The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Nick on April 22, 2013, 02:18:09 PM
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Stop 1: Tesco
Please scan your item (BEEP)
Repeat three times
"UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA"
Me: No it's not. I just put it here
"UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA"
Me: Stop shouting you moron
Youth approaches and does something
Scans next item (collapso)
PLEASE SEEK ASSISTANCE
Me: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9:
Youth comes back and enters some numbers
Scan (BEEP)
"UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA"
Me: You stupid bastard machine (picks up item and throws it into bag)
Repeat about 12 times cussing: cussing: cussing:
Stop 2: Stagger to local car park
INSERT YOUR TICKET IN THE MACHINE (American accent evil:)
Insert ticket
PLEASE PAY WITH NOTES COINS OR CARDS
Me: Can i pay with beads or lucky feathers instead? cussing: cussing:
REMOVE YOUR TICKET
TAKE YOUR TICKET WITH YOU. YOU WILL NEED IT WHEN EXITING THE CAR PARK
Me: I know that you patronising yankee bastard
Turn around to find queue of smirking people redface:
Banghead Banghead
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Stop 1: Tesco
Please scan your item (BEEP)
Repeat three times
"UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA"
Me: No it's not. I just put it here
"UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA"
Me: Stop shouting you moron
Youth approaches and does something
Scans next item (collapso)
PLEASE SEEK ASSISTANCE
Me: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9:
Youth comes back and enters some numbers
Scan (BEEP)
"UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA"
Me: You stupid bastard machine (picks up item and throws it into bag)
Repeat about 12 times cussing: cussing: cussing:
Stop 2: Stagger to local car park
INSERT YOUR TICKET IN THE MACHINE (American accent evil:)
Insert ticket
PLEASE PAY WITH NOTES COINS OR CARDS
Me: Can i pay with beads or lucky feathers instead? cussing: cussing:
REMOVE YOUR TICKET
TAKE YOUR TICKET WITH YOU. YOU WILL NEED IT WHEN EXITING THE CAR PARK
Me: I know that you patronising yankee bastard
Turn around to find queue of smirking people redface:
Banghead Banghead
pathead:
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Progress,,,,,,,,,,,, noooo: (or going forward whistle: )
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I feel Nick's pain cussing:
And when they come over to check the unexpected item in the bagging area, they just zap their card through and tap a few numbers in, but never check if it is really a 35p tin of tomatoes you've put in there or if you've tried to slip a £6 box of teabags through noooo: noooo:
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I feel Nick's pain cussing:
And when they come over to check the unexpected item in the bagging area, they just zap their card through and tap a few numbers in, but never check if it is really a 35p tin of tomatoes you've put in there or if you've tried to slip a £6 box of teabags through noooo: noooo:
Is this the new check out thingy.......... rubschin:
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That's a GROWLER style rant, and I claim me 50 snotters copyright payment....by machine. cloud9:
Glad to see my influence is finally rubbing off on you. cloud9:
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I refuse to use self-service tills. Unfortunately last week I went to B&Q and they only had the damn things. 4 self-service tills, one not werking and 3 staff helping people (like me) to use them. Would have been quciker if the people had been manning proper tills.
Last I heard from the States was that these machines are being slowly withdrawn due to customer reaction.
Another classic is Tesco (express one in Kingston springs to mind) - people buying ciggies etc cannot use self-service so have to wait for a member of staff to appear and serve them - total chaos breaks out when a train arrives and the peeps pile out to get their papers and smokes - staff don't know whether to serve people or sort the self-service tills. have seem peeps throw papers and other items over the counter if they don't get served.
Technology is Wonderful, the people in charge of it are numpties!
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Oh yes.
I also had to go the bank ( eveilgrin:). The entire ground floor is self service machines. 12 of them. There were six bankmuppets there wearing sashes that said "SELF SERVICE SUPPORT" whose job was to explain to people how to use the effing self service machines Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead
Upstairs there were two old crones doing counter service for dozens of people angry041: angry041: angry041: angry041:
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Oh yes.
I also had to go the bank ( eveilgrin:). The entire ground floor is self service machines. 12 of them. There were six bankmuppets there wearing sashes that said "SELF SERVICE SUPPORT" whose job was to explain to people how to use the effing self service machines Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead
Upstairs there were two old crones doing counter service for dozens of people angry041: angry041: angry041: angry041:
Bless happy100
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I refuse to use self-service tills. Unfortunately last week I went to B&Q and they only had the damn things. 4 self-service tills, one not werking and 3 staff helping people (like me) to use them. Would have been quciker if the people had been manning proper tills.
Last I heard from the States was that these machines are being slowly withdrawn due to customer reaction.
Another classic is Tesco (express one in Kingston springs to mind) - people buying ciggies etc cannot use self-service so have to wait for a member of staff to appear and serve them - total chaos breaks out when a train arrives and the peeps pile out to get their papers and smokes - staff don't know whether to serve people or sort the self-service tills. have seem peeps throw papers and other items over the counter if they don't get served.
Technology is Wonderful, the people in charge of it are numpties!
I'm with you don't use them... noooo:
I tried it in tesco - they clearly don't work...
I also tried in W H Smith = thought it would be faster as I only wanted a newspaper.... noooo:
RFID is the way forward....
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I refuse to use self-service tills. Unfortunately last week I went to B&Q and they only had the damn things. 4 self-service tills, one not werking and 3 staff helping people (like me) to use them. Would have been quciker if the people had been manning proper tills.
Last I heard from the States was that these machines are being slowly withdrawn due to customer reaction.
Another classic is Tesco (express one in Kingston springs to mind) - people buying ciggies etc cannot use self-service so have to wait for a member of staff to appear and serve them - total chaos breaks out when a train arrives and the peeps pile out to get their papers and smokes - staff don't know whether to serve people or sort the self-service tills. have seem peeps throw papers and other items over the counter if they don't get served.
Technology is Wonderful, the people in charge of it are numpties!
I'm with you don't use them... noooo:
I tried it in tesco - they clearly don't work...
I also tried in W H Smith = thought it would be faster as I only wanted a newspaper.... noooo:
RFID is the way forward....
Contact-less payment?
I was in our post-office last year and went to pay by card. Owner of shop said you don't need to put card in reader with pin, card has already been scanned (even though it was still in my hand) as it was less than £20!
I could have paid twice!
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I refuse to use self-service tills. Unfortunately last week I went to B&Q and they only had the damn things. 4 self-service tills, one not werking and 3 staff helping people (like me) to use them. Would have been quciker if the people had been manning proper tills.
Last I heard from the States was that these machines are being slowly withdrawn due to customer reaction.
Another classic is Tesco (express one in Kingston springs to mind) - people buying ciggies etc cannot use self-service so have to wait for a member of staff to appear and serve them - total chaos breaks out when a train arrives and the peeps pile out to get their papers and smokes - staff don't know whether to serve people or sort the self-service tills. have seem peeps throw papers and other items over the counter if they don't get served.
Technology is Wonderful, the people in charge of it are numpties!
I'm with you don't use them... noooo:
I tried it in tesco - they clearly don't work...
I also tried in W H Smith = thought it would be faster as I only wanted a newspaper.... noooo:
RFID is the way forward....
Contact-less payment?
I was in our post-office last year and went to pay by card. Owner of shop said you don't need to put card in reader with pin, card has already been scanned (even though it was still in my hand) as it was less than £20!
I could have paid twice!
Oh noes, that is the work of the devil... noooo:
(awaits Steve)
I was thinking of RFID tagging everything so that you load up your trolley in the store, wheel it past the detector at the checkout and everything in the trolley is counted....
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Life is too short to even think about entering a supermarket ~ In fact life is too short for shopping. If they don't do it on line and deliver I don't want to know.
I never leave the house without cash sufficient for my immediate needs and only use cards to buy petrol and such when I am out.
Even there I am lucky as there is a local(ish) garage that still has an old chap who emerges from his lair to fill yer car, wipe the windscreen and offer to check the oil...... They take only cash!
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It's just a case of practice makes perfect .
You lot are an impatient bunch noooo:
I use them daily and not a problem.
But then I am a tolerant , understanding wumman :thumbsup:
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But then I am a tolerant , undersatnding wumman :thumbsup:
I make that one out of three whistle:
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It's a good job you are not a betting man then lol:
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But then I am a tolerant , undersatnding wumman :thumbsup:
I make that one out of three whistle:
lol: lol: lol:
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Life is too short to even think about entering a supermarket ~ In fact life is too short for shopping. If they don't do it on line and deliver I don't want to know.
I never leave the house without cash sufficient for my immediate needs and only use cards to buy petrol and such when I am out.
Even there I am lucky as there is a local(ish) garage that still has an old chap who emerges from his lair to fill yer car, wipe the windscreen and offer to check the oil...... They take only cash!
Most do it here ....... :thumbsup:
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Oh yes, I swear by Tesco Online ::)
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Oh yes, I swear by Tesco Online ::)
happy001
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Oh yes, I swear at Tesco Online ::)
There, fixed for you . . . .
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I'd have killed for an "unexpected bag in the iteming area" machine today
10+ minutes queuing at B&Q at the one working till
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I'd have killed for an "unexpected bag in the iteming area" machine today
10+ minutes queuing at B&Q at the one working till
Thass why Growler calls it B and bloody long Q... lol:
Last time I was there they didn't have any bag at the till - I had an armful of bits and pieces I had to carry back to the car..... evil: