Monday, May 2, 2011

phone takes prcedence

Took a bus and used my time to get to the store. After a wait a salesman was with me and had just begun to answer my first question. His cell phone rang and he held up his hand to indicate I should wait while he answered the call. I expected he would say into the phone that he was with a customer and would be able to talk later, but he kept his discussion going with the person on the phone.

I could tell by his responses that it wasn’t his boss he was speaking with, He was answering questions similar to what I would ask. As his phone talk went on I was wondering what happened to the ethic that a customer was always right, and here I was standing in front of him waiting to talk to him. Should I go back home and call on the phone to speak with a salesman?

1 comment:

TomC said...

Nah... just gently reach out and bitch slap the poor little fella. Take him out of his reverie and help him avoid getting getting his butt kicked by the next customer he might have tried that on. Caution: many are prisoner to their mobile devices now days.