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    Callous, Insensitive Asshole

    A couple of customers (husband and wife) came in earlier to cash a check from the woman's inheritance from her sister, who died a few months ago. The woman was crying while I was counting out the cash. I offered my condolences before they left.

    The husband just called on something unrelated and apologized for his wife crying at my desk. Really? The woman was grieving for her sister, who (according to the husband) she was very close to. It was a perfectly understandable reaction, and not something that needs to be apologized for.

    (Note: I already considered him an asshole based on previous interactions with him. This merely reinforces that opinion.)
    "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
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    Oh you know how it is Ghel. Us little ladies just can't control our emotions, and they get the better of us all the time. They addle our brains which is why we need a man with a firm hand to talk for us and make our decisions for us.

    Didn't you get the memo?
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    • #3
      My fault, terribly sorry. I was in charge of distributing memos that day, and everything from that shipment seems to have mysteriously ended up directly in the path of my ...I guess you'll just have to wait for the next memo....yeahhhhhhh.....
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      • #4
        While it was perhaps wrong, at least he was observant enough to call you after the fact to apologize instead of doing it while they were in your office/in front of her.

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        • #5
          Observant? Nah. I got the impression that he was embarrassed by his wife crying in public. And he only apologized to me about it as an afterthought, since he was calling regarding something else - a deposit he said he should have gotten. Apologizing about his wife's crying came after swearing about the company that should have made the deposit.
          "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
          -Mira Furlan

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          • #6
            Sounds like he knew he was being a prick & wanted to redeem himself by being an faux-sensitive prick.
            Here Mr Customer, let me pull that out of my arse for you!

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            • #7
              I have also found that for many people, it can be months afterwards, but when you have to sign paperwork, it can hit you like a hammer: that person is gone. You are transferring a car title out of the deceased's name, or closing a bank account, and it just seems so final.

              Poor lady.
              To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care;
              To pursue it with forks and hope;
              To threaten its life with a railway share;
              To charm it with forks and hope!

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