Have you ever had a day where people are not rude?

HamZilla said:
Sigh of Doom - Your oyster card fails and you get the dreaded "Seek Assistance" thereby being subjected to tuts, sighs, mutterings from the queue of people behind and closer to you than your underwear.
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I was greeted with that quite a lot while i was in london a few weeks ago, i just swiped it until it let me through. spot on.
 
HamZilla said:
If you happen to be a peasant and use a paper ticket then this adds half a second or more (depending on your reflexes) to retrieving the card as it has to be manually inserted and retrieved from the machine.
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I resent that comment not meaning this to be a direct stab). If southern actually accepted PAYG Oyster I'd happly use it. But I get lumped with the old paper that frequently fails :|
 
Shotgun_ned said:
I work in Sainsburys, so no. I'm getting pretty fed up with people who think they're better than me.
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I work at tesco for a student job. People are always rude and just think Im thick as a post. Snobs just think that as someone is in a low end job they must be a retard, now granted some people are destined to 40years a till but we arent all dopey.
 
Surfer said:
Seems to be the norm nowadays. Just today i'm just standing patiently in line at the bakers and two women dont bother with the queue; they just go up to the counter and of course they get served first.

Of course i could say quite loudly " oh hey theres a queue here" but really should i have to? NO....

simple things... courtesy doesn't cost anything... i find it lacking in a lot of people....
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You're in Aberdeen mate I have noticed the same trend, go to a decent place.

KaHn
 
When I worked in spar there was an indian guy who used to come in and stand at the tills to get served. He refused to stand in the queue like he was to good to so I always just ignored him until someone else served him.

The only people I let skip the queue were people who really stunk, and you wanted them out the shop quickly. Of which, there were quite a few. The kind of people who walk in the door and the whole shop (eve the far corner from them) completely stunk of bo and poo.
 
Of the 10 days I was in San Francisco, 9 of them were 100% rude person free. Even the homeless guys and wierd woman were polite and courteous. The only person to spoil it was the woman in the tourist information office(!) who seemed very annoyed that my enquiry took her away from the conversation on her mobile.
 
Senture said:
I resent that comment not meaning this to be a direct stab). If southern actually accepted PAYG Oyster I'd happly use it. But I get lumped with the old paper that frequently fails :|
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Haha. I have to use a paper travelcard too as although Midland have oyster machines at Watford Junction they have not made a monthly travelcard subscription available. 'Peasant' is a generalisation joke of how your viewed technologically inferior by the Londoners.
 
Surfer said:
one thing i do hate it when bank staff call me by my first name...as if they are my pal or something.... wtf.
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I Hate it when people have a go at me then call me 'mate' What :confused:
Am I going to buy them a drink in a pub to make things better then, I'd rather pour said drink over their head! :mad:
 
people are often rude to me in my line of work. The best ever is women with prams who think its fine to block my fire escapes because the world must revolve around them and their baby. I have to keep a face on for the most part but utimatley I will ask them to leave if they are actually absuive or anything, normally it annoys them more to stay as polite as poss.
 
Phoebs said:
a lot of my customers at work can be rude. I think its because they think i dont know what im doing as im only 20 and the rest of the staff are a lot older.

i had a guy on the phone the other day who wanted to speak to another member of staff, when i asked who was speaking he responded very rudely saying "why, my name is of absolutely no relevance to him at all", so i said "i do understand that but i do have to give a name of who he is going to speak to" he then proceeded to shout at me his name, patronisingly spelling it for me too!

i was fuming, whats the point in that. people are rude all the time i just dont get why they have to be. When you get it in your job its hard to keep being nice to them if all you're getting bk from them is blatant arrogance.
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I'm very sorry Sir but while you were spelling your name my colleague went to the bathroom - I didn't like to interupt you as you were shouting. Please could I ask you to call back in 5 minutes or so?
 
I'm a taxi Driver, I hate every living (and dead) soul on this lousy planet doubly so on Friday and Saturday Nights
 
I usually encounter some at work (Am a helpdesk support techie at a university - and every student thinks the world revolves around them - I also am a student at the same university, I can't believe how rude and lazy they are!).

I think because I have worked in retail as well as working in tech support I see both sides of the argument when things go wrong, so I am always as courteous as possible - as usually it's not there fault they can't help you or somethings wrong, they usually go out of there way to help if you are polite and understanding.

Rich
 
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i have to hold up my hands and admit its hard not being a condescending ******* to people when they act either with phenomenal laziness or extreme stupidity. (or both combined double the fun)
 
Surfer said:
Seems to be the norm nowadays. Just today i'm just standing patiently in line at the bakers and two women dont bother with the queue; they just go up to the counter and of course they get served first.

Of course i could say quite loudly " oh hey theres a queue here" but really should i have to? NO....

simple things... courtesy doesn't cost anything... i find it lacking in a lot of people....
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I know what you mean, though with me it's usually old people jumping queues.
 
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