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Orrex

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6. Every teenage fast food worker is held to a higher standard of interaction and de-escalation than any cop

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Fri Jan 9, 2026, 07:12 PM

Jan 9

I've been threatened and insulted and physically confronted many times over the years, across a range of jobs.

At no time have I been allowed to summarily execute someone just because they got in my face or weren't obeying me.

But cops seem to have no requirement re: human interaction beyond "stop or I'll shoot."

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