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  1. At work someone asked me to order some Items for them..I casually replied sure and what is the magic word?..thinking that a polite reply would be at the end of the request a "Please" , they kind of made a comment to a co worker that they shouldnt have to take the time to say please..this is a strange time we live in now..
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    I shouldn't have to take the time to order some items for him either.

    Indeed, we live in odd times. We have to pretend all black people are from Africa (even 3rd-generation American-born citizens descended from Aboriginees of Australia!), so as not to hurt somebody's feelings by using a "color" word. Yet we are allowed to be rude to one another on the highway or at the office. Please!
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  3. I enjoyed being a kid in the 1960s because respect was like a disease.

    Everybody had it!!!

    Unfortunately that disease has been wiped out today.

    I bet most people won't have a clue as to what I'm talking about!!! Let's sit back and watch, shall we?
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    Originally Posted by 3Simon7
    I enjoyed being a kid in the 1960s because respect was like a disease.

    Everybody had it!!!

    Unfortunately that disease has been wiped out today.

    I bet most people won't have a clue as to what I'm talking about!!! Let's sit back and watch, shall we?

    Ditto! And I agree totally!

    I think respect has been wiped out by the "time out" - the punishment today doesn't fit the crime. If I was rude or talked back it resulted in a swift smack to the ass (or back of the head - depending on how old), today and you get 3 minutes in your room alone... OOooohhhh scary... (note sarcasm).

    Kids today quickly learn that they can do what they want and no one can touch them. If they don't learn respect early it's not going to get any better as they get older.
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    Oh, that it were a disease. Diseases tend to spread and resist counter measures. Respect is a rare creature that should be added to the top of the endangered species list. It can still be found in some areas but those areas have yet to be given protected status and continue to be encroached upon. We need to encourage it's growth and reproduction.
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  6. Common courtesy and consideration - they're at the top of my list. And I notice a steady decline in both.

    I always hold a door open for someone - rarely do I get a 'Thank You' anymore. Rarely do people hold a door open for me. And an increasing trend: people barging through a door you have opened so that you can leave a building - they barge past to get into the building. To me, that's just plain rude and ignorant.

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    A couple of jobs back, people used to constantly ask "Can you do me a favor?" in relation to the job, instead of just asking me to do the task. I would respond "No, I'm working." There was one person who reported me immediately and, I kid you not, I was called in to the HR office. In the middle of my "warning" (which included a threat of Sensitivity Training), I questioned the methods used and my punishment. Besides it being a joke (which I made very clear after each occurence), the fact is that your job duties aren't "favors".

    The person tried to take it further, since I wasn't reprimanded (he was actually expecting me to be fired), but ended up getting mandatory Sensitivity Training himself.

    On the other hand, I never had a problem with please and thank-you there. People were generally courteous, except for a few of the grumpy minority, like the guy mentioned.

    The courtesy problem I seemto always run into is on elevators. People don't seem to get the traffic flow of an elevator. Usually, before I can get off on my floor, people are blocking the door and start swarming in. It sucks that I have to ask "Mind if I get out first?"
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    The person tried to take it further, since I wasn't reprimanded (he was actually expecting me to be fired), but ended up getting mandatory Sensitivity Training himself.
    At least it sounds like that HR department was doing its job correctly. Serves him right!
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  9. Originally Posted by Supreme2k

    The courtesy problem I seemto always run into is on elevators. People don't seem to get the traffic flow of an elevator. Usually, before I can get off on my floor, people are blocking the door and start swarming in. It sucks that I have to ask "Mind if I get out first?"
    Yeah, this is one I encounter constantly -- I work on a college campus, with slow elevators and lots of people constantly using said slow elevators, and almost every time I get on or off an elevator (usually pushing a cart with computer stuff on it ), I am saddly amazed at the spectacle of people who cannot figure out the basics of elevator etiquette:

    1) Doors open, people who are in elevator get off.
    2) After people inside elevators have exited, people waiting to board can then board.

    Instead, you can pretty much count on the doors opening and somebody immediately rushing inside -- or, rather, trying to rush inside, thus blocking people from exiting, and slowing down the entire process of unloading/loading of elevators.

    The funny thing is the look of suprrise on pretty much every person's face who does this "must rush on to the elevator immediately" thing -- they almost always seem suprised to note that there were previous occupants inside the elevator. Imagine that, there are other people besides you in the universe! Gads.

    And don't get me started on stairwell and exit door etiquette, but please people, for cryin' out loud, could you just enter or exit the building and NOT JUST STAND THERE BLOCKING THE WAY FOR EVERYBODY ELSE?!?!?!
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    You could always just come to Canada
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    Sensitivity training, what's that all about. Sounds like a right load of cobblers.
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    Originally Posted by JohnnyMalaria
    At least it sounds like that HR department was doing its job correctly. Serves him right!
    If they were doing their jobs in the first place, they would have never called me. Seriously, how do you not see the stupidity in someone saying "I asked him for a favor and he said, 'No, I'm working'"? (She told me that's almost exactly how it went). That's when I asked, "Since when are we in the business of 'doing favors'?"


    Sensitivity training is basically what Ironballs called it. It can involve gender, race, general work ethics, etc. It should be called Overly sensitive training. It's pretty much the same mentality rewards everyone in a child's school so "no one gets left out (behind)."
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