Comment by CogitoCogito
5 years 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.
5 years 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.
“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?”
Toxic positivity. It's a pervasive feature of American culture.
I think this is more an example of what we call “bullshit.” There’s a lot of it.
In America we particularly have a lot of "bullshit we think protects us from lawsuits even if it really doesn't".
The 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.
Supermarket greeters are really for theft-prevention. It's not for the customer's benefit.
That "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.