Most people know that in my last job I was a Customer Service Manager. But I was a CS Manager in the entertainment industry. While there were times that the complaints that were valid and needed to be addressed, most of the things I handled were people not being happy with their entertainment choices (as if I had any control over whether or not they will enjoy a show) even when they did not do their homework to find out what they were going to see.
Well the most entertaining complaints that came in were usually complaints that were pretty biased in nature (not wanting to deal with homosexual themes or race, or sex period), but the people complaining were very careful to never say anything that was blatantly bigoted. Instead they blamed their feelings on the way the themes were presented. And the complaints always started like this, "I'm not a racist, but . . ." "I'm not homophobic, but . . ." "I'm not a prude, but . . ." And I always found this entertaining.
Well I was in the nail salon waiting to get a manicure and pedicure. I was a walk-in so I expected to have to wait. After waiting for about half an hour, I was called to a station. About 10 minutes into my pedicure an older (Jewish) woman, who obviously has a lot of money based on all the real jewels she was wearing and the authentic Birkin bag on her arm, comes into the salon. She spoke to the owner and then got loud. She was 30 minutes late for her appointment and did not understand why they gave her appointment to me. When they told her she would have to wait another 15 minutes to be seen, she came over and told me that lazy black people are always stealing from her and that's why she hates black people and then followed it with "or spanish, or Haitian or whatever you are". I just laughed.
What I took from this experience, comparing it to the ones I had in Cali of the same nature is that people in California are not nicer than people in New York, they just pretend to be. Maybe its all that Hollywood influenced political correctness.
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