> It's a common social technique among adults with authority to frame requests as a question-- "Could you please....?" or "Would you like to....?". This is gent

> It's a common social technique among adults with authority to frame requests as a question-- "Could you please....?" or "Would you like to....?". This is gentler and shows a degree of deference and courtesy from the person with authority to the other person. If the only answer to the question is agreement then the deference is false. Phrasing orders as questions really only makes authoritarian managers feel better about themselves; nobody under 40 thinks this is an actual question.