Rudeness at work

[Willie adie]

one auction company i know of its staff. management and office are a disgrace.
seem to go out of their way to be awkward rude and ignorant as much as possible
though if you dip in your pocket deep enough that policy changes.

 

[Paddington]

Of course rudeness is expected in some occupations, New York cabbies and Ryanair cabin staff for example. I have never been to New York, but have been asked "is that your fekin baggage I nearly broke me neck over ?" by a crew member. It wasn't, as it happens.

 

[Red Fred]

Very similar here,the further you get from london the friendlier people get

I reckon the people in London aren't so much rude as repressed from living so close together. I love visiting for short periods, and if you go along with your normal countrysude cheeriness, people soon respond.
I went to see Queen at the O2 and on the tube after the show, we just chatted and laughed about the latest adventures on the farm, who got covered in poo, who was nearly trampled and all the normal malarky (and I should add no one used bad language in public).
After we got off, two old ladies who had been sitting in the carriage came over and said it had been the funniest tube-ride they had ever had, and they wished us well on the farm.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I reckon the people in London aren't so much rude as repressed from living so close together. I love visiting for short periods, and if you go along with your normal countrysude cheeriness, people soon respond.
I went to see Queen at the O2 and on the tube after the show, we just chatted and laughed about the latest adventures on the farm, who got covered in poo, who was nearly trampled and all the normal malarky (and I should add no one used bad language in public).
After we got off, two old ladies who had been sitting in the carriage came over and said it had been the funniest tube-ride they had ever had, and they wished us well on the farm.

Shame they didn't feel able to join in at the time

London

 

[Red Fred]

I find most farm people are friendly nowadays, possibly from a sense of shared troubles, although Mrs Fred insists it is the opposite, and that none of us are REALLY badly off, like people were in the old days.
When we were kids, there were numerous stories of grumpy selfish farmers. One neighbour insisted on ploughing on Christmas day just to look better than everyone else. Another would not stop for anyone, and visitors had to jump on his combine while he was going along and even then, he would tell them to F off no matter who they were.
Another chap used to get volcanically angry, on one occaission driving his new Landie straight off the river bank in a blind fury when he saw that a cow had come over, and also reputedly killing a New Forest pony with a blow to its head after it wandered into his yard. Locally, these sort of tales seem to have been consigned to farming mythology.
In fact, during this week's TB test, the young vet said that his colleagues didn't have a single customer that they dreaded visiting and that is over a catchment of several counties.
I think we have all mellowed.

 

[David.]

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I find farmers a lot more polite than most

 

[GTB]

The only people I'm ever rude to (I hope) are cold callers. I didn't ask them to call me and no, I don't need any double glazing / PPI / new boiler!

Also never been much good at banter and tend to overstep the line whenever I try it (which I don't any more).

 

[CornishTone]

I have to agree with you on Porto, my personal experience has been always positive although compared to the rest of Portugal a bit colder, I did not mean to imply they were rude, I have friends both in Lisbon and in Porto and each complains about the behavour of the other.
I am sorry my post came off a bit judgemental, that was not my intention, I can only go with my personal experiences, and I should really not judge a group of people on the behaviour of a few.

I am sure there ar a few people who think I am rude (and if any of you likes this post, remember..... I know where to find you )

I wasn’t suggesting you were judgemental. We all have different experiences of places and people. When I went to Porto, as soon as the Portuguese learned we were British they couldn’t do enough for us. Seems to be the opposite to the usual stereotypical reaction to Brits abroad. Apparently it goes back to the Napoleonic wars when the British came to the aid of Portugal. @OldMcDonald will know more In sure.

Same in Hannover, we went to Agritechnica a few years ago and happened to meet up with a random group in a pub and they took us out for a night in the town, taught us about German beer, tried teaching us German. Amazing!

Here in the Barossa however, one sometimes has to remind oneself that we live in 2018 not 1918! All good fun though!

 

[Red Fred]

Here in the Barossa however, one sometimes has to remind oneself that we live in 2018 not 1918! All good fun though!

If I may just go off on a tangent, I always notice your location is Birdwood, South Australia.
Would that be connected to General Birdwood of Gallipoli fame? I always remember grandad talking very highly of the General, who was regarded as far more capable than some of the other traditional officers.

 

[CornishTone]

If I may just go off on a tangent, I always notice your location is Birdwood, South Australia.
Would that be connected to General Birdwood of Gallipoli fame? I always remember grandad talking very highly of the General, who was regarded as far more capable than some of the other traditional officers.

Always happy with a tangent if it’s interesting... yes Birdwood was named after General Birdwood, there’s a painting of him in the pub. Originally it was called Blumberg. The Adelaide Hills and Barossa was settled predominantly by German migrants, mostly Lutheran’s who were becoming increasingly persecuted in Germany, so lots of place names are of German origin.

During the First and Second World Wars however, many of the Germanic names were changed to avoid any hint of sympathy to the German cause. Indeed, I know of several people who changed their names to avoid accusations of collaboration. Regardless of ancestry though, Australians fought for the Allies seemingly without question.

Who knows how many returned to the Fatherland when the call went out, though given the reason many of them left in the first place, it seems unlikely that numbers would’ve been high.

 

[graham99]

I find most farm people are friendly nowadays, possibly from a sense of shared troubles, although Mrs Fred insists it is the opposite, and that none of us are REALLY badly off, like people were in the old days.
When we were kids, there were numerous stories of grumpy selfish farmers. One neighbour insisted on ploughing on Christmas day just to look better than everyone else. Another would not stop for anyone, and visitors had to jump on his combine while he was going along and even then, he would tell them to F off no matter who they were.
Another chap used to get volcanically angry, on one occaission driving his new Landie straight off the river bank in a blind fury when he saw that a cow had come over, and also reputedly killing a New Forest pony with a blow to its head after it wandered into his yard. Locally, these sort of tales seem to have been consigned to farming mythology.
In fact, during this week's TB test, the young vet said that his colleagues didn't have a single customer that they dreaded visiting and that is over a catchment of several counties.
I think we have all mellowed.

well must be the tech doing all the work then .
when i am at work i am 110% on my game so i can can home and be nice to people.
ps ,it takes three men to replace me.
one to work the phone,one to be nice to the disorganised person,and one to do the work.

 

[Surgery]

In our area rudeness and people moving into the village go hand in hand in most cases , we live in an expensive area , fortunately and unfortunatly , which has ment professional people moving into the area with plenty of money or so it seems as you never quite know.

In the last few years I have had several confrontations with these sorts over driving through the village with machinery being blamed for tyre marks on grass , speeding etc and have generally been looked upon as a piece of sh1te but I do have a long memory and plenty of rape to throw onto their pristine lawns when passing , this makes for a few laughs when it starts growing.

Politeness was a given in the past , it ain’t now and you can all fek off

 

[worker]

In our area rudeness and people moving into the village go hand in hand in most cases , we live in an expensive area , fortunately and unfortunatly , which has ment professional people moving into the area with plenty of money or so it seems as you never quite know.

In the last few years I have had several confrontations with these sorts over driving through the village with machinery being blamed for tyre marks on grass , speeding etc and have generally been looked upon as a piece of sh1te but I do have a long memory and plenty of rape to throw onto their pristine lawns when passing , this makes for a few laughs when it starts growing.

Politeness was a given in the past , it ain’t now and you can all fek off

I love the idea of the rape seed... brilliant

 

[ollie989898]

I have no time for rudeness. I hate incomers to the area who are obvious townies who refuse to engage or play any part in the community. They can fudge off.

Not long after we got the keys to our new house we went and knocked on all the neighbours doors to introduce ourselves and explain the rotten fences and overgrown trees near the boundary were all being sorted. 50 percent of neighbours were obviously freaked out by someone knocking on the door. 3 were old school locals who immediately opened up and wanted to see us in pub at a later date. One was a former Kiwi who was chuffed he would finally see light in his backyard.

Nowt queer as folk. I love waving and talking to randoms nearby, I reckon they think I am a JW or something but be in no doubt ive no time for foreigners who buy a bloody coffin in the area and never share the time of day with anyone.

 

[David.]

Wheat on their thatch is better.

 

[njneer]

I have to say that having worked on and around farms and in other sectors my whole life visiting as an Engineer or Representative I have encountered all types of people, attitudes , respect , manners and lack of equally.

Respect is , and should always be , a two way thing and I always treated people the way I wish to be treated but , likewise, returned any abuse , insult or rudeness in kind and made sure the recipient knew it was in return and made absolutely no apologies for it.
The customer is not always right , sometimes blatantly wrong in fact , ill informed, unaware of the facts and absolutely does not have the right to be down right rude or abusive to other people,just because they don't happen to agree .

I have also noticed in lots of threads on here several members have used the very very derogatory phrase
"Main Stealer" when referring to their local franchised distributors , very very very unfair on the majority of respectable business people who are every bit as hard working and committed as any farmer, who are only trying to make a living the same as the rest of us in these difficult times.
These people have input costs and overheads the same as any farm and ,by the way , with zero subsidised assistance ( tin hat on ) .
Parts prices can be high , sometimes ridiculous even , but are dictated by the manufacturer at source with a margin for the seller ( because it is a business at the end of the day) and labour charges are relative to the overall cost of employing , training and paying levels of salary to be able to retain the skills,and reap the benefits of the investment put in to gain those skills, within the industry to everyone's benefit.

Try calling up your local dealer when you have a break down at high season and call him a " Main Stealer" to his face and see where that lack of respect gets you when you need him most.
How would you like it if your " main stealer" that many are keen to bad mouth, for parts prices out with their control , suddenly started, equally publically , naming and shaming some of the less than punctual payers on forums in the same vein .

We can all be a bit " keyboard warrior" happy when the pressure is on .

A little mutual respect both from ,and for , the many different sectors that make up the Agricultural world wouldn't go wrong on here sometimes or else we will end up in a "them and us " situation from which absolutely no one benefits.

Be nice people.
Life's too short.

 

[Pilatus]

I have the above sign on my phone, I work part time in my local hospital, it s not even the rudness that bothers me much, it s the unkindness, the lack of compassion. I ve seen midwives and doctors been punched for simply following procedures.
A young midwife got slapped the other day by a visitor simply for telling them that no we don t have a microwave and no the patient should not eat before a C section.
A doctor got attacked because he tried to explain another visitor he can t get in the op theatre with his street clothes. Another midwife got punched when she asked 10 people to leave the room of a laboring woman.
What drives me mad is people not giving the seat to a laboring woman and after been told this is the labor ward and seats are only for patients

I think the above is terrible, what on earth is happening to society.
Does any one else think that a big percentage of society,are being unwittingly influenced by much of the garbage on TV soap programmes
or whatever Coronation Street etc are called.

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

I find farmers a lot more polite than most

Ahh that is because we all understand each other and don't suffer fools nor do we tolerate a neighbor struggling where others wouldn't think twice to sit back watch and laugh. I think that is why we all get on so well for the most part on here, mutual respect for hard work and a common understanding.

The only people I'm ever rude to (I hope) are cold callers. I didn't ask them to call me and no, I don't need any double glazing / PPI / new boiler!

Also never been much good at banter and tend to overstep the line whenever I try it (which I don't any more).

I also do not know when to stop with banter and being shorter than the average farmer I get a lot of stick so I have had to adapt my tactics and be down right brutal. I have upset a lot of people by doing things this way but made some of my very best-est friends because of how blunt and honest I am with my humor

 

[Surgery]

Wheat on their thatch is better.

I will be trying that with one particular twit !