I was trying to help this young Pakistani girl get established in the mortgage business and I asked her to come sit in our showhomes on the weekend. She seems very hungry for business and a hard worker but was extremely socially awkward and very unprofessional and kind of lacked in knowledge of appropriate behavior. She would talk really loud, really fast and talk a lot. She would interrupt people and not let them finish their sentences, if someone had an objection or concern she would not handle it in a calm way and get excited. She was always distracted by family drama and talking excitedly in Urdu with her family where clients would give us the looks. Although I really wanted to help her but it wont be appropriate to allow her to sit in our show homes.
Oh and without being solicited she started talking about her rishtas, and the rishta dates and halal haram stuff. People should not divulge personal stuff and faith and halal haram stuff at work. Kristy just looked at her in bewilderment when she got all personal and divulging highly personal stuff. She is educated here and should know better.
Yesterday I went to eat at an Indian Buffet place and the server had really unpleasant facial expressions, I think some of these girls think that smiling makes them appear non shareef and they should portray sternness to discourage any unwelcome advances. They don’t realize in Canada all people care about is service with a smile and hardly anyone would be interested in her. I used to love going to that place but this left a bad taste in my mouth.
So what has your experience been with manners, good and bad? Do share some stories. How much lack of etiquettes are you willing to put up with.
I’d gone to order some food and the manager was at the station instead of the customer service person. Even though the customer service personnel at that place are normally polite, the manager who took our order stood out of the rest in the way he handled our questions (about the kind of meat /chicken used, where it was imported from etc). It felt pretty good.
On the same day I’d come across an unpleasant customer service employee at another place but it didn’t bother me. I have the right to ask relevant questions as long as I’m polite.
I remember when I was back home the customer service standards there were a lot better. Even USA is much better than Canada, I guess this is a society with abundance so many people don’t need to try very hard to make a living. I think there should be some sort of training for people to learn proper business etiquette and manner. We have this South Indian realtor who comes to see us and he has a jungle growing on his ears and inside them and it looks so bad and distracting that I cant focus on my presentation.
At the Gas station, everyone knows we will fill the car , then go inside to pay and it can take time but still as you return you end up seeing the eyes of the waiting driver , as if they will crucify you in a minute ! I seriously despise that attitude . A smile would do !
At the Traffic lights . Takes you a little over half a second to move and some creap starts honking you from the back . I mean what is so horrible about me if I am not a crazed creepy driver who goes ahead full power even before the signal goes amber !!
Nathans mom came by to drop Nathan off so the boys can go to the exhibition together, I had made a bit too much Biryanni so I asked my wife to give her some biryanni, a couple of hours later she called to thank us and say how it tasted so amazing.
Uncle I think you should keep on teaching her as a daughter.. aka maghaz maari kerte rahein
well, in my case, I face best to worst of etiquettes.. best in family/relatives/friends.. and worst at work, where I’ve to deal with some illiterate customers/clients and employees…
So I went back to the same place hoping that badmizaj girl is not there but there she was in all her glory. She said hello to me like she is saying a gaali. Normally I give a good tip but I didn’t this time. The guys in the kitchen talk so loud and so much and discuss personal stuff where they can be heard at the other end of the restaurant. I just focused on eating and blocked the other stuff out.
Speaking of clients we had a sikh family in and between two relatives they had 4 kids and the 4 kids made a racket beyond belief. Thankfully no other customers witnessed this circus.
That is Banff National Park, we get 5 million visitors/yr there. I go there every year. You can travel 1 thousand miles and the view remains as spectacular. Hiking in this part of the world is unbelievable.
People with high amount of excessive nervous energy but no outlet to release it usually develop a habit of talking too much. You should advice her to start some aggressive excercise regime, eat less but healthy, remove all kinds of artificial, processed sugars from her diet or get married.
I manage sales for new home builders, I was involved in a net zero housing project where the home produced all the energy it consumed. There were govt grants for solar panels and there were two way meters where you could sell excess energy back to the grid. The homes were super insulated and also relied on sunlight heating the home in winter etc. So really the technology is here so we don’t need to spend on home energy. I was sent to the international conference and was involved with researchers etc. You could monitor the home energy production remotely and was available for public to view.
I’ll have to travel for biryani !?
