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Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate by oramit on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:04PM (#27896333)
I think there has been a general rise in selfish behavior now that pandemic restrictions are being lifted. You have people who never took the pandemic seriously and now that things are back open, but are not the same, they are lashing out. That's one part of this.

I also think you have another camp, which I'll admit to being a member of. I did everything I was supposed to do. I stayed at home, used masks everywhere, took no trips, and had very few social engagements for more than a year - and it sucked. Now that things are open all I want to do is go out. Even though I know that I should lower my expectations, I can't help emotionally but feel entitled to having a good time now.

The thought rolling around my head is: I did everything that was asked of me for a year and a half, I deserve to have fun now.

As I write that I know intellectually how self-centered, selfish, and delusion it is but I feel it intensely.

Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate by motohagiography on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:16PM (#27897944)
After a year of piety, it's possibly just "moral licensing." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing)

I can't remember the other term, but there is a related concept where we do things like separate our recycling, then fly private. Someone with a job helping other people becomes an abusive disaster at home. Or the classic relationship anti-pattern of partner who "does things for you, and now you owe them," (covert contract?) It's related to indulgences and self-licensing, and there is a calculation where we decide our past or even current good behaviour justifies poor behaviour now because we have an imaginary idea that we are somehow bargaining with the universe and it owes us something. (It doesn't care.) It's not the universe, it's your mother, and people are rude because they are caught in a psychological feedback loop of expectation, shame, and rage.

For years I thought it was economically broken that even restaurant and café jobs required a college degree, but now I don't understand how anyone without a psychology degree could be equipped to work with the public. We are hell.

Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate by i_love_music on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:38PM (#27898252)
I really appreciate the honesty in your comment. I can relate to it closely and have had the same thought.
Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate by vmception on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:39PM (#27899722)
I suggested the bold idea of going to the movies this Friday, in theatres

And my friend replied “I don’t think theaters are a problem after the orgies”

From my experience over the last several months hosting parties in reopened areas, people are open to anything. Even people that would be considered squares are taking the opportunity to live it up alongside the wild vagabonds

I’ve never seen anything like it

Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate by oliv__ on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:38PM (#27898976)
As I write that I know intellectually how self-centered, selfish, and delusion it is but I feel it intensely.

Almost as if there was some kind of flaw in the initial premise...

Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate by oramit on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:10PM (#27899393)
Care to share the flaw instead of being vague?