Would you think this rude??

[Flowerofthefen]

I was having a lesson today away from home. 10 mins before the end, someone came in the school on foot, started talking to the trainer then just stood there looking like a spare part. She had come to help the people that were having a lesson next. I wouldn't dream of interrupting someone's lesson that they had paid for. Its probably annoyed me more than it should!!

 

[silv]

Yes it is rude, I would have been annoyed too.

 

[twiggy2]

Yes I would, as the instructor I would have politely pointed out I was busy and asked then to leave the school.

 

[cauda equina]

Yes, I would think it was rude too

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

Yes it was rude and the RI should not have engaged.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

Thanks for your replies. Glad I'm not the only one thinking it's rude!

 

[ycbm]

Rude and the instructor was wrong. I've had it happen to me several times that the instructor answers their phone or talks to someone else, and if it's repeated another time I never go to that instructor again.
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[PinkvSantaboots]

I was having a lesson today away from home. 10 mins before the end, someone came in the school on foot, started talking to the trainer then just stood there looking like a spare part. She had come to help the people that were having a lesson next. I wouldn't dream of interrupting someone's lesson that they had paid for. Its probably annoyed me more than it should!!

Yeah it's rude I wouldn't dream of going up to a trainer while they are teaching unless it's a desperate situation, my old boss would be livid if someone interrupted anything she was doing in the school especially with a client you would definitely get a death stare if you ever attempted it!

 

[PipsqueakXy22]

Yes very rude and it happens so often too!

 

[Clodagh]

If it happens again I would halt and wait. When (presumably) instructor notices and asks why just say ‘I was waiting for you to finish your conversation’.
It was very rude indeed.

 

[nagblagger]

It is rude, did the trainer carry on with your lesson or was she distracted? Hopefully, if the trainer did not 'engage' with her, or told her off, maybe that's why she stood like a spare part - didn't know what to do with herself.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

It is rude, did the trainer carry on with your lesson or was she distracted? Hopefully, if the trainer did not 'engage' with her, or told her off, maybe that's why she stood like a spare part - didn't know what to do with herself.

She answered her question, then the other lady tried to engage in further conversation but luckily trainer carried on with me. Just found it bizarre!!

 

[limestonelil]

Very rude, shouldn't happen unless emergency.

 

[FestiveG]

Very rude, you were paying for that time, for someone else to impinge on that is rude in the extreme.

 

[Red-1]

I have been known to ask, "are we running to time?" if it is a clinic where there is just the trainer and no organiser, just so I know when to get ready. Never ask anything else though!

I have done the halt and wait thing before, and also binned one who would answer phone calls. Too expensive not to.

 

[EllenJay]

I would think it rude - and I would gave said something, loudly to the person interrupting, to the effect of “excuse me - we are in the middle of something just now”

 

[nagblagger]

Good trainer !

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Yes very rude. Used to annoy me when my instructor would stand and chat to people by the fence while my lesson was going on

 

[Flowerofthefen]

I would think it rude - and I would gave said something, loudly to the person interrupting, to the effect of “excuse me - we are in the middle of something just now”

Really wish I had ...

 

[Barton Bounty]

Highly rude.. I would have said to the person interrupting… do you mind exiting the arena? Im paying for a private lesson

 

[Abacus]

Yes it’s rude. But it sounds as though the trainer coped well without being too rude back.

I had an instructor who used to being someone to watch (a young girl, no idea who she was) and take photos to use for her social media. She spent more time trying to get the right shots than teaching. She didn’t last long.

 

[Fieldlife]

Rude and the instructor was wrong. I've had it happen to me several times that the instructor answers their phone or talks to someone else, and if it's repeated another time I never go to that instructor again.
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It depends in the dressage clinics I attend I’d be annoyed too.

my local before work lesson, I get it if child / unexpected call happens and they want to take it. It’s rare but are human, apologise and make time up etc.

 

[Clodagh]

Really wish I had ...

I wouldn’t have either. I’d just have thought it afterwards.

 

[ponynutz]

I would have been annoyed.

Sounds like instructor was in a rock and a hard place though if person was helping with the next lesson. Instructor didn’t engage in conversation after initial comment. I would have been annoyed but glad instructor carried on with me.

 

[MuddyMonster]

I think if the instructor didn't engage further than answer their initial question, I wouldn't think it rude of the instructor (but arguably a bit rude of the person doing the interrupting depending on the reason for it).

A one time thing wouldn't bother me - I've occassionally had an instructor answer a phone call or something. Just as I've sometimes needed to take a personal phone call in work.

 

[Winters100]

Yes it is rude. I was however a bit surprised last year to be brushed off by a supposedly top dressage trainer, who clearly thinks a lot of themselves, when I interrupted their lesson to tell them that their German Shepherd, who they had shut in a box, had got out and was chasing 2 of my horses around the paddock. Their response of 'I'm teaching' was not really the one that I had hoped for, and I made it quite clear that said lesson would have to wait until the dog had been caught. Really you would expect more from a pro.

 

[adamntitch]

I cut payment and if more than once then let people know not to use said trainer

 

[ThreeFurs]

'Are we running to time?' is good. Must remember that.

I had a YO who used to come onto the arena and chitchat with the coach who used to come to ours and teach two or three of us back to back. It used to make me angry, firstly because it was in my paid time, secondly because the following lessons were then out of whack, and thirdly because I needed to be tactful [my horse was happy there], and then forthly, I'm really passionate about dressage and was keen to start.

So yeah, rude, with some 'rank-pulling' on the part of the chatter mixed in. But some good solutions here.

 

[dogatemysalad]

She answered her question, then the other lady tried to engage in further conversation but luckily trainer carried on with me. Just found it bizarre!!

The lady was extremely rude. The trainer was too polite. Don't know what the answer is really. Self absorbed people don't tend to accept they were rude, they tend to play the victim card.

 

[cauda equina]

Years ago at the start of a lesson my instructor asked if I minded her trainee coming and watching
Fine, I said, assuming it would just be that - watching
When the trainee turned up she joined in with the teaching, standing next to the instructor and telling me what to do while the instructor was still teaching too
In the end I halted and said I couldn't make sense of two lots of instruction coming at once and fortunately the trainee shut up
I was bloody annoyed though!