Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

Anyway can't two phrases mean the same thing and one be preferable to the other?

By the way I'm talking from the viewpoint of someone working in the service sector, not someone using the service sector.

Budo otm

“take care” y/n

"thank you for providing me the information I requested. I literally do not care what happens to you after this conversation"

If wishing someone a good whatever is objectionable per se it should also be objectionable as a greeting

I'm sure this has been thrashed out here before. The history of this phrase and its use was that circa 1972 some mega-enormous corporate entity (I forget which) began requiring its retail employees to end all transactions with customers by saying "have a nice day" or else face termination. Their employees' union objected strenuously, not because the phrase was objectionable, but the corporation was treating its employees as automatons and transactions with customers as assembly line products, hence dehumanizing the whole interaction. The issue made the national broadcast news and it prompted a huge amount of social chatter similar to the present discussion on this thread.

btw, the corporation won the battle and very soon most other retailers followed the same path. You couldn't visit a store without being wished a nice day, over and over. Through endless repetition it became lodged in the national psyche and normalized into an "americanism".

"gotcha"

Maybe just go back to 1991 when the only accepted greeting was:

'Sup?

If wishing someone a good whatever is objectionable per se it should also be objectionable as a greeting

Getting silly now.

When you say "good morning" are you actually wishing someone a good morning? Or are you just saying hello?

Either you’re actually wishing someone a good morning (obviously fine) or, as you suggest, it’s a meaningless but benign social custom that you needn’t find offensively presumptuous (also obviously fine), it’s much like “have a good day” in this way

"you are welcome to have the quality of day you wish, I do not seek to impose my values upon you,

Neanderthal"

this conversation is insane, but I concede that some of you definitely are not having a good one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic_expression

"Good morning" doesn't make me cringe, so there's a difference. Greetings aren't really meaningless are they?

And even if they are, they're useful.

F hazel, don't phat-shame us

don't make me tap the signifier

Now you all need to go shopping in France.

lol fh delivers as usual

Greetings do serve a purpose, they are a subcategory of phatic expression!

passe un bon un

i sort of agree with tom d about "have a good day." you can say it with an edge. i think that says something about the phrase.

i like a "take care" in the right moment, and i often sign my emails with "best," cuz i'm a live laugh love / wine mom kinda guy.

By the way I'm talking from the viewpoint of someone working in the service sector, not someone using the service sector.

I work in customer service.

I use the “cheers” signoff with gleeful incontinence

Just decided early on I would be a cheers guy and never looked back

better than using the cheers signoff with fecal incontinence at least

talking to people is hard enough without the ILX vibe police telling me the way I talk is annoying so I'm just going to ignore everything in this thread

I use the “cheers” signoff with gleeful incontinence

― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, December 4, 2023 6:45 PM (forty-seven seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i use "cheers" from time to time, a throwback to my wannabe anglophile youth

I think in British English one can say "good morning" in a way that means "goodbye, you are dismissed, and get out of my office and also fuck off and possibly die."

That is not an American usage. In the US we only use it as an initial greeting.

idk I lay on the "have a great rest of your day" thick mostly because I was a prickly asshole when I was initially promoted to a manager back in 2006 and had a big desire to atone for that as I got older and realized what an asshole I had become. I wanted to become a more approachable person, so greetings and goodbyes like that entered my vernacular because they at least gave the impression that I'm a friendlier person now and not going to bite their head off for unnecessarily hostile reasons anymore.

I think in British English one can say "good morning" in a way that means "goodbye, you are dismissed, and get out of my office and also fuck off and possibly die."

That is not an American usage. In the US we only use it as an initial greeting.

― ; Powell (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, December 4, 2023 1:47 PM bookmarkflaglink

this was one of the central plot points of that Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds Christmas movie from last year iirc

I work in customer service.

So do I and you're completely misunderstanding my point. I don't hate if someone in customer service says it to me, I don't even notice it tbh, I hate when a "customer" says it to me.

A simple "Thanks" is all I need.

Also it sounds stupid when British people say it!

why don't you go ahead and have a nice day, now

but i had a nice day yesterday! variety is the spice of life!

You're due an absolute fucker of a day next Thursday

Cheers then!

Bless

i say cheers

full disclosure i say "stay well" to finish a lot of my human transactions tho

Lang may yer lum reek

May the thousand little gods bless you

Good luck in all your endeavors

Peace out

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lol

So many phrases, particularly at work, fall under the broad umbrella of phatic speech. 'Aight' 'morning' 'good weekend?' 'you're a star' 'don't be a cunt!' 'is that your piss on the bog seat?' - it's mostly just oil to keep the good vibe machine greased innit.

I might start ululating in a positive tone instead, see if anyone notices.

more workplaces need yodeling

i think we've talked about "at this time" before. i've now started using it with my cat i.e. "no treat services are being provided at this time."

We have decided to go in a different direction.