Patience is Key

No matter where you go, patience is always going to be needed. Some places are school, your job, the road, and stores/restaurants. Life is full of patience and if you have none, life will be very difficult. Many situations have popped up in life where I have needed patience, such as when I am working. There have been many incidents where I am either waiting to get something and other customers just walk in front of me and go before me. There are other times where there are long lines that I have to weave in and out of but I have to be patient with customers moving. Another part of where I have to be patient is when I am in the Hannaford to go room, I have to wait for other employees to finish doing what they are doing in order for me to get to the spot I need to be. I also have to be patient when customers ask me for help finding something or asking me to help them grab something. Working has many situations where you need to have patience.

The one situation that I remember the most of where I had to have patience while working was when I was waiting for a customer to pick out the cheese that they had wanted and it was taking them a while to pick one thing of cheese. While I was waiting, more people had come over to the cheeses and I figured they would let me go since I was already waiting there first. As soon as the first customer left, the second customer went right into the cheeses and started looking at them. They had been looking for a little bit just like the person before them. They finally had picked their cheese and left. Just as they left, another customer came and went right in front of me to get cheese. They looked and got their cheese just like the two other customers ahead of them did. At that point I had thought it was kind of ridiculous that they all did not care to see if anyone else was waiting before they were, but I did not say anything to the customers about it. It was finally my time to go get the cheese that was needed for the person I was shopping for. I had to have patience with the customers because if I did not then I would have caused a problem. When I am working, patience is needed so customers will want to go back to the store. 

I have always had patience when it comes to working and I feel that I have pretty good customer service. Without patience, I would not be able to have good customer service because then I would always be making people mad and always not caring about the people around me. The saying “patience is a virtue” is such a good quote to go off of when I am working. The more patience I have, the easier it will be to be good at my job. I just always have to remember that patience is the key to success. Overall, the take away from this is that patience is a huge huge part of life and it is very much needed in everyday activities.

“Seek Patience Before Brains” by The Rocketeer is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0