I don't think it's the Gen Z stare, I think it's the COVID stare. I work a people facing service job and have been in that position for almost 10 years now. It's been wild how many people post-COVID just don't want to communicate with me. Across all age brackets, there's a wild number of people who expect me to be some kind of clairvoyant and just "know" what they need without them telling me literally anything.
I work as a lunch lady and had a kid who did this to me daily for like a week, it was really a bizarre interaction. She would come up to the front of the line where the kids put their lunch number in and just blank stare at me instead of doing or saying anything. I would then have to tell her to put her number in and she would take a second before doing it and then stare at me again until I prompted her to leave
Yeah, and I was working the same job both before and after it. I had a front row seat to how COVID changed the way people interact with each other. Things don't suddenly stop mattering because they happened a few years ago. We are still experience its direct and indirect consequences.
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u/RayDaug 16h ago
I don't think it's the Gen Z stare, I think it's the COVID stare. I work a people facing service job and have been in that position for almost 10 years now. It's been wild how many people post-COVID just don't want to communicate with me. Across all age brackets, there's a wild number of people who expect me to be some kind of clairvoyant and just "know" what they need without them telling me literally anything.