Looking forward to further posts..

And to be honest, as much as I love V and her blog.. I smell BS. You got into town “a good half hour early” before your appointment with your real estate agent to decide upon a counter offer (despite the fact that in “Sleazy Tricks Real Estate Agents Try” you told us you only work with the seller’s agent and never a buyer’s agent, and the seller’s agent does not help customers figure out counter offers so…um…) and decided to grab a cup of coffee.. Then you get the coffee, and by the time the customer service representative asks you to take a survey, you’ve spent “well over a half an hour” on the phone already.. and you take the 10 minute survey, even though it’s “incredibly boring and tedious”.

And while on the phone, rather than look at Keith’s name tag, you ask a guy “sweeping the floor” what Keith’s name is.. because Keith totally wouldn’t notice his customer pointing at him, and then “announcing” to the operator “Keith! His name is Keith!”.. while you’re still in the store. Wow, that’s inconspicuous.

So either this story is total bullshit, or else V has proven that she is condescending, an oblivious hypocrite, and has displayed a total incompetence for business and failure to comprehend common courtesy (taking a “boring and tedious” survey when you are already running late?).. oh, and if this story is true, that means she lied in the “Sleazy Tricks Real Estate Agents Try” about not having a buyer’s agent.

I’m seriously disappointed in you, V. This post is an insult to your readers’ intelligence.

Fuckwad.

In this scenario, a cup of coffee or two isn’t that expensive to produce, so V shouldn’t really feel too obligated to give praise or some reward…either rewards, a $10 bonus, or a name on a wall won’t really affect someone who is there to do a job and do it well. Its nice, but not a necessity. Plus, they can always find a job elsewhere if their benefits for doing their job does not suit them.

But in a scenario like Wal-Mart, there’s a more significant jump due to the all sorts of reasons.

She writes a huge long article about how this big mean company doesn’t slip some benjamins in his pocket for giving away a free cup of coffee.

If she was that impressed, she should have just told him to keep the change to put in his tip jar.

V has a valid point when she says that plaques on walls do little to pay the rent, and if that barista was struggling with debt (as V was when she was his age) then he would probably have been quite grateful for her efforts.

If on the other hand the barista had no financial troubles, was doing the job part-time for gas money, and was a decent, honest guy as V describes him, then it’s equally likely that a simple compliment was all that he expected, some might even argue that V’s actions would “invalidate” his generosity, in other words the concept of doing good without reward.

So I think you should all just sit back and enjoy the drama. :-)