| My favorite convenience shop now requires sales | | | | worse. Sometime early in life I realized that the person |
| staff to greet you with a "Hello!" when you walk in. | | | | asking this question is probably not thinking about my |
| Clearly it is a required policy, done unenthusiastically | | | | elaboration of well-being, and wants simply an |
| and without expectation of response. It's likely intended | | | | affirmative one-word-reply. But at any rate, in this |
| by upper management to generate situations more | | | | matter, a reply is wanted. Not so with the convenience |
| personal, but In my opinion , it's got the other effect. | | | | store clerk. He is busy with a line of people wanting |
| The 1st couple of occasions I walked to the store to | | | | cigarettes and lottery tickets, his thoughts are likely |
| hear the cheery greeting, I attempted to respond in | | | | someplace else, and to top it off he certainly resents |
| kind. But the clerk and/or worker wasn't attracted to | | | | the requirement to give a cheery hello to every person |
| what i had to pronounce! So now I understand what's | | | | walking in the door. |
| going on, and ignore the greeting. However it does | | | | I must start buying my gas and Slurpy at the other |
| create some angst. Appears to me, in well mannered | | | | spot, down the street. They separate cashier from |
| society, when someone talks to you then you should | | | | customer with bullet-proof Plexiglas. She speaks little |
| respond. But what happens if that person does not | | | | English, and works a crossword puzzle. But there's no |
| plan or maybe want your answer? Then this type of | | | | corporately forced pretense about her. I'll slip my cash |
| greeting is manufactured, shallow, and insincere. It's | | | | into the little drawer, and if she returns my smile, at |
| similar to the customary "How do you do?", although | | | | least it will be genuine. |