Re: Very rude mobile : Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:49 pm  

Ovavoo wrote:

Etiquette, not pictures.

Wasn't there, didn't witness it so can't really comment on the customer being rude or not but in general, doesn't this kind of rudeness p&ss you off?

Imo, all buildings open to the public should have mobile phone signals blocked. Anyone wanting to use one should be forced outside, like the smokers are.

Use of mobiles on city streets should be banned too. The idiots who use them wander about under the working classes' feet.

Re: Very rude mobile : Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:55 pm  

While once serving I asked a customer if she would like help with her shopping.
She answered yes so I started to help.
She promptly stood there texting whilst I packed her goods.
I was that shocked that anyone could be that ignorant that I packed her stuff. I did however accidentally 'punch' her crisps into the carrier bags.

Re: Very rude mobile : Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:19 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Just extending the area of discussion slightly, I often see people, even couples who are obviously together in a restaurant or pub, spending more time fiddling with their phones than actually conversing.
If anyone did that when I was out with them, I wouldn't be out with them much longer.
I recognise that I am of an earlier generation but, come on, what is so important in all these people's texts that they can't wait?

I think I've told the story of me drowning a customer's mobile in an ice bucket.

When I managed the Merc dealership, I used to host a pre-Christmas lunch at The Potters' Club in Stoke for my major customers. This place was held in high regard and few customers ever cried off, knowing that they would be receiving top-quality food and drink and exceptional service, in what was a real Gentleman's Club.

During one particular event, one customer was constantly on one of his two mobile phones - this was 1993 and nobody got "free" phones, they cost upwards of £400 and he had one on Vodaphone and one on Celnet because of still-patchy coverage across the UK. It was obvious I wasn't the only one at the table getting pissed off with this, so I asked him to switch them off. He took no notice and after the next call I told him I'd drop the next one in the ice bucket. He obviously thought I was kidding because he just ignored me so, when it rang again, I reached across before he could take the call and deposited it in said ice bucket. The whole table went quiet until my MD said: "Charles, we'll buy you a new one for Christmas, now switch the other fooker off before it joins its brother".

The customer apologised to everyone, we continued with our lunch and never noticed any drop in business. He also got his new replacement phone two days later

Re: Very rude mobile : Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:20 am  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

If I was a cashier working on a checkout I would have to deal with you being the **** you are by simply doing my job and serving you.

Because I am on this moderated forum I would tell you to "**** *** you ****."

If I hadn't crossed the banning boundaries so many times previously I would have got round the word filter and left you in do doubt as to what I was saying.

If you gave me that attitude on the street then I would be saying that to you.

Stick to the football forums petal

Re: Very rude mobile : Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:49 am  

Big Graeme wrote:

Good manners cost nothing and not talking on the phone while you are being served in a shop is plain good manners.

Got it in 1, Big G.
Too many people are too engrossed in their own little 'look at me, I'm so important' world and are oblivious to everything, and anyone, around them.
I travel frequently by train, and have lost count of the number of people I've seen trying to buy a ticket whilst holding a phone conversation at the same time, completely ignoring the polite notices displayed requesting the opposite.
In a similar vein, I just wonder what would have happened to this lady if she was returning to this country from holiday, and was stood at passport control with a phone stuck to her ear?

Re: Very rude mobile : Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:24 am  

tedglen wrote:

Got it in 1, Big G.
Too many people are too engrossed in their own little 'look at me, I'm so important' world and are oblivious to everything, and anyone, around them.
I travel frequently by train, and have lost count of the number of people I've seen trying to buy a ticket whilst holding a phone conversation at the same time, completely ignoring the polite notices displayed requesting the opposite.
In a similar vein, I just wonder what would have happened to this lady if she was returning to this country from holiday, and was stood at passport control with a phone stuck to her ear?

Airport security would probably delay her for 20 minutes asking inane questions because her talking on her mobile phone breached their security regulations. "Look at me, I'm so important" indeed.

Re: Very rude mobile : Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:53 am  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

..."Look at me, I'm so important" indeed.

Same goes for the people who insist on taking their oh-so-important calls in the quiet coach on the train.
At least on East Coast Trains, the great majority understand the purpose of a quiet coach but on SouthWest trains out of Waterloo the whole notion of a quiet coach is comprehensively ignored.

Southerners, y'see the world revolves around them ...

Re: Very rude mobile : Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:39 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Same goes for the people who insist on taking their oh-so-important calls in the quiet coach on the train.
At least on East Coast Trains, the great majority understand the purpose of a quiet coach but on SouthWest trains out of Waterloo the whole notion of a quiet coach is comprehensively ignored.

Southerners, y'see the world revolves around them ...

Not just that, but holding conference calls on a train, FFS.

Re: Very rude mobile : Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:07 am  

Mintball wrote:

Not just that, but holding conference calls on a train, FFS.

You'd think they'd have the sense to book adjacent seats

Re: Very rude mobile : Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:11 am  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

You didn't witness the event. No one on this thread witnessed the event. But you're all condemning the woman.

What if this woman only had a 30 minute work break to get the shopping done and received an unexpected call from her husband who's a serving soldier in Afghanistan?

She should hang up on her husband so that she doesn't offend the cashier?

I'm not condemning the woman, just the rude use of mobiles. If she is in an interpersonal relationship, as in this case with the cashier, it's just manners.

Like I said, mobile signals if I ruled the world, would be blocked in every public building.