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Thank you to the delivery folks. Lotta hours, lotta miles, lotta work, lotta time away from families. We appreciate the late night deliveries and the care to get stuff to the right addresses, but does Amazon?
My apologies for the two-part post. As the holidays approach people seem to get ruder and ruder, especially towards service people.
I wrote this a long time ago.
I believe in reading nametags.
Partly itās because I do worse than most people when it comes to remembering names. I learn by seeing things and doing things but am particularly poor remembering things I hear. I forget them before the sound of the words bounce off the wall behind me.
I can only remember my own name only because people shout it at me all day long. Why canāt people carry billboards with their names on it? Maybe thatās why I liked being in the military; everyone wore a name tag.
But thatās not the kind of name tag I am talking about. It does seem that name tags are everywhere: on the overalls of the mechanic at the garage, sitting at the counter of the clerk at the bank, on the shirt of the waitperson at Red Robbin and even the person bagging groceries at Food Lion.
Each of these people have a name, so I use it. I greet them by name. Itās nice to see their faces light up. Sometimes the name is unusual and Iāll ask how to pronounce it and if it has a special meaning or what the origin of the name is. It opens a door and often starts a conversation.
If nothing else, it makes the bagging and checkout experience seem to go faster.
The only place I have success in remembering a name I hear is on the telephone and thatās because I write it down. Whenever I call the help desk ā it doesnāt matter if it is at work to the IT Department to get my Outlook fixed or to Direct TV to decipher how to program the remote, I have pencil and paper in hand.
They usually start of with something like, āHi, my name is Alice ā¦ā I respond with āHi, Alice, Iām Dan. Iām calling today about ā¦ā and end it with, āThanks for your help, Alice.ā
sandpiper about 2 years ago
Thank you to the delivery folks. Lotta hours, lotta miles, lotta work, lotta time away from families. We appreciate the late night deliveries and the care to get stuff to the right addresses, but does Amazon?
dflak about 2 years ago
My apologies for the two-part post. As the holidays approach people seem to get ruder and ruder, especially towards service people.
I wrote this a long time ago.
I believe in reading nametags.
Partly itās because I do worse than most people when it comes to remembering names. I learn by seeing things and doing things but am particularly poor remembering things I hear. I forget them before the sound of the words bounce off the wall behind me.
I can only remember my own name only because people shout it at me all day long. Why canāt people carry billboards with their names on it? Maybe thatās why I liked being in the military; everyone wore a name tag.
But thatās not the kind of name tag I am talking about. It does seem that name tags are everywhere: on the overalls of the mechanic at the garage, sitting at the counter of the clerk at the bank, on the shirt of the waitperson at Red Robbin and even the person bagging groceries at Food Lion.
Each of these people have a name, so I use it. I greet them by name. Itās nice to see their faces light up. Sometimes the name is unusual and Iāll ask how to pronounce it and if it has a special meaning or what the origin of the name is. It opens a door and often starts a conversation.
If nothing else, it makes the bagging and checkout experience seem to go faster.
The only place I have success in remembering a name I hear is on the telephone and thatās because I write it down. Whenever I call the help desk ā it doesnāt matter if it is at work to the IT Department to get my Outlook fixed or to Direct TV to decipher how to program the remote, I have pencil and paper in hand.
They usually start of with something like, āHi, my name is Alice ā¦ā I respond with āHi, Alice, Iām Dan. Iām calling today about ā¦ā and end it with, āThanks for your help, Alice.ā
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 2 years ago
He even gets to eat snacks and take bathroom breaks now! Hey, Bezos, I can wait a day or two for my order, give the help a break!!!
Zebrastripes about 2 years ago
The only complaint I have that sometimes they leave the packages in FRONT OF MY DOOR, and I canāt open itā¦duh! āŗļø
Zen-of-Zinfandel about 2 years ago
Now you work at the Zen garden?
christelisbetty about 2 years ago
Well Santa, most people appreciate free stuff. Amazon tends to charge us.