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Wow! how to make a guy feel good!
We have discussed the follow up call, we have discussed sending Thank You cards to employers (cringe) etc. but how about day to day life at home and at work?
Someone I do some website work for asked me for a favour a few days ago; it was a simple action of uploading an existing site to another domain server for greater exposure, that is to be followed by a website update (new property added, one to be removed) and setting it up for proper web positioning.
No problemo, that's what I do...well, something else I do anyway. Plus the guy lets me use his Whistler condo for my efforts! True luxury and the price is perfect!
Anyhow, I uploaded some older pages originally designed by another company, I just never bothered to rebrand it with my own info when I redid it, which I guess I'll have to do one day. I notified him that the first step was done and did a couple of other LITTLE things for him.
Today I get an email saying "(My name) you are amazing! Thank you so much for being fast and helping me this way, I certainly don't know how I made do without you in the past; I hope you know how much this means to me!"
Okay so he gets some work done for barter, obviously that must be nice, but the simple fact that he sent me such a nice email absolutely made my day. I just realized I've been in a great mood, have been laughing with a guy in the office where we usually exchange a grunt in the morning and then ignore each other all day. Neither of us dislikes the other, we are just different people.
I have just been in a good mood and it all began when I came in and read 'thanks' and was told I was awesome.
So, now the reason for my post.
How many times do we really thank each other through the day?
I don't mean 'Thanks' as in being passed your order in a fast food restuarant. I don't mean 'thanks' as in "can you pass me that pen?, thanks".
I mean a really genuine "THANK YOU , I really needed your help and I am very happy with what you have done for me."
Having been in and out of sales of all types and tickets most of my working life, gotta pay for trade school somehow, I offer thanks all day. But it is what I do, it is part of my job, it's what helps me succeed. But you forget how it effects others, when you get or give a genuine 'THANKS' and really mean it?
Do you make sure you emphasize thank you's? Or do you find that it becomes a coined reply?
Do you GET genuine thank you's beyond the polite ones?
How does it make you feel? Do you find that you get better response form others when you do? I usually do myself, I find I can really work well with peopl eand earn their respect by being genuine and thankful to them.
However I am in a line of work where I hear it, but it is usually canned by someone being polite. "Alright then, thanks for stopping by, talk to you soon."
But it usually isn't someone telling me, "I really appreciate your help!"
I did get someone saying that over the phone a while back, as I always go the extra mile for people, but I explained that it was my job to make sure his needs were addressed and I was more than happy to.
I really am, again though, it is my job and he was used to others he's dealt with that treated him like crap I suppose. He still made me feel great though, esepcially as I don't expect thanks for merely being myself doing my job.