Idiots at the till

[Moonhawk]

whatleytom said:

Almost as bad as idiots on the tube.

Oh look a staircase, better descend it and stop right at the bottom with my enourmous suitcase to block it for everybody else.

Oh look a platform entrance, better stop here for a while to block everybody elses path.

Yep this is one of my biggest bugbears.....doubly so when they look at you with incredulity when you say excuse me or ask them to move.

What is going through the mind of people who stop at the top/bottom of escalators to hold a conversation, check a map etc? Where the fk do they think all the people coming up behind them are going to go?

Same with people who hold conversations in doorways, shopping aisles whilst blocking it with their trolleys etc. Surely it can't be beyond the wit of man to figure out how things like doorways work and take a couple of steps to the side in order to free their use for others?

[ehonda]

And another one...
Last week I get to the self service checkouts and there's one empty space, no person but a basket full of stuff left on the pre-scan side. I didn't know quite what to make of this, had the person had a strop and stormed out of the shop? Died? Gone to get something else? Turns out it was the latter, they did apologise when they came back at which point I was halfway through scanning my stuff on their abandoned till.
I get that if you're unloading your trolley on a manned till and remember you need something you might dash off and grab it, but to just abandon a basket on the self checkout till seems odd. At least the chap new he was in the wrong and apologised.

[Neil H]

Moonhawk said:

whatleytom said:

Almost as bad as idiots on the tube.

Oh look a staircase, better descend it and stop right at the bottom with my enourmous suitcase to block it for everybody else.

Oh look a platform entrance, better stop here for a while to block everybody elses path.

Yep this is one of my biggest bugbears.....doubly so when they look at you with incredulity when you say excuse me or ask them to move.

What is going through the mind of people who stop at the top/bottom of escalators to hold a conversation, check a map etc? Where the fk do they think all the people coming up behind them are going to go?

Same with people who hold conversations in doorways, shopping aisles whilst blocking it with their trolleys etc. Surely it can't be beyond the wit of man to figure out how things like doorways work and take a couple of steps to the side in order to free their use for others?

I’m with you on this - people having a casual chats in busy areas oblivious to everyone walking around them, people stopping at escalator exits and people who walk incredibly slowly while managing to obstruct 90% of the width of a pavement: these people deserve to be killed.

[zedx19]

DeuxCentCinq said:

. I will go out of my way to hold a door open for someone, even if they're going in a different direction.

At a park on Sunday, I held the gate open for my wife to get the pushchair through, another mum was a few metres behind but I waited and held it open for her as well. What did I get? Thank you? Smile? Nope, nothing just walked straight through without even acknowledging my existence, I said loudly, "You're welcome" and she ignored that as well. I think sometimes people are just in their own world and are blind/deaf to their surroundings.

[Rude-boy]

Pit Pony said:

All the time this bloke is tutting behind me. fkwit.

I have developed a copping strategy for dealing people who are clearly not understanding that I am not trying to take for ever to do something but am actually try to do something that isn't as straightforward as they might think.

Depending on mood and likelihood of being on the wrong end of a panning it is either :-

1. Turn round look them up and down and comment on how well they seem to be dealing with their Tourettes and how good it is to see Care in the Community working; or

2. Turn round, smile and in my most sickly sweet of voices thank them or their patience and understanding avoiding any possible hint of sarcasm.

[Liokault]

Old people in post offices, during the lunch hour!

Yes yes, we owe them everything etc etc, but cant they go for their weekly chat at the window in one of the other many free hours that they have? Why do they need to go in the very same tiny window of time that the majority of working people are forced to use.

[catfood12]

I am finding this thread extremely satisfying, that it's not just me that suffers at the hands of the general spactard populace out to spoil my days.

[Rude-boy]

zedx19 said:

At a park on Sunday, I held the gate open for my wife to get the pushchair through, another mum was a few metres behind but I waited and held it open for her as well. What did I get? Thank you? Smile? Nope, nothing just walked straight through without even acknowledging my existence, I said loudly, "You're welcome" and she ignored that as well. I think sometimes people are just in their own world and are blind/deaf to their surroundings.

I have started to do this as well in the last 6 months having got fed up of mouth breathers not acknowledging your common curtsey. I have observed a number of reactions from the slightly embarrassed "Sorry, thanks for that" to the "fk you ahole". Most frequent response though is either they still totally ignore you or they look at you as if they had just stepped in some dog st.

Not sopped my holding doors and gates open, nor has it stopped me commenting on apparently rude or ignorant people.

[Hooli]

steveo3002 said:

if you find a badly parked trolley without its owner , grab it and park it up a few aisles away lol

Don't forget to add extras to it as well.

I was in Asda recently & one of those walking post boxes left a trolley blocking the aisle. So I liberated it & added several packs of pork pies before leaving it in the booze section.

[WinstonWolf]

Rude-boy said:

zedx19 said:

At a park on Sunday, I held the gate open for my wife to get the pushchair through, another mum was a few metres behind but I waited and held it open for her as well. What did I get? Thank you? Smile? Nope, nothing just walked straight through without even acknowledging my existence, I said loudly, "You're welcome" and she ignored that as well. I think sometimes people are just in their own world and are blind/deaf to their surroundings.

I have started to do this as well in the last 6 months having got fed up of mouth breathers not acknowledging your common curtsey. I have observed a number of reactions from the slightly embarrassed "Sorry, thanks for that" to the "fk you ahole". Most frequent response though is either they still totally ignore you or they look at you as if they had just stepped in some dog st.

Not sopped my holding doors and gates open, nor has it stopped me commenting on apparently rude or ignorant people.

If you want to engage them try this;

"You forgot something"
"What?"
"Your manners"

And walk off

[Brigand]

People who take trollies to the self service tills.

In my local Sainsburys there are two self service checkout areas of four tills. One of them has a big Baskets Only sign above it, and the other one used to (you can still see the bits of wire the sign hung from) but the sign has now gone. This means its perfectly allowed for the trollies to use this checkout area, but to me at least, I consider it bad form to bring your hulking great weekly shop trolly to these tills, which are supposed to speed the process up (and also don't have much packing space on the scales).

Often I see people bring their trollies to the tills with the big Baskets Only sign, and I'm just waiting for the day when I'm irritated enough by something to point out this big sign to them. The checkout staff don't care though, its probably more bother than their worth to confront someone over it.

People who leave trollies full of stuff around the store.

Same tills, same store; I'm waiting in the self serve queue whilst a woman is scanning her trolly full of stuff through, her three kids being fairly well behaved. When it comes to paying however, she "realises" she doesn't have her card, she loudly said to the checkout girl, and asked that she leave the stuff here and nip out to the car to find her card, of which the checkout girl agreed.

I then scanned and bought my stuff, and as I was leaving the woman was walking away from the cash machine outside, stuffing notes into her purse as she wandered back to her car. One of her kids even asked about the food in the trolly they just left as they were getting into their car, to which the woman just laughed and said "Don't worry about that, we'll go to Tescos".

I suspect she found she had spent too much in Sainsburys, so lied, abandoned the trolly at the till, took out what cash she did have then decided rather than go back and take some stuff out of her weekly shop to get the price down, she'd just go somewhere else.

Long winded, but I'm finding I just hate people in general these days.

[Brigand]

Liokault said:

Old people in post offices, during the lunch hour!

Yes yes, we owe them everything etc etc, but cant they go for their weekly chat at the window in one of the other many free hours that they have? Why do they need to go in the very same tiny window of time that the majority of working people are forced to use.

I feel bad for thinking it, but between the hours of 1200-1400 on a weekday (ie most people's lunch/dinner time) you do find a lot of the elderly holding queues up when all I want to do is grab my scoff and sit in the park for the maximum amount of time before returning to my office. They have all morning and all afternoon to toddle about, but between those two hours the working classes descend on shopping areas and want swift service before returning to their drudgery.

[DeuxCentCinq]

Brigand said:

Liokault said:

Old people in post offices, during the lunch hour!

Yes yes, we owe them everything etc etc, but cant they go for their weekly chat at the window in one of the other many free hours that they have? Why do they need to go in the very same tiny window of time that the majority of working people are forced to use.

I feel bad for thinking it, but between the hours of 1200-1400 on a weekday (ie most people's lunch/dinner time) you do find a lot of the elderly holding queues up when all I want to do is grab my scoff and sit in the park for the maximum amount of time before returning to my office. They have all morning and all afternoon to toddle about, but between those two hours the working classes descend on shopping areas and want swift service before returning to their drudgery.

And why are they always out at weekends too?

[Rude-boy]

rossub said:

LordJammy said:

People at self service tills buying booze. fk. You.

Eh? I do this all the time. That's why there's 1 assistant per 10 tills or whatever - to quickly sign off those purchases.

Me too.

I also always make sure if I have anything that needs authorisation or tag removal that the assistant knows that I'll be needing them in a moment. Now the next point is how often does the assistant actually make a mental note of this and not look like it's a total fing surprise to them when your little red light is flashing and you are looking in their direction...

[Hooli]

Brigand said:

Liokault said:

Old people in post offices, during the lunch hour!

Yes yes, we owe them everything etc etc, but cant they go for their weekly chat at the window in one of the other many free hours that they have? Why do they need to go in the very same tiny window of time that the majority of working people are forced to use.

I feel bad for thinking it, but between the hours of 1200-1400 on a weekday (ie most people's lunch/dinner time) you do find a lot of the elderly holding queues up when all I want to do is grab my scoff and sit in the park for the maximum amount of time before returning to my office. They have all morning and all afternoon to toddle about, but between those two hours the working classes descend on shopping areas and want swift service before returning to their drudgery.

They left home at 8:59am to get the first bus they can with their free bus pass & have only just got to the shops because of how good public transport is.

[Rude-boy]

HHHHHHH said:

What about obnoxious rude people at the till talking on their mobile phones whilst being served. I think it's very ignorant and disrespectful to the cashier.

I also hate those who tread the cashier like st as well.

Usually not those you would expect (harassed mum with 3 kids and so on) but ladies who are clearly over 30 but under that age where they will talk to anyone for some form of social interaction that day.

Okay so I have not found cashiers to often be the most scintillating of conversationalists but for gawds sake a little civility with the odd "Please" and Thank you" does not go amiss.

Silently chucking your Clubcard at them, then your only acknowledgement of it being time to pay is to turn you back on them and do the card thing, then snatch the proffered receipt and Clubcard without comment and walk off with goods is not the way we interact in polite society.

Yes, some days the last thing I need is an over happy and friendly cashier trying to talk to me but guess what? They have their own st in life and have a job to do, why make their life less appealing by acting a tt with them. Even if I don't want to talk I'll give them the basic pleasantries and a smile. Taking a proffered receipt and or card without even a 'Ta', 'cheers', 'thanks', or similar just does not enter my tiny little mind.

[Cotty]

Hooli said:

steveo3002 said:

if you find a badly parked trolley without its owner , grab it and park it up a few aisles away lol

Don't forget to add extras to it as well.

I was in Asda recently & one of those walking post boxes left a trolley blocking the aisle. So I liberated it & added several packs of pork pies before leaving it in the booze section.

I wonder if you could get into trouble for theft. If the person scans and packs as they go, if you put items in their bag they would not get paid for at the till. Could be seen as getting someone to steal for you.

[themanwithnoname]

Lady Summerisle said:

stuart313 said:

Theres a toll bridge not far from me and its been 12 pence since the year dot, whoever is in front of me seems surprised they actually need money ready despite sat in the queue for 20 minutes watching everyone stop at the booth. They then can't get the window down so tit about with the door and seat belt whilst handing the assistant a ten pound note.

However it has just come to me my worst loathing of all. Students in pubs. Half a dozen will turn up at the bar, the first one orders 1 pint and then pays with his fking card, then all of them buy their own drinks individually the same way. The tight bds, can one of them not buy all six drinks together and give someone else a chance.

It's not us, we always have a coin holder full of 12p's for those days that require the use of Warburton Bridge. But yeah, feel your pain, I feel like putting notices up along the lane. To be fair to the bridge staff they usually have piles of change ready for these morons. It would serve them right if they had bags full of £9.88 in 2ps ready to launch at them.

I was just about to say, are you guys local?

I take the Long Way Round (r) now because of these goons - through Lymm to J20. Its worth the extra in fuel.

I'm also not a fan of self service checkouts though am forced to use them in certain large orange DIY warehouses.

The one in Altrincham is used to me cutting out the middleman and dropping items from height onto the scales after demonstrating that I could place a paint can in their scale and it ask me to put the item in the bagging area.

Likewise the supermarket which sees a frankly absurd percentage of GDP pass through its hands each year had a member of staff approach and immediately back away much to my wife's amusement when I had a bit of a Basil Fawlty moment when buying some onions or something.... Cue me pointing at the bag of onions, shouting at it something along the lines of "the lovely item has been wonderfully placed in the tremendous bagging area, you worthwhile piece of accurate and convenient machinery"

I no longer use self service unless absolutely necessary

Edited by themanwithnoname on Thursday 16th April 15:09

[matrignano]

Neil H said:

I’m with you on this - people having a casual chats in busy areas oblivious to everyone walking around them, people stopping at escalator exits and people who walk incredibly slowly while managing to obstruct 90% of the width of a pavement: these people deserve to be killed.

In fairness that's very much TFL's fault, by the way of poor map placement at tube stations.
I've noticed that more often than not, the tube "maps" are placed at the bottom of stairs/escalators, just at the entrance to the platforms. People (tourists) who are trying to find their way then stop in front of the maps, and block everyone behind them.

They should just have a sign simple <-- eastbound I westbound -->, so that people get onto the right platform and can then consult the maps which would ideally be placed away from any doorways.

[TheEnd]

BlackLabel said:

zeDuffMan said:

There was a girl in the pub the other day asking if they did cashback...

Perhaps I'm a bit council but I've asked for and received cashback at various pubs in the past. For future purchases at the bar it's just easier and quicker to pay cash.

I wish more people would get cashback, as it saves them blocking the bar up with the card reader when everyone is waiting.
Women are the worst, they rarely seem to buy rounds, so it's three glasses of wine and three card transactions, repeated half an hour later.