That's me barred.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

Went into a supermarket this morning at 7 , which shall remain nameless for now and bought a couple of papers and bread. I went to the checkout and put my stuff down behind a woman who was being served. the lass on the till said she was closed now and could I go to another till, I looked around and there was no other till to go to and pointed it out to her, in the best traditions of customer service she told me she was shut, I again pointed out there was no other till open. At this point, a supervisor approached me and said come with me and we'll sort you out......she then lead me to the self service tills. As she pprepared to show me the joys of doing their job for them, she was visibly taken aback when I said no, I want to be served by a person, why should I do your work for you. She then adopted the old come, come mode and insisted i try it as there was no other option, I had to use the machine...game set and match to her.. look there are no tills available...but there was an alternative, it's called dumping your shopping and walking out.
If people are happy using these things, fair enough, I want a choice, .. and why should I do their work for them, to increase the stores profits so they can sack all the till operators and replace them with a tenth of the number of 'supervisors'

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I can see where your coming from but on a lunch time the tills in morrisons are massive, i used one of the new self service y'day, i was in and out within minutes and it was so much quicker, and i even put my salad box through as a tiny one when it was actually a large one he he

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:39 pm

I refused to use those things in Tesco the other week, the thick wifey was trying to insist that they were great even when I pointed out that they were doing the likes of her out of a job- she tried to say that it was creating a job for her supervising 4no. self service checkouts and couldn't see that meant that they had to employ three less people to man the four checkouts. stpid

Plus the useless things are only any good if you're trying to nick stuff by pretending to scan it as more often than not they don't work properly and arse you about no end and I pointed that out to her too. :evil:

Mrs R told me off when we got outside. :laugh:

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

It's certainly one of lifes important issues...

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:55 pm

Tax Paying Poolie wrote:

It's certainly one of lifes important issues...

It probably is to the folk who'll end up getting paid off if the supermarkets get their way in convincing you lot to use automated checkouts.

It's "me, me, me" with you isn't it Mr Tax- you need be more like me and think of others.

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:01 pm

I hate the way that you have to keep asking for bags these days. They only ever give you one at a time despite it being obvious that you have a trolley full of stuff and will require at least ten.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

Yes you start picking at every tiny detail in life

Music is too loud

buses are 1 minute late

and always always always... nothing is like it used to be!

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

Mr Ripper wrote:

Tax Paying Poolie wrote:

It's certainly one of lifes important issues...

It probably is to the folk who'll end up getting paid off if the supermarkets get their way in convincing you lot to use automated checkouts.

It's "me, me, me" with you isn't it Mr Tax- you need be more like me and think of others.

Yeah I guess you're right, I bet the redundancies are in their droves now that Morrisons have got a couple of self service tills which hardly get used.

poolie bri · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:04 pm

im retired and i moan all the time bout anything rolfl

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

I hate the 'Do you want help with your packing' question. What possible problems could a fully abled mid 20's male possibly putting some bread into a plastic bag?

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I let them, then i stand there and text.

Sometimes i even say "you've packed that one a bit tight, best do that again luv"

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5096

Yubep wrote:

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

Yes you start picking at every tiny detail in life

Music is too loud

buses are 1 minute latenot if i am driving the fooker it aint

and always always always... nothing is like it used to be!

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

And not if you have that bearded bus inspector on with you either!!

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12368

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

I thought Snowy was retired. :wink:

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5096

Yubep wrote:

And not if you have that bearded bus inspector on with you either!!

oh the ever popular "goat" aka peter sutcliffe although i think he was more popular than the goat :grin:

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:22 pm

Yubep wrote:

And not if you have that bearded bus inspector on with you either!!

i despise that fucker i really do.

He used to always inspect my mega rider ticket like i had forged it or something. Proper jobsworth!

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:29 pm

He's only doing his job.

If you've paid the correct fare let him look at the ticket for as long as he wants.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

You know he's a 'lovely lovely person' when even the bus drivers hate him.

My mate calls him harold shipman

poolie bri · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:34 pm

who the feck gets buses

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Thousands of people everyday brian

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

Yubep wrote:

Thousands of people on the dole everyday brian

poolie bri · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:46 pm

really

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

derwent wrote:

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

I thought Snowy was retired. :wink:

You 'thought'...well there's a first.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

... but I'm nowhere near retirement, sorry.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

Yubep wrote:

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

Yes you start picking at every tiny detail in life

Music is too loud

buses are 1 minute late

and always always always... nothing is like it used to be!

..... from the poster who said the half time penalty competition isn't like it was when he was nowt but a lad. :wink:

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:22 pm

Warwick Hunt wrote:

He's only doing his job.

If you've paid the correct fare let him look at the ticket for as long as he wants.

the twat used to wake me up to do it though.

Have to say the best thing i ever did was learn to drive though.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

You were driving the bus at the time. :shock:

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:25 pm

I thought the bus drove itself?

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:31 pm

Snowy wrote:

You were driving the bus at the time. :shock:

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12368

Snowy wrote:

derwent wrote:

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

I thought Snowy was retired. :wink:

You 'thought'...well there's a first.

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:26 pm

I was in Tesco's one evening after a gruelling drive to Devon for a meeting, my mate was managing the place. I had about six things in a basket and I got the 'we're shut, can you go somewhere else??' shite.

I said yeah, Sainsbury's, and fooked off.

Cutting my nose off to spoil my face like but when you're tired and they're rude and you aren't 22 or summat and used to eating shit, there's a point to be made. :evil:

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:52 pm

derwent wrote:

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

I thought Snowy was retired. :wink:

No he's being RETRIED! The deposit he left behind at the checkout has provided fresh evidence linking him with a series of war crimes, including the hanging of the monkey on the Fish Sands.

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12368

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

derwent wrote:

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

I thought Snowy was retired. :wink:

No he's being RETRIED! The deposit he left behind at the checkout has provided fresh evidence linking him with a series of war crime, including the hanging of the monkey on the Fish Sands.

Frodraff · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:19 pm

Unfortunately Mr Snowy I'd guess you were more upset about the 'do' than the supermarket staff as they're just there filling their time in between breaks. Have you noticed how the talk on the checkout among supermarket staff is usually about who's on break right now and when will it be their turn.

I suppose the most effective thing to do is to make a mental note never to use that supermarket again but you could end up baking your own bread and growing your own vegetables on an allotment.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

Frodraff wrote:

Unfortunately Mr Snowy I'd guess you were more upset about the 'do' than the supermarket staff as they're just there filling their time in between breaks. Have you noticed how the talk on the checkout among supermarket staff is usually about who's on break right now and when will it be their turn.

I suppose the most effective thing to do is to make a mental note never to use that supermarket again but you could end up baking your own bread and growing your own vegetables on an allotment.

In all seriousness, it's just piss poor service. You don't antagonise your customers, end of, no matter how big a pain in the arse they are.
Of course I'll go back, as all the staff aren't like that. :wink:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

derwent wrote:

The Lightning Tree wrote:

I feel sorry for the checkout operators. Having to meet people like snowy everyday. It cant be a pleasant job.
Is this what happens when you get near to retirement

Let me recommend this site;

http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a702.asp

I thought Snowy was retired. :wink:

No he's being RETRIED! The deposit he left behind at the checkout has provided fresh evidence linking him with a series of war crimes, including the hanging of the monkey on the Fish Sands.

Grass, you said you'd keep that quiet .. well if that's your game, I can mention your collection of nudey Adolf Hitler postcards and your blow up Dawn French 'tension relieving' doll you made from recycled orange paddling pool plastic at night classes. :razz:

Poolsrme · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:44 pm

Snowy wrote:

Frodraff wrote:

Unfortunately Mr Snowy I'd guess you were more upset about the 'do' than the supermarket staff as they're just there filling their time in between breaks. Have you noticed how the talk on the checkout among supermarket staff is usually about who's on break right now and when will it be their turn.

I suppose the most effective thing to do is to make a mental note never to use that supermarket again but you could end up baking your own bread and growing your own vegetables on an allotment.

In all seriousness, it's just piss poor service. You don't antagonise your customers, end of, no matter how big a pain in the arse they are.
Of course I'll go back, as all the staff aren't like that. :wink:

I love a thread with a happy ending :laugh:

Frodraff · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:27 pm

I've got a PM about this but I'm not reading it as it'll just be another bollocking.

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:05 pm

them self service tills in morrisons are shite because i did'nt put a packet of biscuits in the carrier properly it would'nt let me scan the rest of my shopping,kept on saying wait for assistant poor lass was running about like a blue arsed fly

butchers block · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:17 pm

I have a similar gripe about doing unpaid work.
I NEVER wash out the tins and bottles before I dump them in the blue box.

They are probably going into a roaring great furnace which will get them a fooking sight cleaner than I ever could.

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3116

. . . and the energy & resources used far outweighs the environmental benefit.

Frodraff · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:43 am

butchers block wrote:

I have a similar gripe about doing unpaid work.
I NEVER wash out the tins and bottles before I dump them in the blue box.

They are probably going into a roaring great furnace which will get them a fooking sight cleaner than I ever could.

The reason why you are asked to wash out cans etc before recycling is because recycling factory's don't have a licence to recycle food waste. Different industry see.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

I know, it's great innit...just like being the old gits on Harry Enfield. rolfl

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:08 pm

ADG wrote:

It was 3 days before christmas..............yes it was my birthday. I went to asda to get the christmas goodies in....the usual shit that people buy.

Anyway, I had a trolley over flowing with goodies. Got to the checkout to find myself in a queue or rather a number of queues. Each checkout had at least 20 people in each queue. All with huge cargo loads of goods.

I tried to find a smaller queue. There wasnt one. This was back in the day before they at least attempted to have some customer services.

There were though, 6 aisles being unused.

Now I wasnt happy with this. It was chaos in that godforsaken place, and I didnt want to join the very long wait.

So, I went to an unused checkout. Emptied my trolley load of goods onto the conveyerbelt, and I basically loaded the conveyerbelt. I made sure everything I was going to buy was on there. I pushed the trolley through, moved the bit of chain they used to have that blocked the access, and waited.

A superviser came along and asked me what I was doing.

I said I was waiting to be served. Only to be told that that checkout was closed.

I asked why she didnt operate it as she seemed to have nothing else to do.

She told me I would have to put everything back in the trolley.

I replied, wouldnt it just be easier to serve me now that all of the goods were on the conveyerbelt.

No came the reply. You will have to move the goods.

I replied, in that case, you can move them, and I walked out.

That showed them :coool:

So I went to tesco instead. And stood for hours in their queues. :uhoh:

Made me feel good in asda though.

I bet there was no Food in your Trolley though....you certainly wouldn't have walked out then!!!! :laugh:

butchers block · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:39 pm

Frodraff wrote:

butchers block wrote:

I have a similar gripe about doing unpaid work.
I NEVER wash out the tins and bottles before I dump them in the blue box.

They are probably going into a roaring great furnace which will get them a fooking sight cleaner than I ever could.

The reason why you are asked to wash out cans etc before recycling is because recycling factory's don't have a licence to recycle food waste. Different industry see.

The worlds gone mad then!
It will not be long then before I need a license to process my food into Shiite.

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

I used the self service tills a couple of days ago and it saved me a lot of time, no hassle and I'll be using them again. A sound addition to the shopping experience.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

snap!!

normally i woulndnt go to morrisons at dinner time, massive que's, stupid women taking ages on the checkout.

today i was through in a matter of minutes.

Brilliant stuff.

anyone who doesnt like these is an idiot... FACT!

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37704

..... and good for you. I think we can safely say that the acceptance of contemporary marketing ploys to cut jobs, increase profits and make the buyer do the work on behalf of the profit makers is safe in your hands lads. You rebels, you wild things, go for it, charge the auto tills with your salad bowls and sod the world eh? rolfl

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I've heard of no job cuts at tesco, asda or morrisons since these things came into effect.

That's me barred.

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