Almost certainly.
Probably also the first to complain if, after saying thanks, you get no response at all...
Nope to the second part. Somehow that doesn't bother me a bit.
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"No problem"
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Nope to the second part. Somehow that doesn't bother me a bit.
I too, consider all common forms of pleasantries to be pretty interchangeable. Although I do agree that there are times when certain nuance seems to be lost. For example, "no problem" indicates an informal way of acknowledging a thank you that is acceptable (to me) in many instances EXCEPT when someone is executing the duties of a job. Like, I KNOW it's not a problem to ring me up.
I know it has a lot to do with context, facial expression, body language, snark/sarcasm detection, etc., but as a response to "thank you," we should do better than "uh huh," especially if it's a customer-employee exchange. Workers should be a little more professional than that.
For me, the worst is "Y'bet." As if "You bet" wasn't short enough! I can be in a store at 10:00am on a weekday, one of maybe ten people in the store, and the only one in line, and I still sometimes get the hyper-quick "Y'bet" response to my "Thank you." Sometimes the cashier is already looking past me when he/she says it. Is the cashier in a hurry? I mean, we're not talking about a 2-days-before-Christmas crowd! I'm the only guy in line!
^This.
If it's someone's job to serve/assist you, "no problem" is not the best response to "thank you."
20-something years ago I was mixing FOH for a corporate presentation; I don't recall what company, conference, or even what industry it was, but I distinctly remember the keynote speaker saying (I'm paraphrasing) "Never reply to 'thank you' with 'no problem' because you want people to recognize that you've gone out of your way to do something for them. People should be gracious for your assistance, and saying 'you're welcome' acknowledges their gratitude...whereas telling them that it's 'no problem' is in effect dismissing their gratitude."
I've never forgotten that, and I've tried to embrace that attitude ever since.
I've never forgotten that, and I've tried to embrace that attitude ever since.
Yeah. The trafic wave of thanks is a must.
I always be sure to hold up all fives, well spread out so the other driver knows they're getting all five digits.
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THIS. Thank you for supplying the "why" of it for me.
And yeah I know that it's a first-world problem. We do talk about a lot of those on here, I've noticed.
The ONLY respectful response to "Thank you" is "You're welcome". The world would suck quite a bit less if the simple underpinnings of civilized behavior weren't being eroded away 
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The only people who used to say "no worries" were Australians. Now it has made its way to Canada and I hear it all the time. For some reason it irks me when non-Australians say "no worries". It just sounds weird to me.
+1The ONLY respectful response to "Thank you" is "You're welcome". The world would suck quite a bit less if the simple underpinnings of civilized behavior weren't being eroded away
Half the people who don't ever say "You're welcome," wouldn't even understand what you just said.
Glad you said it though.
And we talk to someone from Australia and we're all "Shrimp on the Barbie," "The land down under." It's almost like profiling.
The land down under doesn't even make sense. Down under what?
Geographically it is South, but South is only under North on a map or globe.
That's a contrived convention made up by people who lived in the Northern hemi-sphere.
Anartica is further South. Why isn't it under something?
From the perspective of the rest of the universe who's to say what is up or down.
From the perspective of the planet, down is towards the planet, up is away.
With respect to our friends in the Southern Hemi-sphere, who's to say the Artic isn't down under?
...said no Australian, ever. Don't come the raw prawn.
