...to get irritated by people who say 'see you later'

[MrsSippy]

In shops and supermarkets, you go to the till, you pay, you say thanks, goodbye, and then they say 'see you later'!! Why?? Are you coming for tea???

It just seems weird and lazy

Oh, man. This reminds me of my nan, who used to gripe about newsreaders ending segments with, "see you after the break".
"But they won't see me!" She'd wail at the telly. "I'LL see THEM!"
Sigh.

What drives me insane is when people say 'no problem' when there clearly is a problem.
Some thing or service I've paid my hard earned cash for and I have to go back to the provider, wasting time and energy and probably money too and the person dealing with it says 'No problem'
Aghhhhhh
The worst example was my dsil- a tyre on her car was put on back to front and she failed her car test and she went back to Advance Tyre and the guy there said to her 'No problem'.
She was apoplectic.
Can't say I blame her.

YANBU.

It's in the same category as "Hiya, y'alright?" for me, and "ta very much".

Mine is Take Care

What do they think I'm going to do? Fall out the shop?

Perhaps when OP leaves, the shop assistant should say "thanks for your custom, but you're dead to me now."

Grumpy DH has a shop. You don't know how many times he's thought this. He said something very much like it once. Seeing as he's worked in shops for 30 years, that's pretty restrained.

Oops, I work in a shop and often say, see you later, see you again or even enjoy the rest of your day.... I thought I was being polite and friendly to my customers!

Isn't it like, "How do you do?" which should only be answered with another "How do you do?" . Makes no real logical sense, but is a reasonable way of interacting politely with another human being that you don't necessarily know very well.

I was once talking to someone who was being a fussbucket. I answered her many questions politely and then there was one I wasn't sure of and said: 'Mmm. I shouldn't imagine that would be a problem.' She went mad, shrieking: 'Shouldn't imagine? What kind of answer is that? I want to speak to someone else. I can't deal with you.'

I put her on to someone else. That was a relief. It's been more than 20 years. I still remember her name and the organisation she came from.

I share an office with colleagues but we are distant colleagues, no need to cover for each other or work together as such. So when I say "see you tomorrow as I leave" it is a saying only but I have to stand there jangling my car keys while he says "well I'm in london tomorrow. ..working from home Friday morning and then on leave Friday afternoon, then of course Monday is a bank holiday, might be in leeds on Tuesday so maybe see you Wednesday, if you're around? Are you in on Wednesday? " to which I am silently screaming I don't CARE let me leave.
I quickly learned to just say bye.

There's a bloke in my village (cornwall) who says "cheers n gone", which is one of those Cornish phrases you know of but never hear. If I had a full on Cornish burr like his though, I think I'd use it too. 'Andsome!

I don't like "see you after". After what? I don't get it.

I thought see you next time was a polite way of insulting someone, same as see you next Tuesday?

I always say see you later (or tarrar), I don't think I've ever actually said goodbye unless at work

I LOVE this section.

I've worked in retail and never said "see you later". Too personal as far as I'm concerned - "see you next week" was ok for regular customers. Otherwise I'd say "thank you. Goodbye" A colleague of mine used to say "see you later" and some customers would retort "no, you won't. I'm not from here" 😂😂

My dh is worse,as when he's on the phone to relatives he always says goodbye & then "watch how you go".

They're on the phone at home so where are they going!?!?!

I have pointed out the ridiculousness of it to him but I think he says it without thinking!

My Dh does that. He usually says mind how you go . This is trumped by my teens saying laters or worse, s'later

Twice recently I've had "Enjoy your day", both times said in the late afternoon.

It's just like
au revoir
auf wiedersehen
hasta lavista
Can't understand why it 'irritates' you .Are you generally such a tightly-wound person?

Yabu
Round my way we don't have auf wiedesehen so much very formal but bis bald! (See you soon) also bis morgen, bis Montag etc just people being friendly.

I say see you later all the time and never realised I was inadvertently annoying people!

The last thing I ever said to my step-dad was see you later. The vicar at his funeral said it's a very nice Yorkshire saying that assumes we will indeed see that person later and is a positive, friendly way of ending a conversation - goodbye is so final as it assumes you'll never see that person again. I much prefer see you later!

I've always said it as do many people where I'm from (London), even to people I'll likely never see again!!

I'm in N Scotlandthey say 'see you after!' Which really is bloody stupid. After what obviously I'm not from this part of the world--