I feel one can defintely express gratefulness, but should not expect gratitude

I expect someone's gratitude when i provide some helps to someone.May be it's natural.but it's not very neccessary. I had a very sad experience.One day in a party with our collegues,one of them-a girl drank too much.She nearly know nothing then.In addition,it's very late-about 11:00pm.No one knew his address.So I took her to my dorm.and I took care of her whole night.She drank too much so that she was disgorging..I couldn't sleep well. but next day when she were awaken and came to our company,she never say "thank you" to me.and never express his gratitude to me.I am really sad then. i think we should express our gratitude in time when we get someone's favour.At least,we show our respects to them.

Just a simple thank you would be suffice for me but unfortunately, some of us can't even do that. You have a lot of miserable people in the world today who take it out on others by being rude. I always say 'thank you' or I really appreciate this" to people who are nice to me, whatever it is that they may do, from loaning me money in a time of crisis, to surprising me with breakfast. It's just the right thing to do. We can't control what others do, but we must maintain who we are. God Bless!

I expect courtesy and politeness. Not necessarily gratitude because that's something that the other person might give or not depending on what she/he feels, who or how he/she is. Now if I hold the door for you to pass, I expect you to say thank you - that's being polite. I don't think it's that important to be expressed gratefulness although it feels good. What we did to receive- or not - that gratefulness is much more important. ANd it's what it's related to us, what we can or not control. What others do, say or feel... does not really have much to do with us or who we are.

In my opinion you have got it all wrong !! The theory is:- GIVE AND TAKE. Have you not heard :- I scratch your back if you scratch mine. In business , like the cinema complex we used to have what was termed to be COMPLEMENTARY arrangements with our promotions with the local business community.

I worked in a hotel before and we were trained with the best standard of costumer service. Because of the training my expectations for other costumer-service oriented industries became so high that sometimes i got mad easily at the slight hint of what i call the breach of the costumer service code...I realized later i was being unrealistic..but my wish until now is for these front liners in costumer service industries to be polite as they should be..i responded to your topic not based on the gratitude aspect but more on the expectaions we have for others. sometimes because of our personal training and experiences we had expectations that are unrealistic in our own present real environment.