Manners

peaches2_2

Thought I would see if anyone else has some real bugbears about manners.

I have been sat in a meeting where my manager has been chewing on jelly sweets and talking for the best part of an hour.

Meetings are awful enough without you having to suck back in excess spit due to chewing and listening to it roll around in your mouth and not being able to talk properly because of it!

I also really hate people who lick their knives (whilst eating a meal not just for kicks!:))

Anyone got any weird ones?

StaffsSW

This is MSE forum, so probably not the best place to ask about manners IMO.

Snatching, grabbing, fighting for your own indignant rights and to hell with anyone or anything else are the norm here!!

wellused

People who think it's alright to answer mobile phone calls in a room full of people and somehow manage to carry on a conversation no matter how loudly the other people in the room have to talk to be heard over the phone conversation. Also the same people who when you are having a conversation with them and their mobile phone rings and they stop talking to you without a word and start a conversation with the person on the phone.

pulliptears

stevew8975 wrote: »

This is MSE forum, so probably not the best place to ask about manners IMO.

Snatching, grabbing, fighting for your own indignant rights and to hell with anyone or anything else are the norm here!!

They are most certainly not the norm for me, and I'll be willing to bet a lot of people here will disagree with you.

I was raised to used my manners, and as I was always taught they cost nothing.

Fighting for your rights is in no way akin to being ill mannered and if you feel that by standing up for your rights is something to be ashamed of then I fear you are perhaps on the wrong forum.

bargainbetty

People who eat loudly with their mouths open, people who shove past without saying 'Excuse me' and men who sit with their legs spreadeagled across two seats on the train.

They're not that big, lads! Shuffle up and let someone else sit down.

Edit: Thank you.

missile

wellused wrote: »

People who think it's alright to answer mobile phone calls in a room full of people and somehow manage to carry on a conversation no matter how loudly the other people in the room have to talk to be heard over the phone conversation. Also the same people who when you are having a conversation with them and their mobile phone rings and they stop talking to you without a word and start a conversation with the person on the phone.

I had the misfortune to be in the company of one who put his phone on speaker, because he could not hear :mad:

fluffnutter

peaches2 wrote: »

Thought I would see if anyone else has some real bugbears about manners.

I have been sat in a meeting where my manager has been chewing on jelly sweets and talking for the best part of an hour.

Meetings are awful enough without you having to suck back in excess spit due to chewing and listening to it roll around in your mouth and not being able to talk properly because of it!

I also really hate people who lick their knives (whilst eating a meal not just for kicks!:))

Anyone got any weird ones?

I wonder how much insight people have got into their own behaviours. I wouldn't chair a meeting whilst eating sweets, but that's not to say your boss is trying to be rude. Perhaps he or she's just stupid (most managers are IME).

I'm pretty blunt (rude probably!) and would have said 'Can you stop sucking on your sweets, I can't make out what you're saying. Thanks'.

Why put up with stuff if you don't have to?

StaffsSW

pulliptears wrote: »

They are most certainly not the norm for me, and I'll be willing to bet a lot of people here will disagree with you.

I was raised to used my manners, and as I was always taught they cost nothing.

Fighting for your rights is in no way akin to being ill mannered and if you feel that by standing up for your rights is something to be ashamed of then I fear you are perhaps on the wrong forum.

I've been left very disillusioned by the MSE forums recently, so many people demanding compensation for trivial matters, the lack of self-responsibility, blame culture, and in-fact the whole self-entitlement culture, the horrendous displays of greed and gluttony in the Grabbit and freebies section etc. These forums seem to have become a magnet for some of the worst greedy, sponging whingers that the internet has to offer!!

I agree, fighting for rights shouldn't be about ill manners, but I've seen far too many people across these boards forgetting that. Standing up for your rights is one thing, but being downright obnoxious, rude and bolshy about it seems to the standard operating procedure advocated by the forum, and from what Martin himself writes about/puts his name to...

peaches2_2

fluffnutter wrote: »

I wonder how much insight people have got into their own behaviours. I wouldn't chair a meeting whilst eating sweets, but that's not to say your boss is trying to be rude. Perhaps he or she's just stupid (most managers are IME).

I'm pretty blunt (rude probably!) and would have said 'Can you stop sucking on your sweets, I can't make out what you're saying. Thanks'.

Why put up with stuff if you don't have to?

Oh Fluffnutter I wish I had your gumption :T

fluffnutter

peaches2 wrote: »

Oh Fluffnutter I wish I had your gumption :T

Yeah, but you're still in employment aren't you?

Azari

People who, when you hold a door open for them, breeze through without a word or, indeed, any acknowledgement.

Older people are by far the worse for this.