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Anon judges books by their covers
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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Its a good lesson to teach kids, because human's first instincts is to always judge and believe first impressions. This is obviously not a good outlook on life and will lead to issues and unnecessary conflict.
But yeah it is kind of bullshit once you are able to understand that first impressions CAN be wrong.
Also, children don't dress themselves usually. So the advise is definitely more relevant as a child than an adult working retail.
And honestly the OP should have a 95% accuracy if they are seasoned in retail. As a former retail worker, those skills were ingrained after the first month working there. It is actually baffling how easy it is.
It's mostly to try and say that ugly people aren't bad people, because there's a natural human instinct to be drawn to pretty people with symmetrical faces. That's why it's a simple message for children. As OP said, with experience you learn more and you can draw your own conclusions.
the people who cause problems in retail environments are not the people who would think to mask the intentions their body language communicate
that being said, people will still surprise you and it's usually right when you stop expecting them to have any capacity to surprise you