Idiots at the till
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ecsrobin said:
I've always thought self checkouts should actually be called under 50's checkouts. I always seem to get stuck behind old people with loose veg who can't operate the machines.
You can FRO, I've just turned 50 and I'm ruthlessly efficient at the checkout. Bags are pre-prepared to prevent "unexpected item in the bagging area", I've even discovered that you can scan your club card without pressing the button and you can also insert your card straight in the reader.Bypassing these steps saves valuable microseconds on every visit
HootersGsy said:
zeDuffMan said:
There was a girl in the pub the other day asking if they did cashback...
Most of the pubs around here will give you cash back if you ask... Given most then gets spent behind the bar I don't think they mind too much!ecsrobin said:
I've always thought self checkouts should actually be called under 50's checkouts. I always seem to get stuck behind old people with loose veg who can't operate the machines.
I'm over 50 and have no trouble using them but the only thing needing weighing I usually buy are tomatoes.Unless I'm unlucky to pick the one with "unexpected item in bagging area".
I scanned something twice recently due to this,so overpaid by £1.....one whole pound.
Self checkouts at my local Sainsburys appear to be some kind of fun for elderly and stupid people. Invariably with whole baskets full of stuff, laboriously examining each item, finding the barcode and waving it at the machine slowly.
Whilst there's a queue of people like me wanting to get their lunch and get out behind.
Why is it so hard?
IF YOU HAVE LOTS OF SHOPPING AND/OR ARE RETARDED PLEASE USE THE NORMAL CHECKOUTS!
Whilst there's a queue of people like me wanting to get their lunch and get out behind.
Why is it so hard?
IF YOU HAVE LOTS OF SHOPPING AND/OR ARE RETARDED PLEASE USE THE NORMAL CHECKOUTS!
I did a fairly big shop at aldi last week with my 18 month old lad in tow. Got to the checkouts that were by then 4 full trolleys deep each and I could see that people were loading their f
king bags AT THE TILL!
By this stage mini me was starting to grumble despite me stuffing his face with grapes and whatnot. I made an executive decision based on the time to checkout vs my lads attention span and abandoned the full trolley, they could keep the pound as a tip I'm for unloading it all. It actually felt quite good.
Anyway, we had fish fingers for tea.
king bags AT THE TILL! By this stage mini me was starting to grumble despite me stuffing his face with grapes and whatnot. I made an executive decision based on the time to checkout vs my lads attention span and abandoned the full trolley, they could keep the pound as a tip I'm for unloading it all. It actually felt quite good.
Anyway, we had fish fingers for tea.
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.
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 f
king 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.WinstonWolf said:
ecsrobin said:
I've always thought self checkouts should actually be called under 50's checkouts. I always seem to get stuck behind old people with loose veg who can't operate the machines.
You can FRO, I've just turned 50 and I'm ruthlessly efficient at the checkout. Bags are pre-prepared to prevent "unexpected item in the bagging area", I've even discovered that you can scan your club card without pressing the button and you can also insert your card straight in the reader.Bypassing these steps saves valuable microseconds on every visit
I only use the machines now if there is no line as I can go through a normal checkout quicker otherwise.
People like this are the reason we don't encourage 'walk in' customers. While they are tying one (or two) of us up for 20min umming and ahhing over a £5 order we could of been picking online or phoned in orders worth a lot more.
We do have some regular walk ins but they phone up ahead with the part numbers, we process then just walk in, pay and walk out 30min later.
Then we have the phone ins who are just as bad and seem to wait until they have rung us to actually look at the catalogue for what they want
. It isn't difficult folks 
We do have some regular walk ins but they phone up ahead with the part numbers, we process then just walk in, pay and walk out 30min later.
Then we have the phone ins who are just as bad and seem to wait until they have rung us to actually look at the catalogue for what they want
. It isn't difficult folks Page two and airports haven't been mentioned once.
The arseclowns that take so long at checkin/bag drop. It takes me a minute or two, I can't see how you can feasibly spend 5-10 minutes just at checkin, but most others seem to. How ? Every time.
Then we get to security, surely theses have been through this before, oh, I still have my watch/keys/chain on me so set off the metal detector. What a surprise. And need a pat down but some minimum wage groping security officer, holding the rest of us up.
Even in the fast track lines. If you're in a fast track line then you're flying business, which means you are wealthy enough (so bright enough) to do so, or have an important enough job that you'll be flown business class, and you've flown before, so why every time do you still try to go through the metal detector with your keys ?
Or why do you bleat when they grab your bag for a half bottle of coke/shampoo.... Oh, it's a 200ml bottle but less than half full, why can't I take it on the plane ? raa raa raa etc...s all of them.
Edited for spellig.
The arseclowns that take so long at checkin/bag drop. It takes me a minute or two, I can't see how you can feasibly spend 5-10 minutes just at checkin, but most others seem to. How ? Every time.
Then we get to security, surely these
s have been through this before, oh, I still have my watch/keys/chain on me so set off the metal detector. What a surprise. And need a pat down but some minimum wage groping security officer, holding the rest of us up. Even in the fast track lines. If you're in a fast track line then you're flying business, which means you are wealthy enough (so bright enough) to do so, or have an important enough job that you'll be flown business class, and you've flown before, so why every time do you still try to go through the metal detector with your keys ?
Or why do you bleat when they grab your bag for a half bottle of coke/shampoo.... Oh, it's a 200ml bottle but less than half full, why can't I take it on the plane ? raa raa raa etc...
s all of them.Edited for spellig.
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.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 f
king 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.anonymous said:
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This infuriates me so much that on the rare occasions my wife comes into the city with me I have to tell her on the escalators to make sure she's got her fking ticket ready as we're approaching the barriers.Can she do it? Can she bks!! FOR fkS SAKE. PEOPLE ARE LOSING VALUABLE SECONDS OFF THEIR LIVES THAT THEY CAN NEVER GET BACK AND YOU ARE EMBARRASING ME IN FRONT OF THE OTHER MALE COMMUTERS WHO KNOW YOU NEED A fkING TICKET TO GET THROUGH THE fkING GATE. EVEN THE fkING TOURISTS KNOW THIS.
I love her really (but not when she's blocking the whole station from exiting the tube as she's fishing in that fking bag for her fking ticket)
Self service at my local Morrisons. 2 machines are cash and card, the other 2 are just cash only. They use contactless and I whizz through in about 30 seconds with a pint of milk, some bread and some meat.
Other people always pay cash on the card and cash machines rather than just card. People can't understand you need to put the item in the bagging area, and worst of all, people take 5000 items. I appreciate self service isn't fast track, but seriously, the bagging area has space for only 2 to 3 bags at a push. Go to the bloody standard till.
Other people always pay cash on the card and cash machines rather than just card. People can't understand you need to put the item in the bagging area, and worst of all, people take 5000 items. I appreciate self service isn't fast track, but seriously, the bagging area has space for only 2 to 3 bags at a push. Go to the bloody standard till.
I'm very patient for the most part so moron customers at tills don't bother me that much. However, moron cashiers (point of sale operatives?) do bother me. They rarely do anything moronic so I've not much to moan about except for NOT PUSHING THE LITTLE DIVIDER THINGIES ALL THE WAY DOWN!
Next customer - take divider - meakly push it one dividers length along. Any customer more than 1m away from the cashier has no chance of getting hold of one. Just shows that they are not paying ANY attention to what is actually happening around them, does my nut.
For anyone who might be wondering, I have done that job (some moons ago) and always gave the dividers a good old shove
Next customer - take divider - meakly push it one dividers length along. Any customer more than 1m away from the cashier has no chance of getting hold of one. Just shows that they are not paying ANY attention to what is actually happening around them, does my nut.
For anyone who might be wondering, I have done that job (some moons ago) and always gave the dividers a good old shove
RobinBanks said:
Airport retards piss me off too.
"Now where did I put my passport, I'm sure I had it at the bottom of my enormous suitcase somewhere."
Then "Oh, sorry, I didn't realise that you weren't allowed to take a set of steak knives and a jerry can of petrol on the aeroplane."
We used the self service easy jet bag drop the other day - basically it's like the self service machines in Tesco, but you it asks you the usual questions about the bag, weighs it and prints out a luggage ticket, which you attach, then take the bag up to the conveyer belt where a guy gives it a quick check(and your boarding pass) then puts it on its merry way. "Now where did I put my passport, I'm sure I had it at the bottom of my enormous suitcase somewhere."
Then "Oh, sorry, I didn't realise that you weren't allowed to take a set of steak knives and a jerry can of petrol on the aeroplane."
It's pretty straightforward and there are about 10x as many machines as a desk would take up. It should be more efficient...... right up until some dozy cow decides to dig out half a dozen items of clothing for her tribe of children while standing at the conveyor belt, not to the side, right in front of it, and instantly causes a queue twenty deep. This did not go down well at 6am.
stuart313 said:
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.
Wholeheartedly this. A lot if my local pubs get over run with the wking 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.kers. My absolute favourite is the one where there is no card machine. Tight fisted s. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff