Ben ToddBecause nothing gives customers a better warm fuzzy felling in their belly than knowing the servers friendliness is ingenuous and they've been forced to do it.
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Was at a Starbucks recently (yeah, I know) and after the barista had what seemed like an authentic, human interaction with a customer, the manager walked by her and said "nice connect!" like the whole thing was a sport and the employee just scored a point.
Had the sense that SBUX and pick up artists were using the same vile playbook. 🤢
The Penguin of Evil@pinkpolonium @monkeyben @Cyberoutsider @pluralistic IMHO Most corporations it is, even if the people are doing it because it's a taught skill.
Spending a lot of time in an autistic household it's very recognizable because it's the same "now perform procedure interact meaninglessly with a neurotypical" that a lot of autistic people are quite conscious of performing whilst trying to avoid answering a comment about the weather with an info-dump on the current forecast