that's not a question!

I had my whole-day indoctrination for my Christmas casual job yesterday.

I learnt all kinds of fun stuff like how to use archaic registers and sucker people into a sale. Life skills I'll really need...

The guy who was training us had enough extroversion for a family of five. He was your typical human resources person - trained in psych, uber enthusiatic about his job and why wouldn't he be? He gets to spend half a day teaching a room full of women skills they really really need, then the rest of the day making them fall asleep with their eyes open.

He had one phrase he repeated over and over again throughout the day. One I'd never heard used the way it had been before.

"Fair call?"

Why are you asking us that? Why phrase it as a question? No one was gonna argue with him about the functions of a cash register when he said, "Fair call?"

He also said, "True" in the same way.

I must will myself not to take up "Fair call?" into my vocabulary...