The following are insincere phrases that are either spoken, written down or presented on media displays and are all too commonly seen these days. All of them, to quote Peter Griffin from Family Guy, really grind my gears:
CLAIM #1: “We value your privacy”
No you don’t. If my privacy meant as much as you claim, you wouldn’t be trying to steal my personal details or my web browsing history etc. so fuck right off. Plus in the case of web browsing you only ask now anyway because you have been forced to by law – before that you just helped yourselves.
CLAIM #2: “We apologise for the wait/inconvenience”
Nope. If you cared for customer convenience or time spent on a call, you would increase the amount of telephone operators so that we are not forced to wait in an excessively long queue, only to have our call dropped right before we reach a human being. Making the call centre/staff based in the country/region of the caller’s origin helps a lot with awkward-to-understand accents too.
CLAIM #3: “Your call is important to us”
You may think twice about making that spurious claim when I eventually do talk to a human being and complain about how shit you are as a business/service/bank. If my tirade of expletives is being “recorded for training purposes” then all the better!
Those are the main three which I can think of right now, but I am sure there are many that are equally annoying that I have missed on this list. I am looking forward to seeing what you lovely fellow cunters can come up with.
I turned 50 years old two weeks ago and I have noticed that my patience for corporate bullshit and unnecessary bureaucracy is eroding for each year that I get older.
Nominated by: The Wizard’s Sleeve




