An exercise for the next stage of your stay: check out how people react to the question "why?".BedokAmerican wrote:I sometimes go into stores and nicely ask if something is in stock and people who work there will either point me in the right direction or just say "no" but then I'll walk around the store and find it anyway. Sometimes stuff I'm looking for is sitting a few feet away and the employee claims they don't sell it.
It seems many people here don't want to admit they don't know something. I don't know why they instead don't say something like, "I'm not sure. Let me check." Is there a shame culturally in doing that?
Has anyone else found this to be the case?
x9200 wrote:An exercise for the next stage of your stay: check out how people react to the question "why?".
Same same if you go and buy ground-to-order spices in Little India (in my experience).sundaymorningstaple wrote:It's called AMT. Ang Mo Tax.![]()
Go to a wet market and they double the price and then they do that with EVERY SINGLE ITEM you purchase and then they total it.
movingtospore wrote:What really annoys the crap out me though is not that fudge their way out of saying I don't know, but that they don't know in the first place. The most basic thing about their store, product, etc. It shocks me. How can you not know that the lightbulbs are one row over? Or that you don't carry a certain brand. Or that you're out of size 3. Or that you don't sell something anymore. Ugh.
Part of the problem is that they can't think, and nobody bothers to train them.
I just found out what Ang Mo means. I've heard of it but didn't know what it meant. i then saw your post thought it was an informal/discretionary tax so I looked it up and and there was no such tax. I then looked it up by itself and then realized it means "red hair" and can be considered derogatory toward whites.sundaymorningstaple wrote:It's called AMT. Ang Mo Tax.![]()
Go to a wet market and they double the price and then they do that with EVERY SINGLE ITEM you purchase and then they total it.
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