From shopping in a store or going to a gym or a restaraunt? I was in a drug store yesterday and I happened to walk down an aisle where everything on the shelves had an inch of dust on it. I will never go back. I will not join a gym where the manager/employees are overweight or go into a restaraunt where the floors are dirty or into a store where employees are dressed like whores or scumbags. I wont shop at a supermarket where the produce has flies buzzing around or the meat case is filthy. I have left an entire cart full of food in the middle of the store because the meat case was dirty. If I'm in an establishment where I see disarray, dirt or otherwise disorganization, I will leave and never go back. That sends the message, to me at least, that employees don't care about their jobs and that managers don't care that they dont. And if the employees and managers don't care about the store or the image they project, how willing are they to care about me, as a consumer, or what my needs are?
If any part of the grocery store is dirty, you can bet your ass I am outta there.
I hear you on that. I went to a store once and there were fruit flies flying all over the vegies. Thing is, once you have them, they are a bitch to get rid of.
I have had server staff get all bent out of shape when I have sent dirty silverware or plates back to the kitchen.
Here is another thing...more than once I have been in a restaurant or other establisment where I have witnessed a supervisor yelling at a server right in front of customers. I do not care what the person does, you just do not yell at them in front of customers.
Little food and produce markets and hole-in-the-wall restaurants are often dusty where I live. It's breezy a lot, the places are on the main street, and they are open-front. Dust and a few flies don't bother me at all.
Slightly dirty silverware doesn't bother me if they're cool if I send it back. However, if there's anything inside my food like a hair or something unrecognizable, I'm not going back unless I've been there many times before and it's an exception- pretty much a deal breaker on a new place.
If the staff is assholish about a legitimate complaint or the boss berates the stafff in my presence, I don't want to be there and will take my business elsewhere.
I don't allow others poor behavior to dictate mine, so the gym wouldn't be on my radar as a non-possibility if it was convenient for me.
How other do or do not take care of themselves plays no true role with my decision making.
I wouldn't go back to an establishment that was filthy though as that is a lack of curtesy that is inexcusable. Couple that with the health hazard.
I can only imagine what's going on back in the kitchen.
(07-17-2012, 11:27 AM)OnBendedKnee Wrote: [ -> ]I don't allow others poor behavior to dictate mine
This isn't the first time I've seen you make this particular comment & I like it a lot. I try to live my life like that, I'm usually successful but not always, it can sometimes be difficult not to respond in kind.
The establishment needs to be clean and the service attentive. Open air markets like the farmers market are subject to a different set of standards, but VT has a stiff enforcement of the health and safety code for any establishment that serves food or provides service. If it's dirty, I have no interest, and if the staff seems indifferent, I'm certainly indifferent about coming back.
The gym I workout at is spotless. In addition, all users are required to wipe down each machine they use when done. There are sani wipe dispensers every few feet on the walls and peer pressure is enforced. You walk away from a machine without sanitizing it first and you get glared at.
I won't shop again where the service is rude or dismissive. I'm more forgiving of disarray in a department store than a restaurant, and dirty restrooms will send me out of a place because it indicates a lack of attention by staff and management.
Ma, my gym also has the sanitary wipes all over the place. It is EXPECTED that you will clean up after yourself.
Remember the days when no one cleaned up after themselves at the gym? You carried your own towel around and had to wipe the machine because the asshole who went before you never did.
(07-17-2012, 11:34 AM)Ma Huang Sor Wrote: [ -> ]The establishment needs to be clean and the service attentive. Open air markets like the farmers market are subject to a different set of standards, but VT has a stiff enforcement of the health and safety code for any establishment that serves food or provides service. If it's dirty, I have no interest, and if the staff seems indifferent, I'm certainly indifferent about coming back.
The gym I workout at is spotless. In addition, all users are required to wipe down each machine they use when done. There are sani wipe dispensers every few feet on the walls and peer pressure is enforced. You walk away from a machine without sanitizing it first and you get glared at.
I actually wipe down each machine that I use at the gym with sani wipes , "before", I use them, as well as after I use them. I don't leave cleanliness up to chance. (It's double the effort, but feels real clean)
I don't like eating where there are ugly or fat waiters or waitresses.
(07-17-2012, 01:48 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]I don't like eating where there are ugly or fat waiters or waitresses.
Years ago I worked a part time job at a bar/restuarant on the weekends. The head cook (woman) wore low riders and we got to see the same bright pink thong for 3 days in a row.
I quit after that.
Yeah I wouldn't be spending money there. Unless she was super hot.
Consistent bad service and having an unkempt establishment stop me.
Just like with women.
(07-17-2012, 01:55 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah I wouldn't be spending money there. Unless she was super hot.
Sooo... dirty, unwashed genitals and ass won't stop you if she's 'hot'? And...everything else is dirty too. You men are pigs.
Somehow, that doesn't surprise me.
(07-17-2012, 02:38 PM)FAHQTOO Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2012, 01:55 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah I wouldn't be spending money there. Unless she was super hot.
Sooo... dirty, unwashed genitals and ass won't stop you if she's 'hot'? And...everything else is dirty too. You men are pigs.
Somehow, that doesn't surprise me.
"you men"
That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with...
(07-17-2012, 02:38 PM)FAHQTOO Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2012, 01:55 PM)Riotgear Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah I wouldn't be spending money there. Unless she was super hot.
Sooo... dirty, unwashed genitals and ass won't stop you if she's 'hot'? And...everything else is dirty too. You men are pigs.
Somehow, that doesn't surprise me.
Primate. Not pig.
Naked patrons. Only happened a couple of times and I stayed and ate at both of them, but I'd rather choose who I'm going to see naked (especially while eating).
Common sense works for me.
I'm not all that picky. I don't want to buy food from a restaurant or grocery store that is filthy, but I can tolerate a little dust if the food is high quality. My favorite BBQ place has some dust on the ceiling fans, but they make the best smoked brisket so I can deal with it.
I don't care much about the little chubber who works at the gym either. As long as I'm not hiring her as my personal trainer it really doesn't affect me much.