Do You Talk Down to People With Certain Jobs?

So most of you know I work two jobs. One as a stable hand and the other retail. Just for now. But it kills me how rude people are at the retail job. Especially the few times I have been a cashier there. People just treat you like your dirt and talk to you like your stupid. I mean you must me to work at a job like that right? I mean there is no way that most of the employee's are college students right?. I am always polite and nice to customers but very few of them are polite or nice back. It really does get on my nerves.

I recently told my mom I didn't know our family was so unique. We are always really nice to our cashiers or waiters/waitresses ect. Its just funny because I thought thats how the majority of people are. But I found out quick the majority of the population is really rude and stuck up. Just anouther reason for me to dislike people lol.

Just my rant.

But do you ever find yourself talking down to someone in a job position lower than yours? Or are you always polite?

I am always polite, unless they have been rude to me. I can't bring myself to be nice to someone who can't do me the same favor. Of course, this comes from someone who started out in customer service work while still in high school. So I know what it's like to work at jobs in which people look down their noses at... to them I say, at least I've worked for a living!!

I'm always extremely nice to people in the service industry - I've workedit, I know it sucks and usually the customer is in the wrong, OR they're talking to a minimum wag employee who can't do anything for thier situation - nor has been given the tools to deal with it.

I run into this at work - people will come in and complain about their job being over quote, but I have *no way* to help them on a Saturday morning, or a Monday night. Our Accounts Recievable lady isn't at the store and is unreachable, and the manager doesn't answer his phone. What the frak am I supposed to do then? I'm not authorized on making decisions on quarter-million dollar accounts, so the bst thing I can say is, "call the manager tomorrow" or "come back tomorrow" - then I get negative comment cards. Ugh.

I always am.

Done enough crappy jobs in my time to know how it feels to be on both sides.

My folk always embarass me with how rude they are - it's like they look upon people to be there to serve them - and yes - they ARE, but as one person to another, not lowly mite to mighty king.

Can't say anything to them though - it's just how they are. I am sure they don't MEAN to be rude, but they are. In my eyes.

I do my best to be polite. I work as a stable hand a few days a week too. It amazes me how rude people are even though everyone always admired my horse. Didn't put two and two together that the stable hand might actually be a client as well, and maybe, just maybe, has a good looking horse.

I have snapped on a few people before. Some people are just so rude and if I am having a bad day I am so rude. I have yet to have a rude person serving me food though. They are usually laughing at me because I come across as being a total scatter brain, tree hugging freak that can't get her thoughts straight.

Nope...not unless they give me a reason to. I'm usually polite to people I come across on a daily basis. I actually usually find that the cashiers/retail people are the ones that are rude. I usually smile/say thank you/etc...and they just like glare and look annoyed.

I always treat the person I am addressing with the same respect (or lack there of) that they show me.

I am known at work as "Little miss sunshine" because I talk and laugh with EVERYONE, I don't care if they are the custodians, factory personnel, the shipping department, or the president of the company I can find SOMETHING to talk to them about

There are 'certain' people in the office that view themselves above other employees and speak only on a 'need to' basis. I find that rather odd.

I don't think I do; I'll admit, I lost my temper once with someone in customer service when I was having constant problems with my cell phone, and couldn't even get them to understand what I was saying (thank you, outsourcing).

Nobody tries to talk down to me, despite working in a barn, because I'm generally the most knowledgable person about horses there. People come to me for advice generally.

I have always worked in the service industry. Retail, fast food, customer service rep etc etc. You always get rude customers but I can't say I have noticed the majority of people are rude. That was the thing I loved about the service industry was the customers. You got the bad apple now and then but for everyone bad one I always had about 20 good ones. Especially at Tim Hortons... They have a VERY faithful customer base. So about 40% of the customers everyday were regulars. I always made a point to try to memorize their order so when they would come in I would already have it ready or ready to go... they loved that and if I happened to forget I would make a little joke and we would laugh about it. Customers can be wonderful. As for the grumpy ones lol I always liked to stand there a smile my butt off while they were ranting and raving and then I would end with OK well you have a GREAT day alright lol. they hated that and would usually just stop complaining and leave lol.

I always start out being polite to anyone in the service industry. BUT... if you can't provide me with good service and can't even be reasonably polite... that's where it ends for me. That is my pet peeve. YOU are being paid to do a job so DO IT. Don't sit there and act like I am bothering you because you have to do your job. If you want to sit on your lazy butt, chomp your gum like a cow eating cud, and huff and puff about how you hate your job... then GO HOME. Don't waste MY time, don't waste your employers money and don't waste the time of the employees that are now having to pick up your slack. Do your job or you don't have one.

I do too! SO thinks I'm weird for saying "Have a nice day!" to the cashiers and Jimmy John's sandwich people! I've been on the recieving end of rude customers, so I go out of my way to be nice to the people that serve me. I don't get mad when someone makes a mistake - that doesn't help anyone. For instance - I eat at Jimmy Johns 3x/week, since it's relatively healthy and yummy... so I KNOW what my lunch costs ($5.62). The other day I was charged $6.79, and I dind't get amd, I nicely asked if I was rung up wrong, then spent the rest of my visit talking and laughing with the cashier - she made an honest mistake and fixed it promptly, and I needed to make sure that she knew that I wasn't mad or grumpy about it. We're all human, we all make mistakes.

I always talk down to MDs Most of them are incredibly obtuse. Besides, they need to learn what it feels like since they are the world's worst for doing it . . . second only to their wives.

Oh I hear that! (can't say about the wives though, no contact to base it on LOL)

If I think back, the majority of people I have had to get rude with WERE in the medical field in some way shape or form. And as I said earlier, I show people the same amount of respect they show to me

Oh yeah... mistakes don't bother me. It's the attitude of some workers.

I tell this story all the time lol but at the burger king around the corner one day we were waiting for our order and I think the cashier was new. So the MANAGER kept yelling at her right in front of customers to mark the orders "here" or "to go"... that alone is totally inappropriate... but that is not all.

a few minutes later the manager packs up this lady's order in a bag and hands it to her and the lady said "Oh that was supposed to be for her." (she wasn't rude when she said it or anything... just an oops sorta thing. she was very polite) and the manager slammed the bag down on the counter and said in a loud tone "Well it SAYS TO GO" and walked away from the lady.

THAT... wow. Brian had to send me away before I blew up and told that manager what I thought about her and her crappy service lol.

Everyone makes mistakes but THAT kind of attitude to a customer or even your employees is NOT acceptable.

Usually polite to everyone (except possibly the jerk in the car ahead of me who cut me off so he could drive 10 miles under the limit). I like talking to people (cashiers, salespeople, waiters/waitresses, shop owners, etc.), especially when visiting other cities or states. You can find out all sorts of interesting things that way...

im always polite, occasionally TOO polite

however i know the feeling, working in a job as "remidial" i get talked down to all the time...

people think that because i work with animals, and working with animals involves poop, that must mean im too stupid to get anything else "better"

they dont seem to realize i LOVE my job.

working retail i cam across the same problem, many people treat cashires like dirt, they dont seem to understand...without them you aint buying whatever it is you need so much you think it gives you the right to talk to the people serving you like dirt...

LOL just wanted to mention... chances are those people that you think are talking down to you because of your job...

I'm willing to bet my life savings that they are just miserable and talk down to EVERYONE no matter who they are or what they do

Erm, I don't know. Possibly. Not purposely, but I could definitely see how I seem rude most of the time at the store or something. I generally don't make much eye contact, say anything, and just go if I'm feeling bad or had a long day at work or just nervous, which is often. But I always make an effert to say thank you, have a nice day.

Most of the time I try to smile and say hi, thanks, goodbye, all that stuff.

You could be very right!

I think some of the worst experiences I had was as operator for the store I work at. God forbid we not have Nintendo Wii's or DS's the day before Christmas Eve!!! Lol I got screamed at numerous times for that one. Because you know I had all our shipping and stock . And I especially loved it when they would ask when we were getting them in. Well our boss never tells us we find out when they come out on to the floor. But people always think im lieing when I say this.

Anouther time when I was Operator I got a service call from a guy over in our GPS area. We have phones all over the store that guests can just pick up and it connects you to the operator. So he tells me he needs assistance and I tell him I will page someone and they should be with him in alittle bit. Now again this was probley the week before Christmas and that day we were swamped and understaffed. So the phone rang back twice and I was polite and apologized and explained we were busy and someone would be with him as soon as possible. I could tell he was mad but there wasent much else I could do. So next time he called he was screaming at me before I could even say hello. Calling me all sorts of names and complaining about the service in our store. He then demanded that I come and help him find what he needed. I was not alowed to leave the phone as im the only operator and its just against the rules for me to go so far from my desk. So I explained that to him and he proceeded to scream a few lovely names into the phone and hung up on me.

Lol come to find out later we were out of GPS systems .

I've only ever been able to get jobs in retail, I hate the rude people.
I always be extra polite no matter what happens because I know how much the rude customers suck.

I work at a supermarket, hate things likee
"where's the *****?"
"I'm sorry, I really don't know I only do checkouts"
"well you work here! You should know!"

If they didn't storm off in a huff so fast I'd call someone down on the PA to ask. I suppose if they wanna be impatient though thats their choice.

I've only had a couple of people full on get up me, the first almost made me cry, the second time I was over it and just laughed afterwards. How upset do you want to get yourself over lotto or fish and chips? Really.

That reminds me of when I still worked at Petco. I had a guy come through my line that was HORRIBLE, just plain mean and condecending. He wanted his PALS discount and wouldn't understand that it was already on there because the item was on sale, he thought he got an additional discount. Both my manager and I tried to explain it to him and the whole process took like a half hour. He was just nasty. Fast forward a couple weeks at my local bar. I was sitting there, minding ym own business and chatting with the bartender, who happens to be a buddy of mine. This guy comes up sits next to me and buys me a drink (didn't ask if I wanted one, he just bought it.) Starts trying to chat me up. It's the same guy. He had no clue who I was. None. He wasn't even faking it to make it up to me. I let him know EXACTLY what I thought of his attitude. He went off on me and my buddy kicked him out. The best part? He forgot his change on the bar.