Comments on: What ever happened to “Please” and “Thank you?”

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:46:57 +0000

So true….and whatever happened to the handwritten thank you notes? I am really tired of sending graduation cards with money, wedding and baby shower gifts, etc. and not receiving a thank you. It makes a person appear to be ungrateful and entitled to the gift. Maddening!!!!

By: Gloria Richter

Gloria Richter — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:02:08 +0000

I wish for a return of politeness. One step further: services people do not respond with a thank you after you have purchased their product or service. PSSST!. We are the people that pay your salary and a thank you may mean that we will return for your services again. Also, what ever happened to phone courtesy. When a person is called and you have completed your conversation, a simple “thanks” means that you are finished with your conversation. Too many times there is dead space before a caller hangs up.

THANK YOU

By: Manny Bean

Manny Bean — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:30:24 +0000

Thanks for bringing this up :) Times are changing, people tend to forget the simple things these days.

By: Please and Thank You Still Matter — Britt Raybould Consulting

Please and Thank You Still Matter — Britt Raybould Consulting — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:01:42 +0000

[...] Growing up, please and thank you were required. I may have fought my mother on many topics, but please and thank you weren’t successful battles. Now that the habit is ingrained, it just seems the thing to do. Yet based on my interactions with people and what I hear around me, I’m in the minority. [...]

By: Jared, IT Consultant

Jared, IT Consultant — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:26:21 +0000

Maybe its because I am in my mid twenties, but I’m gonna defend the people out there who say Gimme. Times have changed, and words change. Gimme being substituted for Please isn’t necessarily a bad thing. People are reluctant to change because they think there way is the right way, just like how saying please is the right way and there cant be another way. I graduated from college, and am educated. I think that once you start thinking that Please is the only manners that we can ever have, your being very closed minded and not opening yourself up to change.