costumer treatment...

One thing that never stops amazing me here in general, in Europe (and I thought it was a particularity of Hungary but I was wrong) is how a seller or a person who works in a shop whichever it is 'serves' the client.

You all know that I mention how are things in Brazil and Hungary all the time, because these are the two countries where I have lived the most and I don't want to always present this Brazilian vainglory, but there the job of a seller/waiter depends on how he deals with the client. Brazilian like to be well treated and are used to a friendly service. I always call the waiter by their names and talk and ask opinions and they always give feedback, specially in the sea shore kiosks.

In Hungary, waiters are so impersonal, make an unfriendly face if you don't choose your meal fast and are, sometimes, impolite. Or who never received a not-nice-face from sellers in Salamander or this type of shop?

In Switzerland, they are protected. Yes, they can do anything they want. I already saw sellers in shops make an extreme ugly face because they came to ask if they can help and we said 'no, we are just checking around'. Or when the waiter came and we still didn't choose the plate...
Yesterday it was the top of the top. We arrived at Manor restaurant to eat a pizza 30min before the restaurant closes (at 19:30), and, we were choosing our pizza when the seller looked at our face and made the gesture of closing plus said 'closed', pluuuus the manager came and started installing the separation line that we should not advance. Com'n we were already there inside...I can understand that he might be tired of working the entire day in front of the oven, but I think that was not nice at all.

So we decided to go to the market and the same money we would use to eat the pizza, we bought special pieces of cheese, ham, and bread and had fun with it.

To hell with this behavior, they should know it better in this country, a place where as I have seen money speaks more than all the languages together...

no time...

I started working 2 months ago.
Still didn't receive my first salary (in science is like this), but I happen to be having lots of fun in the new labs!
People are nice (I was afraid of not finding nice colleagues I have to admit) and the place is new and modern.
Some friends ask me, why didn't you start working after the summer is over, like this you can enjoy the sun and the warm for the last time before you get immersed in all that +"!%/+! and never be able to come out of it again.
Yeah, I realized that I have no time for nothing now, even for the flat which became a mess. But it is worth, I really like the place and the warm outside the lab is so unbearable (35 degrees one of these days) that I just can thank for the wise decision of some department of having a 4 degrees room close to our labs!



have a nice summer...