Working with the public means I'm in contact with the upper and lower classes. Children and adults - young and old. I like this, yet I find a large majority just DOES NOT LISTEN. They are so keen to make their points - to intervene, appear grand or intimidating, it's sad… Their ignorance and impatience is sad. For God's sake, doesn't anyone listen these days?
2006-08-17 03:22:40 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I also deal with the public and have for almost 30 years. I find the longer you deal with people the less tolerant you are of them. You are correct. They ask you something and they do not listen, especially when the answer is not what they want to hear. One thing that drives me crazy is the customer asking you a question that you answer 10 -15 time a day and is part of your job , and then they question your answer, like ARE YOU SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE? As if asking me again will change my response.
2006-08-17 03:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by Raven 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although you say you work with the public, how much of this public do you actually see? You probably only see these people maybe a few times and then, you'll never see them again. So what you've grasped is only the surface. You don't know what they are like when they are home or when they are in love or what kind of troubles they are having. One person, who you think impatient, may just be the father who takes the time to tuck each of his seven children to sleep every night of every year. So how can you judge how ignorant and impatient people are? Each person has their own passions and faults. Maybe you see their faults as ignorance and impatience but don't forget, everyone thought Van Gogh was crazy for cutting off his ear but Van Gogh knew his passions and it is his art that hangs in the museums.
so isn't every person a human being?
2006-08-17 17:16:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, what did you say? :-P
Well in all seriousness, I guess it's because the large majority is so self-absorbed with themselves. They think they are more important than any other person on this earth, they think they are smarter and make better points than any other person can. Some people are also just very competitive and want to be the first one to answer or be correct. It is very annoying and frustrating and it is being passed down through the generations. Notice kids these days? They'll be doing something wrong and their parents will try to reprimand them and get them to stop, but the kid keeps doing what they were doing, completely ignoring their parents. What is our society coming to?
2006-08-17 10:30:58 · answer #3 · answered by Always Underestimated 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't feel sorry for them I feel embarrassed for them. I work in the public too and I see people everyday from all over the world and I have noticed the same thing. I have also noticed that children listen and understand better than most adults do. It is very sad.
2006-08-17 12:27:09 · answer #4 · answered by Rachel Bitchface 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one should feel pity for anyone. If you believe they are ignorant, then aren't you, as the educated, obligated to educate them. Thereby relieving them of the condition of ignorance? Feeling sorry for someone for anything and not doing what you can to allieviate the problem is criminal. Otherwise you should just crawl back in bed and cover up your head because you are not helping anyone anyway. Least of all yourself. Pity often feels the need for company, somewhat like misery. To put it more succinctly, would you stand by and watch someone bleed to death if you had a band-aid in your pocket, or would you see if you could help stem the flow?
2006-08-17 10:29:38 · answer #5 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not feel sorry for them. For they are the ones that will have to deal with that. I hate it for the rest of us that actually has the common sense to read signs, listen to others when they ask a question, or even just have common sense. It is the way that they are brought up, I think, because I was brought up to have common sense and to use it. If people would remember that they have a duty not only to themselves but to others that they might actually read, listen , and learn.
2006-08-17 10:42:24 · answer #6 · answered by mjtsimmons 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good listner is a rare bird these days. Everybody like to hear himself talk. I've learned that the best way to flatter a person/massage his/her ego is to let him/her do the talking while I listen, apparently impressed, awed.
2006-08-17 10:34:34 · answer #7 · answered by Chevalier 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a good question. And I'm guessing you should probably ask yourself that: do you bother listening to them? Not just hearing their words, but really listening?
2006-08-17 10:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by JudasHero 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hun the ones that don't listen to others are the ones who have a big problem and they think that they are always right and everyone else is wrong. don't let them get to you at all for one day they will have wished that they hadn't been they way they were, they think that they are all that and a bag of chips.
2006-08-17 10:34:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If someone is ignorant, either they have not had the opportunity or the willingness to learn. I don't feel sorry for them if they don't try, after being given the opportunity.
But..if they are stupid, that's not their fault. And those I do feel sorry for.
2006-08-17 10:31:36 · answer #10 · answered by Molli H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋