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I'm going to go ahead and be the counter point on this. I worked at a shitty service job for years and nothing pissed me off like people using my name and tryi

I'm going to go ahead and be the counter point on this. I worked at a shitty service job for years and nothing pissed me off like people using my name and trying to get friendly.

jlees 17y ago
Same, though I think there's a slight difference. I used to just hate people reading my name off my badge and using it in a smarmy way (and it was always smarmy). But if you're answering the phone and volunteering your name as information, I think it's a little different. It depends on how you do it, really. I get fed up with callers who constantly interject my name or worse, "$TITLE $SURNAME". Especially when they get the title wrong - it feels like I'm eavesdropping on one of my parents' conversations. That stuff just stinks of "I've been trained to repeat your name and I'm reading it off a screen right now". Urgh.
blhack 17y ago
Umm...no offense, but how would you prefer that people be nice to you? Did you just hate your job? There is no sense getting mad at the people that were trying to treat you like a human being. I also spent many years working in service industry jobs. People talking to me like I was a person and not a piece of shit that was somehow below them made all the difference to me. To each their own, I guess.
- nazgulnarsil 17y ago
  because it was fake. if they're not going to be sincere I would much prefer people just stick to business.
  - blhack 17y ago
    It sounds to me like you're assuming that everybody who tries to be nice to you is being fake. My being nice to people when I talk to them is a result of my mid-western upbringing, as well as my working the majority of the jobs I'm talking about here. It must suck seeing the world through your eyes.
    - nazgulnarsil 17y ago
      well, I live in the 3rd richest county (used to be #1) in the united states. the people here are worse than you can possibly imagine (lots of inherited wealth).

I'm going to go ahead and be the counter point on this. I worked at a shitty service job for years and nothing pissed me off like people using my name and trying to get friendly.

jlees 17y ago

Same, though I think there's a slight difference. I used to just hate people reading my name off my badge and using it in a smarmy way (and it was always smarmy). But if you're answering the phone and volunteering your name as information, I think it's a little different. It depends on how you do it, really. I get fed up with callers who constantly interject my name or worse, "$TITLE $SURNAME". Especially when they get the title wrong - it feels like I'm eavesdropping on one of my parents' conversations. That stuff just stinks of "I've been trained to repeat your name and I'm reading it off a screen right now". Urgh.

blhack 17y ago

Umm...no offense, but how would you prefer that people be nice to you? Did you just hate your job? There is no sense getting mad at the people that were trying to treat you like a human being. I also spent many years working in service industry jobs. People talking to me like I was a person and not a piece of shit that was somehow below them made all the difference to me. To each their own, I guess.

nazgulnarsil 17y ago
because it was fake. if they're not going to be sincere I would much prefer people just stick to business.
- blhack 17y ago
  It sounds to me like you're assuming that everybody who tries to be nice to you is being fake. My being nice to people when I talk to them is a result of my mid-western upbringing, as well as my working the majority of the jobs I'm talking about here. It must suck seeing the world through your eyes.
  - nazgulnarsil 17y ago
    well, I live in the 3rd richest county (used to be #1) in the united states. the people here are worse than you can possibly imagine (lots of inherited wealth).