The effect of friendliness on your relationships is measurable. Being friendly will lead to new relationships and strengthen existing relationships. People appreciate friendliness and this can lead to greater opportunities and relationships.
It is important to try and be as friendly as possible as often as possible. Especially when working in sales or when dealing with the public or even other coworkers. You should try to engage with customers and/or coworkers as often as possible. It is important to learn about them, their interests, etc. This helps build the relationship and can make future work easier.
I try to listen and ask questions where appropriate to show interest in the customers I deal with and my coworkers. I try to take an interest in topics they like to discuss and then research and discuss those topics with them in future conversations. I try to do nice things for others when possible to strengthen those relationships, such as helping with tasks, bringing food in, etc.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with friendliness and relationships. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Friendliness and Relationships
- Friendship between friends are frustrating. I feel like this kind of stuff affects my life.
- Friend problems, all of my friends keep bringing up the past and it is so frustrating. I just want to move on.
- A friend of mine was supposed to be with me when we were doing up something important but he wasn’t with me. This is frustrating because he is not responsible.
- A friend of mine and I had the most frustrating conversation of my life the other day when he tried to push my buttons in an effort to make me lose my cool.
- A friend who invaded my privacy asked that I keep their action between them and myself. It was frustrating because I was upset, and I wanted to talk to someone else about it to feel better.
- A friend asked me if i could help her at her job. It was frustraiting for me because i was sick and in so much pain, but i couldn’t say no to her. She really needed my help. Thus, even though i did not want to go, i helped her.
- My friend’s acting fake since the last few days. or she is acting herself. cant figure out. it is frustrating but i m bearing with it.
- My friend got upset with me after another friend misinformed her about something I had said and was taken completely out of context. I was frustrated because this comment caused unnecessary drama.
- This friend of mine hit another girl and she seems to have psychological problems and it frustrates me not to know what’s going on. She’s a compulsive liar with anger issues. She’s almost sadistic.
- My boyfriend recently accepted a job offer in California while I live on the east coast. It’s a big scary but we’ve only been long distance up to this point. It’s now even further than a drive away to see him.
- Have a friend lie to me because it makes me feel untrustworthy.
- Tell a friend he was too clingy. I didn’t want to hurt his feelings
- Tell a friend she wrong about something when they feel they are completely right.
- Text a friend and wait for a reply. Depend on others and them not follow thru
- My girlfriend went away on a school project and I had to wait hours and more hours before she could say anything. It was frustrating because I’m very impatient.
- Making friends. I’m not very much of a people person. Most often, what I think is right is regarded as stupid or wrong. I’m afraid of talking to strangers, because I don’t want something bad to happen.
- Talk my friend out of suicidal thoughts because it’s hard to convince someone to get help who doesn’t believe that they are ill.
- My girl friend broke up with me “because i’m ready ready for a relationship”.. #1 don’t tell me how i feel #2 where are these questions stemming from… i drove over to her place and worked it out
- My best friend who I work with has a new best friend. She never talks to me or asks me to hang out anymore. She ditched our birthday plans for my birthday to hang out her her. I had to work with her last night and it was tough.
- Stagnant friends because i am looking to better my life and my friends aren’t.
- Asking my friends to participate in elections. He thinks one vote will not matter. In country like India, people just stick to their opinions.
- Talk to a friend about their behavior. This was frustrating because I wanted to get my message across but didnt want to come off as rude.
- Fixing my friends e-cig. This was so frustrating because all of my friends who i have given an e-cig they end up messing it up in some way or another.
- Talk to my friend Chris because he constantly disagrees with me.
- At home, a friend was visiting for a few days, I felt he was taking my freedom and my space. That was frustrating.
- Have my girlfriend see my side of a story because she is very stubborn and takes a lot of convincing and thinks irrationally
- Hear my girlfriend complaining, it was frustrating ‘coz its hard to make her get a positive view of the things that are worrying her.
- Trying to be friends with $@s who I don’t even care about. So I gave up, and I realized that I was allowed to disconnect the losers out of my life.
- Talking to a friend with depression on the phone. It was frustrating because I would like to be able to find more ways to help.
- Me and my boyfriend were having a fight but he was being unresponsive. it was frustrating because he was the one that brought up the issue and then shut down the conflict without resolution.
- Convincing my friend of an opinion she does not agree with
- The deaths of friends, extreme stress, not receiving crystal clear orders. Overall chaos it is.
- Move on from a friendship that was so close we were like sisters.
- I wanted to be friend with a girl, but I’m insisting that she needs to take the first move.
- Shopping for a friend’s birthday present, because I couldn’t find what I thought she would want and I tend to be very indecisive about gifts.
- Had to visit a friend who is making bad decisions and had to be there for him and support him as a friend but also was unable to get my point across to him that he was making bad decisions.
- Talking with my friend, he texts me everyday, every hour & so on
- Design work for friend, which i don’t want to do from the past year!
- Dealing with my friend who i like because he is not as good at communicating and being proactive
- Get angry at my friends for noted completing my promise. I did not want to be mad at them, but I knew that was the only way I was going to get them to complete their promise to me.
- Pretending to be friends with people who are not great friends.
- Fight with my boyfriend . It was fustratibg becuase I didn’t wanna fight
- Convincing my boyfriend that he is selfish, and that he needs to change his ways for a better relationship.
- Talking to my boyfriend about our relationship, he can come off very defensive at times and that frustrates me.
- Get over an ex boyfriend I cared about. I really liked him and now don’t think the feelings were mutual.
- Dealing with fake friends because I want to leave them but I can’t at the same time.
- Cope with losing a friend, because I have known the person for a majority of my life.
- Having to teach my friend how to use excel properly. it was frustrating becasue he was an idiot
- Dealing with my boyfriends health problems. It’s frustrating because it’s all up in the air and just want him to be okay
- Deal with an ex boyfriend and decide whether or not to confide in a guy that I am currently talking to. Now the current guy isn’t talking to me and I don’t know what to do.
- Dealing with my boyfriend because he isn’t always sweet to me when he gets stressed out and we end up in a cycle where he’s grumpy and then I’m short with him and it is very frustrating
- Break up with my boyfriend. Because we tried to communicate and it just didnt work
- Talking to a clingy friend when i was in a bad mood. i didn’t want to hurt their feelings.
- I have arguing with friends about their political choices for this election. felt their choices were based on commercial reasons than ethical ones & found it disturbing
- Arguing with my best friend. I hate arguing with friends and people
- I was playing with a friend and was hit to hard but we made up.
- Trying to contact my friend who is abroad. Distance is hard to get their attention.
- Having to confront a friend about their passive agressineveness. It was frustrating because my feelings were not validated
- I had to wait for my friend to go to mall I didn’t like it because he was running me late
- Arguing with a close friend when I was only trying to calm her down. It was frustrating because it was the only thing I could do in that situation and I felt hurt.
- If I fail to make new friends or acquaintances. And I have madeÃ?”Ã?Â?Ã?¯Ã?”Ã?Â?Ã?¯ a poor first impression
- I tryied to explain a friend why i’m not going to do any exercise this week. But we think that only what he do is the correct.
- Being angry with my boyfriend for not wanting to call sometimes
- I had to bail on my boyfriend because i had to watch my siblings
- I give a critism to my friend in the organization and it seems like she doesn’t even accept the critism, and I was feeling numb.
- I have to see my ex boyfriend with his current girlfriend everyday and it greatly irritates me because it brings back the pain, the embarrassment, and so much else
- Explain myself to my boyfriend. Sometimes i just don’t want to have to talk things to death.
- Go to the market with a friend, because I hate markets and people keep dragging me there ^_^
- Fighting with one of my friends. It was frustrating because she doesnt want to see shes wrong and starts getting mad for nothing
- Resolve conflict with girlfriend. Because we’ve been down that road so many times and it’s over trivial matters.
- Take The Blame For My Girlfriend Cracking My Phone Screen!! .. It Was Frustrating Because I Trusted Her And Let Her Keep My Phone But She Dissapointed Me
- Having an argument with a friend. It was frustrating because I felt that the other person wasn’t accepting my point of view (which I believed to be true) or validating how I felt about said situation.
- Planning for outings with friends. Some friends or maybe most of the friends that I have are the easy going and passive people. I always ended up having to plan the outings and it is tiring and tormenting for me p to do the planning.
- Talk to my mom about my boyfriend . It was frustrating because she always think she right.
- I had an argwement with my friend they other day it was frustrating because we couldn’t agrre on somthing to do
- I had to deal with my ex girlfriend, because she caused a scene
- Trying to make plans with my friend, as she is very bad at communication
- I got in a fight with my girlfriend and she doesn’t undestand is her fault
- When i had to put up with a “friend” of mines TERRIBLE AND INAPPROPRIATE JOKES!!!
- I had to manage my time with friends without disappointing them. I sometimes bail on friends because I make too many plans and say yes to almost everything.
- Honestly, dealing with my boyfriend. Connor causes me a lot of stress and we got into a fight and it was really difficult to deal with. Haha, and really REALLY frustrating.
- Cutting ties with some toxic friends… What was frustrating was that I’ve known them for 10 years and not long ago they started to contact me only if they have some needs.
- I would have to avoid my best friend because of her “girlfriend” who always gets jealous at me.
- Trying not to get upset at my friend because she is being a not nice word and i don’t understand it
- Wanting to have answers for a friend and not having them. Wanting to help her with her friendships, feeling like I suck at being her friend, but knowing that I can’t be who she wants me to be.
- I’ve had to wait for my ex-boyfriend to message me after he promised to. This was frustrating because I want to get the discussion over with so that I can move on, but he isn’t allowing me to do that.
- Live with someone else, my boyfriend. We move together and I’m having a hard time getting use to being with someone else a lot of time, and getting use to his habits. It’s frustrating because I have to be very tolerant and also worried about my own habits.
- I had to try to convince my girlfriend that I am not a sexist, but rather that I just want her to be safe.
- One time I wa lied to.I had two friends that we’re arguing about an in mature proble.one of them stole something from each other and lied that they didn’t do it.
- Going to work and face with my unfriendly boxes and colleagues.
- Having to say goodbye to a close friend who moved away. I’m not good at saying goodbye
- Stuff generally having to do with friends who want to leave because they dislike someone in the group. It’s been a year, and everyone has changed for the better, but they refuse to accept that…
- Realising that i have no real true friends, that will stick around even after a few years.
- It’s frustrating when I need to be friendly with people whom I know don’t really go along with me well and when I feel like I need to be pretentious because I value sincerity.
- I had to work on a project with my friends and it was really frustrating because one of them did not do anything and the other person was acting all superior over me. In the end, the project did not finish.
- Take some argue with one of my best friends because of some minor issue
- Try to get my point across to my boyfriend about why I feel the way I do
- To terminate employment of a personal friend without having another job to go to.
- The most frustrating thing is when my friend doesn’t answer me when I text him. He’s usually not this unkind, so I feel like he’s irritated with me.
- Fix my car. And try to convince my girlfriend that I have valid reasons for being busy.
- I like to communicate and like to make friends feel better with me.
- Not having enough time to visit with a friend this weekend. Having to cut our time short.
- I had to solve some fights between, my friends, that nearly got me into the edge of colllapsing.
- I had to explain a lot of things to my friends, and they didn’t really understand what I meant.
- Trying to communicate my feelings to a friend. It was frustrating because my feelings were dismissed and deemed to be an emotional reaction. I did not felt heard or supported and I could not get my point across.
- I have to decide to break up with my girlfriend or not to.
- I reject the marraige proposal of my girlfriend with i was engaged since last 2 year.
- Managing emotional confrontation between friends. didn’t like being in the middle and not finding a solution
- I could not solve the problem of my best friend she told me that someone else solve it
- I got into a very harsh argument with my friend over a very stupid reason and she wont talk to me anymore.
- Nothing was so frustrating except for my friends who are not honest and also want me to be the same as they are.