My, oh my… you’re phrasing questions negatively! Aaaaaaaaaah!
Pretty much anything can be picked to death, and yet, very often what needs to be changed isn’t so much the phrasing as body language and tone of voice.
I admit the “No problem” phrase bothered me at first. I’m not so cranky about it now that it has become the norm.
The one that bugs me is the constant reply of “Perfect” as a response. No, it’s not PERFECT, it’s just acceptable.
I know, I’m an old crank.
I dislike “no problem” mostly because it’s normally mumbled like the speaker has a mouthful of marbles.
The man’s an idiot (as I’m sure you’re aware). There are plenty of things you can’t know as a fact. If I ask you what the weather is going to be like three days from now, you can tell me that you think it’ll rain that day. But you can’t say you know it will rain.
I used to have a co-worker who had this same mentality of insisting everything he knew was a fact. I was his boss so I didn’t have to simply accept this behavior. But it often made it more difficult to work with him because I’d have to take extra steps to make sure that what he was saying was true actually was true.
Perhaps they’re training themselves to have better diction, like Demosthenes.