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If someone says good morning, what difference does it make if they’re carrying a mop or carrying a briefcase? I’m happy when anyone greets me cheerfully.
Manners cost nothing and you can make someone’s day.
Spreading positivity is the best way ever! i’m sure people walk out with a smile after being greeted like that, I know I would.
Funnily enough I greet everyone and the cleaners are the ones that typically do not respond, especially older.
I don’t greet ANYONE regardless of their role.
You find that everywhere regardless of who you are. I walk in cities and on trails. I say good morning or hello to everyone. Maybe one in three people also gives me a greeting. I don’t hold it against anyone. Maybe they are having a rough day or are lost in a thought. I will still wish them well. Being pleasant is the least we can do for one another.
Why are people such dicks? I greet everyone with a friendly smile and at least a nod, if not a proper “Hello!”, even and most especially the cleaning personnel, janitors, technicians, whathaveyou. Why would I be a dick to other people? It costs me nothing to be friendly.
Shit i say good morning, afternoon, how’s it going and people still don’t say shit lol. My daughter and i go on walks all the time and people are just jerks i guess
the best thing you’d do is breaking the cycle good on u<33
Virtue signal much?
Today I said good morning. Got a puzzled look and they just said hi.
I’m not sure if this is actually reflective of UK culture. If someone says ‘good morning’ to you we are hard wired to say it back. Me thinks some high jinx is going on.
Edit: Naturally we would all prefer it if no one spoke to us but yeah that tweet aint the truth and that tit aint the tat.
I’m not feeling this
Anyone that can’t be bothered to respond to a “good morning” because they think they are better than “the help” is actual human garbage.
Frankly, I’ve always liked the cleaning/support staff more than I have my own colleagues in my career. And regardless, I would always say return any sort of greeting no matter their “position”.
*YOU* can get better, but *IT* doesn’t get better. If you don’t become a doctor, ymmv.
I’m nowhere near that smart, but I do the same thing. If I stop by fast food somewhere and they’re taking much longer than usual and they’re very apologetic I’m not mad at all and I tell them not a big deal because I’ve been on that side of the counter and I know what it’s like. Don’t judge a fast food worker until you’ve gone into the walk-in freezer and screamed. Same way with retail or anything. Everyone should work with the public for at least a year in their early twenties just so they know what it’s like and maybe start treating people better.
My father started as a janitor at a local pharma manufacturer, and before leaving was a supervisor for an entire department. He always told me that you treat the janitor with the same level of respect you treat the CEO. Their title doesn’t dictate the respect they are owed. I like to think that advice served me well over the years.
Thank you.
Tbh hes in the UK. They didnt reply because we’re all bloody miserable
Man I always go the extra mile with the cleaning staff. They’re the guys that clean the place.
It’s weird that this is an inspirational statement rather than just what everyone does normally.
My office gathered up all the janitorial staff to tell them they shouldn’t speak to other employees while they are working.
Yes, they told the cleaning guys they aren’t allowed to talk to their “betters.” Weirdly the quality of cleaning dropped drastically after that.
This👀
I was just at MIT yesterday and this behavior is rampant, I held a door for a woman who didn’t say anything at all. I saw a man drop a napkin on the floor, look directly at it, look at me then stand next to it while waiting for the elevator then just get in the elevator and carry on, never picking up his trash. I truly don’t understand this behavior.
Lebanese are some of the nicest people I have ever met. Very friendly and hospitable people. Amazing food too.
Yeah sure, the virtue-signalling quack from a foreign country improving it by putting down the British.
I remember how unseen I was when I was a janitor 30 years ago. I make sure to greet and chat with all of them when I see them at work, and I’m just a nobody highways inspector. As a major depressive i know how kindness makes the day go better or change it’s trajectory.
To paraphrase a quote I heard long ago- guidance counsellors say what you would do if you had a million dollars is what you should do for a career is bullshit. No one would ever say they want to clean shitty toilets.
But, you succeeded anyway. Would that have been possible in Lebanon? Be grateful. Not everyone who says good morning actually means it
Has he just encountered Londoners. It’s a busy city. Stop freaking out strangers.
It’s not about your job it’s about where you are. £10 says he worked in the South
Trash linked in asshole. Good job you are a human, who interacted with humans.
Sorry you experienced this…
This is awesome. Let’s open the borders to everyone!
You are not entitled to the uk man. You’re entitled to lebanon, which you have forsaken.
I had a similar story. I landed in the right place at the right time and got a sweet gig in IT. The first day I started they asked me (during the daily meeting) to introduce myself. When they asked me what I was doing before this job I got to reply “sweeping floors”.
“I treat *everyone* like a human!”
Good for you bud, that is the standard.
“*…and they still treat me like shit because of my skin colour.*”
And these arseholes would be the first to complain about dirty floors, and be the ones saying “if you don’t like the pay then get a better job”.
Nobody has to talk to you?
Sweetheart, in the UK it is not proper form to greet anyone other than family and friends. Why are you talking to random strangers?
Our support staff (kitchen, laundry, maintenance, cleaning, etc) are so important and deserve more respect than they’re given.
LPT: always treat cleaning staff well because they are powerful wizards with powerful keys.
Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but they have powerful keys that can get you into otherwise locked-down places you need access to in a pinch and they are very good at keeping secrets from management about what they do with their keys.
As an example, on my first weekend of college, I threw up in my trash can, pushed out the window screen, and threw the trashcan out the window. I also broke my bed.
At the end of the year, the college was going to charge me several hundred dollars for the lost and broken stuff, but the janitor was my buddy and he let me into the dorm storage room to get free replacements.
Said good morning to someone that works in the building next to mine as I was getting out of my car to collect a package. They responded “you can’t park here”. I was just told to park there. The person that told me was a bottom rung employee. How hard was it to just say good morning back. People fucking suck sometimes.
I love this. I am working on being a better person, and I am proud to say that when I was in the hospital, I remembered to thank the cleaner and the CNAs and nurses for their hard work and care. I am making progress.
I’ll never get this.
I got a temp holiday job at the post office during the pandemic at a small office with five carriers. The postmaster told me I could stay on and become a permanent employee after the season as they always needed help. I was excited about the job; get to be outside delivering cool packages to people excited to get them.
Turns out some of the old timers were absolute pieces of shit. Would literally not respond when I had simple questions. One guy had a phrase I heard every single day, “not my job.” These guys destroyed any potential for a pleasant workplace which is a must for me. It was the weirdest thing because it would be so easy to be nice.
When the job ended I told the PM exactly why I wasted sticking around and he told me they actually tried to get rid of the ‘not my job’ guy several years before because he was notorious for being so unpleasant that he would run off new hires (like me.) The guy would break some technical rules here and there like leave the truck door open when delivering parcels. But it didn’t work and only emboldened the guy making him worse.
It was eye opening. I had a job previously for over a decade with coworkers I loved and a wonderful ‘we’re in this together’ feeling. I had forgotten what it was like to work with assholes.
It’s crazy how you stop being a human to some people and become a lowly machine when you work a low level job like this. If you’ve even been a cashier you probably know the feeling of being treated like a set of prompts for someone to rush through to get done with the interaction. Not a fun feeling, especially several times a day.
He must have been in London. That’s not representative of UK as a whole.