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I was called every name and even some names that I'd never heard of when I worked in the VZW Prepaid Dept. I enjoyed getting those calls and oftentimes would calm the customer down. Several of those angry even apologized to me afterwards for being jerks when they realized that it wasn't my fault that their credit card was declined due to lack of funds available.
Thanks to that job I developed a thick skin; I can handle being yelled at or cursed at.
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I stand corrected – it is a marmot. Good eye, muleskinner .
TY..I wouldn't have known it,but his hair "decorator" forgot to remove the tail one time and I spotted it while he was pontificating on his superior intellect(failing to mention his inheiritance)on Jimmy Kimmel one night..it was luck on my part,not skill.
We have had a couple of different cleaning companies working in our office and we have always done our best to be courteous and considerate. One time there was an awful misunderstanding between me and the current cleaning person and I had to call and apologise, which I did even though I felt an absolute fool. But I deserved it! Our new cleaning crew is so polite they even forget to take their checks with them .
When I worked in customer support years ago we had the most awful people calling us. Usually it turned out the rudest ones were also the ones who owed us money.
As someone who has never worked at anything except service jobs, I have to say that it depends entirely on your location. I've always lived and worked in a sparsely populated, rural area and have never had a problem with rudeness! In fact, I consider the regular customers at the small corner grocery where I work as my friends, and made several friends with customers at a previous retail position I held at a convenience store / gas station. I love my work, and the customers are the reason (it certainly isn't the pay - LOL)! Early in my working life, I was a housekeeper at a motel in a tourist town, and I experienced no actual rudeness there, either - in fact, the guests more or less ignored us, although if we smiled and said hello in the hallways, they invariably responded with a smile and greeting.
Yes. They also ask you "Where is the bathroom?" without saying excuse me or thank you.
I own couple of retail businesses in the shopping mall, people (well some of them) are extremely RUDE to me and my sales associates. I have very thick skin because of my retail businesses.
I feel sorry for these people. Their children are EQUALLY rude. Karma is a Bi*ch.
As someone who has never worked at anything except service jobs, I have to say that it depends entirely on your location. I've always lived and worked in a sparsely populated, rural area and have never had a problem with rudeness! In fact, I consider the regular customers at the small corner grocery where I work as my friends, and made several friends with customers at a previous retail position I held at a convenience store / gas station. I love my work, and the customers are the reason (it certainly isn't the pay - LOL)! Early in my working life, I was a housekeeper at a motel in a tourist town, and I experienced no actual rudeness there, either - in fact, the guests more or less ignored us, although if we smiled and said hello in the hallways, they invariably responded with a smile and greeting.
I have to say it also depends on OUR attitude. I work in an extremely busy, very large, retail store and 99% of my customers are just great. I encounter very little rudeness and when I do I counter it with being extra nice. They can't complain that I was TOO nice, right? lol I figure I'm going to get back what I put out there mostly and it seems to work pretty well.
This reminds me of this restaurant in nyc where the waiters are actually supposed to be rude to customers. If I ever had a restaurant, there would be a sign stating waiters will take recourse to rude customers. Plus maybe a 20% "gratuity" at the time of the bill.
By service jobs, I mean housekeeping and cleaning jobs. I have a job that requires cleaning and housekeeping at a fairly large company. One day a company executive( who I don't directly work for) comes in, snaps his fingers, and says rather loudly "hey cleaning lady, there's dirt on the floor over here". Or someone will just tell me they want something done rather than ask.
But it's not just in the company I work at. I was at a hotel one time and somebody said "housekeeper, you can clean our room now." Once I went to a restaurant, someone had to get the attention of a waiter by whistling at him.
Depends on the part of the country. Treat someone like that in the Midwest and the South and you be considered the most horrible person alive.
In fact, it's a pretty good measure of character in a person. Because someone who is nice to you but isn't nice to the waiter isn't a nice person at all.
You both are wrong. I agree with Bill Maher that The Donald is a result of human/orangutan breeding.
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