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I once got berated by a Costco employee for ducking under the queue ropes instead of zigzagging my way through. There was no one in the queue. Sometimes society needs more logical thinking.
They fear what the ropes cannot contain....
I've never seen queue ropes at a Costco, how posh was this place?
Technically they were chains. It was back in the COVID times where they could only allow a certain number of people in the store at a time.
Did you touch or move the queue ropes when you did this? Cause I worked at a movie theatre in the past and while we didn't really care if people ducked under the ropes without touching them, if they pushed them up or unhitched them or grabbed them too hard then they often broke them because they didn't realize how delicate they could be, especially if they're older or already damaged but not quite damaged enough to replace yet. They would also often push them out of line a little bit, which adds up after a while and forced us to re-adjust them, which is kind of annoying when we keep having to fix them over and over again after busy times of the day. So after a point we just told people not to duck under them or try to go through them at all, just to avoid the possibility of them fucking the queue lines up in some way because we couldn't exactly predict who would or wouldn't touch something while attempting it. Obviously one person isn't going to do much but you wouldn't have been the only person who would have tried it that day by a long shot.
I just ducked under. Maybe my back brushed against it when I did so but that was it. They were steel chains too if I remember well so it's not like I was going to break something. She claimed that "I could have gotten hurt" which is complete nonsense and I'm pretty sure that she made it up.
There is a certain type of person who when they see someone do something that is different from what they are used to they feel the urge to self-righteously stop it and will invent all sorts of excuses to justify themselves doing so. They're the kind of people who call the cops on kids playing in a skate park. I'm pretty sure that was one of them.
I mean it's also entirely possible that it's the policy of the store and she was just trying to do her job, just saying.
That happened to me at the Atlanta airport. Security person saw and told me "I'll send you to the back of the line!", I said "I AM the back of the line!"
Costco thends to groom their employes into becomig assholes or at least very dogmatic since their management seems to be cartoonishly rigid.