roger halde
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so they got rid of the riff raff outside, what about the ones inside the store?
having seen me regularly making high-dollar, low quantity purchases, i was treated like a criminal, asking me to wait at the counter when i requested to get hot water for my blueberry celestial tea, which i normally get, sometimes with said purchase.
over this request, i replied, "for acting like you have such strict standards about this place, why does the outside look like garbage?" -then the necessary, overcompensating reaction: the employees' (tall-ish black woman) standards seeme to be consistent with the dilapidation and "early abandoned" architecture style i was referring to; and i was verbally attacked and harassed by some street person making a purchase, who claimed to be a former employee (short white woman with an outdated hair style and talks too much) ..in a medieval act of heroism, she broke the arrow off her dying horse and charged me with it, little teeth blazing and all (or what was left of them).
after waiting an unusually long time for the clearly poorly skilled, employee to complete the customer's economy purchase of a single swisher sweet cigar no doubt to strip it of resources and alter its use just before her own mentality, the employee then traipsed over to the samovar, and in an arthirtic wrist move, pushed down the hot water lever and took a financial hit off her books for the eight ounces of hot water i was given and the 8.5 minutes it took her to complete (it was a 20-second task that required no skill, or professional assistance) -OH WAIT: she doesn't even own the store and gets paid hourly, so it didn't even effect her rickety scaffolding of a financial standing. she handled the whole situation so poorly, that the store would have actually made money giving me free hot water, had i done it myself, instead opting for ten times the cost because i couldn't be trusted aound empty paper cup dispensers, and 75 cents of bean water. -maybe she was protecting the free sugar packets 🤔
the entire time i was there, that street person verbally harassed me while the employee said and did nothing to discourage her, which got progressively worse and borderline violent, until i left.
〔 i won't mention the time they sent someone to check on me for stealing, with the subtlety of an andrew dice joke, while i was looking at starbucks drinks, -you know, the section where thieves don't meander aaaall the way back to? (crazy, 'cause i mentioned it, isn't it?) 〕
there are eight other 7-elevens in this neighborhood, for anyone to have to tolerate this sort of treatment.
come here with no expectations, you won't be disappointed -product, service, architectural, clientele, or otherwise. i shop here much less often. -in a constipated pinch-off situation, i will.