Some people are just too stupid for UScan...

[Dave1982]

The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night.

"Why does this need to happen SO often, like every five minutes?!"

[MoonCat]

I feel sorry for the attendant who has to watch the self scans at the store near my house. If I had to listen to that stupid canned voice all day long, I would flip out and end up naked on the roof with a deer rifle.

There is one machine there on which the voice is not working. I love that one!

[underemployeed]

I'm not afraid of technology, but I have little patience for stupid people (and the older I get, it seems I have less and less patience at times.) And if I'm in a store that has the UScans, I'd much rather stand in the regular line so I can be checked out rather than get stuck behind some moron with a buggy full of groceries and whatnot spending 30 minutes trying to figure out how to use that damn UScan.

I actually get out quicker that way and, unless the line is being held up by some ding dong who shouldn't be let out without proper supervision, less headache for me.

I hate Uscan, I come to a place so someone else can work, many places ditched baggers in favor of having the customer do it or making the cashier do both jobs. I refuse to use Uscan because I hate how bossy it is. I admit to being one of the people who has the cashier scan my stuff for me at the Uscan if they really insist on me using it.... actually that is usually becasue i say "If you want me to use that thing, your not allowed to get pissed when I start kicking and punching it for pissing me off" or at that point they let me stand in the long line.
So I'm not too stupid for Uscan I'm just lazy. I could easily figure out the technology.... but I know these stupid people Juwl, they are the same morons who can't follow the prompts on my gas pumps.... I wish I could say "No really that window with the directions has been there for years, its not my fault your looking at the LCD for price instead of the prompt"

[Mytical]

I understand how to use UScan, I've used UScan before..but honestly I would prefer to go through a lane with an actual cashier. Even if I have to wait in line for hours. The UScan with the multiple bags are not that bad..but once they are full it drives me crazy with the "Please place the item in a bag." HOW? WHERE? *ahem* yes I know there are options to skip bagging and all that, but its the mild OCD thing.

So me and UScan..we won't ever get along until they figure out how to make one with about a hundred bags..just so I would never have to get the OCD twitch when it tells me to place something in a bag.

[Pedersen]

So I'm not too stupid for Uscan I'm just lazy. I could easily figure out the technology.... but I know these stupid people Juwl, they are the same morons who can't follow the prompts on my gas pumps....

/me waits for that stupid Alanis Morrissette song to start up in the background.

[Magpie]

Actually, it was about a study that demonstrated that telling anyone that they are some general trait actually has a deleterious effect. If you want to improve self-esteem, it's best to praise specific actions or efforts.

I confess. I only read the article before putting it up, I've never read the original paper (they're generally based on multiple papers, and I'm lazy). Thank you for clearing that up, I had come out with the misunderstanding that it was ok to say "you're a hard worker" or the like.

[Falor]

I have to throw my vote in with those who are capable of using UScan but absolutely abhor it. Sure I used it last night for a half dozen items and electronic payment. I only did so because I'd been in the store almost eight and a half hours and didn't want to wait five minutes extra for a cashier when the irritating option was sitting open and ready for use.

My biggest annoyance with UScan is the fact that the lag from the weight comparisons (making sure you put the right item on the scale with the bags) and the delay with the cheap touch screens for produce codes give a maximum of ten to fifteen items per minute. If I spend any noticeable length of time on register in a day I feel embarrassed if my IPM drops below thirty.

And the voice, gah, yes, I just want to rip the speakers out of those things after a few minutes near them.

[Andara Bledin]

The self-scanner at the local Costco is pretty decent, I think. You can move pretty fast with that thing, if you can get the barcodes to hit the scanner.

I confess. I only read the article before putting it up, I've never read the original paper (they're generally based on multiple papers, and I'm lazy). Thank you for clearing that up, I had come out with the misunderstanding that it was ok to say "you're a hard worker" or the like.

Well, that sort of praise is ok, if I read it right, because that's something that the praisee did and has control over. Things like "you're smart" and "you're so cute" are basic traits that are generally out of the control of the one being praised, and they come to think that that is the only thing they have going, and if they lose that one thing, they have nothing left.

^-.-^

[cinema guy]

When they work, they're great. However I often get one that tells me there are 'unreconised items in the bagging area', or some such. It is all I can do to resist the urge to shout, 'NO THERE AREN'T YOU STUPID ING MACHINE!'