"Have a nice day"...

[Acrossamerica]

Originally Posted by garysanfran

Did all the local service employees attend the same customer service seminar during the "off season"?

EVERYWHERE..."Have a nice day"

If you have accessed this, you will be haunted by this brain-worm. Every time you hear this phrase you'll think of this thread.

Maybe we could tally the numbers?

Your curmudgeon...

Wow, you sound just like your standard liberal. Get's up everyday and wonders what he or she can find wrong with the world. Be happy they don't just say thanks for your money now go back to what ever state you really live in because we like your money but we don't like you.

[Outdoorsman]

Have a nice day

[NoBozo]

Kinda like: "Thank You For Your Service". Maybe a little Pandering..?? NB

PS: I am a Vietnam Era Veteran. 1959-1968. NAVY. NB

[dave603]

I noticed it most during the Market Basket Strike.
Every store you go into now asks how your doing when you get in line.
And says Have a nice day when your checked out.
Seems they all took the same customer service class.
Kinda nice actually.

[dave603]

Originally Posted by NoBozo

Kinda like: "Thank You For Your Service". Maybe a little Pandering..?? NB

PS: I am a Vietnam Era Veteran. 1959-1968. NAVY. NB

Better than getting sneered at or spit on like the 60's

Funny the same people saying it to us now, were the ones most likely to do the sneering.

Air Force 71 to 75

[songkrai]

Originally Posted by dave603

Better than getting sneered at or spit on like the 60's

Funny the same people saying it to us now, were the ones most likely to do the sneering.

Air Force 71 to 75

Yep. The deferment types. Anything to get out of serving in the military at that time. Although most have been a small minority who showed up at airports to jeer and spit at returning soldiers coming back from duty overseas.

[garysanfran]

Originally Posted by Acrossamerica

Wow, you sound just like your standard liberal. Get's up everyday and wonders what he or she can find wrong with the world. Be happy they don't just say thanks for your money now go back to what ever state you really live in because we like your money but we don't like you.

No! I am a conservative who gets up every day and and sees a realistic world that has intense problems.

"Be happy they don't just say thanks for your money now go back to what ever state you really live in because we like your money but we don't like you.

A quote from an ignorant person. Wow. You are a very ignorant, hostile person.

Uh, how many years have you lived here?

My famiy? 56 years.

[Acrossamerica]

Originally Posted by garysanfran

No! I am a conservative who gets up every day and and sees a realistic world that has intense problems.

A quote from an ignorant person. Wow. You are a very ignorant, hostile person.

Uh, how many years have you lived here?

My famiy? 56 years.

I will agree that the world has a lot of intense problems but one of them is NOT having to endure service people trying to be nice to you. Me thinks you would be happier doing all of your commerce on line where you do not have to have any personal interaction.

[garysanfran]

Originally Posted by Acrossamerica

I will agree that the world has a lot of intense problems but one of them is NOT having to endure service people trying to be nice to you. Me thinks you would be happier doing all of your commerce on line where you do not have to have any personal interaction.

I want, and love, courteous service people and tip them well for doing a good job. My comment had nothing to to with having to "endure" anything. It was a comment on ALL using the same, the exact same, phrase...Entiende?

Let's come up with some alternatives.

I find the majority of your posts critical, hostile and rude...Are you hostile and rude? Did you play well in the sandbox? Probably not.

[TCC]

Originally Posted by garysanfran

No! I am a conservative who gets up every day and and sees a realistic world that has intense problems.

"Be happy they don't just say thanks for your money now go back to what ever state you really live in because we like your money but we don't like you.

A quote from an ignorant person. Wow. You are a very ignorant, hostile person.

Uh, how many years have you lived here?

My famiy? 56 years.

Apparently what constitutes one of the world's "intense problems" on the left coast is somewhat different from the things that concern us here in New Hampshire.

Given the poster's general tone, it isn't surprising that the social courtesies of others might often seem insincere - that tends to happen more often when one is rude.

Curiously, although "my family" has lived in Michigan since the early 1800s and I've gotten back there occasionally over the past 25 years, I just don't feel that qualifies me to claim ownership to that state.

[Airedale1]

This reminds me of a scene from the movie, My Blue Heaven.

It's a comedy starring Steve Martin. Martin plays a New York Mafioso who is in the witness protection program and gets relocated to an idyllic small town.

Well, Martin walks into the local supermarket and a young employee; a clean cut teenager, greets him at the front door with a sincere, "have a nice day" and being a jaded New Yorker, Martin thinks the kid is being sarcastic and replys. "F&%K YOU!"

[Major]

It reminded me of our esteemed presidential candidate who happens to be a former first lady. Here's an exchange between HRC and a secret service agent when she was a resident of the White House -

Secret Service Agent: "Good morning, ma’am.”

HRC: “F&%k off!”

Classy!

[Hillcountry]

Originally Posted by Major

It reminded me of our esteemed presidential candidate who happens to be a former first lady. Here's an exchange between HRC and a secret service agent when she was a resident of the White House -

Secret Service Agent: "Good morning, ma’am.”

HRC: “F&%k off!”

Classy!

A truer, beatch, there never was...oh yeah and a crooked, liar too!

[Irish mist]

If you respect everyone in your public & private affairs until or unless they give you cause otherwise to do so, why is this even an issue ? Just nod & move on about your business.

[Descant]

I don't have a youtube link, but I recall a George Carlin routine about "Have a good one". I laughed all day long. Thanks, George.


Visiting my grandparents in Florida, the retailers used to say "Thank you. Hurry back." Apparently, that never made it through the training classes, but it makes sense to me.

[KPW]

I have been in customer service for my entire working life. What are you supposed to say?

[garysanfran]

Originally Posted by KPW

I have been in customer service for my entire working life. What are you supposed to say?

But there are inventive alternatives. Maybe we could come up with a few here?

"Thank you for your patronage".

"Please come again. I hope you enjoyed us, as much as we enjoyed having you".

" I hope you have a GREAT day". (no wimpy niceness, and no order to try and control that, that is out of our control...i.e. We have all had terrible days, regardless of some stranger's well intentioned order to "Have a Nice Day").

[KPW]

Originally Posted by garysanfran

But there are inventive alternatives. Maybe we could come up with a few here?

"Thank you for your patronage".

"Please come again. I hope you enjoyed us, as much as we enjoyed having you".

" I hope you have a GREAT day". (no wimpy niceness, and no order to try and control that, that is out of our control...i.e. We have all had terrible days, regardless of some stranger's well intentioned order to "Have a Nice Day").

Thank you! I appreciate it!!

[chipj29]

When someone tells me to have a nice day, I usually mutter under my breath "what if I don't want to?"

[Janet]

My Dad always muttered "compared to what".

[Gatto Nero]

Originally Posted by Descant

I don't have a youtube link, but I recall a George Carlin routine about "Have a good one". I laughed all day long. Thanks, George.

Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on_Q16xRoxI

[SAMIAM]

Got to YouTube and type in "The Restaurant Ep#5
My crew went hysterical watching it......adult language