favour becomes entitlement

Person_one

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

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Easier than thinking about it for a second, I suppose.

maisie_cat

Kayalana99 wrote: »

Maybe slighly not the same but I run an eBay business and at the start I was so nice and friendly, it involves some design work now and again and I used to really go the extra mile for customers. Sometimes doing things they didn't expect.

After time, I complety shut down my friendly customer service side, doing the bare minimum because what happened was people would ask, any chance you could just do this? And I'd say of course! and then it was...oh I'd love if you could do this! and then it turned into 'Ok a little to the right maybe, could you show me two options one like this and one like this?' ...give people an inch and they take a mile.

Now everytime someone asks me to do something out of the ordinary they get a short "£3 for any addtional artwork changes" reply and no one ever takes me up on it.

Might have lost a few customers but I've saved soooo much in time to only deal with the 95% of customers who order and go.

Completely agree, I also have a small business and I've added in charges for the "can you just?" customers. It still doesn't stop people chopping and changing their minds & adding things expecting the price to be the same.

Vicky123

Person_one wrote: »

There's no outrage here, just a calm, rational, pointing out of something that we should all really try not to do once we are aware that we are doing it.

Its funny how people react so strongly to somebody merely pointing out a discrepancy in their language. Language matters, doesn't it? It can reveal our most well hidden prejudices that we weren't even aware of ourselves.

Well yes, it's also pretty telling that we were told the people's gender, I suspect a touch of misandry here:D

Primrose

We have the (mis)fortune to live in a cul-de-sac near a school and always have parents parking across our driveway whilst waiting to pick their kids up in the afternoon. We have had women refusing to move their parked car when we've been out somewhere or even to move their car so that we can exit our driveway. . On one occasion I lost my rag as I was late for an appointment and told one woman she had 20 seconds to move her car or I would drive my elderly vehicle into the side of her nice new registered car as dents in my bumper car wouldn't matter. She moved but not before she had told me I was a selfish inconsiderate ****** !

Silvertabby

We have the (mis)fortune to live in a cul-de-sac near a school and always have parents parking across our driveway whilst waiting to pick their kids up in the afternoon. We have had women refusing to move their parked car when we've been out somewhere or even to move their car so that we can exit our driveway. . On one occasion I lost my rag as I was late for an appointment and told one woman she had 20 seconds to move her car or I would drive my elderly vehicle into the side of her nice new registered car as dents in my bumper car wouldn't matter. She moved but not before she had told me I was a selfish inconsiderate ****** ! Posted by Primrose.

A family member (a fireman's widow) had a similar problem. She asked the local Fire Brigade to do a 'route check' in her narrow street at school chucking out time, when the road was blocked by cars parked on both sides of the road, meaning residents couldn't even get in or out of the road, never mind their own driveway! To cut a long story short, the Fire Brigade wrote to the school headmaster instructing him to advise all parents that if they had been called out to a real fire that day, they would have had no alternative but to bulldoze the parked cars out of the way, regardless of damage caused. It worked for a while, but some cars are starting to trickle back... time for another route check, I think.

bearcat16

Oh dear, it seems a professional taker-of-offense has arrived.