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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Metus" data-source="post: 3490445" data-attributes="member: 185">Peon clerk, although not anymore, thank God.  To be fair, though, the management left it up to us if we wanted to stay after-hours - it was optional, not mandatory.There is truth in that.  However:Not polite, or just rude?  There is a difference.  People are saying he was rude, and I'm just not getting that.  Yes, he could have couched his sentences in gentler language, and he could've reminded less.  He didn't cuss, yell, or spit in the customers' faces either, though.  The fact that the store was closing was...  well, a fact, and I'm not offended by facts.Were I the OP, I wouldn't have been bothered the tiniest bit: the person working the store was reminding me it would be closing soon.  Some people need to be reminded more than others.  Maybe not me, but he wouldn't know that.  When those kids came in and the store clerk said they were closing, I don't think what he said was rude.  If he cussed at them, frothing at the mouth, then yes, that would be rude.  Heck, maybe those kids came by other days at closing hours, and he was just getting tired of them doing so.The store clerk's tone from the OP just came off as neutral to me, or perhaps tired from a long day.  How you react to the store clerk's attitude is subjective.  Some people are easily offended and demand you walk on eggshells around them.  That's an extreme, and I don't think it applies to the OP's example, but the point is that politeness/rudeness is what you perceive it to be.  Personally, I didn't take the store clerk's attitude to be rude.  He just wasn't very diplomatic.EDIT:Thank you, Zimri.  This is what I'm saying.</blockquote>

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