Even though humans have the capability to be compassionate towards others when they haven’t experienced the same themselves, it has limits and you can’t truly understand what another person is feeling until you are put in the same situation.

But when they do suffer through the same thing, they have a different level of appreciation of those people. When Reddit user allycakes asked Redditors “How has having a s****y job changed how you act?” most people admitted that they mostly just try to be as kind and helpful as they can to certain workers so they’ll feel better that day.

Have you ever had a job that changed they way you do things or talk to people? Let us know your stories in the comments!

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#1

Because I worked fast food when I was younger, i’m always polite and calm when getting food. Even if they are seriously f*****g up, and i’m in a terrible mood, I make sure to stay calm and polite.

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#2

I used to work in customer service, so I’m always kind and patient with customer service personnel. Even the ones at the DMV. If you’re nice to them, most of the time they’ll be nice to you!

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#3

Since I’ve run bookstores in the past, I tend to reorder the shelves at my local Barneys & Ignoble. I once spent two hours doing their history section. A manager came over, asked what I was doing, checked my work, walked away, then came back with a job application and a free drink from their cafe.

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#4

Not that I ever did this, but after working in a grocery store, I’m always extra diligent in returning the shopping carts to the correct place.

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#5

I clean up my goddamned food after I’m done watching a movie.

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#6

It wasn’t a s****y job but I raised my three-year-old daughter by myself for four years. As a 70’s guy, I learned to cook good foods, clean a house correctly, buy children’s sizes and even braid hair.

I also can appreciate how hard it is to be a single mom…

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#7

I used to deliver pizzas. I can’t tell you how bad it sucks to deliver a pizza to a huge house to a well off family in either 100 degrees in a car with no AC or in the pouring rain (summer job) and then get a 50cent tip. So now I always try to round the bill up to the next 5 or 10 dollars when I order delivery.

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#8

Well, obviously I tip since I worked jobs that depended on tips: valet, bellhop.

But I often find myself trying to be organized and punctual in ordering at a restaurant, even though I never worked waitstaff. Like, know what I’m going to order before the waiter shows up, including sides and dressing.

Note to restaurants: list the dressings for salads in the menu and we’ll all order more quickly if we don’t make the waitstaff names salad dressings for EVERY SINGLE patron. Ditto beers on tap.

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#9

I used to work as a dishwasher in a restaurant, so now I always check what time a place closes before going in to eat. If it’s less then say, 30 minutes, I find another place.

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#10

When I’m out drinking, I always take the empty glasses and bottles on mine and surrounding tables, up to the bar. Once a bartender, always a bartender.

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#11

Delivery driver. I now make sure that my house number is clearly legible from the street.

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#12

I worked at a Wendy’s for 3 years, now whenever I go through a drive-thru I always ask how the employee’s doing. It always threw me for a loop when someone would ask how my night was going, it was so rare but it pumped me up for the rest of my shift every time.

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#13

I still do serve, and no matter how awful the food is I would never take it out on the server. I also make sure that if I need something I ask everyone at the table what they need too, so we can ask all at once so the server doesn’t have to make 15 trips.

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#14

After working 3 years in a grocery store, I bag my own groceries.

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#15

If there’s a URL for a survey on my receipt, I try to make sure I catch the name of the person serving me at the counter. When I worked retail, we got $10 anytime someone mentioned us by name in an online survey.

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#16

If I get good customer service, I ask for a manager to tell them what a good job the employee did for me. I even ask to be transferred when dealing over the phone with customer service agents to their manager.

I had one person do that for me when I helped them when I worked in a call center. While it didn’t give me a raise, it gave me a name in the faceless floor of 200 or so that I was working on.

Made me feel like I actual helped someone instead of just being a punching bag for them.

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#17

Used to wait tables. Parents would bring in kids 3 and under, and 8 out of 10 times the floor would be a mess. I totally get that kids are messy, I see no issue there, but just leaving it? For me to clean up?! After asking for 87 napkins?!

When I go to restaurants with my kids, I get on my hands and knees and clean that s**t up. Usually am asked not to, but I don’t care. MY kid did that. If I ever do give in and not clean it up, server gets a greater tip.

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#18

I used to be a server. Now I look them in the eyes, say thank you, and tip well.

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#19

I used to work movie theater concessions.

I no longer buy food from the movie theaters.

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#20

At restaurants, I always help stack the dishes with all the food on the top plate. Washing dishes is not fun.

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#21

Dont put napkins in your F*****G glasses!

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#22

I used to cook chicken wings in a bar. I never send back food unless it’s inedible.

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#23

I now always have my money ready for my cashier before the cashier announces my total. They (at least where I work) try to go fast and it’s an odd pace to maintain.

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#24

Drama teacher, kids aged 4-16.
I’m considering tying my pipes and am determined never to have my own, because of the kids I’ve encountered, but mostly due to the parents, who will often offload onto me while I’m waiting for them to get their coats.
Turns out one of the boys doesn’t know his *real* Dad works at his mums office. Oh, and the mother of triplets still cries because she never wanted more than one, now she has four (including their brother). Can’t. Deal.

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#25

I work in retail, stockin’ shelves and helping customers. I have learned that just because they have a badge they do not know *everything* about every product in the store, especially stuff outside of their normal section (for example, half of the K-Mart where I work is apparel; I have *no idea* where any specific type of clothing is, and if you ask me I’ll point in the general direction and say “that way”). Also, unless the store is brilliantly organized with its extra stock, checking ‘out the back’ for something is really annoying and time consuming and the marjority of the time if it’s not on the shelf there’s none out the back (at least where I work; we’re pretty good with keepin’ our shelves stocked). So now I’m always super polite (which I was beforehand anyway), if I ask someone where something is and they’re not sure because they don’t work in that section I’ll just thank them anyway and keep lookin’, and I don’t bother asking for them to check out back unless I urgently need it.
TL;DR: Floor-workers in retail stores *do not* have omniscient knowledge of all stock in their store.

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#26

Every time I leave a hotel, I strip the beds, fold the toilet paper into a triangle, put the used towels into a pile, and leave a tip for the maid because I used to be a maid and I know how much it sucks.

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