Questions tagged [rudeness]
For questions where rudeness is pertinent to any party of an encounter, whether that is the person asking or a third party. Include other tags for cultural context! For questions regarding how to be polite, use the "politeness" tag.
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Sent what you consider an important/urgent email seek answers only to receive a sarcastic question about a grammar error. Your response would be? [closed]
I'm interested in attending this college and I have been trying to get answers to some questions and concerns. I was given an email address which I reach out to and I received a response from a ...
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Handling Christians' unpleasant feedback on non-Christian Beliefs? [closed]
A question was asked on the Buddhism stack that garnered a well written answer from the Buddhist point of view, comparing Jesus and Buddha to highlight similarities. However, I'm interested in a ...
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How can I respectfully ask my landlady to use English when in my home?
When our landlady comes into our place she always brings a relative. She visits with repair people, or most often it's a family member doing repairs. When they talk to us, they use fluent English. ...
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How can I convey negative feedback in a positive and constructive way?
Imagine walking into a restaurant to look at a menu and instead of saying "I'll have a think about it" and wander off, you instead said "actually, I've found a place for cheaper so I'm going there now"...
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How to deal with rude remarks from strangers on the street?
Today as I was waiting at the traffic light a old lady came and yelled at me with very rude and loud voice "You have to press the button!!!".
I pass there every day and it makes no difference whether ...
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Refusing to let people in
I work in a facility where it is open to the public except for a small section. I work in this section and this section requires an access card when entering the door (anyone can buy one, but it is ...
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How to handle a professor disrupting workspace peace? [closed]
So I'm currently an international (Latin) grad student at some US university and wanted to know how to improve my current work space situation.
I share an office with another 2 Chinese grad students, ...
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How to make clear to people I don't want to answer their "Where are you from?" question?
I live in the UK but am not originally from here, having moved in the last decade.
Quite often when I talk to people I get asked where I'm from. It usually seems to be in response to my accent, as I'...
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How to ask the reason of sudden unfriendliness of neighbours? [closed]
I recently moved to a new neighborhood where the houses are all pretty close. The neighbors were all pretty friendly at first, even helping with yard work, but suddenly became very standoffish. They ...
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How to tell your grandparent to not come to fetch you with their car?
I often come to visit my grandparents during the weekend and they will always come to fetch me at the train station in their car.
However, my grandpa (who is the one driving) is old and his vision has ...
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How do I inform my boss that he offended me?
I am a man in forties. I work as a scientist in Germany, but I am not local.
My boss at the university uses words "stupid" and "idiot" in relation to me in front of other people or in a direct ...
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How to ask the teacher questions without my friends thinking I'm rude or boastful?
I like to ask questions during class. And I like to clarify them, and sometimes "challenge" the teacher's answer or argue/discuss further. But when I do it in class, I have to raise my voice so that ...
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How to finish a project with a dishonest and unreliable partner without jeopardizing it
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I just completed a 2-month long science research project with my friend as a partner. The project was elective and beyond our assigned coursework. We presented the work at a fair last week ...
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How to approach a person that does not respond to me after I was potentially rude to them?
I am an 18-year-old German, I live in a small (~100 citizens) town neighboring a somewhat bigger (~2000 citizens) town. We have our own small local fire-station but we do not do regular training. To ...
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How can I politely decline when someone asks to use my camera on my phone?
So occasionally someone will ask to use my phone just to use my camera. The last time this happened it was at work, but it can be a friend or relative that just needs a quick picture of something. ...
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Someone criticized my "casual player game", how to make them think?
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I love candy crush and candy crush like games. I love grouping things by color and I'm very good at it. I play it in my free time, especially when I need to relax my mind.
I know such games ...
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How to try out a product you do not intend to buy? [closed]
An organization I'm in offered a "test drive" event of a car manufacturer to its members. Since I have an interest in cars, I opted to go.
The purpose of this event is obviously to promote their cars....
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How do I prevent the gym instructor from talking to me?
In the gym I go to, we don't have personal trainers but gym instructors - they just stay there and guide pretty much everyone if they have doubts or they see someone exercising incorrectly.
From what ...
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How do I let someone from a different culture know that they are doing something rude?
I'm a client paying for my take-out at a small authentic restaurant and quite pregnant. The female asian clerk is laying it on thick with:
"Are you sure there is just one in there?
= Yup! Just ...
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How can I ask my friend to... well, be friendlier in the gentlest possible way?
My friend and I have been friends for many years. We've traveled together, grown up together (since our early twenties) and her family and I are close. It's important to me to maintain this friendship ...
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How to respond if your colleague is rude to you? [closed]
I'm working in a software company as a junior s/w developer(fresher). Recently I was assigned to a project, already 2 of my team members who are senior to me by almost 3-3.5 years are working on this ...
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How to explain to coworkers that being vegan does not mean I know everything about it?
The other day, I was in a company meal with ~20 coworkers and someone offered me wine before adding: "At least you know this is vegan." (because I'm vegan). I don't like alcohol so I ...
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How do you deal with colleagues and people around you constantly passing judgement on you for not knowing something?
I'm unique in a lot of ways. I don't like sports, I'm not in touch with the current affairs, I don't have any opinion on most things and I don't know about most of the things that people talk about.
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How to deal with friends or acquaintances requests to do their big idea projects?
I'm someone who always has a lot of projects going - inventions, car resto-mods, home repair, programming, etc. Inevitably a proportion of the people I meet see this as an opportunity to get someone ...
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Is it rude to ask professors age? [closed]
So today during our first lecture we had new faculty to teach us. During first lecture after a brief introduction about him he asked us to ask any questions that we may have about him. So I was ...
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How to tell boss about pregnancy?
I am about 22 weeks pregnant and it's getting to the point where it's hard to hide! I haven't told my boss or any coworkers yet.
I have a doctors note saying the due date etc.
I'm a bit of a wimp ...
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Responding to inappropriate personal questions at an interview?
I am an American living in Germany and had an interview with a manager of a company yesterday. At one point, the interviewer asked me about why I chose to come to Germany. I explained the reason, and ...
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How to deal with disruptive people in the cinema
In my last two cinema trips I have had disruptive people in the cinema.
One was a group of 4-5 early 20s men, one of whom in particular was talking very loudly. I stared at him until he looked back ...
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How to peacefuly deal with a loud religious group
This problem mostly has to do with me and my family against another religious group.
About a month ago a Pentecostal "church" opened about a mile from our house. We live in Uganda, a very ...
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How to make an adult aware that commenting on their rude behaviour is not necessarily bullying?
Among a circle of friends (mostly in our mid-to-late 20s), one of us is called 'Hugh'. We have been friends for several years without any falling-outs. Whether it is only the two of us meeting or in a ...
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How can I improve my teacher-student relationship with a professor that ignores me? [closed]
I am a university student, in my current group there are only 5 students (2 women and 3 men).
One of my teachers has been ignoring me since the course started (approximately 2 weeks ago), that is, he ...
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How To Respond to Rude Cashier? [closed]
Once in a while I get coffee from a nearby shop. Lot of times, the ladies at the counter are rude; especially to me, because I look like a soft target. Really, I am not confrontational unless I am at ...
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How can I scold my juniors without annoying them?
I'm a senior at my school. A socially-awkward prefect, actually. Because of my shyness, I often ignore my juniors' misbehaviours, leading them to be spoilt. Also, they don't really care about what we ...
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How can I explain to someone that they are not being bullied, that instead he is bullying?
Names in this question are not actual names, not even online pseudonyms. I am the leader of a mediumsized online gaming community (about 50 active members). Alice and Bob assist me in running this ...
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How do you deal with someone who's pushing you without explaining yourself?
There are certain people, especially family members you see from time to time or other close relatives, who simply don't know where to stop when offering you something. Usually it's about drinking ...
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How to helpfully react to a male coworker's sexual comment about a woman
I'm a male in my late 20s. Sometimes find myself in a situation with a male coworker who I've just met, or a male stranger who I'm talking with (at a bus stop, for example), and they make a comment ...
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How to tell an overweight person that the hike will be too hard?
Please note, I don't want to be mean or anything and I don't want to go "fat shaming" or things like that.
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With my SO and a couple of friends, we planned a hike for this summer. The GR20 is ...
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How to deal with a suite mate who gossips about me within the first few days of move-in
I am an Asian female college student. This semester, I'm placed to live with two American female roommates in an apartment suite, so we all have separate bedrooms and share a kitchen and a restroom. I ...
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Is it rude to ignore everybody else in a chatroom and only talk with one person? [closed]
I've been a member of an online community that's mostly aimed at kids - although we've got members aged 8 to in their 20s - for almost four years now. There's a live chat available (with some pretty ...
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Is it rude to not ask for a reason first when receiving a gift (chocolate) from a colleague? [closed]
Little bit of backstory: My colleague gave me a fancy looking chocolate (not a whole box) which I accepted saying "Thank you!" but then she asked "You are not asking, what's the occasion?". I did ask ...
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How to react to clerks mocking me in the grocery store? [closed]
It was a time when I was struggling with my OCD, and as this felt like enough trouble, I lightheartedly let go of social norms. I wore my hair mid-length (under a baseball hat; I am male), as the ...
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How to get a close relative to stop disrespecting LGBT people in random conversations without starting any argument/fight?
I have a close immediate relative who has a habit of making derogatory/sarcastic/rude remark about LGBT people. He doesn't say this to their face but behind their back or makes remarks about LGBT ...
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How to approach incredibly rude persons on a train
Last weekend, I took the last train home. It was small (only one wagon), some people were drunk, which was okay, as they kept to themselves. I started listening to an audiobook and drifted off to ...
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Is it rude to ask how much a new neighbour paid for their apartment? [closed]
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Is it rude to ask how much a new neighbour paid for their apartment? My view is that it isn't, because it's information that's probably their favourite topic of conversation right now, and also ...
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How to politely inform somebody that they are in your personal space
This is similar to the question here: When in queue at the supermarket, how do I get my personal space? However this question is mainly focussed on somebody being in an area they should not be in the ...
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How to explain to customer service they are wrong without being rude [closed]
I have been put in a situation where I am quite sure that I am right, and customer service for a country-leading webshop are most likely wrong. How do I tell them that they are wrong without offending ...
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How to approach my spouse about their weight gain?
My spouse is and has always been quite overweight. From the beginning it was no problem for me, I just don't mind.
Yet, since we've been living together, my spouse somehow put on a lot of weight (...
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Sick grandparent(s) moved in and are now inciting anger and stress
We're a family of three, my mom, my dad and I. My dad's father has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and, based on what we know so far, there's no chance for a recovery and not much life is ...
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Problem on a seniors only web site [closed]
I have recently joined a seniors only web site. Most people there are decent, rational people. Unfortunately, however there are 5 or 6 who are constantly in attack mode and they always make snide anti-...
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I do art. When people say "draw me", do I include their physical appearance flaws? [closed]
So I draw little caricature-doodles for fun and am decently good at it. Sometimes people ask me (very casually, not for pay or anything) to draw them. What if this person is overweight or has an ...
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