A CHILD can operate a self-checkout but you’ve messed it up – again. Here’s how much the underpaid staff hate you based on the stupidity of your error.
Buying booze with a security tag on
Buying booze is not an error in itself, but taking it to the self-checkout is. You wait, tapping your foot, for the harried member of staff to come over, pick up your bottle, take it over to the tills where they can remove the tag, bring it back, and authorise your purchase. Why not just go to the manned tills in the first place? You’re a timewasting bastard, as the expression on their face clearly shows.
Scanning an item too many times
Did it take more than a millisecond for the item to register on the screen? Then why not scan it another 12 times, like the impatient little twat you are. Now you have to wait for someone to come and delete the extra 11, and you get quite irritated about it, even though it’s all your fault. Luckily the staff are too polite to show their deep contempt for you.
Can’t find something on the ‘search for item’ screen
You need to weigh this bunch of spring onions, which means finding it first on the screen. But where is it? It’s not there. How frustrating that the supermarket has forgotten to add it. You make a snarky comment to the staff about it, before they gently explain you should be looking at the ‘salad’ section and not the ‘root vegetable’ section. They think you are a moron, but unfortunately cannot tell you.
Losing a barcode sticker
As you dawdled dumbly round the shop chucking stuff in your basket, you didn’t notice that the sticky barcode label had fallen off that red pepper. It’s not searchable on the checkout screen, so you send the staff member on a long walk back to the veg aisle to fetch you another. They probably lick it on the way back, to teach you a lesson for being a bellend.
Unexpected item in the bagging area
How many times have you used a self-checkout by now? Thousands. How aware are you of the fact that if you put your rucksack in the bagging area, you’re going to f**k it up? Very aware indeed. And yet you still do it, and then get shirty because of the inconvenience of waiting 30 seconds for someone to come and sort it out. The staff f**king hate you for this, and you deserve it.
