Our new supermarket opened a few months back and employed really no one from our town. GO figure.
ANYWAY, the thing I hate about those self serve checkouts is the staffer standing ready to pounce on ya when prove to her that you're totally fucken retarded in the head space by hearing that, "Oops HAHA YOU FUCKED UP" beep. KNEW it was gonna happen when I heard the beep. Of course, Commandant Check Out Chick comes over and says in the most condescending voice, "It's okay, it happens to everyone...".
I couldn't verbalise "Bitch, step away or i'll end your day now ".
...then the bags were melted together and I was having issues breaking them apart. Guess who rocks up.....I felt like ripping the rack off the wall and beating her with it.
Damn rain.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
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Oh yeah, their smug "it's not as easy as it looks" tone gets my goat, too. Grr. Bluddy Woolies.
ReplyDeleteI h8tz them too
ReplyDeleteI refuse to use them, I'll wait and if pointed to them tell 'em I'd rather deal with a person. If they don't get used they'll go.
ReplyDeleteIf you're so damn clever luv why are you doing a job that can be replaced by the customer doing it their damn selves?
ReplyDeleteThey're less smug here. And wrapped in clingy As Me For Help T-shirts (at New World anyway, which only seems to hire 18-22 year old girls.)
That's 'As' as in Ask not 'As' as in Ass. 'Ass me for help' would be a bit leading.
ReplyDeleteDr Yobbo makes a good point with his ‘You shouldn’t be looking so smug given that you’re being eased out of your job by untrained, unpaid personnel’ remark.
ReplyDeleteDamn my daughter forces me to use them...got quite used to them...even scanned three heavy bookshelves in flatpacks thru one at Ikea on the weekend!!!
ReplyDeleteBut I won't mention the early days when I had an ugly altercation with one in Woolies and used rather a lot of colourful language at a decibel level I'm rather ashamed to admit.
HEY Nat!. lol Love the ones you can look back and sigh with personal embarrassment. They're the best.
ReplyDeleteMy cheeks still burn at the thought....the self-scanner-sentinel just looked at me wearily and rolled her eyes. Surrounding children clung to their mother's skirts.
ReplyDeleteThe Rise of the Machines has begun.
ReplyDeleteROFL! my cheeks are killing me from laughter...
ReplyDelete*moment passes, shifty eyes*
*mumbles* im too scared to try them :S
I have yet to attempt the robot checkout. From what i have seen is they are only used on the express lanes & I don't think they are any faster. And I prefer the souless tool that processes my groceries to be some Emo kid i can feel superior to.
ReplyDeleteOnly ever seen them at one shop in our general area. I guess the 80 yr old Italian Nonnas in our area are not considered early adoptors.
ReplyDeleteOnly two stores here use them as far as I know. One is too far out for me, and I go to a live cashier at the other.
ReplyDeleteI did try one once. Once.
"I couldn't verbalise "Bitch, step away or i'll end your day now ".
ReplyDelete...and you couldn't do that why?
Big Bad Al - good to see you are alert to this threat.
Youngest son works as a Checkout operator at kmart.
ReplyDeleteRefuse to use the robots as that means less wokr for kids (& more profits for the shop).