To ask for things that you believe have declined in quality

I actually don't mind acrylic jumpers, as wool makes me itch.
I do have a pure wool cardi, but is has a wide and low boat/scoop neck so over a tee-shirt it doesn't touch my skin. It is fabulously warm! So wool is much better for warmth if you can wear it.

What I hate is the blouses, tops, and tee-shirts all being artificial. So often I have liked the look of a blouse on the rack, gone to touch it and recoiled at how horrible it feels.
I only wear cotton next to skin, or sometimes bamboo, or for shirts a poly-cotton mix. Getting so hard to find something of acceptable thickness.

Clothes
Eating out
Dating
Business class travel

Cake and scones - the number of places selling good quality freshly baked cake and scones is now minuscule.

’Wool’ jumpers - they’re all horrible acrylic!

New buildings - some of them are falling apart after a few years.

Public transport
never been exceptionally luxury but usually was clean and quiet enough
now usually filthy, extortionately priced, full of people (of all ages) scrolling tiktok loudly or playing music/ FaceTime at full volume
its unbearable

I actually didn’t mention a smile originally I said I wanted no eye rolling. Is not rolling your eyes emotional labour??

It’s unreasonable to ask for adjustments due to allergies and intolerances?

Sorry you have such low standards in your life.

I also worked in shops and restaurants as a student and even when having a bad day my manners dictated that I wanted to be polite to people

No Wonder there’s a problem with the work ethic of young people when they’re told saying please and acquiescing to a food allergy so “emotional labour”

Ha-ha. No, they've always been shite, it's just that there are fewer places for them ( and their poor behaviour) to hide.

Oh yes Deodrant is getting worse

Or maybe I’m just a smelly bastard 🤣

This thread reminds me of these guys

“Emotional labour”? Are you having a laugh? Saying please and thank you, and smiling At the customer isn’t exactly a big ask, part of the job description surely? I think saying that being pleasant to a customer is too much to ask, or “pandering to superiority” just about sums up perfectly why most interactions are shit now.

And yes, I did work in a shop when I was younger so yes, I do know that a lot of customers can be horrible. But I also know that, like most things in life, you often get back what you give out.

Driving!

Someone reversed into me, they weren't paying attention and my car was written off. I've been on edge since but I'm even more aware of how badly people drive than I was. Other drivers scare me sometimes.

My heart was literally in my mouth twice in the supermarket car park earlier, because people reverse their tanks with only them in it cars without looking, I was sat in my bay waiting to go and my car started beeping as they were getting too close.

Jammy wagon wheels - still delish but so much smaller than they used to be and barely any jam 😭

It's less that I don't expect a smile and more that I truly don't care whether minimum-wage staff smile at me or not.

Obviously you can make customer requests sound as reasonable as you want but from what I witness in shops, the customer is very often in the wrong and on a power trip over an employee they know can't push back. It's sad to see.

Something that strikes me almost every time I go into a museum is that there are items on show which are hundreds of years old, or more, and still functional.

Nobody would ever expect stuff made nowadays to still exist in the 2500s, let alone be usable.

Eating out
Winter jumpers.

I use Fairy Liquid in both hard and soft water areas. It's rubbish in both. It's not the water, it's the product. Time to switch.

Agree about clothes. Fabric you could spit through. Acrylic/polyester everywhere. Especially annoying in the supposed higher end shops who think nothing of charging £100 for a dress made of the same manmade material as a £15 dress from Primark. Possibly better cut, but still made in a sweatshop in China.

Politicians

You think asking where a product is or asking for an adjustment in food orders due to allergies or intolerances is a superiority complex? I’m pleased I don’t have such low standards TBH.

Why don’t you expect a smile? Isn’t it good manners to smile at people? Coddling young people is hardly helpful

I think I’d echo clothes, it’s so hard to find quality basics. Toilet paper, chocolate.

😂 this is so true. Also on a very hard water area. Must use a 6th of a bottle of baby bath just to get decent bubbles 😅

I buy the fairy liquid 'original' stuff rather than the newfangled 'hint of apple' type stuff. Works fine for me...

@Seeline absolutly have to agree with you. My cooker is broken only had it four years. These things use to last a life time.
My nanna had hairdryers, fridge freezers, microwaves, record players for a life time.

@Littlemissgobby matey nowadays is rubbish it's all thin and not bubbly ( and the bottle is "wrong" I loved the 80s design)

Clothing, sizing, material, fit. It's all just meh!

Toothpaste, I've given up with colgate and now use supermarket own brand which is better. A few months back I was in Spain and picked up some colgate there, much better quality than what we get, cheaper and a bigger tube. Don't understand that one.

Mitchum deodorant. Whatever they done to their formula it left my pits stinking. I used to use their sports version, not anymore.