Maybe the season made me a bit more sensitive, but I have to tell you that I encountered quite a bit of rude and downright caustic behavior while out during the Sacred Holiday Shopping Frenzy. There I am shopping for a gife for my Brother-in-law, looking at a sweater and trying not to imagine how it would look on me when I hear this hideous noise. Low and behold it is this shrieking, nearly hysterical woman all but busting an artery as she is SCREAMING at this poor man who is trying to help her. I felt mortified for them both. Another example is the cookware dept. at Bloomies where I tried to buy a proper set of All-Clad copper bottom pans and this harridan arrived AFTER I had already placed my order for them. She TOOK the display set down piece by piece and when the saleswoman came back she told me they were out. Only the display was left. Christmas eve and this wench took my pans. I had to buy stainless instead. Why are people so mercenary when they shop????
2007-01-02 18:21:09 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I try to be polite to everyone, especially if i have a complaint.
I have found that it is always better to get the other person on your side - after all you want them to help you.
Consider the issue from the other side, who are you going to help - the man that shouts and swears at you, or the one who clearly, politely and firmly states his case?
There are tales of waiting staff spitting on meals for rude customers - I don't know if this is true, but you can imagine it happening.
Here in the UK, a shop retains the right to ask you to leave and not sell the goods to you.
Abuse of anyone - physical or otherwise- is not acceptable in our society and in many cases will get you in trouble. Remember that many shops have cameras these days and strict policies on abuse of staff. The employer has a responsibilty to provide a safe working environment.
Life is too short to make enemies, or upset people without due cause.
2007-01-02 18:35:19 · answer #1 · answered by David P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow! I'm sorry that happened to you. When it is especially around the Christmas season or when people are shopping for presents they get so harried that they just plain don't think. Course, I know that's no excuse, but I try never to be rude to salespeople or people I don't know.
I've said this in another answer that I've learned to let things roll off my back. I know that's not an easy thing to do for many people, but sometimes it's necessary. If a stranger or salesperson is rude to me, which hasn't happened very often, I just figure they are having a bad day or a bad life and pray for them.
2007-01-02 18:46:06 · answer #2 · answered by angelcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-29 05:37:35 · answer #3 · answered by Bonnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its quite a complex thing.
When people shop they drive their attention to what they are looking and are eager of finding it. Most people get easily irritated when someone interrupts them,might be a stranger or a salesperson.
When its a salesperson they are mostly vulnerable to exaltation,knowing that there is someone areound you watching you and pressuring you to buy something,its basically the reputation sales people have managed to gain,consider it bias.
I'm not usually mean to salespeople unless they keep pushing while one is occupied,everyones manners are different,everyones mood is different and everyones curtesy is different. Its quite sad that some people just come out rudely to you,but society is really changing my friend.
So it basically depends on all those factors and the external stress on the person while they shop
2007-01-02 18:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by kittycatkitty 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The only ones I'm rude to are the ones who bother me at home (telemarketers). I have no use for them, and would have them arrested if I could. As for when I go to a store, no, I'm not rude. In fact, I'm very patient with them. Most of them are people who will help a customer if they can, while putting up with some very rude and insulting department managers (I've seen that scenario more than once....some hot-shot manager talking down to a salesperson in front of customers....a lot of those managers are like that). So, I try to be quiet and calm with salespeople....I know what they have to put up with, and I'm not going to add to it.
As for the guy who brags about being rude, I'm 6ft 2in, 230 lbs, and I'd like to see him try and be rude to me once.....he'd only do it once, that's for sure.....
2007-01-02 18:33:37 · answer #5 · answered by LSF 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hi! yees lots of rude rude people during the holidays - short temper, short on time, no patience...
in response to some of you meanies - salespeople are there to work and help you out not to take your abuse. The store is their place of work. If you were talked down to and mentally abused by your boss, you could report them some how...
Wish there were more managers that would ask rude and abusive customers to leave instead of cowering.
2007-01-02 18:33:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I must have been raised differently from Mr. Cell Phone Man above, because when you walk into a store, that's someone else's place. You act as a guest and respect those who work there. In other words, act like you were raised right.
2007-01-03 00:53:26 · answer #7 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, because i used to be a salesgirl i know how it is working with people all day. but i always treated every customer with courtesy and respect. but today i was served by a rather rude saleswoman, she acted like i disrupted her in the middle of something important when all she was doing was writing in her journal. her responses to my questions were curt and her tone of voice was just unpleasant. at the end of the transaction i left without saying thank you. that's as far as i can get for being rude.
2007-01-02 18:31:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It amazes me how bad people can act. Sales people don't make the rules, they don't set the prices. They just are earning a living like everyone else. I am never rude to them. But I have been rude to the idiots that are rude to them.
2007-01-02 19:15:39 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not rude to people who give me service. Why should I be rude to stranger if they didn't offend me?
2007-01-03 02:51:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋