Re: Target restaurant is this discrimination?
- From: "David Ames" <worldrecord@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Jun 2006 19:02:11 -0700
Geoff Miller wrote:
hat is the idea that anyone who calls on the tele-
phone takes precedence over anyone who's there in person. Of course,When I was working the main register in a textbook department, I woould
that's precisely backwards -- but it illustrates the power Mr. Bell's
creation has on the modern psyche that so many people think that way.
If someone is in my office talking to me and my telephone rings, I'll
ignore it. This takes people aback, because they've become so condit-
ioned to the idea that the telephone comes first. Not with me, it
doesn't.
pick up the ringing telephone behind me and ask the customer to please
hold. One telephone customer did not want to wait. So I just said
that I was conducting a transaction at the cash register, and that I or
the next available person would pick up the call. My customer at the
register said, "That was polite." Noting that he was buying books
labeled for courses at Katherine Gibbs, I decided to compliment him and
I said, "If I went to Gibbs, I would learn the polite way to do
everything."
David Ames
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