In today’s society, we like to be quiet to avoid confrontation. Confronting situations is more tiring at face value than procrastinating on the situation and or avoiding it entirely. In William F. Buckley Jr.’s essay, “Why Don’t We Complain?,” Buckley tells about his experiences of being passive in society, making his life harder and blames new advances of technology as the reason why society is becoming more lazy and complaining less. How Stephanie Ericsson might respond to Buckley’s essay from her essay’s, “The Ways We Lie,” point of view is that Buckley is correct in a way but in different terms. Ericsson would say that the reason people are think they are helpless to do anything is because they are deceiving themselves and others to live…show more content… He is at a skiing and need a screwdriver to fix his ski but there is a long line. There is only one out of two people working and that other person appeared to be slacking off and, “brazenly insensitive to the nervous demands of six good men who were raring ski” (Buckley 75) Ericson would point out that Buckley was Stereotyping the actions of the non working person who ended up he was waiting for people to take him to the hospital. Ericsson explains that stereotyping and cliches are lies since it is a shorthand that basically generalized situations and racies putting a lie on them. Since he say this worker idle, he instantly judged him for not being productive and looked down at him. As the worker said, “I am sorry sir,... I am not suppose to move. I have just had a heart attack...” (Buckley 76) Buckley instantly regretted his prejudgment; his lie to himself. Ericsson would like to bring light to all the racism, sexism, and other isms that come up from all the generalizations we make day to day. We make pre- judgments of every situation so we have a plan to react in a certain way to try to make life easier for us when it ends up just being racist or…show more content… As Ericson states, “it’s not easy to entirely eliminate lies from our lives” (Ericsson 167). Since lies and delusions are so embedded in society, it close to impossible to pinpoint all the lies we make. I work at Fry’s Electronics and there are a few lies that customers believe that make the job a little more unbearable. People like to stereotype that if you work at a place then you must know every little bit about the company and how everything works. In Fry’s, every department specialises in what their department does and what’s part of the job description. I work at the customer service department and help with their purchases so I know how to work the cash register and have to deal with angry customers that the sales department might have not help at all. A customer had a little chip on their shoulder and went only for an in store pick up and had to put his credit card information while selecting it to verify the customer at the store and to prevent stealing, the customer has to pay for it when they get the item. I tend to stutter a little when I not completely confident on something I haven't thoroughly practiced but I knew how this process worked and explained to the customer how it works and showed on their email that it didn’t change their card and the implications that is there but it wasn't enough for him and he asked to talk to a supervisor who told them the same thing except that we don’t personally work on the website since we don’t maintain
