… just heard this whilst sitting in my cube and had to report. Ah, out of the mouths of babes:
Executive: <sneeze>
His employee in cube next door: Gzeundheit
Executive: Thank you
Assistant in other neighboring cube: What does “gzeun,..” mean
Employee: The same thing as “Bless you” — we say it when someone sneezes…
Exec: Do you notice that no one says “God bless you” in Asia when you sneeze?
Assistant: Yes we do!! Well, we say “Bless you,” we don’t say the God part
Employee: Do you know the history of that? It’s from the plague. When someone sneezed, it meant they might have caught the sickness … people were hoping you didn’t die.
Assistant: Ah, that makes sense. <Executive>, maybe that’s why no one says it to you!
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