I know it’s been a long, long, long time (cue George Harrison), but you once had a second day on the job, too.
Driving my Dad’s 2017 Honda Accord. The seatbelt ding goes off like every 15 seconds…
I hate American Airlines. They’re such a f
ing stupid airline.
i had a dude at target the other day who clearly was a trainee. his bagging sucked and he was getting coaching. bag one ripped bc of the angle of some boxes and i said I would redo it for him. i pointed out that the meat had some discount meat sticker that meant it needed a double scan (I always buy the clearance meats!). I just smiled. i had no where else to be and he has to learn. but i understand how delays at checkout are annoying, esp when you have a scheduled anything.
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This should get added to the song lyrics from the other thread
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Must be ever so distracting trying to drive to the Panera… 
Woo-hoo! Cheap meat!
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It was her first day on the job. I was her second “real” customer. She’d also rung up some employees as part of her training. And the first customer only had a couple of items, it was pretty much her first HOUR on the job.
If I hadn’t missed my supper, I wouldn’t even have minded. I’m generally an easy and easy-going super-market customer. In fact, I didn’t really get annoyed until I got home and realized how late it had gotten.
Yup, I misread this. I’m annoyed at myself.
Really annoyed tonite. My lawyers advised me to settle a small claims court case against a large company. I agreed. The company sent the settlement, and threw in a new clause. One that I told them years ago I wouldn’t sign. My lawyer says the company has already said that they demand that clause.
Ok, except that they had to.file the settlement with the court, and the settlement i.said i.would agree to is the one registered with the court not the one they sent. So now we have the problem of the company not agreeing to the settlement t hey told the court.
And the reason that’s important is because when I win, the judge opens those sealed settlement offers and i f they offered more than I won in court, that affects what the court awarded me, to the tune of 10k. So youd think they have to agree to the settlement as went to the court.
I suggested that to my lawyer, and she had to go consult. So now we are in limbo, with a court date next monday. And the company seems prepared.to.go.to.war over the clause (and again, I’m not sure they can go to.war over it).
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That sounds very frustrating. Especially the not scanning the other groceries.
I’ve had produce that the checker didn’t recognize before. Sometimes they’re perfectly happy to ask you what it is and you say “that’s a star fruit”, or “this is jicama” or whatever and they look it up and see that the picture looks like what they’re holding and they ring it up and it’s fine.
But then you get the obnoxious checker who refuses to believe you and they have to call someone over. And this always seems to happen when it’s not even something particularly unusual. “This lady says it’s zucchini, but I don’t know how to tell if it really is or not.”
C’mon dude… how many people are lying about zucchini when it’s really an English cucumber? And is it really a good use of everyone’s time to verify that I’m not sacrificing my integrity to rip the grocery store off for 50 cents? And if you really don’t know what zucchini looks like, maybe you shouldn’t be a checker in the first place?
Oh, she believed me when i said it was an acorn squash, she just didn’t know how to use the software, so she was really slow looking up each item, and some of them she failed to find at all.
in the episode i shared w my new worker, he was looking at the bananas and i told him “it’s 4011.”
His trainer asked if I worked at target and i said “no, but i have keyed it in at self checkout enough to know.”
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I hate bananas but buy them every week, so I know the code. This tangent also fits with the thread title.
I knew it was 4011 from my time working at a supermarket in college several decades ago. Never forget some of those codes and apparently they haven’t changed in decades either. I think in the middle of my job back then it went from 3 digits to 4.
the kid looked at me like I was rain man.
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I’ve been a blubbering fool all day. Cried in a meeting with my boss’s boss. Getting weepy over stupid videos on Reddit. Must be getting close to that time of the month or something, or else I’m too sleep deprived. Probably both.
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and then they type into their little computer “hikkamma”…“hickama”…“It’s not coming up…”
Let me tell, ya’…I would fail the entrance exam of being a check out scanner…(if there was one, which, obviously, there isn’t.)
Whereas this young woman scrolled through every page of produce, starting at “a”, for each vegetable, and didn’t seem to notice that they were in blocks by initial letter, and she could quickly page through the m’s and n’s if she were looking for, say, “squash”. She seemed to be scanning the pages all the way through, looking for something that might be my vegetable. And this store carries a wide variety of produce, so most letters filled her screen.
I suspect she’s a lot faster today. 
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