Not have a good day. Not enjoy the rest of your day.
Was this how people ended zoom calls during lockdown or something? Some influencer on TikTok signs off with it? A generational thing? Did I just miss the memo?
Sometime after sunrise.
When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day"
Submitted 1 day ago by j_elgato@leminal.space to [deleted]
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s been a thing for a very long time, like even back in the 90s I remember it.
The difference was it was mostly between people who were both working. At least blue collar, and usually people who had a blurry line on when they were done with work on any given day for various reasons like having a very small business or side hustle
Like, there was an understood “work” in front of the “day”. Basically “I hope you get through this without much extra bullshit”.
That’s still how I hear it, but probably not how most mean it.
I didn’t really notice it spreading, but pandemic and zoom may have made it more common as people worked where they lived and needed to delinerate free time from work time.
Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Yeah it’s something you don’t hear outside of work. I felt like it implies more of: when work is over, enjoy what’s left of the day.
MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Yes exactly. It means I’m acknowledging that work sucks, but I hope you enjoy the rest of your day (now that it’s over).
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
Never heard anyone say that.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I just don’t notice these differences. I notice the genuine feeling behind it. I remember if they actually mean “have a good weekend” or if they are just BSing.
1984@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Yeah I was thinking this too. Sounds worse than the normal phrase.
RBWells@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have been saying that for about 40 years, can’t be the only one.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I feel like it changes the meaning of “day”. In some contexts, day is the daylight hours… but in this context it is from when you woke up to when you went to sleep. So it feels a bit more timezone agnostic. But only a tiny bit. This would be more ture if you were comparing have a good afternoon to have a good day.
But the real answer. Someone just didn’t like saying the same thing over and over, so threw in some variation. Someone else who wanted to suck up to them started using it. Others just happened to follow.
justsquigglez@leminal.space 21 hours ago
I had to make the switch to saying that because I work nights and I got tired of switching between “have a good morning” and “have a good night” lol
DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m almost 60 and I have heard that from as long as I can remember. “Have a good one” though…I first heard that in the early 2000’s and it sounded stupid then. And it sounds stupid now.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Have a good none, Bob
DrBob@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
😀
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Wait, you think ‘have a good one’ sounds dumber than ‘have a good rest of your day’?
JanMayen@quokk.au 22 hours ago
Context clues elude
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Dunno but I tend to respond “You too if you can!”
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
“Have a good day” sounds too cliche to me., at least when I’m at work. It’s like saying “we apologize for the inconvenience” where it feels like an insincere, canned phrase.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 hours ago
I don’t know, but I wish people would stop telling me what to do.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
At least it’s short term. “Have a good rest of your day. I don’t give a shit about your tomorrow though”
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
They’re not telling you what to do though
“It’s (hope you) have a good day/rest of day/night etc”
meco03211@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Don’t tell me what to do! I tell anyone I want to have a nice rest of their day.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’ve been using that phrase with people I’m talking to in a different time zone for years.
ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth 20 hours ago
that sounds clunky. Have a good one, have a good day, and enjoy the rest of your day all sound normal to me. Don't think I have heard "have a good rest of your day" but it sounds like a smashing together of "have a good day" and "enjoy the rest of your day"
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 20 hours ago
I say it because I talk to people all over the world.
SatyrSack@quokk.au 23 hours ago
Are “enjoy the rest of your day” and “have a good rest of your day” different enough that one sounds odd but not the other?
insufferableninja@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Yes
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
This is the first I’m hearing it, and I feel like I’ll always be just a little bit sadder now that I know its a thing.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I think I first noticed that phrase about 10 years ago. Not sure where it came from.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No idea.
I’ve been saying it for a few years. I just think it sounds nice.
littlelordfauntleroy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think it’s an influencer thing. It really irks me. Also, the phrase, “Your guys’es”, as in, “Let me know what your guys’es experience is in the comments” .
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You guyses has been around forever in areas that don’t use yinz or y’all.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Sorry…“yinz”? Where is that a thing? Never once heard it used in my life
DrFistington@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah. If you’re gonna try to pull that shit, at least say ‘yalls’es’. Like ‘let me know whatch y’alls experience is’
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I thought ppl said it when they didn’t know what time zone the person they were speaking with was in, or they were speaking with multiple people in multiple time zones.
Chozo@fedia.io 23 hours ago
Usually after 4 PM.
db2@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
“Morning”
“Have a day”
“Night”
Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The only time I’ve heard it said like that is when the person is being passive-aggressive and sarcastic. I’m not saying it’s always used in that way, just my experience.