I first heard an unexpected 'customer' over a decade ago now, when I started with my current company (health insurance), and at a meeting reference was made to servicing the customer.
I gather that has become more common parlance? But at the time it had really only had mental associations with ONE industry, for me. I laughed. Loudly. The vice president wanted to know why.
I'm me. I told him. His FACE. (And thus became a long run of my supervisors plotting to keep me away from upper management).
So in addition to all the ways it's insulting it also irritates me as emblematic of the mangling of language culture through lack of care and attention.
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I first heard an unexpected 'customer' over a decade ago now, when I started with my current company (health insurance), and at a meeting reference was made to servicing the customer.
I gather that has become more common parlance? But at the time it had really only had mental associations with ONE industry, for me. I laughed. Loudly. The vice president wanted to know why.
I'm me. I told him. His FACE. (And thus became a long run of my supervisors plotting to keep me away from upper management).
So in addition to all the ways it's insulting it also irritates me as emblematic of the mangling of language culture through lack of care and attention.