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  • #52
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    the way i've always viewed it is that manners cost you nothing but are worth a lot to the person receiving them so why not use them. I always make a point of making eye contact with people at tills and saying thank you. I guess its because I have perspective of being in their position and people treating you like an atm machine just pushing their money across the counter then extending out their arm waiting for their change before walking away without saying anything. It always made my day better if the customer would actually look at you, ask you about your day and make eye contact to say thank you.


  • #53
    curiousxxx1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭curiousxxx1


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    the way i've always viewed it is that manners cost you nothing but are worth a lot to the person receiving them so why not use them.

    +1
    My work mates dont understand why i say please, thank you, sorry, my apologies....
    :D


  • #54
    misswex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 745 ✭✭✭misswex


    I'm a big believer in good manner and I always, say 'please', 'thank you', 'excuse me' and so on.

    Also I always look behind me when going through a door to see if somebody is coming behind me and keep the door open for them, the amount of people who blatantly let the door swing in your face is unbelievable, I just don't understand how rude some people are. It costs nothing to have manners and be nice.


  • #55
    moco
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭moco


    baraca wrote: »
    Having came across a few very ignorant people today, I was just wondering do you always say please and thank you? It's become a bit of a habit for me i feel awkward getting out of a taxi or buying something in a shop without saying thanks or saying please when asking for something.

    Also, If you walk past someone and it's only the two of you around do you always say hello?

    Yes to all the above.


  • #56
    moco
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭moco


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm so polite, I even say thank you to ATM machines.


    :DMy mum's always doing that.


  • #57
    Stephen P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Stephen P


    misswex wrote: »
    I'm a big believer in good manner and I always, say 'please', 'thank you', 'excuse me' and so on.

    Also I always look behind me when going through a door to see if somebody is coming behind me and keep the door open for them, the amount of people who blatantly let the door swing in your face is unbelievable, I just don't understand how rude some people are. It costs nothing to have manners and be nice.

    I held the door open for someone in Easons today on my lunch (actually twice I did it) and not one of them said thanks.

    If you were going out a door and someone was close behind, how long would you actually hold it open for them? Depending on the humour I'm in I might hang on for 10/15 seconds and the person might then kinda run to the door.


  • #58
    Peared
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Peared


    My thank yous are inversely proportional to the politeness of the person behind the counter. When served with no eye contact, speech or recognition of my presence at all whatsoever (can I mention P***r C**y?) I say a huge loud Thank You Very Much Indeed Thats Great Thanks For Your Help Really Appreciate It Goodbye Now Have A Nice Day Fab Dabee Dozee.

    Yeah so I may look like a mentaller but it gets my point across.

    Cannot stand lack of manners, surely goes against natural instinct, no? Depends what you grow up with I spose.


  • #59
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    misswex wrote: »
    Also I always look behind me when going through a door to see if somebody is coming behind me and keep the door open for them, the amount of people who blatantly let the door swing in your face is unbelievable,


    I do that too. I don't like when people ignore the fact that I'm behind them, even less do I like when I hold the door open for someone and they don't say thanks, or smile or anything. What am I, a feckin doorwoman? I just say 'you're welcome' anyway to catch them off guard.


  • #60
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Some people have no concept of the terms 'Please ' and 'Thank you' .

    The idea of saying so to sombody else for favors big or small ,or just plain good manners is alien to and beneath them , as if it's a sign of weakness ...in my expierence :)


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  • #61
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Always.

    Like we were all (supposedly) taught; costs nothing, means everything.

    I just got back from a week on the continent, did a fair bit of shopping, pubbing and general interaction with people on a formal level and I wasn't once left without an exchange of niceties and general good manners, even barring the language/accent barrier.
    Lo and behold arriving in Dublin ysterday evening to be greeted in the first shop I entered, with a surly native Irish girl busy tapping texts and scowling in customer's general direction....I parted with cash for my overpriced item and left uttering my usual "thanks now" or "cheers" or whatever....I didn't expect to hear anything in return and I duely didn't.

    Of course it's not just in situations like this where we seem to be lacking....there's no shortage of lack of manners on our streets, in our towns, in general....but if we can't even consistently manage it in our retail sector then it doesn't bode well...
    I will say this though...never get this attitude from older staff....it's always the young ones and it's normally female. I think I could count on one hand the amount of pleasantries I've had excahnged with me in the last year in any given shopping situation with people below the age of ~25 serving me.

    I still always say please and thank you though...and yes, I always mean it.


  • #62
    galactus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭galactus


    Peared wrote: »
    My thank yous are inversely proportional to the politeness of the person behind the counter. When served with no eye contact, speech or recognition of my presence at all whatsoever (can I mention P***r C**y?) I say a huge loud Thank You Very Much Indeed Thats Great Thanks For Your Help Really Appreciate It Goodbye Now Have A Nice Day Fab Dabee Dozee.

    Yeah so I may look like a mentaller but it gets my point across.

    Cannot stand lack of manners, surely goes against natural instinct, no? Depends what you grow up with I spose.

    I thought I was the only one!

    The other one I like with ignorant shop assistants (they aren't all like this of course) is to start with "Sorry to interrupt your texting..."

    Its amazing how many of them say "yah, no bother"...


  • #63
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,342 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    baraca wrote: »
    Also, If you walk past someone and it's only the two of you around do you always say hello?
    Not a good practice if you are an attractive female in a large metropolitan area.


  • #64
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    Not a good practice if you are an attractive female in a large metropolitan area.

    Yeah, but what do you?


  • #65
    UrbanFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭UrbanFox


    A real pisser is to hold a door open for someone only for them to walk straight through and utterly ignore you. I deal with them by shouting "thank you" rather loudly on their heels. Mind you, even that gets ignored by the genetically ignorant....


  • #66
    littlemizz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭littlemizz


    aw bad manners iritate da fcuk out of me!:mad:excuse my language but it really does my nut in!! i work part time in a shop and i am ALWAYS polite to each and every customer even if they snap at me and call me names!just because you have a bad day there is absolutely no need to take it out on innocent strangers! i may b sarcastic in my reply but only if they purposly go out of their way to be rude. some people get a kick out of degrading shop assistants, while some people wouldnt even wate their breath by saying "hello" let alone "thank you"i always say please and thank you without even needing to think about it, its just instinctivly there! a simple "cheers" is sufficient! :o


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  • #67
    Cionnfhaolaidh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Cionnfhaolaidh


    Me: "Get I get a packet of Drum Light please"
    Shop: Puts it on counter
    Me: Hand the money "cheers"
    Shop: Thanks
    Me: Receive change "cheers"
    Shop: Cheers
    Me: See ye
    Shop: Thanks

    It's hilarious, but so automatic.


  • #68
    littlemizz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭littlemizz


    Cionnfhaolaidh wrote: »
    Me: "Get I get a packet of Drum Light please"
    Shop: Puts it on counter
    Me: Hand the money "cheers"
    Shop: Thanks
    Me: Receive change "cheers"
    Shop: Cheers
    Me: See ye
    Shop: Thanks

    It's hilarious, but so automatic.
    yet its so damn hard for some people!


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