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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 80039" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I agree that manners and common courtesy are getting very rare. I may be one of the really old-fashioned ones, but I tried to teach my kids manners from the time they were babies. Some of the first words they said were "please" and "thank you"! And they wrote "thank you" notes for gifts from the time they were so little that they gripped the pencil while I moved their chubby little hands to write the words! And I taught my son to open doors for ladies and let them go first. At least they know what they're <em>supposed</em> to do! </p><p></p><p>I am now 61 years old and where I work we have a large number of really young ones - age 20 and up. I'm far from "elderly" but I've had doors left to slam in my face and been almost trampled by some of them trying to beat me to the door, to say nothing about being almost run over in the parking lot! I've had to talk to some of them on the phone who are unbelievably rude. I've walked past groups of them and overheard conversations where every other word started with "F"! You'd think you were in a biker bar rather than a state office building! And it doesn't matter who is around! They don't care! </p><p></p><p>And the phone thing ... we're one of the only places left with a real live operator, but her days are numbered! Other state offices all have voice mail and you're just wasting your breath! They screen their calls and most of them will never call you back. You just call over and over again until you catch them. And they have this recording that I just LOVE ... "<em>I am either away from my desk or out of the office</em>... " Well, what the heck does that mean? He <em>might</em> be in the bathroom or he <em>might</em> have gone on safari to Africa! You guess!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 80039, member: 1883"] I agree that manners and common courtesy are getting very rare. I may be one of the really old-fashioned ones, but I tried to teach my kids manners from the time they were babies. Some of the first words they said were "please" and "thank you"! And they wrote "thank you" notes for gifts from the time they were so little that they gripped the pencil while I moved their chubby little hands to write the words! And I taught my son to open doors for ladies and let them go first. At least they know what they're [i]supposed[/i] to do! I am now 61 years old and where I work we have a large number of really young ones - age 20 and up. I'm far from "elderly" but I've had doors left to slam in my face and been almost trampled by some of them trying to beat me to the door, to say nothing about being almost run over in the parking lot! I've had to talk to some of them on the phone who are unbelievably rude. I've walked past groups of them and overheard conversations where every other word started with "F"! You'd think you were in a biker bar rather than a state office building! And it doesn't matter who is around! They don't care! And the phone thing ... we're one of the only places left with a real live operator, but her days are numbered! Other state offices all have voice mail and you're just wasting your breath! They screen their calls and most of them will never call you back. You just call over and over again until you catch them. And they have this recording that I just LOVE ... "[i]I am either away from my desk or out of the office[/i]... " Well, what the heck does that mean? He [i]might[/i] be in the bathroom or he [i]might[/i] have gone on safari to Africa! You guess! [/QUOTE]
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