Huh? I didn't say you had to do business with annoying people. In fact, I explicitly stated that it's the owner's prerogative. Now, if you're an employee and you're turning away business *against the owner's wishes* then you deserve to be fired.
If we want to talk business etiquette, a simple one would be that if you initiate business relations with a person or entity out of your own free will, use your head instead of your ass and get off of the phone. Then, there's always common decency. If you initiate any kind of relations with another human being out of your own free will, use your head or your ass might get kicked right in the phone. Then, there's always self-preservationism. If you initiate any kind of relations with another human being out of your own free will, use your head before it gets blown off by some guy who's had a really bad day and is sick of "people like you's" disrespect to other human beings like him. You never know. I love my cell phone, but I make sure not to be a dick.
We have a sign in our office waiting room that says No cell phone, take your conversation outside, etc. We don't allow them b/c it interferes with our jobs, especially when we are trying to talk on our office phones.
Who said anything about "mistreating a customer"? Just because they're rude and inconsiderate human beings doesn't mean I'm going to punch them in the face or something while waiting on them.
That wasn't a poke at you. I was drawing on some previous experience with retail clerks that acted completely inappropriately in the same situation.
I agree. I think people who talk on phones while driving and therefore causing danger to other people on the road are very selfish.
I think it would be a hoot to get one and simply have fun with people.....kind of like the old laser pointers of the past. DD
if people are on the phone and end up doing something stupid like ignoring the freaking payment buttons on the credit card machine or something, ill get em back... sure, by putting in their ice cream in the same bag as their office supplies, or by giving them change in nickels and pennies and telling them that im out of any larger denominations...
Yeah, I'm sure that will be awesome...right up until the point when you are out with your wife, and the babysitter can't get ahold of you on your cell phone to tell you that your son/daughter has just swallowed poison...all because people somehow find it inconsiderate when a complete stranger is speaking on their cell phone while they try to eat. Lots of people have cell phones for emergencies, me included. If restaurants just start installing inhibitors to negate their use, that will really piss me off.
Gee, can you imagine a world without cell phones? Come to your senses -- cell phones are, WITHOUT A DOUBT, an unnecessary tool. If someone needs to reach you in a restaurant they can do what they had to do 15 years ago -- CALL THE RESTAURANT.
Only things that bother me about cell phones - when someone let's it affect their driving - when someone is talking way too loud(though that's not the cell phones fault ...) - when someone is wearing one of those earpiece things and it looks like they are talking to themself like a crazy person
