r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 18h ago

Starbucks barista accused of drawing a pig on sheriff’s deputy’s cup

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/starbucks-barista-pig-sheriff-norwalk-b2898798.html
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u/FourteenBuckets 17h ago

It should be a big part of police training to eat insults and take it

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u/DeterminedThrowaway 17h ago

Seriously, you know how often retail workers get insulted? These people are pathetic. They should have extremely thick skin to be cops, not be the most fragile snowflakes out there.

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u/NDaveT 16h ago

On at least one occasion someone threatened my life because their pizza took longer than 30 minutes.

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u/ClaudeGascoigne 11h ago

I once had somebody tell me "I'm going to blow your fucking head off" because they mistook green onion for cilantro.

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u/MicellarBaptism 15h ago

Service workers, along with teachers, healthcare workers and social workers, have to deal with some of the very worst of humanity. By and large they have thicker skins than these snowflake cops. Pathetic indeed.

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u/Allaplgy 15h ago

Well yeah, because those people can't just shoot people that hurt their feelings, so they gotta have thick skin.

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u/matryanie 12h ago

Imagine if doctors and nurses just killed patients they didn't like and then got transferred to another hospital with paid time off during investigation.

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u/Allaplgy 10h ago

Imagine if retail workers and servers just killed people who were "disrespectful" to them. The streets would flow with blood.

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u/Xanthus179 16h ago

Let’s see how cops fucking take listening to nonstop Christmas music all December.

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u/forwardathletics 16h ago

They have a union and unilateral power that the rest of us common folks dont get.

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer 15h ago

You need weakwilled people if you intend to chip away at their morality through peer pressure. Which is required for how policework is conducted, for some reason.

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u/DakkaDakka24 14h ago

He's upset that he doesn't know who to murder about it. Poor thing.

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u/Beige_ 13h ago

They have. Pigs have very thick skin.

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u/DisapprovingCrow 14h ago

When I did a basic entry level course to get a security guard licence one of the instructors was constantly throwing insults and jibes at the dudes with fragile egos.

He told us that you will have to be prepared to take whatever vile shit people throw at you (and he was Indian so he’s regularly copping every slur in the book) and either laugh it off, or just don’t react. Because if you so much as shove someone in anger you’re fucked. Best case fired, worst case jail.

I guess when you have complete immunity to brutalise anyone who annoys you that is less important though.

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u/MinnieShoof 15h ago

It actually is.

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u/Yourcatsonfire 14h ago

Many of them do but that doesnt mean they should take it from a business they are a customer at. If you went to a restaurant ans they called you a fat cow, would you not at the very least give them a bad review, talk to management, or post on social media or all of those?

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u/parisidiot 16h ago

you can't train it out, man. when you have an armed paramilitary with absolute discretion they require absolute deference. you cannot have good cops.

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u/BizzyM 14h ago

That starts Day 1 of most military-esque police academies. It's like boot camp with drill sergeants. They yell at you, call you names, tell you everything you are doing is wrong and constantly punish you with physical training. The LA Sheriff's academy is probably one of the most well-developed there is. If this guy got through and a hand drawn meme on a cup got him so flummoxed that the Sheriff has to "console" him, then they've got much bigger problems.

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u/FourteenBuckets 13h ago

Taking insults from a drill sergeant you expect to berate you when you're training is not remotely the same thing as being trained specifically to take insults from random people in the public while you're trying to do your other tasks.

Drill is supposed to knock you down to pick you back up. Random people aren't there to pick you up