The Rude Customer
Ever met a customer, who looks at you like you are lesser than a human being. Talks to you like you are stupid. Demands things from you like you are meant to do them. It feels like you standing with your lunch tray in hand at the cool kids table and they are mocking you.... Feels like high school all over again...
When we were in high school we tried everything in our power to stay away from the cool kids (thats if you weren't one). You knew that if you tried you would get mocked at, ridiculed... so we would save ourselves the embarrassment and mind our own business. But now we have grown up and you have made something of yourself or on your way to it. You think you have grown up, matured and think we have left the queen bees and the jocks behind, because you have bigger things in life to worry about like mortgages and marriage and business etc.
But has it really changed?? I think not! Its just a little different now, the only difference being you aren't in school or college anymore. They still look right through you in a club, speak to you with distain etc. etc.
Its happened to me so times, I have lost count. I used to be restaurant manager in one of the five stars in the city. A few of the people who knew would come in, I'd seat them smile and greet them with familiarity and the response would be like they are looking through a opaque glass. You get used to these kind of situations and you get equipped in handling them. You do your job and blend into the background as this is what is required of you.
Similarly when you start your own company and things take time to pick up people think you are unemployed or started this of as a hobby till you get married (this only applies to you if you come from a well to do family and are a girl). Who can blame them its a typical stereotype.
All of this is actually a good thing cause it teaches you a couple of important lessons and equips you with skills both for your personal and professional life:
1. You realise who your friends truly are. The business contacts that will actually support you. You build a support structure and system that is rock sold and that my friend is priceless.
2. You become resilient to anything. You become a confident and strong individual because you are proud of who you have become. Cause you built yourself up from the ground up.
3. You feel empathy for the people who look right past you as you know the only thing that has brought you here is your handwork. So they can try and piss all over your parade but they showed up to late for the show.
4. When success finally does come to you and you are standing the lime light and all of these people start calling you and asking you for favours you can actually turn around and be nice to them and make and honest living of them. Cause if they were actual people you knew you would have to cut them a heavy discount!!!
You can never escape it but you will learn how to rise above it. Because this is what separates the Boys from the Men and The girls from the Ladies.
SMILE, BREATH and GO SLOWLY!!!
When we were in high school we tried everything in our power to stay away from the cool kids (thats if you weren't one). You knew that if you tried you would get mocked at, ridiculed... so we would save ourselves the embarrassment and mind our own business. But now we have grown up and you have made something of yourself or on your way to it. You think you have grown up, matured and think we have left the queen bees and the jocks behind, because you have bigger things in life to worry about like mortgages and marriage and business etc.
But has it really changed?? I think not! Its just a little different now, the only difference being you aren't in school or college anymore. They still look right through you in a club, speak to you with distain etc. etc.
Its happened to me so times, I have lost count. I used to be restaurant manager in one of the five stars in the city. A few of the people who knew would come in, I'd seat them smile and greet them with familiarity and the response would be like they are looking through a opaque glass. You get used to these kind of situations and you get equipped in handling them. You do your job and blend into the background as this is what is required of you.
Similarly when you start your own company and things take time to pick up people think you are unemployed or started this of as a hobby till you get married (this only applies to you if you come from a well to do family and are a girl). Who can blame them its a typical stereotype.
All of this is actually a good thing cause it teaches you a couple of important lessons and equips you with skills both for your personal and professional life:
1. You realise who your friends truly are. The business contacts that will actually support you. You build a support structure and system that is rock sold and that my friend is priceless.
2. You become resilient to anything. You become a confident and strong individual because you are proud of who you have become. Cause you built yourself up from the ground up.
3. You feel empathy for the people who look right past you as you know the only thing that has brought you here is your handwork. So they can try and piss all over your parade but they showed up to late for the show.
4. When success finally does come to you and you are standing the lime light and all of these people start calling you and asking you for favours you can actually turn around and be nice to them and make and honest living of them. Cause if they were actual people you knew you would have to cut them a heavy discount!!!
You can never escape it but you will learn how to rise above it. Because this is what separates the Boys from the Men and The girls from the Ladies.
SMILE, BREATH and GO SLOWLY!!!
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