Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[marillion]

Does anyone need a communications manager or specialist, who has 25 years experience and can work remotely? No. I'm serious. Things are getting a little desperate.

 

[auntiehill]

Amazon has allowed my broke ass to still find some decent gifts at low prices.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

Had a customer in the store, late teenager or early twenties and the entire conversation he kept replying "Yes sir", "No sir".
While that is polite, I kept thinking to myself, "I'm not a 'Sir'. When did I become old enough to be a 'Sir'."

While in retail I addressed all male customers as "Sir," be they young men, my age (20s to 30s) all the way up. I still address cashier's as "sir" or "Mam/Miss" to be polite. In my opinion, and what I model to my children, these people put up with such high levels of BS from customers that a small token of politeness and respect is meant to help their day be a little better.

 

[The First Joel]

I need to clam down as some people make me angry.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

I need to clam down as some people make me angry.

I see this a lot in my work. Anger is something I struggle with regularly and it sucks.

I find myself looking towards Stoic quotes at times like these and sharing with clients:
“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on—it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

 

[Birb-of-Prey]

AI Bros promise us Star Trek, but they're giving us Wall-E

 

[Set Harth]

I need to clam down as some people make me angry.

I feel you, I just bought more clams yesterday.

 

[O'BirchRod-ien]

I hate Cash only businesses and tend to avoid them as I no longer carry cash.

 

[auntiehill]

Why is Imgur all messed up?

 

[Surfin' Santa]

While in retail I addressed all male customers as "Sir," be they young men, my age (20s to 30s) all the way up. I still address cashier's as "sir" or "Mam/Miss" to be polite. In my opinion, and what I model to my children, these people put up with such high levels of BS from customers that a small token of politeness and respect is meant to help their day be a little better.

I do believe there's a bit too much informality these days. I mean, if a pharmacy clerk who's one-third my age calls me by my first name, I'm not going to raise a stink. But maintaining a degree of formal distance with people you don't know helps to grease the wheels of social intercourse, in a manner of speaking.