Are you ever rude on purpose?

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I am, to phone solicitors. I know, there is probably some innocent person on the other end who is just trying to make a living, but I have had it with these stupid calls. As soon as I determine it's a cold sales call, I tell them not to ever call back and just hang up.

I was also very rude to a Jehova's witness I found in the garden talking at (not with) my then very ill husband who was there to catch some fresh air and sunshine after 6 weeks in a hospital. He was to helpless to get up and leave without assistance, and he had his eyes closed and was trying to ignore it. It made me mad, what nerve to enter someone's garden and have at a very ill and elderly person. You don't want to know what I said to her, but rest assured, neither her nor anyone from her people ever showed up here again.
 

I have been rude to phone solicitors also. I have also been rude to health insurance personal when trying to get a bill straightened out. What I make a point of doing now when dealing with them is to tell them up front, I know it isn't their fault and please forgive me if I raise my voice. Actually I have found that sometimes they seem to spend more time helping me with my problem. Maybe there is something to the old saying,"more with sugar than with vinegar".
 
What kind of stupid question is this ? OK....dumb attempt at humor. I was only joking :) Yes, mainly while out driving. I have sometimes used a rude gesture when someone cuts in front of me or turns without using a turn signal. Not the brightest thing for me to do but I get easily agitated when driving.
 
Yes I am. Generally after being pushed, but on rare occasion I have been the aggressor and lashed out on someone who has said nothing directly to me.

There used to be a snotty woman at work that made fun of me for this or that reason every single day. I have no idea what her problem was. I always just ignored her. She would say things like " That fabric your shirt is made of is really cheap" and once " Your smile is fake . I can tell I used to work with a photographer." On and on every day. One day we were all sitting in the break room and she said " Your hair looks awful". I was not in the mood that day & I looked up and said " Did you get half off for the hail damage on those pants?" She never said a single thing again.
 
Oh Yeah.. I'm VERY rude to phone solicitors. They get me up to answer the phone; might be an
important call. Then I tell 'em to "get a life" and quit bothering people.
They never leave a message on my answering machine.
 
I'm not mean to phone solicitors. Once when I was desperate to work I took a job as a phone solicitor but I couldn't do it. I was young. This was my one and only call-

Me: Hello sir have you noticed any cracks in your walls , ceilings or foundation?
Him: No my foundation is just fine baby . Now describe your foundation sugar

I hung up and just couldn't male another call LOL


The first time I ever heard this by Tom Mabe I died laughing. He plays pranks on telemarketers

 
Yes that little devil on my shoulder has me make some rude remarks at times. I am just human so there...I am not striving to be perfect because I well know that's impossible so I go with the flow of my inner expression.
 
BlunderWoman said:
I'm not mean to phone solicitors. Once when I was desperate to work I took a job as a phone solicitor but I couldn't do it. I was young. This was my one and only call-

Me: Hello sir have you noticed any cracks in your walls , ceilings or foundation?
Him: No my foundation is just fine baby . Now describe your foundation sugar

I hung up and just couldn't male another call LOL


The first time I ever heard this by Tom Mabe I died laughing. He plays pranks on telemarketers

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Oh boy, I laughed so hard I have tears in my eyes. :)
 
OMG that guy was really convincing! Poor guy on the other end there must have had a very bad day.
 
dog lover said:
I am, to phone solicitors. I know, there is probably some innocent person on the other end who is just trying to make a living, but I have had it with these stupid calls. As soon as I determine it's a cold sales call, I tell them not to ever call back and just hang up.

I was also very rude to a Jehova's witness I found in the garden talking at (not with) my then very ill husband who was there to catch some fresh air and sunshine after 6 weeks in a hospital. He was to helpless to get up and leave without assistance, and he had his eyes closed and was trying to ignore it. It made me mad, what nerve to enter someone's garden and have at a very ill and elderly person. You don't want to know what I said to her, but rest assured, neither her nor anyone from her people ever showed up here again.
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I usually don't get rude to telemarketers, I just don't answer the phone. Not worth raising my blood pressure over. I do recall insisting to speak with supervisors under circumstances when I know I am right and cannot get through to someone.
 
When I'm out in public and someone pushes in front or me or does some other annoying thing I try to ignore it unless they are one of those smiley jerks that put on a big bright smile and try to apologize their way out of it, then I smile and say. "Don't give it another thought, I deal with ignorant people every day."

When I'm out driving I try to control my desire to lift a finger because in this day and age it could get you killed.

With telephone solicitors it can go either way. If they won't accept a polite no thanks I have been known fly into a rage. In most cases though I try to think about how miserable these people must be if this is the only job they can find to get by in life.

When I was young and just getting started in business I had an old boss who always said be nice to the people writing the checks, follow the money. I still think of that when I'm dealing with rude sales clerks, waitresses, customer service folks, etc...
 
Never. What purpose would it serve? I don't answer to telemarketers and they're just trying to make an honest living anyway. Sweating the small stuff isn't my thing. :eek:
 
Sitting here with my hand up. Yes, I've been rude at times... too many times. I apologize for the times I've been rude to others and haven't realized it. I do NOT apologize for being rude to others when I've meant to be rude.
 
I don't answer the phone unless I recognize the number - not only telemarketers, but scammers call nowadays. My answering machine is on so if people really need to talk to me, they can leave a message. When driving I no longer use my finger to relay a negative message to other drivers. Too many potential road ragers out there make it too dangerous. When talking to customer service reps, I tell them if I'm PO'd about something and assure them it's not their fault, but that I might launch into a rant. Otherwise I'm usually polite to everyone. If someone is consistently rude to me I avoid them - which, now that I'm retired, I can do.
Admittedly, that's a bit harder to do if you work with someone like that - been there - done that! I usually said very little - because those are the kind of people who will report you to your supervisor - which then becomes a he/she said - he/she said. Not worth the trouble unless really bad.
 
I'm rude to Jehovah Witnesses, who won't leave. (Chased two down the street- one was stuffing pamphlets in my shirt pocket) The same with phone people, who keep going on.
I have a spinal problem. When I'm in pain, it could be you're breathing wrong or something. I can be extremely offensive. I've had to make a lot of apologies. Now, I'm well controlled, both pain-wise and offensive-wise.
 
I'm not generally a rude person, but if there's a salesman at my front door who is pushy and won't take no for an answer, I will do what's needed to get the message across. Same with aggressive telephone solicitors or telephone scammers like the IRS imposters, their rudeness is shut down quickly by my response. I don't appreciate abusive tactics or rude bullying and have the backbone to end it ASAP. Thankfully, these things don't happen very often or I'd be pulling my hair out. :p
 
I don't get rude to those phone solicitors, I just hang up. I do have a problem with sales people who don't take no for an answer, and those religious door knockers bent on saving me. I am not always nice to them if they try to argue with my " Sorry I am not interested.
 
As an airline pilot, I went through many hours of how to be "nice" to people. The company didn't call it that, but that is what it amounted to. After many, many courses of how to treat people professionally and with respect and also how to deal with difficult people, it tends to carryover into a person's everyday life. I have learned that if I am treated disrespectful or in a manner that I don't feel is warranted, I have learned to just walk away, or say nothing. Sometimes, it's harder than you think because in my mind, I am thinking all kinds of nasty things to say, but then I am reminded that if I say something that is not appropriate then I am just continuing the back and forth that has taken place. IOW, if I say something ignorant, then I am giving that person a license to say something ignorant to me and then it never ends. How's the old saying go? "Sometimes it's better to remain silent and thought to be a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt." Or, something like that.
 
I try very hard to not be rude. I don't want anyone to look back at their day and pick 'me' as the blot in an otherwise good day, or worse to be the 'straw that broke the camels back'.
 
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