“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    I hope the glasses break on their face. But:

    The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media.

    …Can people not see this is the root problem?

    These asswipes make a living being asswipes because Google, Meta, or Tiktok pay them to. Thats the root incentive. Most wouldnt risk all that trouble unless it was their living.

    In other words, I dont want the moral of the story to be “this wouldnt happen without Meta glasses.” The platform subsidizing those glasses is the ultimate problem.

    • stickyprimer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I see a lot of honest YouTubers who break their backs putting together quality educational hobby content and over time I have followed some as their numbers climb and it turns into more of a full time thing for them.

      And then I see these brainrot morons pulling down 1000x the numbers and it’s just crushing. I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.

        It’s not entirely their choice. The algorithm decides what’s presented.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      There’s also the root problem of employees having no agency to kick out misbehaving people. There’s this whole “the customer is king” ethos in American commerce and this is enabling the worst people to harass people without any consequences. If you are getting kicked out and banned from most stores in your town because you are an abusive asshole, you might think again about your behavior and maybe even change. If everything that is coming from your bad behavior is that some random employee is getting fired, yes, this will enable even worse behaviour.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        I mean, would a culture change even make a difference? Police were involved here, but they did not care because thats just more video views.

        Theres already the risk of getting fired from one’s job, but again; this is their living.