No one who goes outside has ever used the word “cringeworthy” in real life.
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unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 22 hours ago
There's a bakery close to where I live that I used to get stuff from regularly. One of the things I liked had a really cringeworthy pun as a name, though, so I just said something along the lines of "the one with ham and eggs". I regularly got asked "so one [cringeworthy pun]?" At some point I said, "yes, the one with the cringeworthy name". The employee (who seemed to be a more senior employee) said I should use the product names because it would apparently confuse the apprentices otherwise. When I said that it's just too cringeworthy she started saying things like "no one else will notice that it's cringeworthy" and going in the direction of "come on, you can do it". Well, I don't go there anymore.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Viceversa@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You might be surprised.
Nuerion@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
he doesnt go outside
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 13 hours ago
And why would they? There’s bugs out there.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
They generally don’t use the full word, but I have 1,000% heard people shorten it to cringe. It’s mostly people that are millennial or gen Z though.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Using cringeworthy off of the internet is itself a bit cringeworthy. But I notice younger generations are no longer making such distinctions. So maybe this is becoming the norm. Older generations would not have done this. Except for really old generations, like boomers, who will occasionally throw in an Internet slang they picked up recently. Again young gen x and older millenials had this one figured out, just like we figured out technology on our own. Which is probably related, as we wouldn’t use those terms offline since we knew other generations wouldn’t understand. Now that all generations access the internet all the time, on the mainstream monopoly services, that distinction is no longer there.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 minutes ago
Cringeworthy isn’t Internet slang. It’s been around for decades. It’s like saying “humongous” is Internet slang.
GiveOver@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
UK here, I’d say cringeworthy is a pretty normal word. Or at least it was before kids dropped the second half of the word.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 8 hours ago
In my books, without the second half of the word it's a verb, and not an adjective or noun. But maybe I'm just getting old.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
That’s an incredibly dumb reason to not go to a nice bakery. People take themselves way too seriously. Embrace the cringe. Be whimsical and silly. Life’s too short to go through it with a stick up the ass.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 8 hours ago
Some people don't mind cringeworthy things. For me, saying something that cringeworthy can hurt inside. Also, I just really don't like being coerced to say something in a certain way just to match some marketing shtick. The question shouldn't be "why don't you want to do it", but "why do you feel the need to compel me to use a term you made up".
k0e3@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
The great thing is, people can choose to be silly or people can choose to be serious. Let the person go find a bakery that works for them.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
That’s cool and all but I’m still gonna express my opinion from my side of the fence on the subject.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Sure, go ahead.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
You don’t get to tell people how to spend their time and money
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Common, you can’t let us hang like this, what was it?!!
Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I would likely do the same to be honest, Customer experience is huge when it comes to stuff like that. I don’t care what your corporate overlords or your management wants. If what your management wants leads to me feeling uncomfortable spending my money there, I’m not going to spend my money there.
In my opinion, I think it’s more than fair to be able to describe what you’re looking for or point your finger at a menu item and have that be sufficient.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Right? Having the employee repeat it back in their internal words is fine and tells the customer they’ve been heard correctly, but you don’t need to make then customer jump through hoops.
Coffee shop I go to used to do the Italian thing. Then they switched to small/medium/large. They finally settled on just listing the volume on the menu.
The entire time you could just say any of them and they knew what you meant.
If they have no idea what you meant they can ask for clarification. They even have the cups right next to the register they can hold up and confirm.
Turns out not pissing people off is often as easy as “asking for clarification if needed”. Also offering free espresso occasionally helps.