Post by icaughtfire on Apr 10, 2015 12:40:53 GMT -5
Just because someone lives in an expensive home or has expensive possessions doesn't mean they have money to throw away. We don't know their private situation, who's to say the house isn't about to be forclosed on?
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Just because someone lives in an expensive home or has expensive possessions doesn't mean they have money to throw away. We don't know their private situation, who's to say the house isn't about to be forclosed on?
I wouldn't be worried about getting patio furniture fixed if this was happening to me.
Just because someone lives in an expensive home or has expensive possessions doesn't mean they have money to throw away. We don't know their private situation, who's to say the house isn't about to be forclosed on?
True, but then they wouldn't be trying to book $1500 worth of services with my company. Also, I'm still not going to haggle on price with them. This is our price, take it or leave it. I side eye any of our customers who keep my staff on the phone for 10 minutes arguing price. If you can't afford it then please go somewhere else.
Just because someone lives in an expensive home or has expensive possessions doesn't mean they have money to throw away. We don't know their private situation, who's to say the house isn't about to be forclosed on?
I wouldn't be worried about getting patio furniture fixed if this was happening to me.
Neither would I, but I don't know their lyfe! I guess my point is that I think it's stupid to judge someone based on their possessions (or lack of.)
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Just because someone lives in an expensive home or has expensive possessions doesn't mean they have money to throw away. We don't know their private situation, who's to say the house isn't about to be forclosed on?
I wouldn't be worried about getting patio furniture fixed if this was happening to me.
I wouldn't be worried about getting patio furniture fixed if this was happening to me.
Neither would I, but I don't know their lyfe! I guess my point is that I think it's stupid to judge someone based on their possessions (or lack of.)
Personally, I'd judge the shit out of someone haggling over services to fix their extremely expensive possessions regardless of the value of their house - whether you live in a 10 million dollar house or you live in a trailer park with one hell of a nice set of patio furniture, either pay the service fee or go somewhere else to get the service done. Generally, the fancier your possessions, the more expensive it is to fix them. If I have a custom handmade set of patio furniture, that's expensive to fix. My discount Lowe's patio set? I can fix that shit with some black spray paint and Flexseal. If you want to go the Flexseal route, buy the appropriate level of patio furniture.
ETA - I think Flexseal can solve many of life's problems.
Neither would I, but I don't know their lyfe! I guess my point is that I think it's stupid to judge someone based on their possessions (or lack of.)
Personally, I'd judge the shit out of someone haggling over services to fix their extremely expensive possessions regardless of the value of their house - whether you live in a 10 million dollar house or you live in a trailer park with one hell of a nice set of patio furniture, either pay the service fee or go somewhere else to get the service done. Generally, the fancier your possessions, the more expensive it is to fix them. If I have a custom handmade set of patio furniture, that's expensive to fix. My discount Lowe's patio set? I can fix that shit with some black spray paint and Flexseal. If you want to go the Flexseal route, buy the appropriate level of patio furniture.
Neither would I, but I don't know their lyfe! I guess my point is that I think it's stupid to judge someone based on their possessions (or lack of.)
Personally, I'd judge the shit out of someone haggling over services to fix their extremely expensive possessions regardless of the value of their house - whether you live in a 10 million dollar house or you live in a trailer park with one hell of a nice set of patio furniture, either pay the service fee or go somewhere else to get the service done. Generally, the fancier your possessions, the more expensive it is to fix them. If I have a custom handmade set of patio furniture, that's expensive to fix. My discount Lowe's patio set? I can fix that shit with some black spray paint and Flexseal. If you want to go the Flexseal route, buy the appropriate level of patio furniture.
ETA - I think Flexseal can solve many of life's problems.
Personally, I'd judge the shit out of someone haggling over services to fix their extremely expensive possessions regardless of the value of their house - whether you live in a 10 million dollar house or you live in a trailer park with one hell of a nice set of patio furniture, either pay the service fee or go somewhere else to get the service done. Generally, the fancier your possessions, the more expensive it is to fix them. If I have a custom handmade set of patio furniture, that's expensive to fix. My discount Lowe's patio set? I can fix that shit with some black spray paint and Flexseal. If you want to go the Flexseal route, buy the appropriate level of patio furniture.
ETA - I think Flexseal can solve many of life's problems.
MH and I were shopping recently at a small stereo shop. I used the bathroom at the store, but couldn't bring myself to wash my hands. The sink was SO dirty that I felt cleaner not washing my hands after peeing than I would have felt touching the sink.
The rest of the bathroom wasn't that bad, but the sink was nasty.
Moments like these are why I keep an emergency bottle of hand sanitizer in my purse. Also because of nasty rest stop/gas station bathrooms. And because my dogs are little filth monsters and get into the grossest stuff at the dog park.
I wouldn't be worried about getting patio furniture fixed if this was happening to me.
Neither would I, but I don't know their lyfe! I guess my point is that I think it's stupid to judge someone based on their possessions (or lack of.)
I don't think it's so much as judging, but it's along the same sentiment as not going out to eat if you can't afford to tip.
If you have nice things, it will cost more to fix. If you don't want to pay a premium price for a premium service, then either don't get the premium things or don't ask for the premium service.
In that industry, I can imagine it's also a lot of wealthy people used to getting discounts on things because they're wealthy and can pay upfront. An "I can pay in cash so give me a discount" tactic really does work with a lot of things, so they may be haggling because haggling helps them get better deals on expensive items. That's not the way service works, unfortunately, so I would understand the frustration of having to continuously tell people that they won't negotiate service prices.
Neither would I, but I don't know their lyfe! I guess my point is that I think it's stupid to judge someone based on their possessions (or lack of.)
Personally, I'd judge the shit out of someone haggling over services to fix their extremely expensive possessions regardless of the value of their house - whether you live in a 10 million dollar house or you live in a trailer park with one hell of a nice set of patio furniture, either pay the service fee or go somewhere else to get the service done. Generally, the fancier your possessions, the more expensive it is to fix them. If I have a custom handmade set of patio furniture, that's expensive to fix. My discount Lowe's patio set? I can fix that shit with some black spray paint and Flexseal. If you want to go the Flexseal route, buy the appropriate level of patio furniture.
ETA - I think Flexseal can solve many of life's problems.
Guess I'm broken, because I don't really see anything side-eye worthy.
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Neither would I, but I don't know their lyfe! I guess my point is that I think it's stupid to judge someone based on their possessions (or lack of.)
I don't think it's so much as judging, but it's along the same sentiment as not going out to eat if you can't afford to tip.
If you have nice things, it will cost more to fix. If you don't want to pay a premium price for a premium service, then either don't get the premium things or don't ask for the premium service.
In that industry, I can imagine it's also a lot of wealthy people used to getting discounts on things because they're wealthy and can pay upfront. An "I can pay in cash so give me a discount" tactic really does work with a lot of things, so they may be haggling because haggling helps them get better deals on expensive items. That's not the way service works, unfortunately, so I would understand the frustration of having to continuously tell people that they won't negotiate service prices.
I have at least one customer say something along these lines every day. They also try to get out paying tax that way. I side eye that as well.
Moments like these are why I keep an emergency bottle of hand sanitizer in my purse. Also because of nasty rest stop/gas station bathrooms. And because my dogs are little filth monsters and get into the grossest stuff at the dog park.
That's a really good idea.
I started keeping it in my purse after the time our shih tzu rolled in goose poop at the dog park. I mean, I rinsed him in lake water before I let him in the car, but it was still gross.
But when you do go out, you tip an appropriate amount, right?
Yes, because I studied labor history and know that servers aren't paid living wages. I pay more for exceptional service and standard if the service is just ok.
This is what makes your confession not flame worthy. It would be flame worthy if you went out all the time and didn't tip or tipped poorly. Not going out because you don't like tipping is the appropriate thing to do.
I started keeping it in my purse after the time our shih tzu rolled in goose poop at the dog park. I mean, I rinsed him in lake water before I let him in the car, but it was still gross.
Do you do carry-out? Or is it just eating in restaurants that you don't do?
I don't do carryout often because I cook the majority of our meals. But, when I do carry-out I don't tip. I don't see the need to tip when they are bringing the food to the counter.
I don't do carryout often because I cook the majority of our meals. But, when I do carry-out I don't tip. I don't see the need to tip when they are bringing the food to the counter.
I agree.
I tip for to-go for certain things. Like when I get Chinese food and the lady is back there busting it to make orders by herself, I'll put money in the tip jar. But I generally don't tip to-go at chain restaurants because most of the time the person doing those orders is a hostess and get's paid minimum wage. I used to work at Papa Johns (in the store) and I was so confused when someone gave me a tip for the first time. In my head I was like, "all I did was turn around and hand you your pizza..."
I tip for to-go for certain things. Like when I get Chinese food and the lady is back there busting it to make orders by herself, I'll put money in the tip jar. But I generally don't tip to-go at chain restaurants because most of the time the person doing those orders is a hostess and get's paid minimum wage. I used to work at Papa Johns (in the store) and I was so confused when someone gave me a tip for the first time. In my head I was like, "all I did was turn around and hand you your pizza..."
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Agreed. Barista making my coffee at the locally-owned drive-thru place? Gets a tip because in all likelihood she's making less than minimum. Barista at the Starbucks drive-thru? Usually won't get a tip because I know Starbucks pays their people at least minimum wage (and in many positions offers some benefits).
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FFFC: I work for a high end service company. Most of our customers spend a minimum of $5,000 on their patio furniture and our services are priced accordingly. When I have an especially obnoxious/rude customer who tries to haggle or argue on price, I look up the value of their house on Zillow to see if they are just being cheap.
How do you know what they spent on their patio furniture? That it wasn't on sale? Or gifted?
The service industry is one that is inherently open for negotiation in most cases, and many times people get completely jipped by not trying to negotiate a price down.
This just screams "I'm judging you based off of what I *think* I know about you," without actually knowing anything about them.
Just because someone lives in an expensive house, or even has expensive things, doesn't mean they're rich. You have no clue what their circumstance is.
FFFC: I work for a high end service company. Most of our customers spend a minimum of $5,000 on their patio furniture and our services are priced accordingly. When I have an especially obnoxious/rude customer who tries to haggle or argue on price, I look up the value of their house on Zillow to see if they are just being cheap.
How do you know what they spent on their patio furniture? That it wasn't on sale? Or gifted?
The service industry is one that is inherently open for negotiation in most cases, and many times people get completely jipped by not trying to negotiate a price down.
This just screams "I'm judging you based off of what I *think* I know about you," without actually knowing anything about them.
Just because someone lives in an expensive house, or even has expensive things, doesn't mean they're rich. You have no clue what their circumstance is.
ETA Crap I'm sorry Siggy Warning
Thank you, Franken for putting words to my thoughts. All of that is what I mean.
After the whole skittles for the poor thread, I'm not understanding how making assumptions of others because of their lack of money is NOT OKAY, but totally cool to make assumptions about those that appear well off? I'm sorry, does not compute for me.
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How do you know what they spent on their patio furniture? That it wasn't on sale? Or gifted?
The service industry is one that is inherently open for negotiation in most cases, and many times people get completely jipped by not trying to negotiate a price down.
This just screams "I'm judging you based off of what I *think* I know about you," without actually knowing anything about them.
Just because someone lives in an expensive house, or even has expensive things, doesn't mean they're rich. You have no clue what their circumstance is.
ETA Crap I'm sorry Siggy Warning
Thank you, Franken for putting words to my thoughts. All of that is what I mean.
After the whole skittles for the poor thread, I'm not understanding how making assumptions of others because of their lack of money is NOT OKAY, but totally cool to make assumptions about those that appear well off? I'm sorry, does not compute for me.
And you put into words what I couldn't. It really brought to mind the skittles for the poor thing, and is on the same level for me. It's not ok to judge someone for their lack or surplus of money. We go HAM on anyone who judges poor people, but it's like NBD if it's reversed. Neither is ok in my mind.
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