This morning, the kid in front of me at Starbucks was having an issue paying for his coffee. The barista explained to him what payments he could accept, and this made the kid fly off the handle, throwing the lid off of his coffee and storming off while saying, you can keep your f-ing coffee. It was so rude! After a second, the barista went outside to the kid and tried explaining to him again why he couldn't accept whatever it was he was trying to pay with. They walked back in together, with the kid apologizing and the barista saying, i just want to have an honest conversation with you. I don't want your money! I just want your respect.
Wow!
Isn't that what we all want? Just a little genuine conversation and some dang respect?
Perfect timing for me to witness this incident. Yesterday, after a coworker went over my head TWICE and overturned two decisions i had made, I finally had it and responded to her quite rudely. Tsk tsk.
Lesson learned. We are all going to find ourselves in situations where we don't like how we are being treated. But, instead of exploding (ex: Ashley), we can speak to the perp with respect and genuinely explain why we are frustrated (ex: barista).
Goal for today: preserve dignity by maintaining respect, no matter how irritated I become in the next 8 hours :)
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