How often do you talk to someone and get the impression they're not really listening? What do you do about it?
by 
Carmella
ANSWERS: 12
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What'd you say?
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Yes every time I talk to my husband. I just get louder and louder so he finally listens so I shut up. Or is he really listening?? Heck I don't know!
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Oh with clients quite often so I talk gobbledegook to see how long it is before they notice.
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All the time. My hubby never listens to me. Really. I usually end up shouting and then he gets annoyed with me. If he listened in the first place, life would be so much easier!
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When their responses are somewhat really vague. I get their attention by saying something completely in left field...like "And the blue man ate my dog last night..." If they don't respond, I get their attention and ask what's more important than me! ;-)
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Every single Sunday during football season. So I uphold both ends of the conversation.
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If I get that kind of response I will usually start adding statements to my words that have no bearing and see if I get the same response. Recently my boss was giving me the usual blow off, " yes, yeah, sure," and I said in front of a few other office staff, " SO if I get it will you eat the rat poison?" and he said, "yeah" and I slipped it in with such a smooth inflection in my voice that he never caught it. One of the office people told him later what I said and he was not happy. It is the classic Howard Stern move when people were being asked questions and one of his lackies would slip in the "douchebag says what?" and the person would say, " what?" People speak before they think, and they often do not listen to respond properly.
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I have one employee who does this often. I simply throw in something important. Later, when I ask about it and he's clueless, I tell him that I said it during our meeting or whatever. The others in the department agree and he gets embarrassed, which causes him to pay attention for a while.
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when I start telling my mom about somthing i'm interested in, she stops caring. I just say, "you don't care do you?" and she'll say "no", and then I'll go play video games.
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often I just stop talking...
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If the person seems distracted perhaps he/she is thinking of other, more pressing things than what I have to say at the moment..perhaps I am rattling on and on and not making my point in a clear, concise manner..there could be a variety of reasons why you aren't able to hold someone's attention..some of them may have nothing at all to do with you..I would ask "is this a bad time..is there something on your mind that maybe I can help you with? " If it is a loved one, I would not take it personally. If it is an acquaintance and this happens as a matter of course, then I would take the hint that what I have to say is of little consequence to this person and rethink my trying to make contact again.
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Everytime I talk to my sister. I don't do anything about it...I do the same to her!
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