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Originally Posted by DrPhil
It depends on the context and overall environment. Based on my GLO/job/life experiences, there are GLO/job/life situations where you can and should do more than smile when people are rude. You don't have to cuss them out (that works too in some contexts) but you don't have to just smile and/or let it upset you.
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The worst for our chapter I think was the picture incident that happened to my friend, because it was so in-your-face, but I had a girl that would answer with one word or shrug to almost everything I tried to talk to her about (and they were open ended questions) and after her response would look around the room but not at me. After five awkward minutes of one-way conversation, I said nicely "I'm sorry if I'm perceiving this wrong, but it seems like you are a little bored talking about my chapter. We don't have to talk about it but we do have to talk for the rest of the party" and smiled at her. She was a legacy at a different chapter, and apologized but said she was only interested in that chapter. We ended up having a decent conversation after that, although I found her impolite still for being so closed.
For some reason, I have had multiple PNMs say things like "If a chapter you don't like ranks you really high, it will take a spot of one you do like". They seem to be confused at the mutual selection process, and are convinced that if they are unwillingly back at our chapter, we knocked out their first pick that in reality didn't invite them back.
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