u/AtlasJFTC

With all the hate in the world at the moment, especially targeted at us, I think it might help everyone to hear some of the good things trans people have experienced lately, and maybe someone will be inspired to do a little more good.

I just got a new job and as soon as I asked for my preferred pronouns and name to be used, the manager and staff started using them. No problems, no complaints, and no transphobia.

I used to be a barista, and I’d occasionally be on the other end of this. A customer ordering an Americano but not calling it that, and when we tell them that’s what it was, they insist it’s not. But in this case I asked for an iced flavored Americano with some cream. I was told I was ordering an iced latte… no? I didn’t ask for a full cup of cream, just a bit. If she thought I was trying to skirt the price of a latte, she was incorrect, and I just received a very watery americano… I should have asked for extra ice :/

I feel like sometimes we get a little too into our own perspective on what is correct, what customers should know, and how people should act when sometimes it’s just a miscommunication or a different shop has different ways of doing things. If something is consistently annoying you among different customer interactions, maybe consider why they are acting that way (ordering at the counter instead of the register, skipping the line to ask for water, or not reading the menu) and how it could be fixed (more clear flow of how the counter is set up, providing a self serve water station, or less business to distract the eye from where the menu is).

Obviously this doesn’t apply to intentionally rude customers, or complete idiots (I still remember when a customer asked if a sticker was her cookie???) and not every barista has the ability to change things about their store layout or processes, but think about why people act the way they do and you may be a little less frustrated dealing with them.

I’m curious if anyone else has examples of ways their shops could be better set up to inconvenience the staff less, or ways you act like a customer you used to dislike.

I’m incredibly frustrated at the credit score system in general, and now I have to deal with a non existent delinquent bill. I had a score over 700 that is now 538 because of a bill that is listed as overdue. This bill is 90 days over, despite being from my apartment complex which I just started renting from last month, and the bill is listed everywhere as $0??? How the hell do I handle this? I emailed the apartment’s leasing agent and submitted a request to have it removed through TransUnion, where I initially saw it. I won’t receive a response until at least tomorrow so is there anything else I could do? I need this fixed sooner rather than later because I was planning to buy a car soon.