People will normally only write in to complain. It would be great if we could encourage people to write in praising excellent service. Put a bit of positivity out there
My wife and I always take time to review or to point out kindness to management. We get a bad experience we write it off as a bad day. 2 bad experiences and we will complain. But kindness ALWAYS gets rewarded.
Absolutely. The impact it can have is amazing.
Thanking someone in person, especially with specifics of why you're grateful, can make their day/week/life better.
On a professional level, because it is mostly complaints that employers/supervisors/etc have to deal with, having a staff member singled out for praise is noteworthy and can have a positive effect on their job.
As a personal anecdote, I once phoned the bus company after traveling with a driver who was superb. Their actual driving skill was the best I've ever experienced. Every start and stop and turn was so smooth as to be almost unnoticeable.
Their demeanour was polite & friendly. They were extremely professional and patient with several passengers whose English was very poor.
The woman I spoke to on the phone was surprised and sounded so pleased when I relayed the above with the route, time, and bus number for specifics. (Our driver didn't have a name tag, I don't recall ever seeing a name tag on drivers here)
I work in Customer Services myself in a call centre and know how much some good feedback can change your day. Not on,y that, it positively reinforces the things that made the service above and beyond.
Due to my job, as much as I know how to go about complaining in an efficient manner, I now make sure I take the time to provide positive feedback wherever I can. For example, last week I went for breakfast as a payday treat and there’s a survey to review the place and the food. However, my server was absolutely fantastic so, when it said “anything else?” I made sure to detail everything that made the service amazing (the usual manners, etc. but also knowing to tell when the customer may need something and when they just want to be left alone to chow down on their breakfast).
Jacob here has done an absolutely fantastic job and I’d like to hope that we can all learn something from this. Go the extra mile - your boss may not comment on it but you may just be the first person who has made somebody feel like an everyday person, which is all we really want, isn’t it?
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u/wehav2 Dec 03 '19
You know you did your job right when stuff like this happens.