Recently i ordered coffee from a roaster. This is probably my 5th-6th or so order, so i'm a somewhat regular customer.
But this package was different. This order included a free tea sample, but attached to it with an elastic band was a religious flyer.
The flyer (or booklet) pictured a black and white draw close up of a man on a cross, with red blood dripping down. Several pages about the big book, various quotes and a check box at the end asking if i wanted to be saved or to burn in hell.
I'll be honest and say i'm a little taken back. I've bought coffee from you - this isnt an opportunity for you to push your views onto me. Regardless of how i feel about the content.
Not cool.
Could it be a 'rogue' employee or maybe its a smallish company who have those views? I wont name them - or at least, not yet.
So now i'm in 2 minds whether to contact them about it or let it go. I mean whats the best/worst that can happen if i was to even bother?
That all said i cant say i'm losing sleep over it and yes I have moved on.
But i was curious - has anyone else had a similar experience with ordering stuff online?
Yes, minimising the seriousness of mental illness is offensive.
In exactly the same way that comparing the holocaust to stuff is offensive.
In the same way as claiming women in Texas have it worse than women in Afghanistan is offensive.
It takes something that is extremely serious, and inappropriately compares it to something that is not remotely the same. That has the effect of minimising the serious issue.
More than three quarters of the world has some form of religious belief. That would mean non-believers are the abnormal ones - and the ones suffering from the mental divergence.
Or, it is just a difference of opinion.
Do you see how that works now?