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  • #598497
    tzirel
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    wat do you do wen you load a car for 45 min and the parenttells the kids to go get ices nd does not offer you. do you say something or not

    #795683
    CR 1
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    I dont understand the question please elaborate

    #795684
    haifagirl
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    For those who prefer to read English, I’ll translate:

    What do you do when you have been loading a car for 45 minutes, and the parent tells the kids to go get ices and does not offer you one? Do you say something or not?

    #795685
    tzirel
    Member

    i do car service was on a call after loading the car for 45 min with the parents just standing and staringand tellngme wat to do riht before the girls got in the car one mother said sweety go get everyone ices and a drink. they gave the girls the ices the mothers took the water but never gave me anything. oh and i put all the boxes on the roof tied them and then the man said i dont like the way you tied them so he went and cut the rope. what do you do in such a situation say something or just ignoring it

    #795686
    on the ball
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    Say nothing, create no Machlokes and reap the reward.

    #795687
    popa_bar_abba
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    That is something they should think of. You are correct in being a bit annoyed. But they aren’t doing it on purpose, it is just unthinking.

    #795688
    haifagirl
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    It would have been nice if they had offered you an ice also. However, as far as what you were doing, that is what you were paid to do.

    The man was certainly wrong to cut your rope (it was your rope, wasn’t it?).

    #795689
    aries2756
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    I hope you just waited for him to tie it up by himself.

    #795690
    mommamia22
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    If you were being paid to work, although it would be nice for them to offer you ices or a drink, the only agreement you made with them was an exchange of monetary payment for a service. I would not EXPECT them to offer you a snack. Yes, it’s menschlech. It is strange that they didn’t think of it. I have been in both positions, both as employer, and employee. I regularly offer coffee and a snack to our housekeeper as soon as she walks in (after being on the subway for nearly 1 1/2 hours). My husband feels it’s stepping over the line of appropriateness. I also worked doing housekeeping when I was a student for several years in seminary in eretz yisroel. I worked for a few families, one of which sat me down and offered me hot kugel, fresh out of her oven Thursday night after I helped her (the daughter of a rosh yeshiva) another (equally as frum) barely said hello, another pushed me out of her house before her kids came home. What a different feeling. I tried to learn from the first. What is required though, is simply payment, so that’s all you can, in all fairness expect.

    #795691
    aries2756
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    People seem to misplace their common sense at times and they also lack common courtesy.

    If my husband invites meshulachim in I always put cold drinks on the table. Something my mother taught me.

    #795692
    mom12
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    i would have asked politely “Can i bother u for some water- please”. I’m sure you would have gotten it.

    and maybe they woul have learnt to perhaps offer next time.

    They are not mechuyav.. its just mentshlechkeit.

    #795693
    tzirel
    Member

    i didnt say that they have to give me but after loading the car and tieng the stuff on the roof and yes it was my rope that he cut and that i retied it but menchlechkit wouldnt you offer a jew a drink????? i know i get paid to drive not to be the shleper no im not paid for the shleper part but courtesy i help out but this time they went over board.

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