FirmhandKY
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ORIGINAL: marie2 GR: Not my style. While I sometimes enjoying being playful and flirty just for fun, I wouldn't use it as a technique to get what I want, or to get a favor. I lose respect very quickly for men who can be led around by their dicks like a teenaged boy. Likely they'd also want a "favor" in return. Having said that, I absolutely have and will act in ways that will get me the results I want from a person. Not so much with men specifically, and not in a personal relationship, but in any type of situation where I need someone in my corner, I will not hesitate to behave and speak to him/her in a way that promotes their willingless to help me. I understand. Men can and do flirt to get what they want as well. I do think there is a continuum of how we interact with other people, and that flirting is on one end of that scale. An example from my experiences: I absolutely hate call centers, when you have a problem, or have to get some piece of equipment "activated". Just yesterday, I was trying to activate a HD cable box that Comcast had shipped to us. The first guy wasn't so bad. I had almost all my numbers and identifications ready ... but ... they didn't have a record of the very box that they had sent me, and he had to "put me on hold for less than 3 minutes, while he transferred me to the billing department to straighten it out". Uh huh. About 15 minutes later, another (female) rep comes online, and asks me (politely) what I want, and I again explain, and have to do everything all over again. She swears to me that I was a "new call" and hadn't been transferred. I am already not terrible fond of such situations, and my patience wears very thin, very quickly (which is one reason that I mainly let Treasure talk to such people: she's a doll on the phone). I knew that my voice was letting the Customer Service Rep know that I was on the edge, and likely to become "a problem call". But I regrouped, and explained to her that I was upset, but that it wasn't her fault, and I understood that. That broke the ice, and the tension, and she went out of her way to help me, and we shared a few jokes along the way. Did I flirt with her? Yeah, a bit, but not with any kind of sexual flavor, only like we were two people who both were in a situation that was difficult, but could work it out together. And ... I got my crap turned on, and working, and she left with a laugh. Firm
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