Do you treat employees nicely at stores and service type places?

[yasha]

I've found that it pays to be nice. Here's an example:
The other day I went to one of those Penske auto centers to get some stuff done to my car. They were pretty busy and it took them a long time to do something that shouldn't have taken that long. I didn't complain and was polite to the mechanic. I came back the next day to ask that mechanic about a pipe under the hood that started to look very corroded and was going to start leaking soon. He told me that he noticed that the other day and that the part could only be bought from the dealer for that car. He told me that if I bought the part from the dealer, he would put it in for me.. I went and bought the part and went back this morning. He put it in and it took him a full hour to do it. The dealer was going to charge me $75 to put it in. The mechanic saved me the 75 bucks. So it pays to be nice to folks.

 

[FettsBabe]

I always try to be nice unless they are total B*tches to me.

 

[pulpp]

yup, there is no reason not to be nice to them, and like you said it usually pays off

 

[Emulex]

always treat your mechanics with respect. They will go out of your way for you when it counts..

There's a brake-O near my brothers house. I can bring them my brake pads, and $20 bill, they'll put them on Excellent deal imo.

 

[Electric Amish]

I treat people the way they treat me.

amish

 

[yasha]

FettsBabe> True, there are B*tches out there. I usually reserve the verbal shot gun for those situations.

 

[Viper GTS]

Be polite & tip well, if for no other reason that to honestly say that you treat others like you'd want to be treated yourself.

Viper GTS

 

[kami]

<< I treat people the way they treat me. >>


sometimes YOU have to take the initiative and be nice first though.

 

[Alienwho]

<< I treat people the way they treat me.

amish >>


Same, I am nice to people, but the moment they get sarcastic or act like a prick to me, fun's over.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

No reason to be nice to them.Without the customer they wouldn't have a job.
I expect them to treat me nice and do buisness in a timely and professional fashion.
If not I go somewhere else.

 

[yasha]

JohnnyKnoxvile> SOmetimes things are unavoidable. They were backed up with cars to start with before I came, plus he was the only main mechanic there and had to go back and forth between the phones and cashing out other customers. In those situations you just have to role with the punches. I could of yelled and stuff but it wouldn't have helped. He saw me sitting there for 3 hours without saying anything and that's why he did that free repair for me the next day.

 

[Demosthenes]

Haha.. I work in retail, and believe me.. you better be nice to me or you simply aren't getting what you came for. I'll even go out of my way to hide it from you. I love the people who call in asking for a peticular CD and are automatically a bitch to me right off the bat. That's when I set the phone down, hit a few keys on the computer.. very loudly ask some invisible person if we've got XXX in, and then pick up the phone and tell the customer &quot;Nope, just sold the last one&quot;.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Since I'm in the service/customer support business, I know what it's like to be on the other side of the counter, so unless the service person I'm dealing with gets WAY out of line, I'm generally a pleasure to deal with.

 

[Linh]

yes

 

[Silverbullet28]

I always try to be as polite as I can. Even if a employee is being sort of @ss, I ususally just remind myself they are at work and just having a bad day or something.

- SB

 

[spanner]

I make it a point to be nice to anyone and everyone that I do not know. As for people being bitchy, sometimes things just pop out or are not intended to be ofensive but if it continues they get treated equally bad. I remember back home, some hotshot who owns a video store was at the counter and he was blatantly holding up my younger cousin and I to make a personal phone call, lets just say he put the phone down fast after he got one look at my really ticked off expression and it never happened again.

 

[goodoptics]

yes, I always try to be as nice with them as I can.

 

[Belegost]

Always. Even if they're not being nice, we all have bad days and no one needs me being an ass and making it worse. I would want people to be pleasant with me, so I'll go out of my way to be pleasant first.

 

[Moonbeam]

Once upon a time we were all beautiful little babies. If you look close you can still see it.

 

[LordMaul]

I treat them normally, but if they are overly bitchy or annoying, then I treat them with as little resect as possible without lowering myself to their level.