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Resilience training to help service personnel handle difficult customers

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This article titled 'Stay cool under pressure' appeared in the Recruit section of Straits Times today, Saturday 27 November 2010.

The article defines the 3 types of difficult customers and how to deal with them:

1. The hostile-aggressive customer
2. The insistent customer
3. The negative customer

And it's a good article, I reckon, from my personal experience as an ex-customer service personnel. But as I read all 3 descriptions of difficult customers, I thought about how I've been dealing with Starhub and OCBC, and I realized...

Oh damn. I'm all three! Ooops. =X