Jada59
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I am wondering if anyone can shed some light on this as an online search has turned up nothing. Nothing that relates to what I mean anyway...
I find examples of people who have low self esteem, anxiety, have been abused, or apparently women in particular will apologize when they shouldn't. Such as when someone else bumps into them. This is not what I'm talking about.
I'm currently having issues like this with certain people in my life. I won't use them as examples but rather give one that happened to me years ago.
I used to work at a store that had weekly ads that started new every Sunday.
Every Saturday night, this guy came in right at closing time. He always claimed to want to buy a lot of things that were on sale and apologized for coming in so late. Generally what we would do if a customer tried to come in as we were locking up was to ask them what they wanted to buy. If it was just an item or two, we would send an employee to quickly pick up those items and then get them through the check out. But if they wanted to buy a lot of stuff, we would tell them to come back another time.
This guy however, claimed to want to buy items that were on sale that day but would not be on sale the next day. He always made the claim that he would buy a cart of two worth of items. This was actually a lie as I never saw him buy a thing and neither did anyone else.
The store manager would point to the self serve desk where the customers could write rainchecks for out of stock items. They would tell him to fill out rainchecks for what he wanted and to come back later. Again he would apologize and claim things like that his writing was slow and his English not so good. He was Asian.
I write fast. So the store manager would tell me to write the rainchecks for him. I would then have to spend a good half an hour to an hour, writing rainchecks for things I knew he would never buy. He often requested large amounts of the items as well. This screwed up our inventory because often we had to place a special order to get enough of whatever it was to fulfill the quantity on the raincheck, and he would never come back to buy.
All the while I was seething inside and writing out the rainchecks, he would continue to apologize repeatedly for coming in so late and making me do all the extra work. Often, he would grab my arm and make me stop writing so he could have my full attention and look into my eyes to make sure that I realized that his apologies were sincere.
The constant arm grabbing and apologies did nothing but anger me and slow me down. But.. To others, he was perceived as a very nice man. Why? he spoke in a calm, soothing voice, he smiled at me and constantly apologized to me. Meanwhile I wanted to poke the point of my pen into his eyes. I would have had to remove his glasses first. Or just knock him flat or curse at him or variety of other things that I full well knew I couldn't do because I would lose my job if I did!
So... Why would a person offer so many apologies for their poor behavior? I say "poor" because to me that's what it was. Doing something on purpose to tick me off. All the while having words spew out of their mouth indicating that they understood how busy I was, how they knew I just wanted to go home. How they knew I didn't want to have to order all of those sardines in mustard or dry roasted peanuts for them. And then spewing apologies that were insincere?
What causes a person to do this? And now can I stop it? Thanks!
I find examples of people who have low self esteem, anxiety, have been abused, or apparently women in particular will apologize when they shouldn't. Such as when someone else bumps into them. This is not what I'm talking about.
I'm currently having issues like this with certain people in my life. I won't use them as examples but rather give one that happened to me years ago.
I used to work at a store that had weekly ads that started new every Sunday.
Every Saturday night, this guy came in right at closing time. He always claimed to want to buy a lot of things that were on sale and apologized for coming in so late. Generally what we would do if a customer tried to come in as we were locking up was to ask them what they wanted to buy. If it was just an item or two, we would send an employee to quickly pick up those items and then get them through the check out. But if they wanted to buy a lot of stuff, we would tell them to come back another time.
This guy however, claimed to want to buy items that were on sale that day but would not be on sale the next day. He always made the claim that he would buy a cart of two worth of items. This was actually a lie as I never saw him buy a thing and neither did anyone else.
The store manager would point to the self serve desk where the customers could write rainchecks for out of stock items. They would tell him to fill out rainchecks for what he wanted and to come back later. Again he would apologize and claim things like that his writing was slow and his English not so good. He was Asian.
I write fast. So the store manager would tell me to write the rainchecks for him. I would then have to spend a good half an hour to an hour, writing rainchecks for things I knew he would never buy. He often requested large amounts of the items as well. This screwed up our inventory because often we had to place a special order to get enough of whatever it was to fulfill the quantity on the raincheck, and he would never come back to buy.
All the while I was seething inside and writing out the rainchecks, he would continue to apologize repeatedly for coming in so late and making me do all the extra work. Often, he would grab my arm and make me stop writing so he could have my full attention and look into my eyes to make sure that I realized that his apologies were sincere.
The constant arm grabbing and apologies did nothing but anger me and slow me down. But.. To others, he was perceived as a very nice man. Why? he spoke in a calm, soothing voice, he smiled at me and constantly apologized to me. Meanwhile I wanted to poke the point of my pen into his eyes. I would have had to remove his glasses first. Or just knock him flat or curse at him or variety of other things that I full well knew I couldn't do because I would lose my job if I did!
So... Why would a person offer so many apologies for their poor behavior? I say "poor" because to me that's what it was. Doing something on purpose to tick me off. All the while having words spew out of their mouth indicating that they understood how busy I was, how they knew I just wanted to go home. How they knew I didn't want to have to order all of those sardines in mustard or dry roasted peanuts for them. And then spewing apologies that were insincere?
What causes a person to do this? And now can I stop it? Thanks!
Then I feel a bit guilty.
