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When the cashiers in the big supermarket chain store in my neighborhood started to use a standard, corporate mandated phrase that included the company name and
by avhception 4y ago
When the cashiers in the big supermarket chain store in my neighborhood started to use a standard, corporate mandated phrase that included the company name and ended with something like "did you get everything you need?" I was irritated at first and started to get angry after a while.
I'm usually a cheerful person that gives the cashiers a smile and a nod and wishes them a nice weekend or something.
But that phrase felt totally alien, it deprived the whole little exchange of any humanity.
I think the cashiers hated it, too.
Luckily, it didn't catch on. Maybe it was German stubbornness or something. I'm really glad it's gone.
- mhink 4y agoOh, I detest this as well. At Chik-Fil-A in the US, employees are basically required to say "my pleasure" in response to "thank you", and it comes off so artificial- maybe even culty. It's even worse when the employee in question is clearly in a bad mood or something. Either way, it kinda makes me avoid saying "thank you" at all; most of the time I'll try to come up with some other polite valediction to avoid making them say it.