I don't like phones, so for someone like me it is so annoying. Especially after sitting down, then being told it is QR then having to stand up and leave. I am 36 so not a boomer thing having no phone, I just don't like them.
We use a QR code for our draft list because we rotate out local beers quite a bit. I tell my tables about the QR code and they just look at me and say “what IPAs are on draft?” No one wants to pull up a QR code. Honestly I don’t really blame them. I just write down a cheat sheet at the beginning of my shift and let them look at that or just tell them about the beers. I might not have every single one memorized, but I know most of them so it’s not hard to guide people in the right direction.
The 24 hour supermarkets are no more.
They close at midnight and open at 6-7am.
At least in the Midwest state I live in.
Drive through fast food places close at 10-11pm.
For a night owl like me, sadness. Ha.
I like being a third shifter way more than a second shifter though. I did second for 4–5 years and was too worried about trying third. My job after covid only offered thirds at first when I started so I just took it.
I fucking thrive on third. I get off at 7:30 am though. I can go grocery shopping, go to doctors appointments, go to the gym, go for a morning run when it starts warming up more, and over all I seem to have a lot of good high relaxation energy in the morning, so it being my “evening” is amazing
I also basically have no life though and my WoW server goes down at like 9 am for maintenance so that’s mildly annoying…. lol
My grocery stores used to be open until midnight, now they're open until 9pm. Im also a night owl, I used to do my grocery shopping at like 10pm but no more. "The city that never sleeps" is a joke now.
I believe the businesses just needed a reason to shut their doors early. My grocery store used to close at 2am and now it closes at 11pm in California. They have no intentions of switching back to their old hours of operation.
Not shops but architecture school have really suffer of that. Before covid schools were open 24/24 and it was common to sleep at school to finish a model before a jury. But I started uni at the end of covid and never witnessed that, when masters talk about it it really sound awesome and fun because everybody is tired so they put music and laugh for anything. And the ambiance in school at night must really be something else. Too bad I can't see that and probably never will.
Same thing happened at a shop I worked in. They stopped opening 24/7 purely because there was no pubs or clubs open and theur crowds made the vast majority of sales from 1-6am
You guys had 24-hour supermarkets? In my state we have 24-hour convenience stores and 24-hour highway rest stop plazas but fuck-all else.
Closest equivalents are the Walmarts that used to stay open until midnight and now close at 11PM.
All of this is because night owls in my state are the minority, not the majority. I cry.
Same where I live. I love being trapped in a poorly ventilated office with a bunch of anti-vaxxers who seems to constantly be coughing and I'm the only one wearing a mask. Bonus points for the times I've witnessed some of them just not wash their hands after using the bathroom.
Yep, I got Covid 4 months ago and I've still got a nasty cough, the phlegm is never ending. Whenever I have to cough in public I get anxious people will think I have it.
I've had phlegm-related coughing fits way before covid was a thing. I'm on medication, but it isn't perfect and I have to excuse myself on occasion to handle it. Covid has made the stigma worse.
I understand the apprehension, but it's still awkward.
Yeah this fucking sucks man. I have a deviated septum that I’m waiting to have fixed. My entire life I was lead to believe I had allergies. My doctor obviously sucked. Now I’m waiting for a surgery with an eternal post nasal drip and I clear my throat a lot and feel like a damn menace to society.
I know it’s weird as hell working in manufacturing right now.
Like we’re in a recession? But our orders up are, our demand is kind of lower…. But we’re 1000 behind…… we’re also short staffed like crazy….. but THERES A RECESSION, also we’re always waiting for supplies to come in
I’m used to the stock market crashing and suddenly we’re all laid off
Yup, some people, especially Uber Eats (and other similar services) delivery people are getting increasingly entitled with tips. Some of them actually films themselve refuring low-tipping delivery requests or accept, but eathalf burger and spit in the soft drink for TikToks.
These people are still the minority, but they are loud enough for people to notice. These people seem to forget that Tip is to be received for good service, not as a way to gauge how good/shitty your service will be.
The request for tipping, I refuse to tip before they mess up my order. Only after, if they fixed it quickly. Messing up my order definitely has been normalized
I don't like when new industries try to adopt tipping. There's no cultural/industrial basis for them to not just pay their employees the right amount like there is in restaurants, hotels, etc.
For real, like I don’t feel the need to tip for picking up food… or ordering take out… or cafeteria type places where they just drop off food. The expectation to tip 20% is just ridiculous now… too many times something’s been forgotten.
Non-American here asking an honest question: Why do you keep tipping in those cases? Is it social pressure? Is it common to be called out for not tipping in self-service businesses?
I don’t really understand it. We’re paying workers more (I get it, still not enough, but they are making more), expected to tip more, paying higher prices on literally everything… but the quality of service/food is absolutely abysmal.
A lot of them really aren't hiring though. They keep "help wanted" signs up so people forgive the slow service, and keep the skeleton crew permanently.
I guess it depends on the area and industry. I can see how that would be true in customer service. I work in automotive and we can’t keep our shop adequately staffed with qualified techs.
I have a steady, decent paying job, but I’m always looking for better. I get an interview wherever I apply, but they always flinch at the salary requirement. A little anecdotal, so maybe it’s just what I’ve experienced.
Try getting hired on Norwegian cruise lines. It's wild what they tried to pull in the earlier 2000's with their us based Hawain cruise lines ships. I means it's fukn wild what they did to usm fun fact the homeless population in Hawaii has a10% population from ex cruise ship employees abandoned by the company and can't afford the flight back to mainland.i got hired out of bartending school as a bartender on the ship. Never once touched a drink
I read once how employers are intentionally only interviewing people and not even hiring the qualified people. Reason being, the less they hire, the costs can stay down and make the whole 'no one wants to work' excuse to justify not giving pay raises.
At least in the USA - unemployment rates are based on the number of people filing for unemployment benefits.
If you have 100 people and 20 of them are out of work but only 5 file for, and qualify for benefits, then the "official" unemployment rate would be 5%.
Hotels used to clean your room every day. Now most hotels only clean after the fourth night. First it was under the guise of not exposing workers to COVID, but now it appears to be a money-saving tactic.
A coffee shop in my neighborhood is *still* on reduced Covid hours. Before the pandemic they were open 8-4 Monday-Friday and also on Saturdays, but now it’s 8-2 Monday-Friday only.
They also only just returned to indoor dining in November 2022.
Mental health took a heavy hit during Covid. I seldom get super angry while driving for the silliest things and I gotta take a pause to cool down and realize that it is not that big of a deal.
I use to not give a F ck about people driving aggressively now I have to actively legislate myself to not become part of that vicious cycle
there was a sweet spot where people were super lind and grateful to the service industry people who were working at places that were still open, and then that hit the fan. now people have zero patience and are extremely tough to deal with in restaurant scenarios. i know we all took a mental health hit but like we are understaffed and i am only human. a little kindness goes a long way.
For real. I work in the public and I remember a week or two where customers were grateful for service, and after the pandemic let up, everyone just doubled down on their rudeness. Like common decency just went right out the window
People's nerves are shot. Years of consistent, low level trauma with occasional spikes into sheer panic has destroyed our mental health, collectively. I'm experiencing this perfectly; in college, people called me Buddha because I was so patient. Now I feel like I'm constantly one bad day away from losing it completely.
Taking a proper sick day. “I’m sick so I’ll wfh today” is now standard.
We’re a lot better at staying out of the office to prevent infection spread.
We’re a lot worse at actually staying home in bed and focussing on rest.
>Taking a proper sick day. “I’m sick so I’ll wfh today” is now standard.
I work in a hospital (non-medical) and if I need to take a sick day I need to take a COVID test every day and have to stay out until I'm cleared by employee health.
But - on the plus side, most managers are OK with people taking the occasional "mental-health" day (formerly known as a non-sick sick day) which don't need to go through employee health (unless there's a larger issue going on).
Almost everyone in my office works from home now. It was really rare before and every 5 years they'd have to move to a bigger office. Then they realized that people got just as much done at home. I've got 2 voice-only online meetings a day ( as a developer, my bosses are online all day) and they are down to the smallest office they've had in 20 years, which they maintain for anyone that wants a day in the office. Interesting that some guys do that 2-3 times per week just to be able to concentrate or get out of the house. Me? I don't even live in the same country anymore. I always hated the office thing. I live in the middle of a jungle on an island somewhere in SE Asia. I always show for my meetings though.
I'm also in it and my company has taken the wfh meeting approach to the extreme. I've had days of 13 meetings booked on my calendar, where the ask in the morning is status on a particular deliverable and then meet meet meet and end of the day another ask on the status of the same deliverable.
Sorry Gina, I would like to have developed that low code solution that will take me about 2 hours but I haven't been allowed time to do so.
Damn straight. Especially toxic work cultures that try to dictate your life outside of work, or even worse YOUR APPEARANCE!
"Why yes, your resume looks impeccable, but I'm afraid your hair color is blue and you have a tattoo of your son's name on your arm, and therefore are unqualified for this job!"
And it’s great. I can’t wait for all the boomers to retire so corporations can be run by jaded millennials and genXers who don’t see their jobs as their identities.
I'd argue mine has improved since our office moved to hybrid working, I'm more productive at home with no interruptions save for the occasional Teams call and I still get a change of scenery twice a week when we go into the office.
I remember in like February 2020 someone at work asked if I was sick for some reason and I laughed and said “yeah I have coronavirus” and they asked “oh you’re hungover?”
I miss when most people didn’t really know what it was…..
It seems manufacturing quality has diminished.
I’m in the equipment repair field. Before, parts were pretty reliable. You’d get what you ordered and it would work. Remanufactured parts would work as good as new with 99% consistency.
After, it’s hit or miss. New equipment comes in missing parts and pieces with a note pretty much saying “oops, sorry, we’ll send you that piece eventually”. You order a certain assembly and get it missing parts and pieces. You might or might not get what you ordered. Remanufactured parts seem to last 3 or 4 days (if they even make it that far) about 40% of the time.
It’s pretty frustrating.
I work in Auto repair and have seen the same thing. Frustrating when you install a part and it fails or doesn't fit properly. Nothing like doing the job more than once and not getting paid full labor.
I don't even work in the field but I work on my own cars for fun. The amount of straight up wrong or broken parts I get now is insane. Never used to be this way, but it feels like half the time they send me the wrong part or it's absolute garbage. Quality control doesn't exist at all anymore.
I wonder if this is because of a lack of inspections / QA on the production side? Everyone was / is cutting costs left and right and this could be a rather opaque way of cutting costs.
During the pandemic supply chains were so broken you were happy to get anything, even if missing parts or poor quality. Suppliers saw this and it became standard practice as it was cheaper.
I work for an electronics manufacturer. We've had to redesign almost all of our products to keep producing them because of part shortages.
Unfortunately doing this constantly opens up the chance that some change reduces reliability. Good testing is important but it's hard to accurately simulate years of field use when you have to make a change for next month's production run.
Teleconferencing has been normalized for things it never was before. This can be seen as good or bad, depending on your perspective. For my severely handicapped sister, one really good aspect of it is being able to meet with her therapist remotely. It was a huge pain for her and my family to get her to/from his office prior to covid, and now she loves meeting with him on zoom.
It's been quite liberating in my field - a trip to see a single client would wipe out my entire workday and leave me playing catch up for at least a week. Now we do a 40 minute Teams call and I can get on with my stuff as soon as we hang up.
Remote training is also a blessing, I have ADHD and need to fidget with something to force my brain to pay attention and it's easier to do that on camera when nobody can see my hands lol.
Telehealth has gotten huge since COVID. There are medical companies that just do that. We have carts that a tele-neurologist can call into and diagnose stroke (etc.) patients.
.. when they work they're great but I've gotten way too many calls from our ED because theirs's doesn't work - and it's kinda important there.
Real human connection. We’re still out and about but it just feels…off. Like we’re all so much more isolated in ourselves now. I hope it gets back to different.
Feel this hard. Things are just… off. Hard to describe really, and I think it’s a lot of causes. Political divisions, further collapse of community and the atomization of the individual, algorithms turning our brains to mush.
Bad business going on right now for sure.
Personally, I feel finance plays a big role. When my parents were my age, they had a house in a neighborhood with similarly minded people, many of a similar age, starting families and doing things together. It's tough for people to organize that way with the housing market now *so* bad after 2020. Most sub-40(?) people I know seem to have trouble establishing a community and just live where they can afford.
The biggest ones I’ve noticed is the change to the workforce, the lack of 24 hour stores, and those parking spots for pick up orders that are now at every restaurant and retail store.
Since 2020 almost everything has changed, i absolutely weaned from the school and adequate studying, also i live in ukraine and there is a war for almost 1.5 years, so every day we have air alarms and we can't study normally because of them. I miss the old education, my classmates and calmness:(((
I feel like people are more lonely, strangers talk to me multiple times a day - pre COVID this happened like two times a week.. also people seem to be less happy and more scared
Making friends at the pub is harder. Used to be, you went to the pub on a Saturday night and make 5+ friends. Now, you go and nobody will talk to anyone outside their little group. At least, that's how it is where I live.
Kind of sad, really. Mateship is dead.
E-commerce is now the standard. Worked in retail; prior to lock downs we had in store shoppers with occasional online orders/returns. After opening back up, nothing but online returns
In the general public, drivers seem more aggressive and impatient. Public establishments mostly seem to be chronically short of help.
The cost of food has risen quite a bit.
Social niceties seem to have diminished.
I think the more often you drove during the pandemic, the more likely you are to be pissed driving now. At least in my state, it was cool to see the roads functioning at the capacities they were designed for instead of near constant bumper to bumper.
We have this romantic idea that during WW2 the World came together against a common foe and everyone was on the same page. I asked the older members of my family who lived through it and they said plenty of people acted like selfish brats during that time too. Make sense really, otherwise ARP wardens wouldn't have been needed. Human nature is to reject sudden change.
We saw our neighbor's true colors. And what we saw sucked, and now everyone is more insular and isolated because they lost significant levels of trust they had in their fellow man. And it was already probably pretty damn low, if they were paying any attention to begin with. Corona Virus just put it up in our faces ...Like unavoidably so. We're living in a total nightmare with no end in sight, and it is only going to get worse. The seeds of hatred have been planted thoroughly in our psyche... Barring a total miracle or weird change of luck, we're on the verge some of the darkest days this nation has ever known.
Hard agree. There was always an image of people coming together in a crisis. The pandemic showed us how many people out there have a fuck you mentality, unwilling to suffer the smallest inconvenience to help out their fellow man. I'm an overweight, out of shape smoker who had to wear a mask for my 8 hours in retail. I had no problem breathing. But there were those who threw a toddler sized tantrum because they were asked to mask up for 10 minutes.
I have friends with *heavy* Asthma, and they didn't mind wearing a mask for work.
However, Karen and Darren who are in perfect health suffocate if they wear the mask more than 3 seconds.
A lot of places stuck to their "covid days" protocols that make a whole lot harder.
For example, no walk in appointments for a lot of things like passport renewals, etc. And instead using a crappy website or a call center that throws you at the end of a never ending queue.
My students are full-on Lord of the Flies now. All the kids are badly behind in academics but in social behaviors its even worse. I teach middle school and we're starting to adapt elementary school techniques because these kids never learned how to be students.
They all talk a lot of shit and act confident around each other but they're all so fragile and don't know how to manage their friendships whatsoever
Actually hospitals are dropping mask mandates now for the most part. I work in a hospital and we only got the ability to stop wearing them about a week ago.
You have to ask for condiments at restaurants more than before instead of them having packs of them at a stand or on a table.
I don't know if this is because of the virus,but this became more common once they reopened after covid.
A lot of businesses are still using Covid as an excuse for reduced service.
A grocery store in my neighborhood is still not accepting empty bottles, with a sign up saying it’s because of “the pandemic”. I call BS.
It’s not quite an answer to this question but I’m so full of gratitude that the world is at a stage where we can ask this question and the answer not be ‘dude, we’re still living it!’
It honestly felt like the end would never come, the world as we knew it was literally paused and just.. isn’t it crazy we lived through that? As an avid traveller I lost the last two years of my 20s for adventures but when I look at the people who lost so much more.. what a wild and depressing few years.
I hate to say it, but students have a totally different perception of how much effort they should put in and what an acceptable reason for late work can be
Every larger grocery store in my area has cut nearly all cashiers. There’s one manned cashier line and a huge line at self checkout at 6pm on a Friday. I hate it. Some days there are no cashier lanes open, and I have to self check a cart full of food. HATE IT.
Science has some how become politically subjective and ideologically hijacked.
We no longer have a relative truth to map our collective reality.
It has divided the space for complicated nuanced discussion in a way that may never be repaired.
The political divide was worsened. Anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, etc., went around and shat all over everything and deteriorated the relationships everyone had.
I think it's the opposite. Every teacher I know did everything possible to keep students on grade level. Students that did nothing and admin who passed everyone sealed the deal. Students have no consequences for failing or their actions. Parents did not step up and parent, Tik Tok and Instagram filled the void. Education was screwed before covid and a 10-15 year decline got accelerated to a 2-5 year
decline.
Teachers are done, even in decent paying states. I know teachers who are trying to get deployed and some are having kids just to get out of teaching for a year. First year teachers are already saying fuck this and getting out while veteran teachers are retiring early and taking a huge hit on their pensions. I know teachers who left urban districts with metal detectors and they are quitting their new suburban schools because they thought it would be better and it's not.
So yea, Covid fucked education but it was the lack of accountability that fucked an already declining public institution.
One I've noticed is that people are just more selfish and quick to judge you for no reason. I always wanted to stay at-home pre covid and after mandates and everything, leaving the house for something other than work makes me hate people even more than ever before.
How long you have to wait to get a tow, and how long it takes to get your car in a body shop. I will never go without a damn blanket in the car EVER again.
Lot more anger. People don't talk to new people anymore because it inevitably gets back to corona, which brings up politics and where people stand on THAT issue and conversations quickly devolve into screaming matches or silently fuming. Has become much easier to just ostracize yourself.
The entire world changed for me. Idk, its like this impending feeling of doom at all times but nothings happened yet you know? Things have just felt strange since the start of it all, like everyone is out of touch. I often think back to how different everything was before and i miss it. The world is just different in general because of it. I wonder if people experienced the same thing I’m going through now during the Spanish Flu. Very unique circumstances.
I feel like covid changed the way we see people from the opposite political party. Republicans and democrats have obviously always had their differences but I didn’t feel like we hated each other. I feel like the pandemic divided us into two distinct groups that HATE each other now. Now there are 2 completely different group who disagree on almost everything for no other reason than we have different political view points. Neither side is willing to compromise or work with the other. In the past we may have been from different political parties but we didn’t hate each other for those differences.
I’m one of the few who has managed to completely avoid covid the past 3 years. I did it by hardly leaving my house. Now my agoraphobia (that I hadn’t dealt with since my early 20’s) is back and anytime I try to leave the house to go shopping or visit friends/family I can’t make it more than 30-45min before horrible panic attacks start to the point where I’m physically ill and I can’t get back home fast enough. I know that the fears are irrational and that I’m ok but just cant get a grip on the panic or the nausea and vomiting that comes with it.
Camping at campgrounds. At the beginning of the pandemic a bunch of people rushed out and bought RVs and tents and camping gear, which is great! Welcome to a super fun hobby.
But many of them didn't bother to educate themselves on the importance of being a good camping neighbor or a good steward of the land. They leave trash everywhere, leave their lights blazing all night, try to harass the wildlife, leave out things that can harm the wildlife.
If you're coming to experience nature, please be a responsible part of it.
QR code menus in restaurants
Half the time I scan it and their shitty website menu doesn't even load or my phone just gets a pdf forcefully downloaded its throat.
Or it's tiny and you can't even zoom on enough to read it. *What is this? A menu for ants?*
I don't like phones, so for someone like me it is so annoying. Especially after sitting down, then being told it is QR then having to stand up and leave. I am 36 so not a boomer thing having no phone, I just don't like them.
We use a QR code for our draft list because we rotate out local beers quite a bit. I tell my tables about the QR code and they just look at me and say “what IPAs are on draft?” No one wants to pull up a QR code. Honestly I don’t really blame them. I just write down a cheat sheet at the beginning of my shift and let them look at that or just tell them about the beers. I might not have every single one memorized, but I know most of them so it’s not hard to guide people in the right direction.
The 24 hour supermarkets are no more. They close at midnight and open at 6-7am. At least in the Midwest state I live in. Drive through fast food places close at 10-11pm. For a night owl like me, sadness. Ha.
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It's not nearly as easy to be a night person anymore. (Screw the second and third shifters. :/ )
I like being a third shifter way more than a second shifter though. I did second for 4–5 years and was too worried about trying third. My job after covid only offered thirds at first when I started so I just took it. I fucking thrive on third. I get off at 7:30 am though. I can go grocery shopping, go to doctors appointments, go to the gym, go for a morning run when it starts warming up more, and over all I seem to have a lot of good high relaxation energy in the morning, so it being my “evening” is amazing I also basically have no life though and my WoW server goes down at like 9 am for maintenance so that’s mildly annoying…. lol
You live a simple and peaceful life. Many wish they could have that type of balance bliss
Yeah, and I live alone and take care of a colony of cats that live in my neighborhood. The perfect spinster life lmao
The 2am Taco Bell tacos just hit you differently. Sometimes great, sometimes not so great. Regards.
Where am I supposed to get that 4th meal now?
My grocery stores used to be open until midnight, now they're open until 9pm. Im also a night owl, I used to do my grocery shopping at like 10pm but no more. "The city that never sleeps" is a joke now.
I believe the businesses just needed a reason to shut their doors early. My grocery store used to close at 2am and now it closes at 11pm in California. They have no intentions of switching back to their old hours of operation.
Not shops but architecture school have really suffer of that. Before covid schools were open 24/24 and it was common to sleep at school to finish a model before a jury. But I started uni at the end of covid and never witnessed that, when masters talk about it it really sound awesome and fun because everybody is tired so they put music and laugh for anything. And the ambiance in school at night must really be something else. Too bad I can't see that and probably never will.
Wal-Mart near my job was closing at 8:30 for a while at the beginning of covid and I get off work at 8,that freaking sucked.
Same thing happened at a shop I worked in. They stopped opening 24/7 purely because there was no pubs or clubs open and theur crowds made the vast majority of sales from 1-6am
You guys had 24-hour supermarkets? In my state we have 24-hour convenience stores and 24-hour highway rest stop plazas but fuck-all else. Closest equivalents are the Walmarts that used to stay open until midnight and now close at 11PM. All of this is because night owls in my state are the minority, not the majority. I cry.
You have supermarkets that are open till midnight? Our supermarkets here close at 8pm.
The car market. Trying to get an affordable vehicle is fucking horrible
Prices of second hand cars are through the roof !
"The cost of everything"
But, more specifically, EVERYTHING.
Coughing in public still feels really uncomfortable
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Not to mention sneezing directly into their hands
Same where I live. I love being trapped in a poorly ventilated office with a bunch of anti-vaxxers who seems to constantly be coughing and I'm the only one wearing a mask. Bonus points for the times I've witnessed some of them just not wash their hands after using the bathroom.
Kinda sad folks had to be reminded to wash their hands… still doesn’t happen sadly.
Yep, I got Covid 4 months ago and I've still got a nasty cough, the phlegm is never ending. Whenever I have to cough in public I get anxious people will think I have it.
I've had phlegm-related coughing fits way before covid was a thing. I'm on medication, but it isn't perfect and I have to excuse myself on occasion to handle it. Covid has made the stigma worse. I understand the apprehension, but it's still awkward.
Yeah this fucking sucks man. I have a deviated septum that I’m waiting to have fixed. My entire life I was lead to believe I had allergies. My doctor obviously sucked. Now I’m waiting for a surgery with an eternal post nasal drip and I clear my throat a lot and feel like a damn menace to society.
It’s pretty frustrating.
Supply chain issues fucking up manufacturing quality and the economy for the foreseeable future.
I know it’s weird as hell working in manufacturing right now. Like we’re in a recession? But our orders up are, our demand is kind of lower…. But we’re 1000 behind…… we’re also short staffed like crazy….. but THERES A RECESSION, also we’re always waiting for supplies to come in I’m used to the stock market crashing and suddenly we’re all laid off
Yup. Huge shortage of truck drivers. Even bigger shortage of employers willing to pay truck drivers a living wage.
Tipping has been normalised for tasks which are mostly self serve and weren’t tipped before.
The whole tipping before service got real weird
Yup, some people, especially Uber Eats (and other similar services) delivery people are getting increasingly entitled with tips. Some of them actually films themselve refuring low-tipping delivery requests or accept, but eathalf burger and spit in the soft drink for TikToks. These people are still the minority, but they are loud enough for people to notice. These people seem to forget that Tip is to be received for good service, not as a way to gauge how good/shitty your service will be.
The request for tipping, I refuse to tip before they mess up my order. Only after, if they fixed it quickly. Messing up my order definitely has been normalized
Tipping before you get your order? If I’m ordering take out I’m not tipping at all
That and delivery fees are exorbitant
I don't like when new industries try to adopt tipping. There's no cultural/industrial basis for them to not just pay their employees the right amount like there is in restaurants, hotels, etc.
For real, like I don’t feel the need to tip for picking up food… or ordering take out… or cafeteria type places where they just drop off food. The expectation to tip 20% is just ridiculous now… too many times something’s been forgotten.
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Non-American here asking an honest question: Why do you keep tipping in those cases? Is it social pressure? Is it common to be called out for not tipping in self-service businesses?
People are afraid of silent judgement. I won’t tip over bullshit like handing me a beer, a black coffee, etc
I don’t really understand it. We’re paying workers more (I get it, still not enough, but they are making more), expected to tip more, paying higher prices on literally everything… but the quality of service/food is absolutely abysmal.
Everybody is short-handed, but nobody is hiring.
They’re hiring, but they ain’t paying
A lot of them really aren't hiring though. They keep "help wanted" signs up so people forgive the slow service, and keep the skeleton crew permanently.
I guess it depends on the area and industry. I can see how that would be true in customer service. I work in automotive and we can’t keep our shop adequately staffed with qualified techs. I have a steady, decent paying job, but I’m always looking for better. I get an interview wherever I apply, but they always flinch at the salary requirement. A little anecdotal, so maybe it’s just what I’ve experienced.
or they say 'were hiring for a bartender' and they actually want a server/barback who will never get put behind the bar.
Try getting hired on Norwegian cruise lines. It's wild what they tried to pull in the earlier 2000's with their us based Hawain cruise lines ships. I means it's fukn wild what they did to usm fun fact the homeless population in Hawaii has a10% population from ex cruise ship employees abandoned by the company and can't afford the flight back to mainland.i got hired out of bartending school as a bartender on the ship. Never once touched a drink
I read once how employers are intentionally only interviewing people and not even hiring the qualified people. Reason being, the less they hire, the costs can stay down and make the whole 'no one wants to work' excuse to justify not giving pay raises.
We have the lowest unemployment rate in decades yet somehow everyone is struggling to find work.
Some are self employed don't count that are dropping out
At least in the USA - unemployment rates are based on the number of people filing for unemployment benefits. If you have 100 people and 20 of them are out of work but only 5 file for, and qualify for benefits, then the "official" unemployment rate would be 5%.
I had a dad and now I don't have a dad.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Happened to me also. My condolences. Hope your’e hanging in there.
I'm sorry you had to deal with this as well. Thank you.
I'm so sorry.
Hotels used to clean your room every day. Now most hotels only clean after the fourth night. First it was under the guise of not exposing workers to COVID, but now it appears to be a money-saving tactic.
A lot of hotels were doing that before the pandemic, because it's wasteful to wash a bunch of stuff every day for no reason.
That would be fine if they didn't charge outrageous prices for the rooms and fees
It's not wasteful, it's sanitary. Those rooms are disgusting.
Stores closing earlier. I remember my local retro game store closing at 11pm on Saturdays. Now they close at 7pm
A coffee shop in my neighborhood is *still* on reduced Covid hours. Before the pandemic they were open 8-4 Monday-Friday and also on Saturdays, but now it’s 8-2 Monday-Friday only. They also only just returned to indoor dining in November 2022.
coming from someone who works in a coffee shop it’s 100% due to understaffing
Yeah,I hate this.
People seem to be WAY more quick to anger. I worked food service pre and post Covid, and the intensity of people’s anger definitely seems ramped up.
Mental health took a heavy hit during Covid. I seldom get super angry while driving for the silliest things and I gotta take a pause to cool down and realize that it is not that big of a deal. I use to not give a F ck about people driving aggressively now I have to actively legislate myself to not become part of that vicious cycle
there was a sweet spot where people were super lind and grateful to the service industry people who were working at places that were still open, and then that hit the fan. now people have zero patience and are extremely tough to deal with in restaurant scenarios. i know we all took a mental health hit but like we are understaffed and i am only human. a little kindness goes a long way.
For real. I work in the public and I remember a week or two where customers were grateful for service, and after the pandemic let up, everyone just doubled down on their rudeness. Like common decency just went right out the window
the rise in anti-social behavior will be studied for years to come I expect
People's nerves are shot. Years of consistent, low level trauma with occasional spikes into sheer panic has destroyed our mental health, collectively. I'm experiencing this perfectly; in college, people called me Buddha because I was so patient. Now I feel like I'm constantly one bad day away from losing it completely.
Taking a proper sick day. “I’m sick so I’ll wfh today” is now standard. We’re a lot better at staying out of the office to prevent infection spread. We’re a lot worse at actually staying home in bed and focussing on rest.
>Taking a proper sick day. “I’m sick so I’ll wfh today” is now standard. I work in a hospital (non-medical) and if I need to take a sick day I need to take a COVID test every day and have to stay out until I'm cleared by employee health. But - on the plus side, most managers are OK with people taking the occasional "mental-health" day (formerly known as a non-sick sick day) which don't need to go through employee health (unless there's a larger issue going on).
Wealth. The value of six figure salaries have been almost in half and good lower wage salaries are now wholly unlivable.
Working as intended.
My income would’ve supported a family 20 years ago and now I can’t even afford to rent a studio. It’s ludicrous
People are way more hostile toward each other
People realized that most people are mean, selfish cunts. They dropped the niceties and became a lot more hostile towards one another.
I don't know, I don't think it made nice people meaner, it made mean people even more brazen.
Almost everyone in my office works from home now. It was really rare before and every 5 years they'd have to move to a bigger office. Then they realized that people got just as much done at home. I've got 2 voice-only online meetings a day ( as a developer, my bosses are online all day) and they are down to the smallest office they've had in 20 years, which they maintain for anyone that wants a day in the office. Interesting that some guys do that 2-3 times per week just to be able to concentrate or get out of the house. Me? I don't even live in the same country anymore. I always hated the office thing. I live in the middle of a jungle on an island somewhere in SE Asia. I always show for my meetings though.
I'm also in it and my company has taken the wfh meeting approach to the extreme. I've had days of 13 meetings booked on my calendar, where the ask in the morning is status on a particular deliverable and then meet meet meet and end of the day another ask on the status of the same deliverable. Sorry Gina, I would like to have developed that low code solution that will take me about 2 hours but I haven't been allowed time to do so.
People's attitude towards work in general
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Damn straight. Especially toxic work cultures that try to dictate your life outside of work, or even worse YOUR APPEARANCE! "Why yes, your resume looks impeccable, but I'm afraid your hair color is blue and you have a tattoo of your son's name on your arm, and therefore are unqualified for this job!"
And it’s great. I can’t wait for all the boomers to retire so corporations can be run by jaded millennials and genXers who don’t see their jobs as their identities.
I'd argue mine has improved since our office moved to hybrid working, I'm more productive at home with no interruptions save for the occasional Teams call and I still get a change of scenery twice a week when we go into the office.
People stopped calling it "corona virus" and started calling it Covid
I remember in like February 2020 someone at work asked if I was sick for some reason and I laughed and said “yeah I have coronavirus” and they asked “oh you’re hungover?” I miss when most people didn’t really know what it was…..
I blame the beer brand.
Stupid Covid beer and their marketing.
Well, coronavirus is a general term for a whole class of viruses. Covid-19 is the specific coronavirus that the pandemic was about.
Almost there.... Covid-19 is the name of the disease and symptoms caused by the virus named SARS-CoV-2.
I am more introverted than ever.
Dread the thought of going out.
It seems manufacturing quality has diminished. I’m in the equipment repair field. Before, parts were pretty reliable. You’d get what you ordered and it would work. Remanufactured parts would work as good as new with 99% consistency. After, it’s hit or miss. New equipment comes in missing parts and pieces with a note pretty much saying “oops, sorry, we’ll send you that piece eventually”. You order a certain assembly and get it missing parts and pieces. You might or might not get what you ordered. Remanufactured parts seem to last 3 or 4 days (if they even make it that far) about 40% of the time. It’s pretty frustrating.
I work in Auto repair and have seen the same thing. Frustrating when you install a part and it fails or doesn't fit properly. Nothing like doing the job more than once and not getting paid full labor.
Yes indeed. I feel for you flat rate guys, in heavy equipment hourly is pretty much the industry standard.
I'm a guitar tech and I am seeing the same thing in guitar manufacturing. Lots of quality control issues the past couple of years.
I don't even work in the field but I work on my own cars for fun. The amount of straight up wrong or broken parts I get now is insane. Never used to be this way, but it feels like half the time they send me the wrong part or it's absolute garbage. Quality control doesn't exist at all anymore.
I wonder if this is because of a lack of inspections / QA on the production side? Everyone was / is cutting costs left and right and this could be a rather opaque way of cutting costs.
During the pandemic supply chains were so broken you were happy to get anything, even if missing parts or poor quality. Suppliers saw this and it became standard practice as it was cheaper.
I work for an electronics manufacturer. We've had to redesign almost all of our products to keep producing them because of part shortages. Unfortunately doing this constantly opens up the chance that some change reduces reliability. Good testing is important but it's hard to accurately simulate years of field use when you have to make a change for next month's production run.
Teleconferencing has been normalized for things it never was before. This can be seen as good or bad, depending on your perspective. For my severely handicapped sister, one really good aspect of it is being able to meet with her therapist remotely. It was a huge pain for her and my family to get her to/from his office prior to covid, and now she loves meeting with him on zoom.
It's been quite liberating in my field - a trip to see a single client would wipe out my entire workday and leave me playing catch up for at least a week. Now we do a 40 minute Teams call and I can get on with my stuff as soon as we hang up. Remote training is also a blessing, I have ADHD and need to fidget with something to force my brain to pay attention and it's easier to do that on camera when nobody can see my hands lol.
Telehealth has gotten huge since COVID. There are medical companies that just do that. We have carts that a tele-neurologist can call into and diagnose stroke (etc.) patients. .. when they work they're great but I've gotten way too many calls from our ED because theirs's doesn't work - and it's kinda important there.
Friendships
I feel like not as many restaurants would offer takeout if it wasn't for covid
I have family I no longer talk to. Some of them, because they are dead.
Oh shit, that got dark pretty fast. Sorry for you loss.
Thank you!
I can now order margaritas through the drive through.
New Orleanians: *"First time?"*
Real human connection. We’re still out and about but it just feels…off. Like we’re all so much more isolated in ourselves now. I hope it gets back to different.
Feel this hard. Things are just… off. Hard to describe really, and I think it’s a lot of causes. Political divisions, further collapse of community and the atomization of the individual, algorithms turning our brains to mush. Bad business going on right now for sure.
Personally, I feel finance plays a big role. When my parents were my age, they had a house in a neighborhood with similarly minded people, many of a similar age, starting families and doing things together. It's tough for people to organize that way with the housing market now *so* bad after 2020. Most sub-40(?) people I know seem to have trouble establishing a community and just live where they can afford.
COVID killed the little hope I had left in humanity.
The biggest ones I’ve noticed is the change to the workforce, the lack of 24 hour stores, and those parking spots for pick up orders that are now at every restaurant and retail store.
Since 2020 almost everything has changed, i absolutely weaned from the school and adequate studying, also i live in ukraine and there is a war for almost 1.5 years, so every day we have air alarms and we can't study normally because of them. I miss the old education, my classmates and calmness:(((
Copper prices went up and never went back down.
My son-in-law is a master electrician - he'd agree 100%. The cost of a lot of his supplies have over tripled since 2020.
Lumber prices skyrocketed, and they eventually came back down to where they were before. Wire prices tripled and...stayed there.
Well, there are a lot more stupid people than anyone would have believed possible.
I feel like people are more lonely, strangers talk to me multiple times a day - pre COVID this happened like two times a week.. also people seem to be less happy and more scared
Making friends at the pub is harder. Used to be, you went to the pub on a Saturday night and make 5+ friends. Now, you go and nobody will talk to anyone outside their little group. At least, that's how it is where I live. Kind of sad, really. Mateship is dead.
E-commerce is now the standard. Worked in retail; prior to lock downs we had in store shoppers with occasional online orders/returns. After opening back up, nothing but online returns
Bigfoot. Don't really hear about him anymore.
In the general public, drivers seem more aggressive and impatient. Public establishments mostly seem to be chronically short of help. The cost of food has risen quite a bit. Social niceties seem to have diminished.
I think the more often you drove during the pandemic, the more likely you are to be pissed driving now. At least in my state, it was cool to see the roads functioning at the capacities they were designed for instead of near constant bumper to bumper.
Empathy for others.
My waist line
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My belief that people could unite over a shared cause.
We have this romantic idea that during WW2 the World came together against a common foe and everyone was on the same page. I asked the older members of my family who lived through it and they said plenty of people acted like selfish brats during that time too. Make sense really, otherwise ARP wardens wouldn't have been needed. Human nature is to reject sudden change.
Proletariat consent for the ruling class.
We saw our neighbor's true colors. And what we saw sucked, and now everyone is more insular and isolated because they lost significant levels of trust they had in their fellow man. And it was already probably pretty damn low, if they were paying any attention to begin with. Corona Virus just put it up in our faces ...Like unavoidably so. We're living in a total nightmare with no end in sight, and it is only going to get worse. The seeds of hatred have been planted thoroughly in our psyche... Barring a total miracle or weird change of luck, we're on the verge some of the darkest days this nation has ever known.
Hard agree. There was always an image of people coming together in a crisis. The pandemic showed us how many people out there have a fuck you mentality, unwilling to suffer the smallest inconvenience to help out their fellow man. I'm an overweight, out of shape smoker who had to wear a mask for my 8 hours in retail. I had no problem breathing. But there were those who threw a toddler sized tantrum because they were asked to mask up for 10 minutes.
I have friends with *heavy* Asthma, and they didn't mind wearing a mask for work. However, Karen and Darren who are in perfect health suffocate if they wear the mask more than 3 seconds.
My mental health
Faith in my fellow man.
Zoom meetings at work normalized
A lot of places stuck to their "covid days" protocols that make a whole lot harder. For example, no walk in appointments for a lot of things like passport renewals, etc. And instead using a crappy website or a call center that throws you at the end of a never ending queue.
My respect for local health officials. The amount of times they said trust the science and then ignored all new information was baffling.
the amount of take out and mask trash. RIP mother earth.
My students are full-on Lord of the Flies now. All the kids are badly behind in academics but in social behaviors its even worse. I teach middle school and we're starting to adapt elementary school techniques because these kids never learned how to be students. They all talk a lot of shit and act confident around each other but they're all so fragile and don't know how to manage their friendships whatsoever
everything, except the evil of humanity.
Nah that changed too ...it got darker.
The weird online echo chambers that most of the world have found themselves in.
You mean reddit?
Traffic was great during.. Sadly, back to normal.
Doesn't seem like much...I guess the hospitals here require masks all the time now.
Actually hospitals are dropping mask mandates now for the most part. I work in a hospital and we only got the ability to stop wearing them about a week ago.
You have to ask for condiments at restaurants more than before instead of them having packs of them at a stand or on a table. I don't know if this is because of the virus,but this became more common once they reopened after covid.
A lot of businesses are still using Covid as an excuse for reduced service. A grocery store in my neighborhood is still not accepting empty bottles, with a sign up saying it’s because of “the pandemic”. I call BS.
I don't breathe very well anymore
People. I thought people lost their minds before, but at least had some common sense. Post Corona: hold my beer.
kids can't behave in school
My taste buds. There are foods that don’t taste the same anymore.
We went completely back to normal in Switzerland. It's like nothing ever happened.
The US dollar was worth less
It’s not quite an answer to this question but I’m so full of gratitude that the world is at a stage where we can ask this question and the answer not be ‘dude, we’re still living it!’ It honestly felt like the end would never come, the world as we knew it was literally paused and just.. isn’t it crazy we lived through that? As an avid traveller I lost the last two years of my 20s for adventures but when I look at the people who lost so much more.. what a wild and depressing few years.
I hate to say it, but students have a totally different perception of how much effort they should put in and what an acceptable reason for late work can be
My relationship. It ended.
Every larger grocery store in my area has cut nearly all cashiers. There’s one manned cashier line and a huge line at self checkout at 6pm on a Friday. I hate it. Some days there are no cashier lanes open, and I have to self check a cart full of food. HATE IT.
its more common to order at resturants via QR code rather than a waiter coming up
Said it today- at least in NYS they made to-go alcoholic drinks legal and permitted and it’s splendid
Im far less social
Science has some how become politically subjective and ideologically hijacked. We no longer have a relative truth to map our collective reality. It has divided the space for complicated nuanced discussion in a way that may never be repaired.
Manners
I never liked people standing super close to me in lines. Now I hate it.
No more all you can eat sushi, Chinese food buffets or combo pizza at Costco 😫
Chinese now costs around $35 every time I eat, it's super expensive.
people are way more anti social
The political divide was worsened. Anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, etc., went around and shat all over everything and deteriorated the relationships everyone had.
Education as a whole, alot of ppl ik grades have gotten fucked by online school especially the young ones
I think it's the opposite. Every teacher I know did everything possible to keep students on grade level. Students that did nothing and admin who passed everyone sealed the deal. Students have no consequences for failing or their actions. Parents did not step up and parent, Tik Tok and Instagram filled the void. Education was screwed before covid and a 10-15 year decline got accelerated to a 2-5 year decline. Teachers are done, even in decent paying states. I know teachers who are trying to get deployed and some are having kids just to get out of teaching for a year. First year teachers are already saying fuck this and getting out while veteran teachers are retiring early and taking a huge hit on their pensions. I know teachers who left urban districts with metal detectors and they are quitting their new suburban schools because they thought it would be better and it's not. So yea, Covid fucked education but it was the lack of accountability that fucked an already declining public institution.
Modelo became really popular.
My taste in food. So many foods don’t taste the same.
Kids don’t know how to make friends or socialize and now they’re miserable
More flexibility when it comes to when/how/where we work.
One I've noticed is that people are just more selfish and quick to judge you for no reason. I always wanted to stay at-home pre covid and after mandates and everything, leaving the house for something other than work makes me hate people even more than ever before.
How long you have to wait to get a tow, and how long it takes to get your car in a body shop. I will never go without a damn blanket in the car EVER again.
Lot more anger. People don't talk to new people anymore because it inevitably gets back to corona, which brings up politics and where people stand on THAT issue and conversations quickly devolve into screaming matches or silently fuming. Has become much easier to just ostracize yourself.
I feel like people are more socially anxious, emotionally closed off, and hesitant towards connection, but still yearn for intimacy more than ever
I feel people in general mistrust each other more now, it has caused our nation to be more politicized than ever.
I no longer have a mum :-(
The entire world changed for me. Idk, its like this impending feeling of doom at all times but nothings happened yet you know? Things have just felt strange since the start of it all, like everyone is out of touch. I often think back to how different everything was before and i miss it. The world is just different in general because of it. I wonder if people experienced the same thing I’m going through now during the Spanish Flu. Very unique circumstances.
I feel like covid changed the way we see people from the opposite political party. Republicans and democrats have obviously always had their differences but I didn’t feel like we hated each other. I feel like the pandemic divided us into two distinct groups that HATE each other now. Now there are 2 completely different group who disagree on almost everything for no other reason than we have different political view points. Neither side is willing to compromise or work with the other. In the past we may have been from different political parties but we didn’t hate each other for those differences.
I’m one of the few who has managed to completely avoid covid the past 3 years. I did it by hardly leaving my house. Now my agoraphobia (that I hadn’t dealt with since my early 20’s) is back and anytime I try to leave the house to go shopping or visit friends/family I can’t make it more than 30-45min before horrible panic attacks start to the point where I’m physically ill and I can’t get back home fast enough. I know that the fears are irrational and that I’m ok but just cant get a grip on the panic or the nausea and vomiting that comes with it.
Hospitals are still broken.
Cant stand people anymore
Camping at campgrounds. At the beginning of the pandemic a bunch of people rushed out and bought RVs and tents and camping gear, which is great! Welcome to a super fun hobby. But many of them didn't bother to educate themselves on the importance of being a good camping neighbor or a good steward of the land. They leave trash everywhere, leave their lights blazing all night, try to harass the wildlife, leave out things that can harm the wildlife. If you're coming to experience nature, please be a responsible part of it.
Basic human decency