re: #135 Walter L. Newton

Ok.. so, I spend my whole short 4 hour shift tonight at the U-scan, which I would like to rename the “U’re Fucked”

I am starting to spot the customers who should stay away from the U-scan all together. Any men in cowboy boots and women in high heels.

There is something ass-backward about the concept of doing a good job at the U-san station. You’re doing a really good job when you are fixing all the problems that the customer is causing.

Really, this happened tonight, a customer was talking back to one of the U-scan stations. It would go “do you have any coupons?” and he answers “no dammit, I just want to pay…” I walked up behind him and suggested… “watch out for station 6, it’s pretty sensitive to criticism… last week someone was arguing with it and suddenly the laser came whipping out from under the glass and… well… haven’t seen that customer since…”

LOL.
That could have been me! I’m always talking to the machines, there’s so much rigamarole you gotta go through to finish up with those things. And even though I always put my items in the bagging section, the bagging section isn’t sensitive enough to pick it up, apparently, so I have the machine telling me over and over to put the item in the bagging section, and when I pick the item up to set it back down again, that’s a whole nother message, and so I have to take something from the basket and slam it down into the bagging section before picking it back up and scanning it - well, you get the picture. I’m always talking to the machines.