Why do businesses allow their employees to chew gum? [View All]

[Rabrrrrrr]

It's like a goddamn epidemic nowadays. Can't go anywhere without having to listen to some fucking cow ignorant sales clerk chomping away.

And what the hell happened with teaching sales clerks to say "Yes" instead of "yeah", and "Would you like?" instead of "Do you want?" and looking customers in the eyes when speaking to them?

Thank God - again - that I worked in a retail store that respected our customers enough that if any employee was chewing gum, they'd be written up, and a couple write-ups, they were gone. It was also a place that respected our customers enough that male employees that didn't shave were sent home to shave, so they looked decent. We were taught that when someone asked us where something is, no matter what we were doing we were to take them there or, in case were checkers who couldn't leave our station, we CALLED SOMEONE OVER to escort the customer to the place where the item was, not just point vaguely in a broad sweeping arc covering half the store, and leaving the customer to wonder just which few arcseconds of that arm motion the sales clerk actually meant. And once we were there with the customer, we HELPED them sort through all the possibilities, if they needed it, and even took it off the shelf for them just to be nice. Becuase they are, you know, A CUSTOMER.

And dammit, we wore shirts and ties. And the women dressed decent, too.

And that was just a fucking grocery store.

But man, would employees get ripped a new asshole if they were caught with gum in their mouth. And rightly so. It has to be one of the rudest things a person can do to a customer.

And it's not just sales clerks; it's people working the phones, too! And those in customer service, who need to talk to customers.

People - you CANNOT talk adequately with gum, or anything else, in your mouth. You might THINK you can, but you can't.