Word: ruder
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...Weiss was ruder than rude to my wife," says Gest, post poking. "Forty people watched in horror. Who leaves their cell phone on? He looks at the message, doesn't turn it off. It rings again. He checks the message...
...evening, as well as a refrigerator and freezer stocked with future dinners, each of which includes instructions for reheating. The process can save clients as much as 15 hours a week in shopping, preparation, cooking and cleanup time. But customers are not completely off the hook. Says Debra Ruder, 43, a communications specialist who lives in suburban Boston with her husband and two sons: "You do have to remember to take something out of the freezer the night before...
Wait--customer service, you mean as in providing service to customers? Why should anyone expect that? Service people and their customers are becoming increasingly indignant with one another, and they're punishing one another's rudeness by becoming increasingly ruder back. What reason is there to suppose that the downward spiral in behavior will reverse direction...
...take the violations one by one. It is uncommonly rude to speak while someone else has the floor; ruder still when those speaking are your elders; and rudest of all when the proceedings in question concern the fate of a human being...
...take the violations one by one. It is uncommonly rude to speak while someone else has the floor; ruder still when those speaking are your elders; and rudest of all when the proceedings in question concern the fate of a human being...