Small Talk Journal

Communication is a part of our everyday life, which leaves a great deal of room for errors and problems to arise. One communication problem that a lot of people face in college and throughout their lives are bad first dates. Due to the extreme frequency that bad dates occur in society, my group decided to discuss it for our communication problem. The group was composed of Jacqueline Kaplan, Zach Barclay, James Prell, and myself. Our main points throughout the presentation were listening, body language, invasive communication, and self-disclosure, which seen to be the main components to dating. Many of these topics were covered in our book Interpersonal communication: Everyday Encounters by Julia Wood.

Black Friday shopping is a controversial issue in the United States; while many believe the day after Thanksgiving is a part of holiday festivities, others view it as destructive. Throughout “Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization,” Andrew Leonard argues that the chaos of Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in which crowds of Americans shop all night for extremely low prices, lessens the sophistication of Americans and the true meaning of the holidays. People become so consumed in the idea of endless sale prices that they forget to embrace what they already have, such as family, food, and shelter. He believes that Black Friday shopping has become out of control and describes the negative effects of excessive consumerism. he explains how most consumers act completely insane while Black Friday shopping and how society encourages this behavior by creating commercials and advertisements. Furthermore, Leonard states that it hurts the economy and damages one’s mental health. While Leonard is probably wrong when he claims that Black Friday shopping is completely troublesome to America’s well-being, he is right that consumerism overpowers the true significance of Thanksgiving.

Then, I touched her shoulder, kept saying, and raise my tone a bit because I was afraid if she had a hearing trouble. I was reassuring her she will be fine. In the meantime, I was thinking whether the English language was not her mother tongue but I kept myself communicate verbally with her including using my body gesturers and facial expression. Body gesturers and facial expressions are referred as a non-verbal communication (Funnell et al, 2005, p.443). I thought of the language barrier that breaks our verbal communication. Castledine (2002, p.923) mention that the language barrier arises when there are individuals comes from a different social background use their own slang or phrases in the conversations. Luckily, those particular body gesturers could make her understand that I was going to assess her. During the assessment I maintained the eye contact as I do not want her to feel shy. This is supported by Caris-Verhallen et al (1999) which mentioned that the direct of eye contact could express a sense of interest in the person to the other person involves in that communication. As a result, she gave a good cooperation and was very happy for the assessment until finished.

From this week, I think that learned something very valuable and applicable thing in my career and my personal life i.e. communication. In my opinion, communication plays a very important role for any relationship to have a strong foundation and make it last longer. At the same time, it very important how one expresses it and the other perceives it. The non verbal communication was one of the important thing to know for any person. There are a few components to non verbal communication like facial expression, eye contact, and touching.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize feelings and judge which feelings are appropriate for a given situation.

We’ve all engaged in some sort of small talk either in the office, on campus, at a party, or other places where you find yourself in the company of others. For some of us, participating in small talk may come easily, while for others it may be quite difficult. Some individuals may find small talk to be irritating while others find it a necessity. In this paper I am going to explore what exactly defines small talk as such; the reasons why people find the need to engage in small talk; the benefits, and disadvantages of small talk; is there an ethical approach to small talk; and provide tips on how to participate in small talk—without it creating an uncomfortable atmosphere.

When I first met my client, Jackie Hart, she was in the hospital with a broken hip. She lives alone in a senior apartment complex and she has no family. She was transferred to a nursing home for six weeks of rehab after her hip surgery. Jackie was adamant that she was going to return home after her stay in the nursing home. I got Jackie set up with Comfort Keepers so that once she returned home they would provide a bath aide 3x a week, light housekeeping aide 2x a week, and an aide to transport Jackie to the grocery store 1x a week. Comfort Keepers also set Jackie up with a toilet extender, shower seat, and walker. Jackie is to meet with registered dietician Kim Letts to go over proper nutritional needs to help her gain her strength

Alexis, the cashier, did not have a hello greeting for the customer. She looked up at the customer smiled and asked for the Ingles Advantage Card. She did work effectively to remove the products to get them scanned. The bagger wore a name tag that said Service Clerk. He was a Caucasian male, five feet, ten inches tall, about twenty three years old with short brown hair. He wore a dark polo shirt, khaki pants and an apron. He separated food and non-food items and doubled bagged the larger, heavy items. I never saw this bagger say anything to the customer or look at the customer. He bagged the products, put them in a cart and pushed the cart to the end of the checkout. Alexis smiled and said thank you to the customer as she gave them the

So, after carefully scanning each regular check-out line, you finally spot the one with what seems like the shortest line and casually stroll over there to wait your turn. What you didn’t see, was that the lady you decided to stand behind had the entire store in her cart! Little did you know that she was the worst shopper of them all- the Couponer. This is the bargain-shopper who’s annoying actions are broken down into three steps. First, this shopper will decide to pack her cart so full that the pile of groceries in her cart is taller than she is! Inevitably, creating a longer waiting time for you. Next, she will stand there, stare at the clerk’s computer screen and argue about the 2-for-1 price for every item that doesn’t match up exactly the way she wants. Finally, after all her groceries are scanned, bagged and carted, the couponer will then proceed to dig through her entire purse searching for every coupon she has ever saved over the past year for that one shopping trip. As if she hasn’t already wasted enough of everyone’s time. It is at this point of your experience when you realize that any hope of an efficient and speedy shopping trip was just tossed out the window.

Hip Chat appears to be several different devices all tied into one, for example take yahoo chat, your cell phone, outlook and combine it all in to one site. Hip chat is a site where you can bring all of your team together, and connect to other teams all on one site, instead of having several different sites to go to for sharing information.

When I started the estimated wait time for the ride was fifty minutes. As I started walking past people only saying polite phrases like excuse me I did not much attention from the beginning of the line. As I got further

I 'm a quick shopper, wasting no time strolling through aisles. Throwing all sorts of items to my trolley. When my trolley is filled to its rim, I get in line.

However, we spent about 15 minutes in the store and if she would have asked to look up the credit check prior to buying, this would have allowed us to rethinking another equipment to purchase. As a Sales Person, I would have started out with asking the customer how much a customer could afford to spend today, if they had a particular plan in mind, and the features that would be most important to the needs.

As I cut in line to get my food I could see people looking at me strangely and looking at other people to see if they could see what I was doing as well, people were also whispering saying “what is she doing” and “what the hell” as I walked right past them. The people in line definitely would have not been whispering or staring at me the way that they were if I had gone to the back of the line to wait for my turn. No one said anything to my face but they did whisper to each other under their breath and give me harsh looks. When I got to the front of the line and to the food the people that were serving their food looked at me and then almost tried to push me out of the line. It was difficult to get to the food

An individual knows that a cashier cannot pay for anything while on shift. Re-swiping till it works doesn’t guarantee working, but literally just wasting time.