I never truly understood anger at the lack of common sense and basic intelligence in the general public—until I started working at the UPS store. The things I hear people say and the things they do are astounding. I’m asked at least five times a day (we're open seven days a week) if we ship FedEx, or to handle the entire return process for an Amazon customer—either because they’re too old to figure it out or they just don’t want to. But what really gets me is their complete lack of awareness.

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Kind of makes you wonder how they get through life, doesn't it? It's astounding that full grown adults can manage to be so completely clueless. How do they hold down jobs? Pay bills? Tie their shoes in the morning?

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I wonder that myself, at any store, more often than not.

I've seen that happen when I went to drop off an Amazon return. It's become folklore that you can just take things to UPS or Kohl's and they'll take care of it. I saw a couple that had something for Amazon, and they had no QR code or anything. It sounded like their neighbor just said to take it to the UPS store and that was all there was to it. The clerk was trying to explain the procedure when I left, and I assume he's explaining it to someone else right now.

Im 40 now and ive been in retail since i was a teenager, for the most part. You will lose faith in the future of humanity fast haha.

Please teach me your ways

Here’s the thing—sometimes it feels like you’re not just a UPS employee but a walking FAQ for people who skipped the “how things work” lesson. It’s exhausting but also kind of hilarious in a tragic way. You start wondering if common sense is just on backorder.

Agreed

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