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Absolutely. If people in an establishment are rude, I don't return. There are plenty of other places that are more than happy to have my business and act like it.
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Yeah I won't shop at our local Lowe's because they don't treat me like I am actually going to be good business. I went in there to get so stuff for the yard then start remodeling a bathroom. Yeah I couldn't get anyone to help me. I got treated like I was just wasteing their time when I could track one of them down. Just because I am 22 doesnt mean that I am not coming into your store to buy thousands of dollars worth of matterials. So I got my yard stuff and left. When to the Home Depot down the street. Got the help I needed and was treated right.
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So let them call you Bud. Then you could call them "Junior". If they tell you that their name isn't Junior then you can look them square in the eye and say, "Oh. Well, my name isn't Bud" If they ask you what your name is you say "Mr. _ _ _ _ ". I love being my age and screwing with the kids minds...it's so easy. Maybe it's because there isn't that much to screw with.
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I wonder if they are trying, in their clueless way, to establish a rapport with you by referring to you as 'buddy'. . But yes, stores have lost my business because the staff had no respect. A call to the manager mentioning what happened could change things as well though. Owners and managers don't always hear what they need to hear. One employee meeting where a manager says, "call a customer 'bud' and you're fired" could definitely change things. . I blame Baby Boomers for some of this as they (we, I'm guilty too) like to subvert anything that makes them feel 'old' which includes some traditions/rites of passage that were used to help people understand about respect.
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