Please Be Kind To Employees, Thank You

I work in retail, and I witnessed this conversation in the break room.

Coworker #1: “The way these people act, you’d think the words ‘thank you’ were the hardest words on the planet to say.”

Coworker #2: “Why do you expect them to say ‘thank you’?”

Coworker #1: “Because I was raised as a decent human being who says ‘please’ when I want something and ‘thank you’ when people do something for me. What does that tell you about the people who don’t?”

Coworker #3: “That they shop here?”

[Coworker #2] laughed, as did some others. When I looked at the group, I saw [Coworker #1] with an expression that indicated he couldn’t decide whether to laugh along or smack [Coworker #3].