Meredith's Monday Musings: Customer Service

Hi Everyone!

Happy Monday! How are y’all doing? I hope that everyone had a Happy Easter (if that’s what you celebrate). Can you all also believe that it’s April already? I’m excited. As the old saying goes, April showers bring May flowers. Consider I love rain showers, I’m happy for them to come. 

Today’s Meredith’s Monday’s Musing post is all about: Customer Service. 

How many of you have worked in a job that requires some form of customer service before? So many jobs have a customer aspect to it, I’m sure that there aren’t many of you that haven’t dealt with this before. 

I have to say, I truly believe that customer service is the hardest part of any job. Think about it, someone is paying for a service and they want you to be one hundred percent nice to them no matter how rude they are to you. This always kills me. You’d think that if you were expecting someone to be polite and nice to you, that’d you give the same respect and treat them the same way. Sadly, this isn’t always the case. 

I have to deal with people quite a bit in my job. There are times where I’m having to clench my teeth to stop myself from being just as mean to the people as they are to me. However, I know that my boss would seriously be pissed if I did that, so I keep my mouth shut. 

Obviously, I can’t tell any of you what to do, nor do I want to. However, I would like for you to all take a moment and just think about what you say or how you act towards a person who is providing you a service. We never know what they have to deal with on a daily basis or what is going on in their lives. Maybe a friendly thank you from you is what they’ll need to brighten their days. Granted, if they’re being rude or not doing as they should, by all means announce your grievances. But, if they haven’t done anything wrong, don’t be one of the patients that they’ll complain about later. Cause remember, you wouldn’t like to deal with that if you were in their positions, don’t make them deal with it either. (Again, not saying that any of you act this way, it’s just something to remember.) 

That’s all that I have for now. Happy Monday!