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Original poster

If one more shop assistant, hair dresser or anyone else in the service industry ask this I might scream

100 replies

kittypop · 17/12/2018 20:02

Are you organised? Everywhere you go - doesn't matter where. Has any man ever been asked this. It's getting on my wick now.

OP posts:
theymademejoin · 17/12/2018 20:31

I have never been asked am I organised. However, I'm regularly asked "are you all set?". Much nicer imo😁. It doesn't sound anywhere near as hard to achieve as "organised"

Lettermethis · 17/12/2018 20:32

My orthodontist asked this today!

"All organised, then?" He asked.

I was like UM sorry? Thinking he meant my teeth. How can I organise my own teeth for my brace adjustment?

"For Christmas."

OH. Blush

CloserIAm2Fine · 17/12/2018 20:32

YABU

retail and services are miserably busy at this time of year and most likely don’t want to ask but have been told they must.

Just say yes thank you and get on with your life

RunningFeisty · 17/12/2018 20:32

Drives me mad, no, I'm horribly disorganised and can barely afford christmas as it is, and yet a relative of mine 'hopes I've spoilt them rotten'

Thanks for making me feel worse, like!

Original poster
kittypop · 17/12/2018 20:33

Lettermethis ha ha pity you can't organise your own brace - would save you a fortune Grin

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Penguin34 · 17/12/2018 20:34

Doesn't happen to me.

I work in the service industry so no time to go to the shops

MarilynSlumroe · 17/12/2018 20:36

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Yabbers · 17/12/2018 20:37

I ask guys this all the time. Then give them a hard time when they say it’s all up to their wife to do!

RahRahRooRah · 17/12/2018 20:38

Doesn't everyone ask this?
It's like when it gets to Halloween and bonfire night - when everyone says "ooh hasn't the year flown by? Christmas soon!"
And you nod and agree

If anyone asks if you're organised, just say "of course, I've had everything ready for the last 4 weeks, and now I'm just enjoying Christmas!"

Kemer2018 · 17/12/2018 20:39

Yeah I get it alot from everyone.
I think I'm perceived as incompetent so i should just say no, oh my gosh, i havent even started yet.....flap, panic, flap.
Fact is.....I am sorted 😁

SlowlyShrinking · 17/12/2018 20:40

I always feel really guilty because I know I’m not organised, at all, either for Christmas or for any other part of my life 😞

PigletJohn · 17/12/2018 20:42

No, we usually pop into the supermart at five to five on Christmas Eve.

maddiemookins16mum · 17/12/2018 20:44

We get ‘marked’ on building customer rapport at my work, today I was discussing sprouts with one of my lovely customers (we both agreed they need to get put on the hob any day now, she was a hoot). Sorry if it offends you OP, but it helps with both my appraisal and yearly bonus (plus I actually like chatting with my customers too).

Biggerknickersagain · 17/12/2018 20:44

Echoing other posters when I say that people in the service industry couldn't give a stuff if you're ready for Christmas or not. It's one of those things that makes staff cringe, makes some customers annoyed but the idiots managers that make these rules think it's great.
I know this is meant to be light-hearted OP but, would it make any difference if a 'professional' were to ask? Like a teacher, or a doctor, or a solicitor? Is it just people in the service industry asking that makes you want to scream?

Apocalyptichorsewoman · 17/12/2018 20:47

Today at work, I was making small talk with a relative about sheep tupping. I'm a specialist nurse- but not in sheep tupping 🤔

Sometimes it would be nice to have more usual conversations.. 😁

slashlover · 17/12/2018 20:50

It's like when I ask a breezy "How are you?". The correct answer is something like "not bad" or "fine, thanks" PLEASE do not actually tell me how you are.

twattymctwatterson and by the way one of my son's works in a shop as he can't get a job after Uni - I am friendly with all his colleagues and chat away to them.

Umm. He does have a job

Maybe OP meant that he was volunteering?

FantasticBadger · 17/12/2018 20:50

Maddie sprouts on in mid December?! They should have been on since Halloween surely!

donquixotedelamancha · 17/12/2018 20:55

Has any man ever been asked this Yep. I get asked this all the time.

sophisticatedsarcasm · 17/12/2018 20:56

I never ask customers this as I find it highly annoying. I do answer just to be polite but I usually spark up a convo about other stuff unless of course they bring it up first,

owlshooting · 17/12/2018 20:59

Actually I was just thinking the other day that no one has asked me that yet this year. Must be a first!!

owlshooting · 17/12/2018 21:00

The worst thing is this trend for total strangers to ask what you're doing at the weekend. Online banking, etc. I just find it rude.

MiddlingMum · 17/12/2018 21:03

I've been asked this twice today. I can't say I mind at all. But, actually, no, I'm not "ready for Christmas", it's still more than a week away.

BlueJava · 17/12/2018 21:11

It's just a friendly way to chat, I don't think they care about the answer nor are they interrogating you!

katseyes7 · 17/12/2018 21:12

l think this one might be on a par with asking taxi drivers what time they finish and if they've been busy....

Loyaultemelie · 17/12/2018 21:13

Dh got asked this today (by another man funny enough). He just looked at him in horror then looked at me and muttered "I think so" but did have the good grace to look shamefaced

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