I have zero faith in humanity...

[AngelOfBlueRoses]

Come on, Escapist. I thought we grew up past this whole "I have zero faith in humanity" phase.

You know, over the years The Escapist has matured like a teenager. First, we got into gaming at 13 (the pretend age I'm making up for the Escapist since it was launched in 2005 and it's now on its sixth year) and it was so hardcore and we constantly discussed it while slowly branching out to other things. We discovered anime and other cool things like that. We were happy and blissful, not really too far along in our puberty. Then, two years later puberty fully hit us. We got bullied in high school. We decided that we had no faith in humanity and that everyone was assholes. We got over it a bit later and focused back on our gaming and our discussions while occasionally laughing about some stupid girly book like Twilight.

Then, we hit that phase again and oh boy did this one suck, but we pulled through and we were a fully-fledged eighteen year old and became an "art hipster" for a while where we constantly discuss the artistic merits of our medium, but even that passed after a while and then at the age of nineteen (this year), we found out what the hell ponies were and were like "OMFG NO WAI THIS AWESOME" like a lot of other nineteen year olds.

...That made more sense in my head and sounded cooler there.

 

[Jeronus]

why are people ass holes

they can't stand you pointing out that they are ass holes
case and point the first few replies

by the way him not properly paying for that drink is stealing and you should call him on it or ban him from returning

also a lot of stupid people who have replied that missed the:
there's too many reasons to list but here's a recent example
thing

read his/her whole post before replying idiots

I read his whole post and I agree with the first few replies. I know he said he had other reasons but the one he decided to mention about a guy who didn't want to pay for a drink. If that is the big one that pushed him over the edge, it makes the other reasons look weak by comparison. There are situations where one could lose faith in humanity and be taken completely serious. "Some guy took off with out a soda" is not one of them. If he has any better reasons, he should have stated them but he didn't so we have to assume this is the best one he had.

 

[GoddyofAus]

...for many reasons!

It would take forever to go over all of them, so...I'll just give an example of what happened at work the other day. There was a guy who ordered a large soda, so, I gave it to him. Then after drinking part of it, he asks how much it is, despite there being a GIANT menu sign behind the counter, and so I tell him, and he says "Nah, that's too much."

So...he dug through the tip jar for the cash, handed it to me, then left. I was so stunned that I didn't even say anything...and he didn't even give me enough to pay for the thing. (Sales tax...)

Why are people such assholes?

You should consider yourself lucky. At least there aren't assholes in your country who would stone you to death for Adultery.

 

[Therumancer]

...for many reasons!

It would take forever to go over all of them, so...I'll just give an example of what happened at work the other day. There was a guy who ordered a large soda, so, I gave it to him. Then after drinking part of it, he asks how much it is, despite there being a GIANT menu sign behind the counter, and so I tell him, and he says "Nah, that's too much."

So...he dug through the tip jar for the cash, handed it to me, then left. I was so stunned that I didn't even say anything...and he didn't even give me enough to pay for the thing. (Sales tax...)

Why are people such assholes?

Well, I have more faith in humanity than you do, but to address this situation this is probably your fault. In general when working at fast food places, it's common sense to not hand over the food until you've been paid, specifically for this reason. A petty thing, but if I was your manager I probably would have chewed you out for that. Indoors it's less of a problem, but especially at drive thrus there is a problem with people handing over the food first and having the guys drive away before they pay.

Ideally you probably should have gone outside and gotten his liscence plate number, and then called the police. Granted he only committed a misdemenor, but the police are probably going to talk to him, and get you the money.

All told what you did was a pretty common mistake, and hopefully you learned from it. I've dealt with things like that before when I worked casino security (dealing with the food courts and such), not common, but in such cases security dispatch would get a call, I'd get radioed with a description, and me and a few other blazers would go have a word with the guy. Typically followed by telling off the empolyee about being more careful, before (or after) the manager tells him the same thing.

Nothing earth shattering, just be more careful, the suckiest part of it is that the guy got away with it.

 

[carpathic]

I have always found that outright misanthropy is really an expression of self-hatred rather than hatred of others.

We are all far more alike than we are different. I try to keep this in mind when I am having bad days like you appear to be experiencing.

 

[airrazor7]

Why did you give the idiot customer a product without making him pay for it first? In some other jobs you would've been disciplined and the price of the product deducted from your paycheck.

 

[Bocaj2000]

If you loose faith in humanity because of shitty people, then you need to grow up. There is always going to be cancer, but you have to see past that.

Do you have no faith in your friends?
Do you have no faith in yourself?

If the answer to those questions is "no," then what the fuck are you doing not liking the two things you can choose to change?

Humanity as a whole learns and unlearns behaviors and can change at any point in time if the individual honestly chooses to. It is one of our traits.

With that said, humans are also naturally greedy, just like any other animal. This is why resisting corruption and sacrifice are very honorable things to do. However, this is also why the OP experienced what he did. But the OP made a major fuck up by GIVING HIM THE SODA BEFORE HE PAYED FOR IT, which is stupid and nieve on his part. Live, learn, and grow out of this "I've given up on humanity" bullshit.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

SNIP

i personally agree completely. everyone can be an asshole at some point in their life, there are different levels of assholism, but yes, people are assholes.

also, it sucks you were at work and couldnt technically do anything about it, other than tell the manager. shame you couldnt just shove the money down his throat and make him choke on it, little shithead.

 

[guntotingtomcat]

All that is required for evil men to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Perhaps if you had called him out, in front of the whole place, threatened the police on him, universal order would have been restored.

 

[DRSH1989]

Good thing that everyone on the Escapist is alien. I'm a turian you kno'. I hate humans too.

 

[Veekter]

I completely agree with OP, my father works in the service industry and has to deal with similarly terrible things on a daily basis, so you are not alone.

 

[MrLlamaLlama]

That guy's losing HIS faith in humanity... over the price of your soda. Gotta look at this stuff from all angles.

 

[Darknacht]

Your probem is that you work in fast food.

 

[probunk]

>Whine, whine, whine
>BAAAAAW, someone was mean to me
>Cry

>Humans r evil
>Am I cool now?

 

[JoJo]

I have always found that outright misanthropy is really an expression of self-hatred rather than hatred of others.

We are all far more alike than we are different. I try to keep this in mind when I am having bad days like you appear to be experiencing.

That's true, I'd also add that misantropy often seems to be based on some sort of superiority complex where the misantrophe believes him/herself and their friends to be superior to the common "asshole" human.

 

[Amphoteric]

Humanity is no better or worse than any other clump of molecules.

 

[Moromillas]

Welcome to my world. Would you like some tea and biscuits?