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Why do white collar (most office workers) make you wait or deliberately stall to see you?

I used to be a blue collar worker and had noticed that office staff would always make you wait for them. Even when they were not busy ( rarely seen them be busy) they would still keep you waiting at the reception area or waiting room. Some deliberately stalled or procrastinated.

When I had worked long hours in my area inside a busy warehouse, or on the road driving a heavy vehicle,I was always busy and made the time and effort to see someone in the office area. I never kept them waiting or deliberately stalled. I may have been a low paid blue collar worker but I was never late, nor did I take my time, gossiping all day, and chit chatting to the other hard working staff because it was a very stressful and busy environment. Not fair at all.

I have been going to job interviews for various organizations and prospective employers only to be kept waiting for long periods of time. In fact, I waited for a whole hour just to see an office jerk who spent only five minutes interviewing me. I had noticed that he had no one else to see and didn't seem busy at all except to chat to someone about a trivial matter.

Also, just because you are unemployed doesn't give them the right to treat you like a third class citizen even though they have a well paid job. An easy, air conditioned, plush office job! They are on a salary and not on a low hourly rate of pay.

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  • 7 years ago
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    I feel for you, but with the Economy the way it is people who have jobs some of them don't know what it's like to be out of work without a pay check coming. But when people work in a office their job is more a mind job where your job is more on the physical work where their's is mental work so they feel that they are more valuable to the company then the people who do the sweat labor that's the way it's always been in America. The Economy is due to the policies of Obama

  • 7 years ago

    Every one has self actualization needs. Since we are all human, sometimes those needs are acted out in petty ways.

    Source(s): Life study, with psychological definitions.
  • canoe
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    that is only the case in govt offices

    at least here in the us

  • 5 years ago

    Its a beta trap

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