Meeting new people in chalets

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

Snapzzz wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

I once got asked where I worked, when I said I worked for McDonalds a fellow guest asked how I could afford to go on a skiing holiday. This pompous teacher got a shock when I told him the drug dealing and armed robberies I do every year financed the holidays and did not speak to me for the rest of the week. Some people just don't get sarcasm!

Snapzzz wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

It's still a rude question to ask people who you barely met. I personally don't care and quite shocked when there are people on holidays who do. Are they insecure or trying to make sure they only get 'appropriate" aquantances?

john987 wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

I once got asked where I worked, when I said I worked for McDonalds a fellow guest asked how I could afford to go on a skiing holiday. This pompous teacher got a shock when I told him the drug dealing and armed robberies I do every year financed the holidays and did not speak to me for the rest of the week. Some people just don't get sarcasm!

haha! I told once that I was on unemployment benefit.

I think teachers do a really hard job with little credit, they get criticised for having lots of holidays but from what I see their work life balance term time does not make up for it.
As with with all professions there is a wide range of personalities, some you will like to be with others you won't.

john987 wrote:I think teachers do a really hard job with little credit, they get criticised for having lots of holidays but from what I see their work life balance term time does not make up for it.
As with with all professions there is a wide range of personalities, some you will like to be with others you won't.

Yes, I think you are right. It's personality that comes first and some personalities when placed in certain environments just can't help but show. A few of my friends are teachers, though 2 are Swiss and 2 Americans, and they are nothing like that. Very laid back people. I would really struggle to apply the adjective "pompous" to any one of them and can't imagine them grilling others as to what they do in life. But they do get lot of holidays:)

Mr Nelly works in the window industry so that usually gets rid of any unwanted attention, people can be so snobbish about what job you do, I couldn't give a toss what people think about what me and Mr Nelly do, it pays for us to do all the fun things in life which is important.

Asking what you earn is a very personal question and not one I'd be prepared to answer to anyone!

NellyPS wrote:

Asking what you earn is a very personal question

Perhaps the question tells us more about the person doing the asking :D