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re: My boss told a colleague to stop saying “no problem.”

Posted on 2/27/20 at 7:32 am to
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81955 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 7:32 am to
quote:

my boss lost it, saying that is an unacceptable expression.
I hate these people.
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27058 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 7:38 am to
Boss sounds like a micro manager or a tool who just got out of boss baby training.

Maybe they grow into the role. Maybe they stay a tool.

If “my pleasure” ever gets uttered, then you have a Studor group nazi. Nothing like people speaking like robots to build “culture”.
Posted by wildtigercat93
Member since Jul 2011
112489 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 7:38 am to
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My company put us all through customer service training ya few years back. You’re welcome is proper response to Thank you.
No problem sounds like something you’d hear from a fast food or Walmart employee.



If your company is putting you through customer service training I would say its 1000 times more likely that you are the fast food or Walmart employee
Posted by The Korean
Denham Springs, LA
Member since May 2008
1617 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 7:43 am to
I have an employee who has worked for me the past couple years, he has either just started or I just noticed him using "I said" before a lot of comments. I only talk to him a couple times a week so it's possible he has been doing it all along. I will soon be like your boss and just go off on him. I am sure I will use a foghorn leghorn reference when I do.
Posted by redneck hippie
Stillwater
Member since Dec 2008
5629 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 8:11 am to
quote:

If your company is putting you through customer service training I would say its 1000 times more likely that you are the fast food or Walmart employee


I work in a very blue collar industry. Some of the guys are a little rough around the collar. Honestly, the training was pretty good and probably needed.
Posted by Mad Dawg 2020
Member since Jun 2017
732 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 8:23 am to
My boss at a job in high school would respond to "no problem" with a super sarcastic "okay, well let me know if it becomes one"

I always thought it was funny how much he hated that phrase.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
32961 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 8:45 am to
Where do you people work where your boss thinks they can tell you which expressions to use, and they expect you to say “sir” (in another thread)?

My boss would never concern themselves with such frivolity. Who fricking cares?
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
22909 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 9:12 am to
I've run across supervisors who would complain about stupid shite like that. In that instance my responses would become overly saccharine:

It was my absolute pleasure.

Anything for you and the company

I exist only to serve

If it made your day slightly better it was worth every ounce of my effort.

After a couple of weeks of that shite, "No problem" doesn't seem so bad anymore.
Posted by bigwheel
Lake Charles
Member since Feb 2008
6491 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 9:14 am to
No sweat
Posted by sportsaddit68
Hammond
Member since Sep 2008
5893 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 9:30 am to
Tell your boss "Not A Problem" next time instead.
Posted by piratedude
baton rouge
Member since Oct 2009
2521 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 9:36 am to
the proper response to "thank you" is "you're welcome." always has been, always will be. "no problem" says "you're lucky it wasn't a problem, otherwise, i wouldn't have done it."

That's not really a good approach to a paying customer or an employer.

signed
Boomer
Posted by BreesyInBigEasy
Member since Sep 2019
770 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 9:40 am to
quote:

the proper response to "thank you" is "you're welcome." always has been, always will be. "no problem" says "you're lucky it wasn't a problem, otherwise, i wouldn't have done it."

That's not really a good approach to a paying customer or an employer.

signed
Boomer



Anyone who actually cares about this has way too much time on their hands.

quote:

says "you're lucky it wasn't a problem, otherwise, i wouldn't have done it."


It really doesn’t at all and is a huge logical jump
Posted by yellowfin
Coastal Bar
Member since May 2006
97814 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 9:41 am to
He wouldn’t have had to worry about hearing it again because I’d leave

What petty bullshite
This post was edited on 2/27/20 at 9:42 am
Posted by yankeeundercover
Buffalo, NY
Member since Jan 2010
36384 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 9:44 am to
Reminds me of when I first moved to DC and got a beer from a female bartender and as I grabbed it, said “Thank ya, darlin’” and she challenged me prettt aggressively with a “I’m not your fricking ‘darlin’, a-hole!”

I was shocked at the over analyzation and presumption that I *really* thought that she was my “darlin’”

Your boss is having a bad day and his issues are with something completely other that the coworker saying “no problem”... wife/life/etc. issues probably.
Posted by efrad
Member since Nov 2007
18657 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 10:03 am to
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This post was edited on 1/11/21 at 1:23 am
Posted by Lithium
Member since Dec 2004
62310 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 11:09 am to
I thought y'all was suppose to say My Pleasure at Chick Fil A
Posted by cable
Member since Oct 2018
9670 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 11:14 am to
How did you manage to completely reverse the meaning and intent of “no problem”?
Posted by OlGrandad
Member since Oct 2009
3544 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 11:16 am to
Piece of cake,breeze, cake, cakewalk, child's play, cinch, cream puff, duck soup, kid stuff, picnic, pushover, roses, snap.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
91229 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 11:16 am to
quote:

My boss told a colleague to stop saying “no problem.”


Id respond “ok no problem”
Posted by pensacola
pensacola
Member since Sep 2005
4655 posts
Posted on 2/27/20 at 11:34 am to
Millennials always say “of course” to everything. Try that.
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