{"id":268,"date":"2013-03-18T17:19:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roslyn-on-the-go.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2013-03-18T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T21:19:45","slug":"impolite-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Impolite Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who is out in public and doing business today is complaining\u00a0\u00a0about the incredible lack of respect and courteousness one experiences\u00a0\u00a0in everyday life. There seems to be no barrier through socio-economic\u00a0\u00a0levels, it has reached pandemic proportions throughout society.\u00a0\u00a0Parents are no longer teaching their children about manners or\u00a0\u00a0respect, people are stressed out and angry, and will take out their\u00a0frustrations on whoever is in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this is that eventually it incites violence, as not\u00a0everyone is able to deal with this level of disrespect and anger.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of extraordinarily bad behaviour follow, but there are\u00a0more than can be listed in one small blog&#8230;..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>returning business calls at 7:10 in the morning, hoping for voicemail\u00a0so you don&#8217;t have to speak to the caller.<\/li>\n<li>walking into a store, and before anyone approaches to see if you need\u00a0assistance, screaming at the sales staff.<\/li>\n<li>sending emails at midnight to change a scheduled meeting for early\u00a0the next morning.<\/li>\n<li>sending emails one hour before a meeting to change the time and day.<\/li>\n<li>phoning a help line which says &#8216;press 9&#8217; for English, then being told\u00a0by a recording that the line has been disabled.<\/li>\n<li>rude, surly cashiers who are speaking loudly with a co-worker about\u00a0their social life while scanning your purchases, then being rude and\u00a0dismissive when the client has the audacity to interrupt the\u00a0\u00a0conversation with a question.<\/li>\n<li>people who interrupt others constantly to talk about the minutiae of\u00a0\u00a0their boring, insignificant lives, and never let anyone else get a\u00a0word in.<\/li>\n<li>people who constantly complain about hard it is in business, how they\u00a0can&#8217;t pay their rent or their bills, yet have abundant cash to eat in\u00a0restaurants 3 times a day, go to the spa, go to the hairdresser and\u00a0manicurist, go to movies, trips, and new clothes. We all have bills to\u00a0pay. Get over it.<\/li>\n<li>Is it a question?!!!\u00a0stop up-talking, it is not cute.<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t discuss the intimate details of your sex life, particularly\u00a0when you are denigrating your partner&#8217;s abilities, or lack of abilities. How are we supposed to look this person in the face?<\/li>\n<li>never answering your phone or voice mail messages, but spending the\u00a0day texting furiously. Not everyone likes to text, or have the means<\/li>\n<li>to text. Some of us actually believe in real live conversations.<\/li>\n<li>speaking on your mobile while getting into the elevator, walking\u00a0through a store, sitting in a restaurant, sitting in a movie, sitting\u00a0in a business meeting&#8230;&#8230;at the top of your lungs. Do you actually\u00a0think you are that interesting?<\/li>\n<li>cutting in front of people while they are being served in a shop or a restaurant, interrupting as though the other person is invisible, not excusing yourself, as though you are the most important person on the\u00a0planet.<\/li>\n<li>being referred through someone in business, who has absolutely no\u00a0idea who you are, what you do, what company you represent, if any, and\u00a0spending 10 minutes denigrating the caller, never letting them speak\u00a0or explain the reason for the call.<\/li>\n<li>behaving like a DIVA at a party or other social function, and not\u00a0taking the time to look around the room and assess who is there, when\u00a0in fact, most of the other guests are more successful and famous than\u00a0you, they are simply being quiet about it.<\/li>\n<li>treating people who actually DO have manners and are courteous as\u00a0\u00a0though they are either weak or invisible. We are not and we KNOW who<\/li>\n<li>you are. Do you REALLY think we won&#8217;t tell each other about your\u00a0appalling behaviour?<\/li>\n<li>just because you married a man who is rich and successful doesn&#8217;t\u00a0make you a lady. Behaving like a lady has nothing to do with money or\u00a0position, it is simply a matter of class, or lack of it. Many of us know where you came from, and if you continue berating us in public will let the world know who you REALLY are at some point when we have\u00a0had enough.<\/li>\n<li>we are all in business to make money, it has to be conducted in a\u00a0fair, equitable, respectful manner. It HAS to be win, win. Just\u00a0because you work for a large company today, does not mean you can&#8217;t be\u00a0fired, nor does it mean the company will still be in business in 6\u00a0months. If you diss all your suppliers, we will remember all the\u00a0details of your insults when you come crawling for a job, regardless\u00a0of what level of position you have held in industry. Recently we have\u00a0had a number of former Vice Presidents, and Senior Vice Presidents\u00a0knocking on our door as they were fired from their previous\u00a0employment, and behaving as though we are their long lost friends.\u00a0Have you forgotten just how rude and arrogant you were when we tried\u00a0to do business with you??<\/li>\n<li>calling someone either Miss or by their first name when they are old\u00a0enough to be your mother. If you don&#8217;t know how to address them, then\u00a0just call them Madame&#8230;&#8230;or as in French, tu-toyer&#8230;&#8230;when it\u00a0should be vous.<\/li>\n<li>the French (France) have an absolutely wonderful expression for this\u00a0which is &#8216;monsieur, or mademoiselle, nous n&#8217;avons pas elever des\u00a0\u00a0cochons ensemble&#8217;!!! to translate, we didn&#8217;t raise pigs together, or\u00a0\u00a0FIND YOUR MANNERS.<\/li>\n<li>attacking the food and drink at a cocktail party as though you have\u00a0never seen food before. It is a Cocktail Party, you were not invited\u00a0to dinner. You are expected to politely graze not fill your plate to\u00a0overflowing, and go back for seconds.<\/li>\n<li>going to a party in someone&#8217;s home, staying until you have consumed\u00a0every drop of alcohol in the house, including rooting through cupboards and the refrigerator to make sure you have consumed it all. \u00a0<strong>YES, we did see you<\/strong>, and we also heard all about it the next day.<\/li>\n<li>arrogant employees in companies who actually think they have the\u00a0right to tell you who you have the right to speak with or not.\u00a0Seriously??<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am sure there are more examples out there&#8230;&#8230;.but these are the\u00a0ones which come to mind&#8230;&#8230;please feel free to share this BLOG,\u00a0we\u00a0need a return to polite society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who is out in public and doing business today is complaining\u00a0\u00a0about the incredible lack of respect and courteousness one experiences\u00a0\u00a0in everyday life. There seems to be no barrier through socio-economic\u00a0\u00a0levels, it has reached pandemic proportions throughout society.\u00a0\u00a0Parents are no longer teaching their children about manners or\u00a0\u00a0respect, people are stressed out and angry, and will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/?p=268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Impolite Society<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consideration","category-integrity","tag-excuse-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p61fNh-4k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roslynsrants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}