And much as i loved the suggestion about fertilzer aspiring to cat food, yea the sad truth is they're cowed into plus selling. i mean, think about it. the utter shame and humiliation of being FIRED from a minimum wage retail or food service job... i remember when the Amocos started turning into BPs. (Wasn't all that long ago really). Remember? all shiny bright and new, with lots of lights, clever use of color, doors that are honored to open before you and pleased to close behind you, satisfied in a job well-done? the well-trained goon-squad behind the counter plus-selling the shit out of everything with the thinly-veiled-behind-a-chipper-smile look of abject terror on their shiny scrubbed faces ?
creeped me out so bad i avoided BP for a good year or 2 till the hype finally died down and they started acting like a gas station again..
as for beeping (BPing? ;-) ) gas pumps...annoying. the programmer needs a good thwack upon the forehead with a coiled-up middle finger. but it's mere mechanical repetition. not insiduouscorporate brainwashing.
OY!
absolutively the plus selling BULLDADA
And much as i loved the suggestion about fertilzer aspiring to cat food, yea the sad truth is they're cowed into plus selling. i mean, think about it. the utter shame and humiliation of being FIRED from a minimum wage retail or food service job... i remember when the Amocos started turning into BPs. (Wasn't all that long ago really). Remember? all shiny bright and new, with lots of lights, clever use of color, doors that are honored to open before you and pleased to close behind you, satisfied in a job well-done? the well-trained goon-squad behind the counter plus-selling the shit out of everything with the thinly-veiled-behind-a-chipper-smile look of abject terror on their shiny scrubbed faces ?
creeped me out so bad i avoided BP for a good year or 2 till the hype finally died down and they started acting like a gas station again..
as for beeping (BPing? ;-) ) gas pumps...annoying. the programmer needs a good thwack upon the forehead with a coiled-up middle finger. but it's mere mechanical repetition. not insiduouscorporate brainwashing.