Why I hate Chick-fil-a's forced "pleasure"

[redreplicant]

I no longer eat at Chick-fil-a, due to their homophobic hijinks a while ago, but I do miss the waffle fries and secret "honey bbq" sauce.  What I don't miss about it is the forced friendliness of the employees, and particularly the fact that they have to, by store policy, reply to every expression of gratitude with "my pleasure."  This little

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[aavaldes]

Well said and so true. As a person who was supposed to say "my pleasure" and felt it was awful, I can say that my only objection at the time was how sexual it felt to say. Honestly, the word "pleasure" is pretty much only used with sex--or chocolate--anything the marketer wants to sexualize. It didn't help that of all the people working the front line in the pm, I was the only brunette; all the others were Barbie blond slender females (they were delightful and became good friends, I loved working there). This was not a platonic mistake. I can't remember how much I didn't say "my pleasure," but I think I had some leverage and got away with not. And the girl who said it all the time and liked it annoyed the rest of us to no end.