4 Highly Impactful Things that Take Barely Any Effort to Do

Greeting working staff

Neeramitra Reddy
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4 min readSep 15, 2021

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I don’t want to waste your time with an introduction. The title says it all, so let’s dive right in.

Greeting Working Staff

Be it the nearby bank’s security guard or the local coffee shop’s barista, we regularly encounter working staff in our day-to-day lives.

And since most people are indifferent, condescending, or outright rude to them, a simple, “Good morning! How are you doing today!” with a warm smile can go a long way.

It’s a win-win situation — their day’s brightened and you potentially earn preferential treatment.

Be it a sparkling room floor, an extra dollop of ice cream in the mess,post-curfew campus entry, or a quicker night canteen delivery, habitually greeting people really paid off in college.

It even saved me from going hungry one night.

One late night, with my wallet bereft of hard cash and my bank’s servers down, I had no way to pay for my dinner order. No familiar faces around and none of the unfamiliar ones seemed intent on helping.

To my sheer surprise, the security guard came ahead and paid without hesitation. Profusely thanking him, I…

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Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous

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