Weird experience at LFS

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@ VJ, you suggest not to go deep into whether people are bad, or not, by nature, but still it's hard to resist :lol:

Personally, I think I'm quite close to Sid's point of view, but I think we should not leave it at that point. In this case the matter was started by an observation of an odd behaviour by a shopkeeper. Although this dis surprize me, in general, we should try to be as emphatic as possible: having a pershop does, after al, not abolish problems such as mortgage payments

For me, only keeping fishes as a hobby, it's easy to say 'one should not sell fishes which are not suitable for a tank'. If I was a petshopowner, making say 400 euros (today some 500 US $) of badly needed money by selling them - allowing me to pay the mortgage for another month, I don't think I would sing the same tune

Most likely, the shopkeeper Marc encountered has had a few bad experiences which made him this way
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Bas Pels wrote:Most likely, the shopkeeper Marc encountered has had a few bad experiences which made him this way
Exactly.

Oh for heavens sake, p-l-eeeease :roll: . The guy was havin a bad day :evil: and Marc walked in :D at the wrong moment :shock: and copped it :cry: ! Simple as.

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that's very plausible, but there IS such a thing as professionalism.

in wich case one takes one's job serious.
taking it out on customers definitely doesn't file under that one.
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Yes you're right Sid.

I was just trying to inject (a little) humour.
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sidguppy wrote:that's very plausible, but there IS such a thing as professionalism.

in wich case one takes one's job serious.
taking it out on customers definitely doesn't file under that one.
Whilst that is true we all still have moments. I work in a primary school and you can believe me when I say, it doesn't matter how many qualifications you have or how professional you are, sometimes you're gonna lose it. Which is why we have a staffroom, away from kids :lol: but not everyone has that luxury.
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I still think I covered it on page one :wink:
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Poor dab he was all confused...........

It really frustrates me when I see a business that has potential which is not being realised, leave it to someone that will make the most of it.
One more bucket of water and the farce is complete.
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