As usual someone made the ‘I don’t support self-checkout because it takes away from your jobs’ comment. Which normally I couldn’t care less about. But this lady would not get out of my face about how I must be an idiot for allowing them to replace me with self-checks (like I could stop them if I wanted to, and who’s going to pay my pay check?) and blah blah blah.
So I pointed out that it actually helps with staffing as we are continually short-staffed due to nobody wanting to be a career cashier. Which is normally enough to shut them up.
Nope.
She just launched into her ‘you lazy millennials’ speech.
So I point out that injuries caused by sports such as a broken arm would mean the loss of their job otherwise and good luck getting a new one with a busted body bit.
Well maybe if teenagers knew what they were doing then there wouldn’t be so many sports injuries. (Telling that to a horseback rider who is at least half-reliant on her horse not spooking at his shadow or not tripping and doing a cartwheel with me on him... yeah my safety is entirely dependent on my ability and knowledge... which is why Ian Miller took a fall at the royal winter fair despite being a many times Olympic athlete? Because everything is under the participants control in every sport ever.)
So I tried another tactic.
Self-checkouts allow for diversity amongst those we can hire. Wheelchair? Epilepsy? Assisted-Living Dog? Without self-checkouts you can’t work till here. And all the other depts are either Fresh depts (with raw food and often cutting tools) which means you can’t work there. You can’t work in stock or produce either as there’s just to much going to and fro to accommodate someone in a wheelchair, with a dog, and epilepsy plus stacked coolers and tight spaces with laser scanners that pulse because they’re broken pieces of shit? Sounds like a liability or a lawsuit.
Her response? To quote, “cripples don’t need jobs because they just live if the tax payers.”
I didn’t have a comeback for that and passed it off to the WIC as she still wouldn’t get out of my face and I had customers to deal with.
Self-Check is a GOOD thing in moderation. I sure as hell wouldn’t want the entire store to be outfitted that way.
So I pointed out that it actually helps with staffing as we are continually short-staffed due to nobody wanting to be a career cashier. Which is normally enough to shut them up.
Nope.
She just launched into her ‘you lazy millennials’ speech.
So I point out that injuries caused by sports such as a broken arm would mean the loss of their job otherwise and good luck getting a new one with a busted body bit.
Well maybe if teenagers knew what they were doing then there wouldn’t be so many sports injuries. (Telling that to a horseback rider who is at least half-reliant on her horse not spooking at his shadow or not tripping and doing a cartwheel with me on him... yeah my safety is entirely dependent on my ability and knowledge... which is why Ian Miller took a fall at the royal winter fair despite being a many times Olympic athlete? Because everything is under the participants control in every sport ever.)
So I tried another tactic.
Self-checkouts allow for diversity amongst those we can hire. Wheelchair? Epilepsy? Assisted-Living Dog? Without self-checkouts you can’t work till here. And all the other depts are either Fresh depts (with raw food and often cutting tools) which means you can’t work there. You can’t work in stock or produce either as there’s just to much going to and fro to accommodate someone in a wheelchair, with a dog, and epilepsy plus stacked coolers and tight spaces with laser scanners that pulse because they’re broken pieces of shit? Sounds like a liability or a lawsuit.
Her response? To quote, “cripples don’t need jobs because they just live if the tax payers.”
I didn’t have a comeback for that and passed it off to the WIC as she still wouldn’t get out of my face and I had customers to deal with.
Self-Check is a GOOD thing in moderation. I sure as hell wouldn’t want the entire store to be outfitted that way.
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