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I'm not really offended that I can't see all content from Europe, but the idiotic newspeak like "Our European visitors are important to us." is almost offensive
by CogitoCogito 5y ago
I'm not really offended that I can't see all content from Europe, but the idiotic newspeak like "Our European visitors are important to us." is almost offensive. I don't see why they aren't just honest.
- pydry 5y agoToxic positivity. It's a pervasive feature of American culture.
- peytn 5y agoI think this is more an example of what we call “bullshit.” There’s a lot of it.
- mbg721 5y agoIn America we particularly have a lot of "bullshit we think protects us from lawsuits even if it really doesn't".
- KSteffensen 5y agoThe concept of supermarket greeter blows my mind. As a customer this would be a reason to NOT go to that supermarket. As a potential employee I would have to be starving before I took that job.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoSupermarket greeters are really for theft-prevention. It's not for the customer's benefit.
- signal11 5y ago“Your call is important to us. Thank you for waiting. You are 8382nd in the call queue because our overworked and understaffed call centre team are all handling other customers. By the way, did you know we understaff this team because customers are super important to us?”
- PedroBatista 5y agoThat "you are important for us and we care deeply about you and your pet iguana" it's the bread and butter of corporate America's PR - it has it's versions on other parts of the World too.