Receptionist at gym making snarky comment wwyd

[Mydietstartstomorrow]

I’ve been with this gym a month or so. Premium (supposedly but I’m not sure it’s actually worth the money) and I was just leaving after my work out and said “bye” as I walked past and just as I was going out the door the receptionist said pretty loudly “thank you - you’re welcome” as if I was being rude not saying thank you! Am I supposed to say thanks to the receptionist? I said bye but I didn’t realise I was supposed to say thank you to an employee for using something I pay for! AIBU? It’s put me off going a bit and I’m not sure if I should say something or just leave it
edited it to say there was no one coming in or going out after me so she couldn’t have been talking to someone else!

Ah do you feel better now knowing you’ve been completely nasty to a complete stranger on the internet! Give yourself a pat on your back for your wit 🙄

You're right, I should have made a written complaint to her employer and tried to get her sacked. Nothing nasty about that!

I had no intention of putting it in writing but at least I can spell…. 😂

@Mydietstartstomorrow what is your job? Do you work with ftf contact with clients?

Thanks for pointing out my typos though. I appreciate you.

Unnecessary.

Yes

Well done, you’ve just revealed your true self. I think we know who has the bad attitude now and it’s not the receptionist.

I think you’re being unreasonable as this is something I would put down as a customer facing employee on auto pilot, as opposed to being malicious.

It’s like someone asking you if you are ok and you respond yes and ask them back, and they respond and ask how are you again at the end - forgetting that they already asked.

You said “bye”, she responded “thanks”. It just sounds like a clumsy slip up that she then attempted to correct by saying “you’re welcome”. She probably has had those kinds of exchanges hundreds of times and likely wasn’t personally targeting you with sarcasm or whatever. It was likely she was paying less attention to you as opposed to more.

This.

I think we can stress over these little things too much. Maybe she meant to be sarcastic, maybe she was on autopilot, maybe she meant to be friendly, but the wrong words came out.

Shake it off. It's trivial.

Sorry, how so?

.there was no one coming in or going out after me so she couldn’t have been talking to someone else!

Could she have been on a video call or on the phone?

This is your version of a very happy life?

Taking offence at what the vast vast majority of us would see as a banal autopilot platitude

No

Without any of us being there we cannot deduce if she was sincere or sarcastic. Give her the benefit of the doubt and see what happens next time.

You insulted me for not being able to spell. For all you know I may have a learning difficulty! This insult could have sent me over the edge. I may take offense. I may ruminate on your insult for days. Ypir insult may send me into a deep depression. I may even feel the need to consult Mumsnet to add meaning and validation to my feelings. Or, I may just concede that I can’t spell and get on with my life and accept the person throwing insults around about my spelling is as inconsequential to me as the point she is trying to make.

I insulted you for being unnecessarily rude asking how old was I. I too may have a learning difficulty where I am overly sensitive to inane comments but you didn’t stop to think about that either

I’m sorry. I only saw the post where you insulted me for not being able to spell.

Thanks for clearing that up.

BTW I am crap at grammar too.

A good way to test it would be to stop, say “pardon, sorry I was in a daydream” and get her to repeat what she said. You will know from how she responds whether she was being snarky or not 😆

I think it was snarky for sure! But you were totally reasonable just to say bye - that’s probably more than she gets from most people..

YANBU, she was rude. What did she even do for you? Sounds like you left without her having to scan you out?

Next time be prepared to question her. Ignore her completely and if she says anything, ask her what does she want thanking for?

You were rude to OP. At least own it.

@nomas I've said I’m sorry. What more do you want? A red carpet on departure?

You were clearly being sarcastic.

Don't resort to storming back, blanking her or dead eye questioning her or you will just come across as batshit and rude and definitely get the snarky replies afterwards

You sure she wasn't on the phone? Came across a receptionist at one place who had big curly hair and I totally didn't spot the headset/ear buds. I was about 3 sentences in before I realised she wasn't responding to me but to someone on the other end of the phone

Was I?