My Civil Setting At My Work Place - 1425 Words

The places I chose to do my civil setting was at my work place, which is a restaurant I have just recently started. When observing the customers with eye contact I notice that most of the time people are really good at this, mostly the older aged customers. The teenagers and young adults seem to spare glances at their phones more often or just talk while looking at their phones. I did notice some couples sat by each other instead of across each other, which made eye contact harder. When putting it into practice, since I work at a restaurant this was much easier. To be polite I must always have my attention on the costumers and let them know that I am listening to their order, question, and concerns, so this was not hard. I had some†¦show more content†¦When it was two couples they would call each other nicknames, or call each other sweet names like baby. I find this to be interesting because if you were in a relationship, I would think that if you use nicknames and sweet na mes most of the time, when the time finally comes that you call each other by their real names it would throw you off. I do use the names of my coworkers a lot when I greet them, like when I come in and say hi and how was their day. For customers I am slowly trying to figure out the names of the regulars, but it is difficult when they come and go so fast. I observed a lot of people doing well with listening and a few with failing at it. Once again the older generation seem better at this than the younger ones, even when they pulled their phones out to watch a video they still talked to each other while maintaining eye contact, while the video ran. The girls seem to pull out their phones more than boys. I was already good at listening and not being distracted when I am in a conversation or someone talks to me, because I know the feeling of someone doing that to me and it annoys me beyond belief, so why should I do it to them. Conversation between people seem to jump a lot from what I observed. So much is going on in life that people just jump from one topic to another without really finishing the other topic. The more interesting topics are left with more time to talk about than others. I think this is a bad habit because it makes the topic you bring