Social Skills with Zach.

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Let's discuss this video. Which conversation No-no's do you see here?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNm_6myHBxQ[/youtube]


0:35 -
0:46 -
0:56 -
1:22 -
1:50 -
2:16 -
2:29 -
2:40 -
3:17 -
3:24 -
3:44 -
3:59 -

I'll take a crack at it.

0:35 - Not sure
0:46 - NO
0:56 - NO
1:22 - NO
1:50 - NO
2:16 - NO
2:29 - NO
2:40 - NO
3:17 - NO
3:24 - NO
3:44 - NO
3:59 - Obviously NO.

0:16 Talking with a microphone
0:25 Fake smile
0:29 Interruption
0:35 Non open ended question
0:36 Showing up to what looks to be a business setting with that haircut
0:46 Breaking the man's train of thought
0:56 Put down
1:00 Back to the camera
1:16 Egregious back to the camera
1:22 "Shut up"
1:25 Talking about himself
1:28 Redundant question
1:33 Looking at his cup instead of making eye contact
1:46 Saying "I don't like them" into a microphone thinking they won't hear him saying it into a fricking microphone
1:49 Stutters
1:50 Potentially rude question
1:54 Removes doubt that it was a rude question
1:55 Not showing the question
2:16 Strange question
2:30 Another put down
3:00 Strange gesticulation
3:17 Wasn't listening
3:19 Annoyingly high voice
3:24 Plays with other guy's thing in mid conversation
3:38 Back to the camera
3:44 Tells him he's kinda old
3:48 Insulting question
3:49 Hand on the crotch
3:54 Looks away
3:59 Assumes audience can tell all the no no's in the video so doesn't go back through to say what they are

The guy in the video reminds me of a woman who was at a barbecue that I went to, just this past Saturday evening. That woman asked me a rude and personal question that really hit a nerve with me, about an alpha female at my clubhouse who called me by my first name and than Doolittle. I let her have it, putting her straight, telling her about my 12 year old past, and the movie, 'My Fair Lady' and the striking similarities between the two. The difference being that Eliza Doolittle lost her accent, and I, CockneyRebel proudly kept my accent. The time that my parents coldly felt that they could not have a daughter who spoke with a mannish, nasal Cockney accent. That woman was squirming in her seat, and her face was turning red. She said that there's a message in that movie that if a person is willing to change, that the world will open up for them. I looked her straight in the eye, and said, "I am not willing to change!" She realized how much that personal question upset me, and she apologized. At least she apologized.

Honestly the only one I got first time through was 1.23 when he said shutup, then I got more when I watched it again and again.