http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/05/16/all-glory-is-fleeting-general-patton/ Celebrating Women of Style and Substance Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:41:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/05/16/all-glory-is-fleeting-general-patton/comment-page-1/#comment-2753 Toby Wollin Mon, 17 May 2010 00:43:59 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6042#comment-2753 I always tend to measure people I meet by how they treat people who are not in positions of power - how do they treat the doorman, the mail/coffee delivery kid, the assistant, the interns? Being good, polite, and nice to people costs you nothing and means everything to them. If a tip is involved, then giving a gracious tip for good service is a blessing too. Asking their names and using them tells them that you recognize them as people - they are not "nobody". As my dad used to say (freely translated from the Yiddish), "their souls are bigger than raisins too." I always tend to measure people I meet by how they treat people who are not in positions of power – how do they treat the doorman, the mail/coffee delivery kid, the assistant, the interns? Being good, polite, and nice to people costs you nothing and means everything to them. If a tip is involved, then giving a gracious tip for good service is a blessing too. Asking their names and using them tells them that you recognize them as people – they are not “nobody”. As my dad used to say (freely translated from the Yiddish), “their souls are bigger than raisins too.”

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