How to Deal with Unfriendly People

How to Deal With Unfriendly People

I just figure out who the unfriendly ones are or who is friendly but doesn’t engage in any conversation but the business at hand and try to talk to them as little as possible.

The first type is just unfriendly all the time, when you’re doing business but especially if you talk about something extraneous.

I recommend just shooting their crap attitude right back at them. Package into a nice ice cold popsicle and mentally fire it in their direction.

The second type is interesting. There are a few people who I interact with who are like this, mostly checkers at stores. They can seem extremely friendly as long as I only keep the conversation to strictly the business at end.

If I stray into anything other than that, they either get stone cold or start acting weird, mostly a sort of confused annoyance. So if you keep it to this total bullshit level of superficiality, you can have a “pleasant experience” in quotes.

I keep screwing up and talking to them once in a while but it never works. I thi…