“The Pains and Struggles of Working in Retail”: 95 Related Posts from the “Retail Issues” Instagram Account (New Photos)

So if so many people work in retail, why are the jobs so terrible? It means that you don’t respect.Kate Morgan wrote an article BBC In 2022, investigating why customers attack service workers so often, two possible reasons she came up with were the “scapegoat theory” and power dynamics. Her Reena B Patel, a San Diego-based psychologist and behavior analyst, told the BBC:

“People may not realize they are stressed,” Patel explains. “But internally, that’s what happens. You walk into a restaurant for breakfast thinking you can be seated in 15 minutes, and you’re waiting 45 minutes. Now your whole routine has changed and you’re stressed.” And when customers are looking for a scapegoat for all that anxiety, they’re likely to blame the next person they come in contact with, often a service worker.