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  • My technology

    Brings all the boys to the yard, and damn right, it's better than yours...

    Learning self check out and how it works yesterday, a customer attempted, multiple times, to swipe an item (pita breads, I think) and started to get pissy when I couldn't figure out why the scanner wasn't picking up his scans. So, I tried to swipe it, no go, my trainer took the pita over to the full size computer and tried to scan it, still no good. Guy, standing next to me, blurts suddenly, "You really should get your technology working before you put it in place."

    My technology? It works just damn fine, however, from a cursory examination, it would appear part of the barcode on the pitas you were so desperate to buy has been rubbed off, the thing wouldn't have scanned even if you had taken it to a full on register. Oh, hey, look at that, it didn't when my trainer took it over to the full size register that lords over this hegemony of self scanners.

    Another customer, after I waved her toward an open check out, stands there, gawping at the screen, and I, alone at that point, approach her. "Problem, ma'am?"

    "Aren't you going to scan my groceries?"

    'In short, no, in long, NOOOOOOOOOOOO-!' "I'm sorry, but this bank of registers is for people who don't want a cashier. You scan your own purchase," 'Thus why it is called a Self Check Out!'

    She gives a pathetic little, "Oh" and turns and walks off.
    "I call murder on that!"

  • #2
    are people that dumb that they do not get what "Self-Scan" "Self-Serve" and "U-Scan" mean?

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    • #3
      I'm waiting for a story on some SC who interprets it as SELF-scan and then drops his pants and sits on the scanner, thinking his ass crack is a single-line bar code.
      "All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who out-drew ya"

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      • #4
        Quoth Sheldonrs View Post
        I'm waiting for a story on some SC who interprets it as SELF-scan and then drops his pants and sits on the scanner, thinking his ass crack is a single-line bar code.
        Why?

        Why do you put such things in my head.....?

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        • #5
          Quoth Amina516 View Post
          Why?

          Why do you put such things in my head.....?
          Sheldon is our specialist in barf codes...
          I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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          • #6
            Quoth Sheldonrs View Post
            I'm waiting for a story on some SC who interprets it as SELF-scan and then drops his pants and sits on the scanner, thinking his ass crack is a single-line bar code.
            i can see that happening. and then he'll complain that the price that comes up is not correct and demand that someone do a price check.

            omg


            thanks


            thanks a lot
            there's some people with issues that medication, therapy or a baseball bat just can't cure

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            • #7
              Quoth Amina516 View Post
              Why?

              Why do you put such things in my head.....?
              Just be careful of the fuzzy bar code.


              "All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who out-drew ya"

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              • #8
                Quoth fireheart17 View Post
                are people that dumb that they do not get what "Self-Scan" "Self-Serve" and "U-Scan" mean?

                Yes, sadly, yes they are. And my co-workers wonder why I get anti-social on my days off....
                It's floating wicker propelled by fire!

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                • #9
                  And keep a watch on people having problems scanning. Nothing encourages people to steal like a bit of frustration. And I wish I was kidding.
                  A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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                  • #10
                    Maybe they should be called self-scamming stations instead.
                    Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth fireheart17 View Post
                      are people that dumb that they do not get what "Self-Scan" "Self-Serve" and "U-Scan" mean?

                      Yes, yes they are. That, or they're such EWs that they see a cashier 'just standing around' at the SCO station and demand we 'do something useful' and scan their items.
                      It's little things that make the difference between 'enjoyable', 'tolerable', and 'gimme a spoon, I'm digging an escape tunnel'.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Amina516 View Post
                        Why?

                        Why do you put such things in my head.....?
                        Because he's Sheldon. That's what he does.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth EricKei View Post
                          Because he's Sheldon. That's what he does best.

                          needed correction
                          I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                          Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                          Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth AyreBiskits View Post
                            i can see that happening. and then he'll complain that the price that comes up is not correct and demand that someone do a price check.

                            omg


                            thanks


                            thanks a lot
                            If his ass doesn't scan, it must mean it's free.
                            To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Mr Hero View Post
                              If his ass doesn't scan, it must mean it's free.
                              Free for what?
                              I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                              Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                              Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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