I wonder if I ended every customer interaction with "Have a Rational Day", How long I would....

[Logical]

last at a fast food place?

I imagine I would be fired pretty quick. Or asked to not say those words.

No customer greeting should be FOR or AGAINST religion unless you are talking to people in a church IMO.

[MattBaggins]

1. Context?

[Logical]

6. Sorry, some other post talked about workers ending conversations with "Have A Blessed Day".

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Most people I run into

say "Have a good day" or "Have a good one". I do encounter the "Have a bless-ed day" folks but I won't get into this subject that seems to have proliferated on GD of late.

[Logical]

4. Good Day seems ok to me. Lets keep religion out of it.

[baldguy]

3. "If I was having a rational day, I wouldn't be here."

(Works with "blessed" too.)

[surrealAmerican]

5. Is that really the opposite ...

... of "have a blessed day"?

I would think having a rational day would be the opposite of having a day that make no sense. Why would religious people object to that?



It would still be a strange thing to say.

[Logical]

12. No stranger than "Blessed".

[surrealAmerican]

18. I agree,

... that's strange too.

[Quantess]

7. If I were your customer

I would think you were kind of a kook. I'd smile politely and secretly think to myself, "what a dork!"

[Logical]

13. That is fine. It is a hard word to understand. I would explain it to you. Need me to now? O

[Quantess]

15. Whoops, sorry. I didn't think that would insult you...that was not my intent.

You don't actually greet people that way, do you?

[Logical]

19. No offense taken. Guess I did not make my point very well. Oh well. worth a try!

[Honeycombe8]

8. First, that saying makes no sense to me. 2nd, you have to say what your employer

wants you to. It's his business. If YOU had a business, and you wanted your employees at your little store to say "thank you" to the customers after each purchase, you'd expect that, right? You'd get rid of a cashier who refused to do such a small thing, esp when it's only polite.

If an employee doesn't like something, he is free to get another job or start his own business or franchise and set his own rules.

[Logical]

10. I agree. The employer can make you say "You are an asshole" if they want and you can quit if you....

don't like it.

[Honeycombe8]

20. That is factually incorrect. It would be illegal for an employer to require an employee

to insult people or curse.

Saying, "thank you" or "come back" or "have a nice day" are generic, polite ways to end a transaction, makes a customer feel noticed, and encourages the customer to come back. There is nothing illegal about it.

You go out and get a loan lay down thousands of dollars to open your own franchise, and then have a little guy at the cashier booth say, "Hey, dude, I don't wanna say thank you...I wanna say, like, have a rational day, dude." You'd cut him loose & hire someone who is working there to serve your business. The little dude can work somewhere else where, like, they don't care if they have a successful business or make customers want to come back.

[Logical]

21. Illegal? Where? What law?

[man4allcats]

9. If you said that to many of the younger folks who frequent fast food places,

you'd likely get a lot of puzzled looks since most of them probably couldn't even define "rational" much less reply intelligently to a comment using the word.

[Logical]

11. LOL....very true!

[phleshdef]

14. I don't see any difference between "have a blessed day" and "have a nice day"

This kind of shit is just petty and totally unimportant.

[tularetom]

16. To most people "rational day" would seem religion-neutral

As opposed to "blessed day" which has all the earmarks of a programmed phrase to convey a sort of religious dog whistle to customers, like a secret password between clerk and customer.

[jody]

17. On issues not subject to the scientific method for testing hypotheses, then logic pits

one party's opinion against another party's opinion.

Unfortunately several academic specialities attach "science" as a suffix to masquerade as something which they are not.

There is little that is rational when two opposing opinions clash over divisive, polarizing political issues.

[Kellerfeller]

22. I can't imagine anyone having an issue with it

It certainly doesn't say anything about religion one way or another.