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    To explain, we have just had new credit card machines installed. Unlike with the previous ones, these ones have a sliding bit down the side where store cards are swiped. With the old ones, customers were supposed to swipe their own cards but cuz it was easily accessable to do so ourselves, and it wasn't worth the hassle of explaining, we just took the cards and swiped them. Due to this, the customers have gotten quite lazy and don't seem to understand that they have to do the cards themselves and, technically, have had to ever since chip and pin was first invented.

    Now, the new machines are far from the tills so it would be quite a strain for us to swipe customer's cards for them, so the new store policy is for customers to swipe their own damn cards and to stop being so damn lazy. As you can imagine, this doesn't sit well with SCs. So far, I've had two customers be quite angry, muttering about the "stupid system" and complaining loudly that it's unfair for us to force them to swipe their store cards. One SC told me very rudely, "It's your bloody job to swipe my card! I don't see why you're making me do your job!"

    Well, bitch, if you were to do my job, I really don't think you'd be capable of doing it given your reluctance to do such a simple task as swiping a store card. Also, you are miles older than me and if I can remember swiping credit cards, surely you can as well? Or have you convieniently forgotten such days, just as you have forgotten the days when you had to be polite to cashiers? Obviously.

    The other SC kept swiping the card wrong, despite my clear instructions. "Why don't you do it yourself then, if it's so easy?" he growled at me. Cuz I've been told to make all customers do it, and since the damn machine is right in front of your stupid self, and it's a far stretch from me, why should I risk straining my back to do what is a simple task that everyone else manages fairly well?

    Finally, I had a deaf customer come in today. Despite his disability, he managed to swipe his own store card perfectly, without all this crap.
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  • #2
    People are amazing...in a bad way...I mean, WTF? It's not like it's hard, if they just paid attention. But then we wouldn't be on this site
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    • #3
      I can't believe people get their panties in a bunch over something like that. Why are people so fricking stupid? And why do they always get mad? Not our fault you're stupid and lazy!

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      • #4
        Almost everywhere I go here (the US) you swipe your own card. I hope those people never visit America, they'll be paralyzed!
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        • #5
          I love the ones that literally throw their cards at me and I get to tell them to swipe it in the machine.

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          • #6
            I'm baffled by the people who can't figure out how to swipe a card... are they turning it the wrong way? I know I've done that... but it doesn't take that much effort to figure out that if you just flip it....

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            • #7
              Quoth MoonCat View Post
              People are amazing
              "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god! ... Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither..." Hamlet, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act II, Scene 2

              "Oh, I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony..." Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in reference to the above quote, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hide & Q

              In case you are misunderstanding me, the Hamlet quote is meant to be ironic.

              SC
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              • #8
                I absolutely cannot stand the people who think the card readers are some kind of super mystical light speed reader and swipe it like they're lighting a match. Some dudes do it with a huge arm swing, angry style. Reader responds with "Mer" sound of non-acceptance. I don't dare tell them "slower please" anymore because rest assured, they will do it dramatically slow-mo and it won't work for that reason. Just let them figure it out.

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                • #9
                  Quoth BroSCFischer View Post
                  "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god! ... Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither..." Hamlet, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act II, Scene 2

                  "Oh, I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony..." Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in reference to the above quote, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hide & Q

                  In case you are misunderstanding me, the Hamlet quote is meant to be ironic.

                  SC
                  "O wonder!
                  How many goodly creatures are there here!
                  How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
                  That has such people in't."

                  Miranda - The Tempest.

                  Even more ironic. The really stupid thing is that the store cards are very easy to swipe. Surely everyone knows that the black strip goes thru the machine? Obviously not. Quite a few customers keep trying to swipe the bit with the numbers.
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                  • #10
                    If the store card has a bar code (Kroger and Petsmart do) then the cashier swipes it. If it has the magnetic strip, then I swipe it. That's how it works. No math, grammar or science involved and very minimal thinking.

                    Self-scans are a different beast, but you should reasonably expect to be have to do it yourself. Minimal thinking required, but reading skills are a must. (Though some SCOs have pictures to walk you through it...)
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post
                      ...Finally, I had a deaf customer come in today. Despite his disability, he managed to swipe his own store card perfectly, without all this crap.
                      That's because his other senses are heightened, including his COMMON sense.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth BroSCFischer View Post
                        Ironic Shakespeare!
                        Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post
                        More Ironic Shakespeare!
                        Why bother with irony, when The Bard says it outright:

                        "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" --Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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                        • #13
                          A day when the Immortal Bard is quoted is a good day.
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