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Originally Posted by Iowanian
There are always reasons to give certain people a little extra...Maybe this woman was a very kind caretaker of others throughout her career.....maybe the guy that bought the Viper is a friend of the owner, or is looking to buy a fleet of trucks for his business....Maybe he trades every 6 months.
I take care of all of my clients, but there are a couple that verbally advertise the hell out of my business and have gotten me quite a few jobs.....Guess what, I'll drop something to help them, even if its' a 10 mintute phone call. It's good business to keep some people happy.
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Sucking up to a client by buying them a higher caliber of meal and beer is a bit different from giving someone medical attention.
And there's a difference between going above-and-beyond the call of duty when the normal level of service is already excellent, and treating someone "special" at the expense of other people who get shoddier treatment. If you truly "take care" of all your clients, then you're in the former situation, and it's perfectly fine. But the implication I got from the OP is that they implied the latter situation, which is insulting.
And I agree with the general viewpoint that, in public places, people who are rich/powerful/famous should not get "special" treatment simply because they're rich/powerful/famous... at least not unless they're going to a place that caters to them for those reasons. I can't stand famous people who think they can break the law because of who they are, or famous athletes who try to talk their way out of a ticket because they happen to be athletes, or line-cutters at restaurants who think they're entitled to do so because they were the fourth-billed start in a crappy movie, etc.,.