>American approaches and asks me "How are you?"

lol i know that feel
>American talks about his opinions and asks me "what do you think?"
>actually tell him why i don't agree
>American spaghetti everywhere

Nice stolen flag colors untermemsch

>have to be on the phone a lot lately
>"Hello, this is Anon speaking."
>"Hi Anon, this is Shitposter, how are you?"
>"Good, how are you?"
>"Good."
>onto the business at hand

It's just an annoying way we exchange greetings most of the time. You get used to it and accept it as just something you're forced to do that is mostly pointless like busywork in school.

>>74076549
>phone call
>tell someone "How are you?"
>he goes on in a 15 minutes rant about something that happened yesterday

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>>74074668
Fuck this
I have a shit retail job and have to ask people how they are doing all the time and 99% say fine and move along. The other 1% think that it's an opportunity to inform me about the latest death of someone in their family while they watch me fumble for some kind of sympathetic response.

>being autistic

I'm quite the conversationalist ;)

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>>74074668
>american asks me for direction
>actually send him in the right direction

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>tourist asks me anything
> I shot him

>American approaches and asks me "Where is the toilet?"
>actually tell him "In the mart"
>American shart in mart everywhere

>>74077074
>I have a shit retail job

Are you allowed to sit? I read somewhere that American retail workers are forced to stand at the cashier.

>>74077074
damn
in apparel stores here they are just required to inquire whether they can be of assistance, and that's annoying enough
asking customers how they're doing would weird them out

>>74077556
In French shops, especially luxury shops, the salesmen can be very distant, and American customers find that "rude", "cold" or "unwelcoming" when the aim is just to be as discreet as possible.

It's the same thing in high-end restaurants. The waiter is barely supposed to speak to you and you're barely supposed to speak to him: to say "stop pouring wine in my glass", just tap your glass with one finger.

We perfected autism.

>>74077821
>just tap your glass with one finger

It's more to say "don't pour wine anymore in my glass" when he tries to serve you, to be more precise.

(End of blog.)

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>>74077517
The only grocery store or retail store cashiers I've seen sitting were at ALDI (they also pay their cashiers well I hear)

>>74077517
i do that

It's not just that though, sometimes i stock shelves or help people in the store

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>>74074668
My autistic ass once actually did this.
>ayoo, how ya doin?
>proceed to tell her my life story
>HR wants to talk to me next day
>have to undergo psychological evaluation
Wew.

Is this really a thing in USA not to tell your real mood? Are americans forced to say "fine" by etiquette?
Inb4: >Americans >etiquette

>>74078155
What the fuck
I thought that was a meme
we've had a law for over a century saying that if any kind of work can be done while sitting, the employer should provide a chair for it as soon as the employee requires one
but even if there wasn't something like that, wouldn't you want your employees to sit so they don't have to take breaks or something like that?

Czech em'

>>74079070
I agree with you. Dunno why cashiers don't have chairs.

>>74078155
Bruh, i didn't think that employers are THAT evil

>>74079070
>we've had a law for over a century saying that if any kind of work can be done while sitting, the employer should provide a chair for it as soon as the employee requires one

Sounds like a based law from a country who cares about the well-being of its people

>>74079271
didn't know*

>>74079272
iirc, a socialist congressman proposed it in 1920 or something like that
my grandpa always goes on and on about it

>>74078944
No, but nobody wants to stand there and listen to you complain either. Often you'll hear something like, "better once I'm off work" but we generally stay positive. There's also a difference between asking someone how they are as a greeting and genuinely trying to start a conversation about their wellbeing.

>>74079452
Nosotros igual
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_de_la_silla_(Chile)

>>74079070
workers are treated like shit here desu