alfadriver wrote:Appleseed wrote: Using self checkout will eventually cost someone a job.Of course, not counting the people who design and build the machines, who tend to be skilled and well paid.
Those same highly skilled designers who also build the machines that require a cashier to operate them?
I generally prefer the self-checkouts for many of the reasons already mentioned. I'm an introvert- generally, the less interaction I have to have with complete strangers, the happier I am. I'm also an engineer- so I had operating the things down pat within a day or so, and when SWMBO is with me we can go at a ridiculous speed with her handing me items and me scanning and bagging them (we tried it with her bagging them, it actually slows us down because I try and scan things before the scale has registered that the item is in the bag). Of course, I'd not complain at all if they did give a discount for using the self-checkout, but I'm not going to be holding my breath either.
Our closest store has two aisles of 6 self-checkout machines. At really busy times there's a slight wait, but well less than there usually is for the cashier-manned lines. There are times when it's quicker to go with the cashiers, and I'm fine with that on occasion- I just prefer not having to make small-talk with strangers if I don't have to.
It's the same reason (along with a considerable amount of money saved...) that I have a set of hair clippers to cut my hair at home- I don't have to sit there for 10 minutes making small-talk with a stranger using sharp objects near my head.
Still trying to find a winter beater. The one I could probably have gotten for $600 (4wd Chevy Tracker with 320k on it) I perhaps mistakenly had SWMBO along to look at and she pretty much vetoed it as, "The crappiest car you've taken me to look at yet." I'm thinking, "First- it's a winter beater, looking crappy is almost a feature, and second- I've looked at FAR crappier when she's NOT been with me..." Still, the vehicle will also be a backup for her to drive, so I don't want something she's going to completely refuse to drive, so the search continues...
whoever taught my daughter ASL? Berk You. If I wanted to learn ASL, I'd have taken it in college. Now, she gets mad and screams when I don't know what she wants, but unlike before when she just pointed, she signs it. So I get to learn sign language now. Thanks, really. Appreciate that.
RevRico wrote: whoever taught my daughter ASL? Berk You. If I wanted to learn ASL, I'd have taken it in college. Now, she gets mad and screams when I don't know what she wants, but unlike before when she just pointed, she signs it. So I get to learn sign language now. Thanks, really. Appreciate that.
Yeah, god forbid someone give your child a life skill that also makes you improve yourself! Who'd want that?
In reply to mtn:
When she was ready to start speaking actual words, it's a step back from where I'm at. Spanish was chosen as far more useful than ASL, that's why I took it.
Time will tell, but at her age, I doubt the sign will stick. Me and her mother had a long talk about it before she was born, and decided we weren't doing baby sign. Now she showed up monday, angrier than ever because someone taught her signs for more, food, drink, and a few toys, and I have no idea what they are. Frustrating me, which makes her more frustrated.
Pointing and trying to say the word was much better and easier for all of us.
Clowns in costume or mask have been banned from my towns Halloween parade over recent clown concerns.
Also banned in the parade are: chain saws (with or without chains), intense gore in costume or makeup, live animals (other than police/rescue dogs and horses) and weapons of any kind (real or replica).
I can kinda understand that as many wee youngins attend but....
C'mon man. 
Appleseed wrote:alfadriver wrote:Those same highly skilled designers who also build the machines that require a cashier to operate them?Appleseed wrote: Using self checkout will eventually cost someone a job.Of course, not counting the people who design and build the machines, who tend to be skilled and well paid.
The places I go to have one cashier for 6 DIY registers. And the amount of times I need their help is pretty small, so I'm not sure what people's issues are. I've never found them hard to use.
I've also never seen a place where there was no choice- if you want to stand and wait to see a person, you can do that. Or if you want to DIY it, you can. There are still stores out there that don't have the DIY registers.
What's the problem?
RevRico wrote: whoever taught my daughter ASL? Berk You. If I wanted to learn ASL, I'd have taken it in college. Now, she gets mad and screams when I don't know what she wants, but unlike before when she just pointed, she signs it. So I get to learn sign language now. Thanks, really. Appreciate that.
The bigger question is why the berkeley didn't you teach it to her?
Why does a dealer sit on a new car plate to try to get you to come in for a 30 day checkup? When I nicely ask them to mail them (2 days before my temp tag expires!) because I don't want to come in, they loose the berkeleying plates. Well they claim they are "in the mail" it doesn't take 6 days to mail something ~10 miles....
People frequently ask for self-checkout or an express lane where I work
I can usually keep from laughing out loud at how awful an idea that is.
Usually.
Our shoppers can barely manage to handle checkout with a cashier and assistant there, much less peripherally supervised.
10 items or less wouldn't work, it'd be "Oh, I have five different orders" all day long.
If you're pressed for time, maybe a busy retail giant isn't the right place to be shopping.
On the topic of bad ideas, if your great gam-gam is frail, confused, and closing in on 200 years old, bringing her in on a busy weekend is a pretty good example.
After waiting since April for TWD to return I'm done with it. I watched, it was gory, popular character(s) get killed, yadda yadda.
No, the reason I'm done with it is that the characters aren't getting any smarter. They blunder from one self inflicted "crisis" to another without any sort of plan, poor equipment, and nonexistent leadership. It's annoying because I've been a fan since the beginning but the circular plot has finally worn out.
Rick was a moron for threatening Negan. You don't say, you just do.
Daryl was an idiot for punching Negan. Control your temper, control the fight. If you can't win, don't start E36 M3.
Negan was unbelievable as a bad guy. Humans are too soft and vulnerable to be that sadistic. He'd get his button punched from 500 meters out by one of his slaves. Modern firearms are too good to defend against. He would have to be more likable to attract followers.
In reply to KyAllroad:
Right there with you. I was extremely let down by the premiere, both because of the storyline flaws you pointed out, and because of the excessively graphic murder of those two. I get that it's a zombie show and there is going to be violence and guts, and it never bothered me at all until this episode. It just seemed unnecessary, and did nothing to further the show. I still need to catch up on the last season of Fear, but I've been enjoying that more than TWD these days.
I watch the Walking dead on netflix. I'm in the middle of last season. Please don't spoil it....
My rant: I'm too damn cheap and busy for cable. I don't get to watch the three shows I enjoy until a year later.
Dusterbd13 wrote: I watch the Walking dead on netflix. I'm in the middle of last season. Please don't spoil it.... My rant: I'm too damn cheap and busy for cable. I don't get to watch the three shows I enjoy until a year later.
I kind of want to go back to only having OTA broadcast TV. Possibly not having a DVR as well. Quite frankly I think SWMBO and I now spend entirely too much of the little time we have together in a day in front of the TV.
I gave up on TWD ages ago. I'm more of a Z Nation fan. Season 3 can't get here soon enough.
We don't even have Ota TV. Just Netflix.
Never seen z nation.
Dusterbd13 wrote: We don't even have Ota TV. Just Netflix. Never seen z nation.
First two seasons of Z Nation should be on Netflix. Its a much more tongue in cheek take on a zombie apocalypse, but I think it actually captures the way people would react far better the TWD, even though its pretty much a dark comedy/parody of TWD.
I've never really like post-apocalyptic stories, and zombies are the worst. No interest at all.
Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.
I'd like to eat ONE berking meal without some of it winding up on my shirt, pants, or both. And no, dining al fresco is not an option.
Whoever designed the Volkswagen chassis-mounted seat slider arrangement deserves a major kick in the nuts. It works great until the interior floor rusts, which takes about five years here. And this car is 30 years old.
Spent an hour trying to dislodge a siezed seat before I finally gave up, cut the front mount off of the floor, wound the seatback all the way forward, pried the seat up, then prybared the rear sliders out of the floor. Mangled the pivots all to hell but they were rusty anyway, the important part was getting the seat out and getting at the stuff stuck under the seat.
THEN I got to the passenger side... which inexplicably was completely rust-free and could be slid all the way back and lifted out as VW intended.
SnowMongoose wrote: People frequently ask for self-checkout or an express lane where I work I can usually keep from laughing out loud at how awful an idea that is. Usually. Our shoppers can barely manage to handle checkout with a cashier and assistant there, much less peripherally supervised. 10 items or less wouldn't work, it'd be "Oh, I have five different orders" all day long. If you're pressed for time, *maybe* a busy retail giant isn't the right place to be shopping. On the topic of bad ideas, if your great gam-gam is frail, confused, and closing in on 200 years old, bringing her in on a busy weekend is a pretty good example.
quoted for truth. I can often use a cashier and get out the door faster than most people can manage a self-checkout. I generally hate them, but if I am only getting a handful of items and nobody is at them, I will use them.
In reply to Knurled:
Probably driven around a lot with no passenger, and a driver with salt/slush covered shoes in the winter.
In reply to eastsidemav:
But the rust was in the BACK, not the front.
It's an odd setup, there are desk drawer style tracks in the floor that the rear/sides of the seat rides in, and a vertical mounted slider in the center that the front rides on, and the fore/aft is done entirely with the center.
The center wasn't rusted, the rear sliders were. Cutting the center mount off of the floor just let me go all Rictus Erectus on the seat so I could get at the rear sliders enough to mangulate them apart.
The HF auto darkening welding mask has one small flaw, if you're working at night the part catching fire activates it just as well as the arc.
now that it is getting darker earlier, It seems like one in ten cars is driving around with their high beams on as twilight approaches. I realize you can't see the beam on the road with so much light from the sun still shining down, but that doesn't mean you can't see at all and need to put every lumen you have your disposal on. You are blinding EVERYONE and now we can't see either.
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