Comments on: Hello is long-hand for BOO, MOTHERFUCKER http://bottomrung.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/hello-is-long-hand-for-boo-motherfucker/ Behind the shiny nametag, behold! A retail slave Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:30:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Allerious http://bottomrung.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/hello-is-long-hand-for-boo-motherfucker/#comment-1492 Allerious Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:48:31 +0000 https://bottomrung.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/hello-is-long-hand-for-boo-motherfucker/#comment-1492 I don't want to hear you talk to me. I'm there to get my shit, and get out. If I have a question, I'll ask. Your greeting does nothing for me. I don't need the 10 second emotional bonding, really. And as a former retail employee, I think the same way when I'm on the other side of the interaction. I don't want to hear about the customers' personal lives. Get your shit, hand over the money, and get out. Don't say a damn word. I don’t want to hear you talk to me. I’m there to get my shit, and get out. If I have a question, I’ll ask. Your greeting does nothing for me. I don’t need the 10 second emotional bonding, really.

And as a former retail employee, I think the same way when I’m on the other side of the interaction. I don’t want to hear about the customers’ personal lives. Get your shit, hand over the money, and get out. Don’t say a damn word.

]]> By: anungarrayididitdotcopas http://bottomrung.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/hello-is-long-hand-for-boo-motherfucker/#comment-319 anungarrayididitdotcopas Sat, 12 May 2007 05:44:50 +0000 https://bottomrung.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/hello-is-long-hand-for-boo-motherfucker/#comment-319 Yes there is: 5. What do you know motherfucker! The people whom decide to deal with a shop assistant as though it might be a completely different context that they have been so addressed in. They presuppose a context without letting on that their own mind is: at a cocktail party: "Hi, I really like that blonde in the corner"; or at a student club: "what are the books in the book case display for sale?"; in Mom's kitchen, "I want Jello for dinner". Yes there is:

5. What do you know motherfucker!
The people whom decide to deal with a shop assistant as though it might be a completely different context that they have been so addressed in. They presuppose a context without letting on that their own mind is: at a cocktail party: “Hi, I really like that blonde in the corner”; or at a student club: “what are the books in the book case display for sale?”; in Mom’s kitchen, “I want Jello for dinner”.

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