Ethnography

Ethnography

September 21, 2014

Rudeness


This week there seemed to be many unhappy people who decided they wanted to take out their anger on us the employees who do not make the rules.
First of was a lady who was complaining over a prices. To begin with the lady orders a children’s meal and want a discount that we cannot make possible because the discount is only available after four in the afternoon. After the lady argued for what seemed to be an hour she ended up getting the discount because the manager did not want for her to put a bad review on hour store. After the lady received a discount that she wasn’t supposed to receive she went sat down and begun to eat her meal with her daughter. Since I was trying to pay attention to the things that people do in my work place I noticed that the same lady was speaking on the phone but the conversation she was having was not very nic. The women was stating that we were very rude to her and wanted to charger extra and that she wasn’t dumb she had seen the advertisement that stated that there was always a discount. Technically she was wrong, so maybe she was dumb. After the lady and her daughter were done with there meal they decided to ask for refills on their drinks. The problem was that they did not order fountain drinks they ordered what we call the signature drinks which are not free refills. When we told this too the lady she began to scream and use very bad language towards us. The manager who was working somehow stayed very calm and offered her a fountain drink but she refused stating that she did not want that. She then decided to throw her cup at the manager who was speaking to her luckily she did not hit her but all the ice and what was left of her drink was spilled all over the floor. I then noticed that the people who were standing in line behind her began to laugh and make fun of her. One man got angry and told her that she should not be doing that but it seemed like she did not care what others thought of her. After she did that the manager asked her to leave or she would call the cops. The lady then quickly grabbed her daughter who was standing next to her the entire time and left. The messed up part of all this was that she called our corporate offices and put a complaint to on our store saying that we were rude.

 I noticed to very bad things about this lady one was that her parenting skills were not very good because with the show that she put she taught her daughter very bad manners. Another thing that I noticed was that she was very rude no matter how mad you are about a price one should never try to throw things at employees because they do not make the rules, they only enforce them.

On another day that I was making observation I noticed that there was a drunk man in a booth, it was about six in the morning and it seemed like he had not slept in a while. After sitting in a booth for about ten minutes he decided that he wanted to order something, but when we told him that we did not sell breakfast he became very angry and began to scream luckily there was a couple of police officers in the gas station that is connected with us and the man was arrested. He was not as violent when he saw the cops and realized that he was getting arrested.

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