I recently started working at a gas station/convenience store combo and there’s a couple homeless people that use the forest behind it as their current living space.
Every so often one of the cashiers gets frantic about maybe seeing one of them pocket something. She almost sounds giddy about being allowed to kick them out.
I have yet to see them steal anything, and even if I did, no the fuck I did not.
I don’t understand why anyone would be happy about calling cops on homeless people.
They find them scary because they’re unknown to them, so they want to create distance from them. And they might not think of cops as violence (they extremely are) and are just focused on the benefit to them (keep the scary people away). That, or they like inflicting violence through proxies (that is very anti-social behavior, so we can assume that’s unlikely, especially at a gas station (better suited to wall street, those types))
The actual cure to that fear is, of course, to talk to and treat those you fear like humans cause *gasp they are! That fixes your irrational fear and makes the world a better place for everyone. Plus, people are less likely to harass someone who’s been friendly to them (unless the aforementioned anti-social, but again, wall street or sales positions)
I recently started working at a gas station/convenience store combo and there’s a couple homeless people that use the forest behind it as their current living space.
Every so often one of the cashiers gets frantic about maybe seeing one of them pocket something. She almost sounds giddy about being allowed to kick them out.
I have yet to see them steal anything, and even if I did, no the fuck I did not.
I don’t understand why anyone would be happy about calling cops on homeless people.
For stealing shit the employee has absolutely no association or financial connection with. Let them steal, who gives a fuck
They find them scary because they’re unknown to them, so they want to create distance from them. And they might not think of cops as violence (they extremely are) and are just focused on the benefit to them (keep the scary people away). That, or they like inflicting violence through proxies (that is very anti-social behavior, so we can assume that’s unlikely, especially at a gas station (better suited to wall street, those types))
The actual cure to that fear is, of course, to talk to and treat those you fear like humans cause *gasp they are! That fixes your irrational fear and makes the world a better place for everyone. Plus, people are less likely to harass someone who’s been friendly to them (unless the aforementioned anti-social, but again, wall street or sales positions)