[Syd Thrift]

I mean, maybe the fact that you’re expecting developers to treat you the same as WalMart greeters is the issue… not to mention, people tend to be massive jerks to people who work in customer service. It’s my experience as someone who used to do that that there’s a contingent of folks who think that you’re flat out less than them because you work a service job, and from that do things specifically designed to demean you. I remember working at a fast food place when I was young where this jackass got mad at us for some reason and just started dropping food on the floor as he walked through the restaurant. And man, don’t get me started on the people who want to return crap they clearly bought somewhere else or several years ago and who don’t have a receipt and then who yell when the price we look up for their 1988 era fax machine is one dollar…

Anyway, it’s bad that people treat WalMart employees this way. It’s hilarious that y’all think you’re going to get the same reception by treating people whose job isn’t to cater to your whims the same way - and I mean worse case scenario, if you actually did hound these people out of their jobs (which, let’s be truthful, you’re not going to make these folks cry like they’re a WalMart greeter; probably they’re just laughing at you), they’d just move on to the hundreds of well paying jobs available to software developers.

You catch more flies with honey than salt. You probably catch even more by not being a Karen.