts to people in these industries, and unless you've suffered through dealing with these people you'd not know.
        I'm against any of this victim olympics but if everyone had to work some retail and hospo (2 years min, including christmas and public holidays) then people might be much nicer knowing how sh!tty people get treated in general.
        Is that such a bad thing?

        • -3

          Dude - people have been shitty to each other for millennia. It's human nature. We've enslaved, wiped out, and colonized our fellow humans since the begging of time, despite endless peace treaties, negotiations, bargaining and other measures trying to prevent it. Do you honestly think this is some exclusive phenomena which can be addressed with an ad? Come on!

          16 year olds may not be looking for a job in construction, but it is fairly likely they will when they're older (it's a popular and well paying industry). The verbal abuse in the construction sector is 1000x worse than at Maccas, and the kids will be better equipped to deal with it if they've had similar experiences in the past.

          Alas, when this 16 year old turns 22 and starts working on the job site, he's going to be picked up by his coworkers and instead of sticking up for himself and dealing with it, he's going to sit quietly while the union runs another ad spreading sympathy for him. Do you honestly think this is a better alternative?

          • +4

            @SlavOz: Say you had a daughter, she was 16, worked at maccas. You'd be ok with just random people tee'ing off on her for trivial sh!t? her coming home crying or being upset due to supposed adults that cant control their impulses and not be c#nts to others?
            Its the power imbalance which is the key issue here, you have 40-50 year olds tearing in to 16-20 year old kids that haven't lived long enough or been through enough to deal with it.
            You find that acceptable?

            Unions can piss away their money all they want, I don't care for them.
            I've also not seen the ad's but know from experience how sh!tty people are to these people.

              • +2

                @SlavOz: This isn't Singapore where everyones basically an emotionless, opinionless, soulless robot who will stand there with a blank face while someones being a Karen at them.
                There is no fairytale agenda being pushed to make everyone think they're the victim, I will agree there are some groups who are only out to playing the victim but I do not see that in this situation.

                Sometimes you're unwillingly in a situation (workplace) where you are on the receiving end of something that is out of your control, by sh!t people.
                Often it's not just words, its intimidation, its assault, its threats which plenty of unstable people are willing to follow through with.

                You've missed the point entirely. Some top level trolling you've got going on there. tips hat

                • -1

                  @91rs: Now hang on, I never said anyone should have to put up with illegal behavior. Threats and physical violence are a separate issue all together. If that's what you're worried about, then we should be putting more pressure on retailers to employ security guards. That is the only viable solution here.

                  If police find that shootings have increased in a particular area, what do you think would be a better response - making an ad pleading for people to stop shooting each other, or put more officers patrolling these areas?

                  In fact, if my daughter was working in retail and was consistently in danger of being assaulted, I would find an ad like this infuriating. You're telling other people not to assault my daughter instead of actually protecting her from being assaulted. Nah. Just nah.

                • +1

                  @91rs: You went a bit too far with the Singapore part. No need to put another society down but it's hard not to fall into that trap with this ass hat OP.

              • @SlavOz: You're also an expert on bringing up children and child care. Do you even have children?

                Just like people are doing their best to drill you here that your out of your depth the same with some kids.

                Just because you will drill them day and night doesn't mean they will be able to deal with such situations and doesn't mean they should just accept them.

                • +3

                  @superValue: OP is a 20-something, no kids, who goes to speed dating and drives a Mustang.

                  Oh, and is judgemental of pretty much everyone else.

                  If posting history is truthful, and not a troll, then this is 1 of those people who others generally distance themselves from irl

          • +1

            @SlavOz: Seems like your argument is "verbal abuse happens on other industries, so we might as well let it continue in food service".

            Pretty dumb argument.

            "Other industries underpay workers, why bother addressing how this one industry underpays workers"

            "Other crimes exist, why punish this one"

            "Other countries pollute so why address our pollution".

            "Other people use their phones while driving, why don't I use my phone while driving".

      • $400 a day!? Sign me up!

      • +1

        Post the jobs here you lying coward

  • +19

    There's a reason for the stereotypical "Karen" in the customer world these days. Hell, how often are forum threads started on here about people treating the staff badly because they think they know their rights, when they don't.

    It's a campaign that gives a good message. It's like the campaigns that ran for guys to speak up to their mates when they were being abusive to females. Not something that should need to be put on tv, but in this day and age it did.

    I've worked customer facing jobs for 20yrs now, and customers can be dicks. There's a few ways of dealing with them, but some just react over the top and abuse the other person unnecessarily. Doesn't matter what sort of day you're having, that never gives you permission to abuse someone else without cause. You also don't know what sort of day they've had!

    If you feel the need to whinge about an ad campaign promoting a good thing, an ad campaign that you didn't pay for, then you need to have a look in the mirror and find out why it annoys you so much.

    Maybe you are a Karen

    • -3

      It doesn't annoy me, I'm just perplexed at how they possibly think it's going to make a difference, and why everyone is suddenly so compassionate about this cause when there are jobs out there which employees don't get to return from at all due to their dangers and risks, or which lead to them being physically or sexually assaulted.

      Talk to women at brothels about how hard their job is before you go on some heroic crusade to save teenagers from being pestered for extra fries.

      • +11

        Oh, I didn't realise we can only support 1 cause at a time, and be sympathetic towards 1 industry.

        Shit, my bad

        Are you annoyed there's no compassion towards your job, or are you just soap-boxing? It's like a little kid yelling "look at me".

        • -1

          No, you can be sympathetic to multiple causes and industries. I'm just saying I'm yet to see any campaigns about the tough working conditions of concreters, the dangers of being an electrician, or the sexual and physical abuse suffered by sex workers. These have been going on for far longer and with much worse consequences than teenagers being abused at Maccas and yet where are the tears of outrage and calls for justice?

          • +4

            @SlavOz: It's already been shown that this campaign was run by the respective Union in charge of these workers. That Union doesn't represent any of the sections you just mentioned.

            This is really plain obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than 5.

            If you want an ad campaign for them, you pay for it, or you get their respective unions to pay for it. If they won't, then they won't get an ad campaign, simple as that.

            https://www.sda.org.au/
            The union for workers in Retail. Fast Food. Warehouse. Hair & Beauty. Modelling.

            • @spackbace: Still doesn't answer my question. Some jobs are harder than Maccas and don't get nearly as much courageous support on Ozbargain, the government, or unions. Don't dodge the fact that retail workers are being disproportionately benefited here.

              If asked you, before you read this node, what the top 100 issues in the country are today, you would not have listed the extreme levels of physical demand and pressure experienced by construction workers. Yet here you are on some woke crusade to save the teenagers from not being thanked for handing someone their fries. Carry on.

              • +6

                @SlavOz:

                courageous support on Ozbargain

                You posted this. I didn't even know about the ad campaign until you posted.

                the government

                They're not doing anything to do with this campaign

                unions

                This particular union doesn't represent sex workers, so what are they supposed to do about the sex worker plight, and their issues?

                Don't dodge the fact that retail workers are being disproportionately benefited here.

                They're being represented by their union, a union which supports mainly them, besides some other similar industries (Warehouse. Hair & Beauty. Modelling.). But I daresay that retail and fast food members represent their greatest percentage, which would mean they contribute the highest revenue to the union.

                If asked you, before you read this node, what the top 100 issues in the country are today

                Top 100? Yeah I wouldn't have even bothered responding lol

                Yet here you are on some woke crusade to save the teenagers from not being thanked for handing someone their fries

                Again, I wouldn't have known about this campaign if it wasn't for you. You brought this to the attention of many

                • @spackbace: I bought it to the attention of Ozbargain as I was perplexed for the reasoning behind it, and I was met with a flurry of outrage from the likes of you for questioning it.

                  I wouldn't have known about this campaign if it wasn't for you.

                  So a few hours ago you didn't even know about the campaign and now you're on a crusade to stand up for it and condemn anyone who dares question it.

                  I can't even hold a straight face when reading your hysteria anymore.

                  • +4

                    @SlavOz:

                    So a few hours ago you didn't even know about the campaign and now you're on a crusade to stand up for it and condemn anyone who dares question it.

                    Last I checked, campaigns don't change how I feel. They can educate to help form an opinion, of course.

                    I had my opinions long before you raised the point of this campaign. As mentioned, I've worked customer facing jobs for 20yrs, I know what customers can be like. This campaign did nothing to change my first-hand opinion on the matter.

                    It's ok, one of these days you'll find maturity. It's just not today.

                    • @spackbace:

                      I know what customers can be like

                      Clearly not, given that you seem to think a half assed ad campaign is going to make customers start acting nice.

                      You know not of the human condition. People have been jerks since the beginning of time. We've had wars, genocide, and ethnic cleansing yet if only we knew that some 15 second ads during the tennis could solve everything!

                      • +8

                        @SlavOz: Change doesn't happen overnight, nor does it happen if everyone just shoves their head in the sand and does nothing about it.

                        If you want to bring change to your construction mates, then make it happen. If you want to whinge and bitch on an online forum, and not do anything to change anything, then you truly are the snowflake here.

                      • @SlavOz: For a construction worker, pouring concrete isn't just an avoidable risk of the job, it IS the job. Retail workers aren't getting paid to be abused. The latter is preventable human behaviour that might actually benefit with increased awareness. The fact that you're equating these two is ridiculous, just like your notion that 'other jobs are hard, so why bother?'

          • @SlavOz: Yes concreting is hard work but people choose it.

            The concrete doesn't abuse them or does it?

            Same with electricians. Are electrical wires trying to abuse electricians?

            You've lost me here? What are they being abused by hard work?

            There are bodies that try to protect sex workers well there used to be but it's a hard industry to protect due to its special niche. Okay you can have this one.

            I understand your logic. You think being verbally abused is just like hard work. Just accept being abused as hard work even though a rude person is doing something that is not a requirement of your job.

            Your rebuttals and logic is very under developed but entertaining.

            • +1

              @superValue: Pretty sure the thrust of Slavs position is "concreting is hard, I'm not a sissy… By the way I have not worked in the food service industry"

              Which renders the immediate relevance and merit of any contribution Slav makes to the issue questionable at best.

  • +3

    The ads aren't provided by the government, they are provided by the union.

  • -3

    Advertising will not change a rude person's behaviour.
    Complete waste of money.
    The answer is to refuse service

    • +1

      Managers should legally be required to say this. NOT the workers. Your suggestion would lead to huge abuse towards people following policy.

  • Customers are angry at shitty service. Servers are the face of the company despite underpaid. No win situation there.

    Centrelink is one of the worst. Management create policies to make it impossible to have a living. Yet people blame centrelink workers, not the political parties responsible. I've seen security guards at centrelink these days. I wonder why.

    • Customers are angry at shitty service.

      To be fair, some customers are just angry.

      Sure, they may have something going in their life, but whatever their problems are, they are their problems. Might sound shitty, but so it taking out your anger on other people.

      Sorry, did get a bit off topic from your point.

    • Are you saying Centrelink workers are underpaid? I think you'll find the security guards are there because of the demographics Centrelink attracts.

  • Nice diversion from exploitation of underpaying these literally poor workers that cope anger from under-supported services.

    I'm always nice to staff, its a tough job and I'm sure there is a little Slim Shady in the back ready to spit on the onion rings for those acting like knobs.

  • +5

    I'm willing to bet most of us with careers have a much harder time at work than McDonald's staff

    Talk for yourself mate. I worked at Macca's, whilst I agree with you it makes you a better more rounded employee later in life to have that experience, I can safely say that I work nowhere near as hard now. Easy 8:30-5, cushy office, Ozbargain/Reddit for a few hours a day, client lunches/drinks etc. Treated with a lot more respect as well.

    • +1

      Never worked at Maccas but I did do some factory jobs whilst I as at Uni. There was, certainly, a lot of incentive to get my arse into gear to make sure I studied hard at Uni.

  • +9

    I don't understand what's wrong with an ad campaign reminding everyone to just treat people like people. Seems like a good thing to me

  • Why would you feel youre entitled to abuse a worker????

    • +2

      Usually because you have bigger credit card debt than them ;)

  • +1

    This is all a side effect because of the politically correct morons who decided "the customer is always right" and now we have a bunch of entitled morons everywhere who demand their $10 chicken nuggets in 10 seconds flat otherwise a tantrum is thrown.

    • +1

      Thats nothing to do with political correctness.

    • 'The customer is always right' is a slogan coined by capitalistic, 19th century retailers. It has nothing to do with political correctness.

  • +10

    What a pointless thing to complain about.

  • +9

    Assholes: treat fast food workers like shit
    Union: Runs some ads reminding people that fast food workers aren’t paid to be abused
    Assholes: Bloody unions wasting members money on useless ads

  • +3

    Good on the organisations putting on these type of ads. being a customer does not give you the right to abuse workers. Unfortunately too many people actually think these types of behaviour is justified.

  • +4

    Hey OP, you posting history seems to be always complaining about others not doing the 'right thing' just because they are different than you and you believe you are always right. We live in a society and everyone is unique. You don't know what they have been through and don't be ignorant and assuming you know everything.

    I don't understand how an Ad encouraging better behaviour & attitude towards fast food employee can upset anyone.

    Maybe think twice before you post next time and consider whether it is worth posting?

    • -5

      Hey eason2946, your posting history seems to be always complaining about others not doing the 'right thing' just because they are different than you and you believe you are always right.

      I don't understand how an Ozbargain node about an Ad encouraging better behaviour & attitude towards fast food employee can upset anyone.

      Maybe think twice before you post next time and consider whether it is worth posting?

      • +1

        Look at how heavily downvoted all your posts are. Would hate to be your neighbours irl. Bet you’re a real peach.

  • +1

    I could be wrong, but I don't think it's the government posting these ads, it's service worker unions. In which case, it's their prerogative to advertise all they want to help improve their workplace… don't see the issue.

  • +3

    OP, they are ads asking you to be a decent human being to people paid to serve you. If you have a problem with that, I’d be looking internally.

  • +2

    OP, There's nothing good in being rude. Period.

    • -1

      I'm not saying there is. Im just pointing out that being rude or selfish is human nature. It hasn't gone away since the beggining of time and it won't go away anytime soon. The only thing we can do as a society is to make sure our people are equipped to deal with it. Hoping that it magically goes away is a race to the bottom. It's on the level of making ads to ISIS or North Korea asking them to please stop being such meanies. It's a snowflake tactic that acheives nothing.

      It's perplexing that nobody wants to entertain the idea of forcing corporations to hire security guards to protect their own staff. That would likely mean paying more for your cheeseburger so can't have that!

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