When did it happen????????

I don't know when it happened. I must have had my head buried in the sand or something, but when did it become the rare thing for people to say "Please" , "Thank you" or even "Have a great day"? When did it become so serious when you make an honest mistake that did not threaten anyone's life, no one died and the end of the world did not come about?

I miss common courtesy and humanity. I forget for a minute there that we are not allowed to be human and that we should not expect people to be polite. Ok, so I have been working in Customer Service for too long! I no longer have the patience for rudeness. You know it is really bad when I go to other stores (where I don't work) and end up giving their staff customer service. I usually ask how they are doing before they do and I always say thank you and have a great day. You should see the looks I get from people - you would think that I had grown a second head that was spinning.

I also get really embarrassed when I am out to to eat with someone and they are not nice to the server. It makes me want to apologize and beg for forgiveness or at least crawl under the table. I was once out to dinner with an older couple and the husband didn't wait to be seated, he picked the table he wanted and just sat down and then he snapped for the waitress to come. I wanted to die!!!!! I just couldn't believe it, who does that? There should be one major rule of thumb when it comes to people who handle your food, coffee or other personal items.......be nice, they are touching the items you will be putting in your mouth. Now I am not saying that anyone in the service industry would ever do anything to anything, but still why take the chance? Why not be nice?

I don't know....maybe I am just naive, maybe I have too much of a positive attitude about how we should treat each other. Can't we all just get along, man? In an indirect way this is me venting about work today and having made one little mistake, again, no one died and no one's safety was threatened, but I was referred to as only having half a brain and then was called a liar. Wow, it is so good to know there are people in the world who have never made a mistake.

OK.....my venting is over! Thanks!