Our protester!

[astyn-dbs]

I should have written this when it happened, but I forgot. Everyone remember the recent oil spill in the Gulf? Well, I work for the company who was leasing the oil rig at the time - I'm sure you all know who I mean. However, I work on the other side of the world from the gulf, about as far away from it as you can get.

One very quiet Sunday morning, myself and the other three CSR's were standing around gossiping, as we do every Sunday, when a figure in black (yes, seriously) ran across our forecourt wielding a very large stick, bashed the hell out of our fuel price board for about 30 seconds, then ran back across the forecourt.
We all stood and stared, then proceeded to piss ourselves laughing at the utter weirdness.
Once I had regained my composure, I went outside to assess the damage. A couple of lights had been knocked loose inside the board, some plastic had broken, and the numbers had fallen down inside. No other damage, and none of it was serious.

Now, we all assumed that he was protesting our parent company's involvement in the oil spill. We'd been told to expect problems the week before, when an organised protest was apparently going to be taking place, but we heard nothing on the day. Our customers had also been great about it - they seemed to realise we were the last people they should complain to.
And don't get me wrong - I understood his anger. I still do. I work for the company, and I still think it's disgusting. But beating up a price board? Buddy, all you did was provide four employees (plus the assistant manager) with a days worth of entertainment giggling about you, and cost the company a minimal amount of money to fix the damage. If you really want to protest, surely there are better and more effective ways?

[XCashier]

If you really want to protest, surely there are better and more effective ways?

Of course there are; contacting corporate headquarters, for one. But just like the SCs who scream at the bottom-rung employees instead of taking their complaints to corporate, they're taking the lazy way out.

[astyn-dbs]

Of course there are; contacting corporate headquarters, for one. But just like the SCs who scream at the bottom-rung employees instead of taking their complaints to corporate, they're taking the lazy way out.

So true. I wish he knew how hard he made us laugh - Sundays are uneventful to begin with, so he was a highlight. I'd LOVE to see the look on his face if he found that out!

[Peppergirl]

But just like the SCs who scream at the bottom-rung employees instead of taking their complaints to corporate, they're taking the lazy way out.

THIS. Times 20.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Target's been going through the same thing lately. Evidently, they made some monetary contribution to some organization that apparently isn't all that friendly to the LGBT community. So that's lead to "activists" descending upon Target stores to engage in some stupid little political street theater in front of people who had absolutely nothing to do with the decision to make the donation, many of whom are a captive audience simply because they're working while all this is going on.

You want to express your outrage in a meaningful way? Do it in front of the people who actually did the deed. I kinda agree with you anyway. You want to boycott the company? Go nuts. But don't hassle a bunch of peons who don't decide how to spend the company's money and are just trying to get through their shift.