I work in the public eye and so I deal with hundreds of people a day. Most of these people are travelers who have been in their vehicle way too long and are
cranky. A big bulk of my customers are those from Canada who have to deal with the border guards before they get to me and so they can be quite cranky as
well. The rest of my customers are locals who know me and think that I am a bartender that they can lay their problems on. Not saying that I don't care
about these people but sometimes it gets quite hard to put on a smile for 8 hours a day and go on.
Last night I had a particularly hard day at work which was exacerbated by a couple of stressful situations in my personal life. Toward the end of my shift I was very down and was seriously entertaining the thought of quitting. I had just punched out, grabbed my coat, and was talking to a co-worker about some things he needed to know about when I hear this female voice over by the front counter say "Do you know you are loved?" I look over and this woman is staring at me. I tried to shrug it off by saying "Ut oh, what did I do?". She then says "When we moved up here from California you were so nice to us. My sister always talks about the nice lady that works up the street. My mom came down from Vancouver and you were so nice to her.. she still talks about you".
In that three minute exchange my attitude completely changed and I felt so much better and a lot less defeated when I came home last night. You never know when complimenting someone will completely make their day. I challenge everyone to hand out a random compliment to someone today.
Last night I had a particularly hard day at work which was exacerbated by a couple of stressful situations in my personal life. Toward the end of my shift I was very down and was seriously entertaining the thought of quitting. I had just punched out, grabbed my coat, and was talking to a co-worker about some things he needed to know about when I hear this female voice over by the front counter say "Do you know you are loved?" I look over and this woman is staring at me. I tried to shrug it off by saying "Ut oh, what did I do?". She then says "When we moved up here from California you were so nice to us. My sister always talks about the nice lady that works up the street. My mom came down from Vancouver and you were so nice to her.. she still talks about you".
In that three minute exchange my attitude completely changed and I felt so much better and a lot less defeated when I came home last night. You never know when complimenting someone will completely make their day. I challenge everyone to hand out a random compliment to someone today.
