New Prejudices [Blogging on the ETC]
The other day, I formally noticed that I’ve taken on some new prejudices in the past couple of years:
1. Not being accessible by email and/or app. A lot of people complain about not being able to talk to an actual human being in customer service situations, but few things annoy me more than actually having to pick up the phone and talk to an IRL person in order to get something accomplished. The last few times I’ve ordered pizza, it’s been from Pizza Hut as opposed to a much-better mom and pop. While the local mom and pop have a better quality product, Pizza Hut has an app, which means I don’t have to talk to anyone or repeat my credit card number over the phone or explain how to spell my name 3,000 times to get my food delivered.
In the same vein, if a business professional gives me a card, and there’s a telephone number but no email address on it, I know I won’t be doing business with that person in the future. Even my primary care physician is accessible by email. I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t be in this day and age.
2. Cash-only businesses. You can have the best food/clothes/whatever this side of the Mississippi, but if you don’t accept credit, I’m not frequenting your business. I’m a bit of a money nerd, and over the past two years, I’ve come to abhor dealing with cash. I love put everything on a card and knowing where every penny of our money is going. I enjoy racking up points for all of my purchases — and even more using those points to take vacations. I go out of my way to avoid cash-only parking garages, and I really resent when people force me to pay for things with cold hard bills. In this day of Square readers, I see no reason to for even the smallest business owner to require her or his customers to pay for anything in cash.
3. Spelling/Grammar Nazis. What’s funny is that I used to be one of these. But in the age of the internet, I’ve come to realize that content is king. I tend to judge blog posts, emails, and comments by the content of their character as opposed to the quality of their spelling and grammar, and I actually now feel it’s in bad taste to point to someone’s typos while insulting them or what they’ve written. People write fast these days. Very few people are able to write fast and perfectly — it’s often an either or kind of situation. Typos really don’t equate to a character flaw and if you think so, I now feel that you’re a judgmental ass who gets off on feeling superior to others while not really adding to the conversation.
But those are my new prejudices. Do you have any prejudices that you’ve developed recently, like over the last couple of years? If so, let me know in the comments.
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