Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Self Checkouts

Have you seen these things? Instead of letting actual store employees run machines I have no intention of learning, I am now expected to do it myself.

This is wrong on just so many levels. Even today, checking out with a cashier isn't straightforward - every credit card swiping device is different so I'm already fumbling with card stripe facing in or out, pushing various credit, debit, amount OK? buttons, sign/don't sign, etc. Now I'm supposed to find the damn product code strip, and all that other nonsense? I don't think so.

Let's be clear here: I'm a curmudgeon. I don't pump my own gas and I sure as hell have no intention of checking myself out of stores.

This is more my style:

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