Retail Rules for Dealing with Fae

Work in retail long enough, and you’ll eventually realize the rules for dealing with Customers are exactly the same as for dealing with the Fae: - Avoid eye contact. - Never reveal your full name. - Accept nothing They offer to you. - Never verbally agree or disagree with anything They might happen to say. - To apologize is to acknowledge a debt owed. - Under no circumstances are you ever to thank Them. - Remember that They are incapable of reading signs in human languages.

A screenshot of a social media text post compares working in retail with dealing with the Fae, listing ominous rules such as avoiding eye contact, never revealing your full name, and refusing to thank Them. The joke treats difficult customers like supernatural faerie beings governed by dangerous folklore rules, making it a reaction to absurd or exhausting retail encounters.

• @eternalclassic / 43481 2023-12-17