There are better and worse societies in this matter. I'm glad I live in a society where it is acceptable for a bartender to just bluntly ask "what do you want?

There are better and worse societies in this matter. I'm glad I live in a society where it is acceptable for a bartender to just bluntly ask "what do you want?" without all the pointless chitchat. Or for me to go to my boss and tell him "there is a problem with X, we should do Y, even if you earlier said Y is bad.".