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I am regularly told I have a “calming presence”, but few things get me angry faster than: “Unexpected item in bagging area, please remove all unbagged items”
by macNchz 3y ago
I am regularly told I have a “calming presence”, but few things get me angry faster than:
“Unexpected item in bagging area, please remove all unbagged items”
“Please place scanned item in bagging area”
“Unexpected item in bagging area, please remove all unbagged items”
“Please wait, system processing.”
“Please wait, help is on the way.”
[Screen locked, not a soul in sight]
I force myself to be cordial with the attendant since it is not their fault, but I am fully ready to Office Space that goddamn checkout kiosk.
- scruple 3y agoI'm in the same boat. I rarely lose my shit. I'm the person in others lives that they come to when they need a calm, collected perspective, I calm my children easily, I enjoy letting people talk to me about their problems and I don't profer up unsolicited advice, etc. The exception to the rule is when technology goes fucking sideways on me. Of course, in our world that means that I'm losing my shit over some misbehaving piece of technology on an ever increasing basis.
- dwaltrip 3y agoThe machines at CVS and Safeway have the most annoying tone. It snips at you so quickly and frequently during routine usage. I’m with you on the office space response. I would take sweet pleasure in providing an “unexpected item” right through its guts.
- pmorici 3y ago"I force myself to be cordial with the attendant since it is not their fault" Exactly, it isn't that the situation isn't irritating it's that an honest person will initially be cordial about it. The ones that are trying to pull something go straight to overt anger because they, mistakenly, think employees are trained to give an "angry" customer what they want.