So, here is a scenerio.
忙碌的星期天下午,小小紫色的店裝滿了客人。
當時我正在招呼一位客人,一位剛剛跟我買了保險的女孩。店裡一個男同事(A)突然走過來,蠻大聲的對我說,「Catherine, you did your last invoice wrong again, you have to let us check your receipt every time before you process it.」
我當下只是聽著,站在一邊的女同事(B)幫我說話:「Do not shut at her in front of her client.」
當店裡稍微靜下來一點,我問那位同事B我到底哪一張invoice做錯了,於是她幫我修正了一下。其實只是個小小的失誤。
同事B跟我說:「If you are uncomfortable with him talking to you like that, yo need to let him know. He has no right to shut at you, he makes the same mistakes on his invoices all the time.」
我跟B說:「Actually, I am more concerned about the mistakes I made than him.」
這時那個同事A走了過來,於是同事B就幫我說話了:「You shouldn't shut at her like that in front of her client. You wouldn't want people to do that to you when you are with your client.」
那時,櫃檯旁還有一些客人(B的客人),可是他們聽不懂英文。
那個同事A聽了就不爽了:「Then why are you shutting at me right now in front of the client? You are doing the same thing! You are a hypocrite!」
「They are not your clients, and do they understand English?」同事B反駁。
結果是同事A氣呼呼的離開了。
我感到很抱歉,可是我連為什麼要道歉都不知道。後來同事B跟我和另一位女同事說起這件事,她說了一句話:「This is like stealing other people's client, because he made you (me) look like a bad salesperson, which makes him look like a better one.」
最後她又語重心長的說:「You need to learn not only dealing with clients, but also people in general. Because, believe me, there is a lot of drama in this store.」
這是昨天發生的事情,說實在我到現在都不能了解為什麼要搞成這樣?I can already see there is a lot of drama in this store, but I think that's just because we are making every trivial things BIG!
然後,到底什麼樣的態度叫做「Demanding for respect」?我今天你一罵我我就緊緊的保護自己,變身刺蝟,就成了一個能讓人尊重的人嗎?
被罵了到底該要有怎樣的反應?從小到大我被教育的是,如果犯了錯,就承認,就改過。錯了就是錯了,突然豎立起防衛牆也不能改變什麼。
在店裡呆了三個月了,反反覆覆他們教我的都不是這回事。看來他們所相信的是:為了一件不開心的小事情發脾氣的人,才是懂得照顧自己的人,要強勢,才是自信。
我不懂,也不能接受。我不是不堅強,我只是覺得吵架浪費我的力氣,浪費我建立的人際關係,浪費我的好心情。比起爭取那一個小小的公道,我不如不在乎,只要心裡記著你是這樣的人,下次閃你遠一點就好了。
(可是當然我也該注意不要因此失去了客人。)
不過既然已經發生了,再不願意,我今天還是跟那個男的談了一下。基本上就是講一些尊重啦,什麼什麼的,然後叫他不要把那個女同事拖下水,因為她只是幫我說話而已。
有什麼x用我也不知道,反正我也不怎麼期望他會改變。
我想我根本不在乎,不在乎他是不是我的朋友。因為他們都是一樣的,表面上大家都是朋友,私底下怎麼想的就很難說。所以,何必努力做朋友呢?反正哪天一個sale搞亂了,翻臉也就不認人了,所以,何必呢?
我只希望我能夠懂得表現自信,同時也不要失去我的心跟價值觀。