rude part 3
Wow, I thought I was the only one who noticed the rudeness of people around me, and even began thinking that maybe I am overly sensitive. I thought I needed thicker skin.
Until I saw this site when it popped up on google after I tried to find lyrics to a song. Someone had the words I was looking for in their sig…not what I was looking for, but the comment before it intrigued me enough to click on it and see what it’s about. WOW. All those same rude people, all over the country! I read it and felt much less alone, and grateful to not be working in retail. Like I said before, I even saw it at Safeway one day. I felt like I didn’t have much to complain about, because retail people must see it every day! sigh.
I still don’t know what happened to us, as people. I mean, we’re always constantly teaching our kids to be polite … yet we cannot do it ourselves? The way the parents talked to me…they’d never want their kids to talk to me that way, yet they were? The kids get to see their parents swearing at or being rude to the retail person and that’s what they learned. Then when the kids do it in school and get busted, the parents get mad and say that they don’t teach their children that, so they must’ve picked it up from school. Oh really?
Are we that stressed that we must take it out on anyone and everyone in the way?!?!?! Even people who don’t mean to be in the way, but are just doing their job?
Anyway, reading through those forums really made me aware of how I may act — I’ve never told off a salesperson, but you can bet I’m going to be extra polite now. I demand this from my boy, I must set the example for him to follow. And if that makes a poor, hardworking salesperson feel better, especially after being railed by a rude person… Granted, these people are much better at brushing it off than I am, but they don’t deserve to be chewed out either, especially for what they’re paid.
It’s quite an eye-opener for me.