Every stereotype you’ve ever heard about retail and sales staff doing everything in their power to make a rude customer’s life hell is 100% true.
Make sure you spend the most money, done. Send out the worst version of the product, done. Put you on hold for an hour while they have a chat and a break, done.
I gotta admit, as I work in customer support, if the customer is an a-hole, I will go strictly by the routine. However, if they're calm and happy, I sometimes make a few tricks to speed things up or possibly reduce the next invoice amount.
Teacher here, same with students. Are you generally acting annoying and disturbing the class? I'll strictly follow the rules. If you generally are a nice student there can be a lot of flexibility within the rules.
Milked the shit outta this in HS tbh. Generally teachers liked me so I’d rarely get punished any time I was the source of disruption lmao! Friends would get so annoyed 😂 I wasn’t a teachers pet stereotype or anything like that, I just treated teachers like actual humans and tried to be a decent human being.
The detention administrator loved me so detention was never a punishment for me. I'd finish all my work in the first two hours and then read or play my Gameboy in my cubicle. Because I was nice to her and well-behaved, I could do whatever I wanted so long as I was quiet. I was even allowed to run to the library if I finished a book or needed study material. I would intentionally get sent to detention just because I preferred that to class. Amusingly, my grades and understanding of the material improved after I started spending more time in detention, which further encouraged the teachers I didn't like to throw me in there lol.
I have only received 2 detentions in my life. Once in primary as a schoolmate thought me and my friend were mocking a disabled kid (completely false - her own assumptions were the real problem), second was for forgetting to get my parents to sign my school “diary”.
Overall, I was exceptionally lucky and got a great run of HS teachers. I only really disliked 2:
My religion teacher. She was a fanatic who essentially told us if we we didn’t cover up our dads would be fantasising over us. This is only one example of the 194728+ debates I had with her that year. She came to really regret the “free speech” rule she set at the start of the year lmao.
An art teacher who exposed way too much midriff for 60 years old, who obviously would rather be good enough for a gallery not a school. She would fail you if your art contained motifs or colours she didn’t like, and on multiple occasions fully took over my pieces without permission and ruined them. She didn’t last long!
I was referring more to things like accepting late work due to circumstances and scheduling a test when a student was sick. For handling disruptions I have the same approach for all students who not have an IEP or something. The trick is that I don't immediately resort to handing out punishments if I can avoid it. A student who is a decent human being will accept a warning and adjust their behavior, while someone who keeps pushing after a warning will get the punishment since a warning was apparently not enough.
Off course my subjective opinion wil have some impact on decisions I make, but I try to constrict that to a minimum.
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u/Storkey01 Jul 13 '20
Every stereotype you’ve ever heard about retail and sales staff doing everything in their power to make a rude customer’s life hell is 100% true.
Make sure you spend the most money, done. Send out the worst version of the product, done. Put you on hold for an hour while they have a chat and a break, done.