Lack Of Vocabulary In The Young

[mikey4444]

I called into the local Tesco Opticians this morning, to make an appointment for my annual eye test. I was told by the young lady at the desk, that on a day I suggested in two weeks time ( my first available day off as it happens) she told me :

"We ain't got no appointments that day" !

When I gently suggested that what she might have meant is that they hadn't ANY appointments that day, she said ::

" I just told you that ! "

Whatever this rather silly young lady talks about in the Pub with her friends, am I expecting too much that Tesco could at least have taught how to deal with Customers just a little better ?

[elliemay1]

Reminds me of a joke:

Pupil: I ain't got no pencil, Miss
Teacher:No, Johnny, you should have said, 'I haven't got a pencil. It's, I haven't got a pencil, you haven't got a pencil, he hasn't got a pencil...'
Pupil: Blimey, Miss, who stole all the pencils?

[ChillDoubt]

You've got to laugh.....

https://jobmob.co.il/blog/funniest-resume-mistakes/#comments

[waterboatman]

As with many shops, the quick service till; has a sign saying 'Three items or less'

It should be 'Three items or fewer'.

[NoMercy]

At the risk of getting shot down in flames, why is it that people sneer at educated people these days?

It does bother and annoy me that children have access to a free education in this country and still leave school unable to speak proper English. What a waste of our taxes!

If I couldn't speak a good standard of English, I wouldn't be in the job I'm in. One of my unofficial responsibilities is correcting bad grammar of foreign doctors when producing clinical correspondence.

How professional would it look if I sent a letter to a GP saying, "Mrs Smith didn't attend for her outpatient review today. We ain't got no further plans to review her in Clinic."

??

[Svejk]

Right back at you, NoM. Is it OK to sneer at the less well educated.
You, presumably, are a middle class professional, whereas the girl mikey *picked on was a minimum wage 'grunt'.
*I say picked on because while mikey, and others on here, feel comfortable correcting a defenceless young girl, i wonder would they be so quick to correct, say, their superiors or a psychopathic looking builder they encountered.

[NoMercy]

Her teachers obviously failed her at school so should everyone else just give up?

When precisely did our nation and our society become so precious and easily offended that we'd rather retain diabolical grammar than have someone point out a mistake.

As someone previously mentioned, if there was a mistake in the subtotal or change given, we'd all be quick to point that out...

[Old_Geezer]

One is clearly not sneering but informing so that sounding thick is no longer a risk to those presently getting things wrong, and having to endure the jarring error less likely in future by those presently suffering from hearing it. Everyone can make the occasional error, I make enough of them myself, but to continually doing so benefits no one. A polite word to correct a serial offender is the only correct course of action. There is no other reasonable alternative viewpoint IMO. Nor any cause to be offended by those helping. But in the modern world I've little trust that sanity rules and no doubt it'd be ruled wrong by those with power in society.

[Baldric]

///Tesco has obviously decided that it doesn't need to employ people who are polite ///

When was she impolite then?

[Baldric]

Question ^^^^ too difficult??

[Svejk]

To be fair, balders, a polite bob and a 'thank ee, sir' wouldn't have gone amiss.
I sympathise with mikey. I could well imagine he encounters a great many tetchy, brusque people as he pootles about his daily business.

[david small]

There are far more sloppy thinkers/speakers about now. Due to the abysmal education system. Standards have tumbled anything goes.

[Svejk]

^Comma after tumbled.

[david small]

Oops, thanks:)

[Svejk]

;o)