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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 141711"><p>The birthdate wouldn't bother me because they have to enter that by law as some kind of precaution to insure cigarettes aren't being sold to minors. If they carded you, they would just put in your birthdate from your ID. </p><p></p><p>The zip code doesn't bother me, either. It really doesn't reveal anything about me and I'd love to have some of these stores closer to me.</p><p></p><p>The name at the fast food restaurant would annoy me and I'd say so. Then I'd tell them my name is Jane. Really. What could they possibly need that for? </p><p></p><p>I don't sign the back of my debit card either and some stores actually ask for my ID. I've never been refused a purchase because of it. Someone there was not educated on that.</p><p></p><p>I don't have a cellphone, but if I did I would not being giving the number out. </p><p></p><p>My personal pet peeve - and I'm probably alone in this - is how companies treat their customers so....informally, I guess. They call you by your first name. That grates on me. I would never address a client or customer by their first name unless they told me it was ok. Most of them do, but I never start out that way. And the one that really got me...AEP our electric company....when you called their customer service dept you got Mr. or Mrs. So and So, yet they addressed you by your first name. When they did that, I corrected them and said it's Ms. XXXX. They'd get upset. But they never gave out their first name. I have to admit, I made a few comments about that one. Now, several years later, they've changed and use their first names and ask permission to address you by your first name.</p><p></p><p>Thing is, I wasn't raised in the South (lived there starting at age 15) so I never learned the Ma'am and Sir thing. We aren't a 'formal' family. I just think there's a certain ways you treat the people who are the reason you are getting a paycheck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 141711"] The birthdate wouldn't bother me because they have to enter that by law as some kind of precaution to insure cigarettes aren't being sold to minors. If they carded you, they would just put in your birthdate from your ID. The zip code doesn't bother me, either. It really doesn't reveal anything about me and I'd love to have some of these stores closer to me. The name at the fast food restaurant would annoy me and I'd say so. Then I'd tell them my name is Jane. Really. What could they possibly need that for? I don't sign the back of my debit card either and some stores actually ask for my ID. I've never been refused a purchase because of it. Someone there was not educated on that. I don't have a cellphone, but if I did I would not being giving the number out. My personal pet peeve - and I'm probably alone in this - is how companies treat their customers so....informally, I guess. They call you by your first name. That grates on me. I would never address a client or customer by their first name unless they told me it was ok. Most of them do, but I never start out that way. And the one that really got me...AEP our electric company....when you called their customer service dept you got Mr. or Mrs. So and So, yet they addressed you by your first name. When they did that, I corrected them and said it's Ms. XXXX. They'd get upset. But they never gave out their first name. I have to admit, I made a few comments about that one. Now, several years later, they've changed and use their first names and ask permission to address you by your first name. Thing is, I wasn't raised in the South (lived there starting at age 15) so I never learned the Ma'am and Sir thing. We aren't a 'formal' family. I just think there's a certain ways you treat the people who are the reason you are getting a paycheck. [/QUOTE]
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