Most grocery stores group their check-out registers by number of items (i.e., 15 items or less, or >15 items).
I propose changing that to grouping by age.
This applies 10x to self-checkout aisles, which should be completely off limits to shoppers under the age of 40.
speedblind wrote: This applies 10x to self-checkout aisles, which should be completely off limits to shoppers under the age of 40.
Why? It seems that the old codgers are the ones who cannot figure out technology...
I propose a special "Seniors" lane where they get an extra 5% off their entire purchase.
Everyone wins. 
Rant:
Writers who write about writing as the default "getaway" job. Like you can't travel or live a life of freedom without being a writer. Worse yet are the guys who say "i quit my job to become a writer, buy my book." No, I will not.
Racer1ab wrote: I propose a special "Seniors" lane where they get an extra 5% off their entire purchase. Everyone wins.
Perfect! Old people can have their slow lane but get that 5% off and the rest of us that use the self checkout can get through faster. Also at the 5% lane, there will be another old person you can have a conversation with about the weather or politics while he/she is helping you out with your coupons.
Family members ranting about gun control (as in we need a lot more of it) to me. They own guns and I do not. WTF, over.
Dear ridiculous young woman at the RaceTrac (convenience store chain):
No, I did not hold the door open for you because I want in your pants. I also hold the door for old people, for children, and for handicapped folks that realize the Americans With Disabilities Act often ends two berkeleying inches from the end of the wheelchair ramp.
I wouldn't even be angry, except that you wouldn't listen when I attempted to explain that to you. The universe doesn't revolve around you, regardless of your opinion of yourself.
Record high gas prices....not news. Trying to find out why the power went out at the Super Bowl...major headline.
Three parts of the same rant:
Mr Dealer, could you possibly fill in the info in the new cars manual, and make sure the security card for the radio is where it should be?
Mr Car Owner, could you possibly know where you put the damn card with your radios security code?
Mr Manufacturer, in 30+ years of working in the automotive industry, I have never- not even once- seen a factory radio stolen from a car. An antitheft security code was not required then, and they are not required now. Nobody cares about your junk radio.
A secondary rant, based upon this train of thought:
Mr Tunedude, don't snivel at me when you leave your car outside my shop with the stereo manufacturer stickers all over the windows only to have us find the window broken and your jukebox missing the next day.
Streetwiseguy wrote: Mr Manufacturer, in 30+ years of working in the automotive industry, I have never- not even once- seen a factory radio stolen from a car. An antitheft security code was not required then, and they are not required now. Nobody cares about your junk radio.
in addendum: Why do PDIs with steel wheels get wheel locks? nobody wants to steal the 15x6" steelies on a versa. NOBODY. It's stupid.
Berk you employer!!!!
You've reduced my hours, took me from FT to PT, taken away the dental and 401K, taken away the travel, training, and meetings, and now you don't want to pay to the required, essential tasks to keep your business open?!??! Look, if you aren't going to pay me to take out the trash and recycling, assemble and sort the mandatory physical files, refill the copy paper and toner, check and send the mail, or support the IT network, then you better as berk hire someone who will, cause I ain't doing it for free.
corytate wrote:Streetwiseguy wrote: Mr Manufacturer, in 30+ years of working in the automotive industry, I have never- not even once- seen a factory radio stolen from a car. An antitheft security code was not required then, and they are not required now. Nobody cares about your junk radio.in addendum: Why do PDIs with steel wheels get wheel locks? nobody wants to steal the 15x6" steelies on a versa. NOBODY. It's stupid.
Along those same lines, something I read here awhile back about some entry level econoboxes requiring disproportionately expensive keys with chips.
corytate wrote:Streetwiseguy wrote: Mr Manufacturer, in 30+ years of working in the automotive industry, I have never- not even once- seen a factory radio stolen from a car. An antitheft security code was not required then, and they are not required now. Nobody cares about your junk radio.in addendum: Why do PDIs with steel wheels get wheel locks? nobody wants to steal the 15x6" steelies on a versa. NOBODY. It's stupid.
I agree with this, too...except for the berkeleytards that go tire shopping after midnight on new car lots. I wish they would take them off when delivering the car, but I think they might just add the cost to the bottom line on the car. (rolls eyes)
And berk you employers advertising positions! A damn "no thanks" email isn't that hard to send out. I've applied to 50+ of you and gotten exactly three responses.
Javelin wrote: And berk you employers advertising positions! A damn "no thanks" email isn't that hard to send out. I've applied to 50+ of you and gotten exactly *three* responses.
YES
friedgreencorrado wrote: No, I did not hold the door open for you because I want in your pants. I also hold the door for old people, for children, and for handicapped folks that realize the Americans With Disabilities Act often ends two berkeleying inches from the end of the wheelchair ramp.
How do we know you mean it and aren't also trying to get granny out of her wheelchair and diapers when we're not looking?
Stupid drive through window scripts for employees - looking at you Dunkin Donuts
"what are you drinking today?"
Me: scotch and soda
Dunkin: what, err, umm, What are you drinking today?
Me: Nothing yet.
Dunkin: What are you drinking today?
Me: I want a donut.
Dunkin: umm, ok, what are you drinking today?
Me: Aaarrrrgh, I'll have a #4 sammich (pulled away from the speaker before they could ask about a drink).
Family.. will you please berk-off?
My fiance and I are very happy, aside from crap that our families heap on us.
speedblind wrote: This applies 10x to self-checkout aisles, which should be completely off limits to shoppers under the age of 40.
Related rant, if you can't make the self checkout machines work for more than 5 items in a row, don't berkeleying install them.
Also related rant, you've got 25 godsdamned checkout lanes, why the hell are only 3 open for this big ass store?
Grizz wrote:speedblind wrote: This applies 10x to self-checkout aisles, which should be completely off limits to shoppers under the age of 40.Related rant, if you can't make the self checkout machines work for more than 5 items in a row, don't berkeleying install them. Also related rant, you've got 25 godsdamned checkout lanes, why the hell are only 3 open for this big ass store?
also add this in: the walmart here has probably 20 self checkouts. None of them have been open at any time in the last three years. WTF?
They were open for maybe the first year after they put them in. They are still there, just closed, for no reason. I guess the idiots that live here couldn't figger out this durned new tek knowledge y
Me: These gotdam things (self checkout) are so retarded, they should give me a discount for using them.
Other customers: snicker.
Machine: Please take your receipt!
Me: (jokingly) STOP YELLING AT ME!
Other customers: laughter.
Maroon92 wrote:speedblind wrote: This applies 10x to self-checkout aisles, which should be completely off limits to shoppers under the age of 40.Why? It seems that the old codgers are the ones who cannot figure out technology...
Whoooops. I meant shoppers over 40.
Also, a related note: I can one-click buy crap from Amazon on my phone - why not at a place like IKEA? Everything else is self-serve, why not just scan and pay as you go through the warehouse? The tech exists and should be fairly cheap.
Appleseed wrote: (self checkout).... they should give me a discount for using them.
This is why I don't use them, for the most part. I'm paying the same amount of money, except that instead of having a bagger and a scanner do the work for me, I do it myself. No thanks, I'll keep high school Johnny employed.
speedblind wrote: Also, a related note: I can one-click buy crap from Amazon on my phone - why not at a place like IKEA? Everything else is self-serve, why not just scan and pay as you go through the warehouse? The tech exists and should be fairly cheap.
Because the warehouses are filled with guys like me. And liability, seeing as how I've personally watched a pallet of dresser kits fall from a forklift trying to put them on the top shelf.
Unless you were talking about the stores and not the warehouses.
The IRS.
Grrrrr.................
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