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To ask for things that you believe have declined in quality

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JMSA · 17/11/2024 10:40

I'll kick it off with Fairy Liquid!
Has anyone else noticed this? I have a dishwasher but often wash certain things, eg my big frying pan, by hand. You'd certainly need a mighty big squeeze these days, for a proper foamy lather.
Anything else? If nobody mentions Cadbury's chocolate, I will eat the Oodie I'm currently wearing Grin

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EvilsElsasPetSnowman · 17/11/2024 10:56

Sorry, but customer service.

I don’t ask for much. A “hello” “please” and “thank you” and no eye rolling would be nice. Someone to show me where something is that I can’t find. Someone to listen when I have an adjustment in my food order. Someone to check if they have a size 10 in the back somewhere.

But I find customer service is full of morose and sulky young people raised on TikTok to believe they deserve better, who think they don’t owe it to their job to put in a bit of hard work in. They’ve been brainwashed into thinking that is acceptable to see older women who don’t simper and stay quiet as a “Karen” And now we all have to be in the default position that someone has a MH issue or is having a bad day so asking where flaxseed is, or telling them you’re unhappy because your food did have the ingredient in you asked to be excluded, or asking for a bit of extra help is being a bothersome “Karen”. IMO it’s led to a generation of poor customer service and I find it very irritating.

On a similar note - food quality in restaurants. To pay £17+ for a bland meal I could have made better at home is something I’m not prepared to do anymore. Such a shame as I have always loved eating out.

I think lockdown made everything a bit shit and we all accepted it at the time with the assumption it would go back to normal and it never did

Original poster
JMSA · 17/11/2024 10:48

FuckThePoPo · 17/11/2024 10:42

Men

Plus ça change

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NonPlayerCharacter · 17/11/2024 10:48

Lolopolo · 17/11/2024 10:44

Everything tbh. Unless you can pay top dollar for high quality.

Even that's getting harder and harder. Many places that used to sell long lasting, high quality clothes and other goods have kept the pricing but lost everything else. There's more of everything than there's ever been, but it's all garbage.

SisterMaryLuke · 17/11/2024 10:47

Pretty much everything. It is so, so depressing.

Lolopolo · 17/11/2024 10:44

Everything tbh. Unless you can pay top dollar for high quality.

FuckThePoPo · 17/11/2024 10:42

Men