re: The Culture of Incompetence in South Louisiana

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I left Louisiana and was pleasantly surprised by the competence at grocery stores. Everyone wants your business and they’re happy to help.

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The Publix in Perdido is what my local Rouse’s want to be when it grows up.

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it's not because of the government or the crime.. it's just because even business can't do anything right.

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These things are all related. Businesses cannot do anything right because our government and crime has ran all the good business owners and employees off to other states.

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i'm always amazed at how coherent service/retail workers are when on vacation out of this shithole state

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Yep, we are all from Lake Charles and we love LA as much as the next guy but when we come back to visit the ineptitude of the workers is sad.


I'd say over 50% of our orders at restaurants are wrong and the people taking them look pretty sketchy. And in Lake Charles it's gotten even worse with the recent hurricanes and lack of workers.

Last time we were in town I remember having to write down my order at a Checkers because the girl with the 40 IQ couldn't understand that I wanted a burger with no pickles and mustard. It was like talking to a 4-year-old.

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I don't mind the self checkout if I have 4 items but if you have 50 it sucks.

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The problem is that the people checking out their own groceries are just as incompetent as the cashiers would be

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Whenever I leave the state I’m absolutely blown away by how I’m treated at fast food establishments

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I will allow I was served mcdonald's breakfast by a heroin addict white whilein south dakota which was actually good.

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You go from being a nuisance to someone who is treated with respect

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Let's not push it.

You're still dealing with the dregs of society.

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The ignorance of Louisiana is never more evident then when you’ve been on a road trip and get back home

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Meh, I start to miss black folk after a few days. Turns out the laughing and cutting up that infuriates me while waiting to pay for a coke at the gas station is the very thing I miss after a week in colorado.

Conventional wisdom is that areas with populations from northern and western Europe and with protestant backgrounds are more organized but less fun loving than areas with populations from southern and eastern Europe with Catholic backgrounds.

There are of course other demographic factors, but I'll leave that for others to discuss.

Which type of society is preferable is, I would think, an individual decision.

Ppl are lazy everywhere bro.

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We can go to chain pharmacy that has one employee working and half of their shelves empty, or we can go to the local pharmacy that's only open bankers hours and charges 3x as much.

We can go to the chain grocery store with all self-checkout lanes, or we can go to the local grocery store with one cashier who is on her phone the entire time.

My wife's doc retired and I called my doctor practice to see if she could start over there. Three weeks for a new patient to be seen.

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While i agree all of this is bullshite, its common everywhere. it fricking sucks and pisses me off.

The northeast is full of southern and Eastern Europeans. The south is full of anglos and other northern or Western Europeans.

I definitely don’t think the northeast is more “fun loving”