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Originally Posted by patron
Are you saying that stupid people's feelings should be the primary factor to consider, and thus you should choose a path that is sub-optimal, less efficient, more inconveniencing to yourself and perhaps more inconveniencing to others?
Say that you are at a fast food drive through, and you are making a much larger than usual order, one that will take 2x the amount of time as a usual order. When you are waiting at the pickup window for an inordinate amount of time, it is possible or even likely that some people may get upset or think or say %$#ASD!*F^A% WTF ARE YOU DOING WITH SUCH A BIG DRIVE THRU ORDER?!? So should you just make a usual sized order (1/2 size the order you want), then drive around and go back through the drive through again to complete your order, so as not to upset someone?
I loved this analogy at first, but then I tweaked it a bit and found out it may argue the other way.
It's a sandwich shop. You are not in isolation in your car. You have an order of 6 sandwiches for your coworkers. Lunchtime. Line out the door. You feel the burning eyes of hate directed at your neck as you place your order knowing that you are basically ruining the lunch of the people behind you who want to just order their own effing sandwich and eat it in the half hour they are allotted.
In this case I might feel inclined to let someone with an obvious single order go before me if there was just them behind me.
I always call the order in this case. Not to avoid inconveniencing those same worker bees, to avoid having to feel like a god damned heel. As someone said this is the crux of the motivation for the behavior--the interaction.