You are not obliged to be nice

I am frequently amazed that people I meet are in business. They do not seem to display and of the business like attributes.

I think maybe they are in a business that cannot fail or they have found a formula that works for them. A couple of years ago I met someone locally at a luncheon club.

I had no particular view of her but she was introduced to the club via someone who was noted for being bombastic and was generally thought of as a bit of a buffoon.

She was running some sort of telephone martketing organsiation in a little office. She was also selling things on the side such as ink cartidges and party gifts.

She was there for a while and seemed to have different people in her office on the few occasions I went there. She then approached me although I did not encourage it to do some work for her.

She then came across as rude, domineering and opinionated.We finished the job and fortunately no more work came our way.

She moved out of the area and set up this business of ink cartidges somewhere else. My staff had told me that she had been rude to them,This surprised me as she had come to us and we had not courted her work.

She was also in a people person business being in marketing and even on one occasion she had asked me where I got my ink cartridges. I sidestepped the question.

The other day she rang me and wanted a favour from me even though I had not heard from her in over two years. She then told me her business had failed.

I was not surprised.