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Hi Everyone 
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It's been a while since I posted on here, so I thought I'd share with you all something that happened to me a while back.
At my place of work we have a beaureau de change, where customers come to get foreign currency. Now, as you can imagine, the beareau handles a lot of money, so therefore we close the beareau half an hour earlier than the store so that we can count the money before the end of the day. Bear this in mind for now.
So, 15 minutes after the beareau had closed, a customer approaches me and asks whether he can use it. This didn't seem odd to me at the time, so I apologise, tell him it's closed, and say that he'll need to come in again tomorrow.
Now, this is the part of the story I'm still trying to comprehend. I don't know why, but all of a sudden this guy paces towards me, gets right up in my personal space, and says:
'Well, mate, that's not what I wanted to fucking hear!'
To say I was shocked would be an understatement, but I didn't show it. As you can see, the title of this thread is 'how not to be threatening.' Now, this guy was, but my best estimate, about 5 foot 8, and quite skinny. I, on the other hand, am 6 foot 2, and quite muscular, so he literally had to crane his neck and look up at me in order to be 'in my face.' So I, whilst looking down at this short-arse in front of me, simply say:
'Mate, think very carefully about the next move you're going make. I'd suggest that you take a step back and kindly fuck off.' (Just so you know, I'd had a really long day, and wasn't gonna take shit from a dickhead like him
)
Fortunately enough, he does exactly that, turning heel and heading out the door. It's a good thing he did, otherwise his next move might have been his last
.
Stay tuned...
,It's been a while since I posted on here, so I thought I'd share with you all something that happened to me a while back.
At my place of work we have a beaureau de change, where customers come to get foreign currency. Now, as you can imagine, the beareau handles a lot of money, so therefore we close the beareau half an hour earlier than the store so that we can count the money before the end of the day. Bear this in mind for now.
So, 15 minutes after the beareau had closed, a customer approaches me and asks whether he can use it. This didn't seem odd to me at the time, so I apologise, tell him it's closed, and say that he'll need to come in again tomorrow.
Now, this is the part of the story I'm still trying to comprehend. I don't know why, but all of a sudden this guy paces towards me, gets right up in my personal space, and says:
'Well, mate, that's not what I wanted to fucking hear!'
To say I was shocked would be an understatement, but I didn't show it. As you can see, the title of this thread is 'how not to be threatening.' Now, this guy was, but my best estimate, about 5 foot 8, and quite skinny. I, on the other hand, am 6 foot 2, and quite muscular, so he literally had to crane his neck and look up at me in order to be 'in my face.' So I, whilst looking down at this short-arse in front of me, simply say:
'Mate, think very carefully about the next move you're going make. I'd suggest that you take a step back and kindly fuck off.' (Just so you know, I'd had a really long day, and wasn't gonna take shit from a dickhead like him
)Fortunately enough, he does exactly that, turning heel and heading out the door. It's a good thing he did, otherwise his next move might have been his last
.Stay tuned...
.
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