Remember to thank your attendant at ARCO or AM/PM for pictures like this...

[ORDagnabbit]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=307937&id=119101198107726


just gonna get worse.....

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Like the overworked and underpaid employees of gas stations and c-stores...

...don't already have enough stress during their shift without having to have (albeit rightfully) indignant people getting in their faces over this?

How about giving the low people on the totem pole who are just trying to survive a little breathing space? Seriously.

Edited to eliminate redundancy.

[underseasurveyor]

3. Ever been standing in a line waiting to get to the check out

But the lines being held up by some jack-hole yelling at some poor sales clerk (that's getting paid minimum wage) about the outrageous cost of store items as if the clerk has any control or say-so in the pricing of the stores merchandise?

I mean geez, there are some serious jack-holes out there.

And yes back to the OP... Cut the employees some slack. Do you honestly believe they had any say-so what so ever in where or how BP drills or conducted their business:eyes:

[Systematic Chaos]

5. I WAS that poor sales clerk for a while.

I spent a year working as a "floater" cashier for a c-store chain in Minnesota a while back, which tended to put most of its stores in more affluent neighborhoods. There were a couple of exceptions to that rule but I rarely got sent to those stores because of logistics. And I'll tell you something. I had people -- almost universally well-off white people -- give me more shit over more petty stuff than you would ever believe. And the fatter and pastier they looked, and the larger their pickup truck or SUV, the bigger the assholes. Oh, and then there were the crazy bible thumpers which would try and proselytize me early Sunday mornings, with their young children in tow; likely used as protection against people with clearer heads losing their patience no doubt. And the moral crusaders against the softcore porn magazines we sold in very discreet plastic wrappers on the tippy top of the magazine shelf.

Been there, done that. Similar experiences in wealthier neighborhoods as a pizza delivery guy also. Fuck every single one of those pompous, useless gas bags. :P

[underseasurveyor]

7. I imagine many of us can relate

:toast:

[kimmylavin]

11. Terrible.

I dated a man once whose family was VERY wealthy.
And I absolutely hated to go out to eat with them.
They'd drive the poor server absolutely insane with requests during the meal, then ask about every single possible discount known to man, and then tip less than 10%. ("Only five of us - they can't just add in a tip!" was the gleeful rallying cry...)

After the first time this happened, I just started bringing a $20 with me.
I'd go to the bathroom before we left, and slip it to the server, apologizing for what I knew was going to be a disheartening tip.

These were MILLIONAIRES.
And some of the cheapest people I've ever met.

Always pissed me off...

[uppityperson]

2. Edited, went back and looked and they aren't petals but little fish

I can see them in these pictures. Damn.

[Canuckistanian]

4. And what are they going to do about it?

Complain to their boss and get fired?

Save your vitriol for the EXECUTIVES of BP.

Tell you what. If you're a waiter/waitress in a fancy restaurant and Tony Hayward walks in, give him a piece of your mind. You'll still get fired, but at least you'll have made a minor impact.

[underseasurveyor]

6. And spill a cup of hot coffee on his lap

while you're at it:rofl:

Then first deny any resposibility or liability, then point fingers at everyone else, then tell him it wasn't THAT much hot coffee, then apologize profusely if you can stop laughing long enough to speak.

[Canuckistanian]

9. It seems to be a strategy that works!

:rofl:

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. No, I won't do that.

Seeing as I was on that side of the counter when Poppy Bush told his oil industry buddies to raise the price of gas damn near every day in the buildup to his invasion of Iraq.

Didn't like getting blamed for that shit then. Not going to blame somebody for it now who had nothing to do with it.

Now on the other hand, if I knew any BP corporate executives were visiting the station on a given day (as the ARCO execs often did when I worked there) I would have no problem giving THEM a piece of my mind. And not a dime of my money.

[ORDagnabbit]

10. um....this was meant to be sarcastic as its from a boycott BP site.... you shouldnt be talking to

ARCO or AM/PM employees anyways...


what would happen if BP had job openings and nobody applied?

sorry guys if you work for a company you DO represent the company.... get used to it or grow a conscience and quit. I have and so have many others.

[bluesbassman]

12. Really? Now you're claiming sarcasm?

BP corporate is going to fail under it's own weight. Boycotting an AM/PM or BP station only kills that busuness and puts your fellow citizens out of work.

You gonna let all those people camp out in your backyard when they can't pay rent?

[ORDagnabbit]

14. sorry that arguements been put out to pasture...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/19/877596/-Why-we-should-boycott-BP-gas-stations

thats only one.... do some research on it and then stop parroting the corporate lies...

[bluesbassman]

15. Right. Well, you go ahead and put BP out of business by harrassing minimum wage workers,

and putting them out of work. I'll try to keep my local ecomomy going.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. And the minimum wage employee has anything to do

with this exactly how?

You want to boycott, be my guest, but the minimum wage employee perhaps, not that you care, has little choice as to where they work.

[joe black]

16. The lady clerk at the ARCO.

Nice person, looked to be native american. For some reason I don't really think she had anything to do with the creeps running the show. She could shame all of us pale faces anyway.

[MineralMan]

17. Oh, yes...that's the way to do it....feh!

Assuming there were an attendant at any gas station, what on Earth did he/she have to do with the Gulf oil disaster?

I think you need to refocus your anger in a direction that actually punishes the perpetrators, not toward some person making minimum wage at a gas station. 'K?