The epitome of electronics laziness.

[Syntha Claus]

The other day I was in this small grocery. They carry the A2 half and half I have come to love.

I was over by the dairy stuff and I saw a couple; dude with an infant and a Baby Bjorn, hair/headband thing, a wife (or whatever) looking pretty dirty hippy to me.
He is making a call, it looked like. I hear the person on the phone (because every cunt today has their phone volume on blast or use the speaker) answer "Hello, thank you for calling Natural Grocers".
But simultaneously, I could hear the same thing coming across the store from the register area. Then I listen to the whole conversation between the dude (?) and the grocery employee in stereophonic sound. He was asking if they had something in stock that would have been right in front of him.

Blew my mind. I have seen some lazy shit in my time, but this takes the cake. Talk about avoiding human interaction.

I am telling you folks, we are fucking doomed.

 

[tommygunz]

The other day I was in this small grocery. They carry the A2 half and half I have come to love.

I was over by the dairy stuff and I saw a couple; dude with an infant and a Baby Bjorn, hair/headband thing, a wife (or whatever) looking pretty dirty hippy to me.
He is making a call, it looked like. I hear the person on the phone (because every cunt today has their phone volume on blast or use the speaker) answer "Hello, thank you for calling Natural Grocers".
But simultaneously, I could hear the same thing coming across the store from the register area. Then I listen to the whole conversation between the dude (?) and the grocery employee. He was asking if they had something in stock that would have been right in front of him.

Blew my mind. I have seen some lazy shit in my time, but this takes the cake. Talk about avoiding human interaction.

I am telling you folks, we are fucking doomed.

Do you still write checks

 

[Syntha Claus]

Do you still write checks

Yes. And I stand there watching the cashier scan everything and wait until they/them give me the total. Then, and only then, do I start digging through my purse...er...I mean, European carryall, to find my check book. Then I dig for a minute or two for a pen before asking the cashier for one. I write the check and hand it over. I wait until I am asked for my ID, not before, to start digging through my cornucopia of cards to find my license.

I do actually have a check book. I ordered the minimum because things like the guv'ment want checks or money orders. I think every check I have written has been to some form of government office.
On a similar note, I had to fax things into the DHS HQ in the 2010-14 era because they wouldn't accept emails. Since I lived in Mexico. I had to get a Wash DC exchange Vonage phone to spoof not being out of the country.
Off topic but I still ahke my head at this shit.

 

[tommygunz]

Don’t hang onto the past forever

 

[Hughmangoes]

I hate asking clerks for help at shops, they never know anything. Often when I ask for something they start mumbling and stumbling around like they don't even work there. Or they just confidently say that they don't have it, I then spend some more time and eventually find it myself.

Give me access to your digital inventory and I will be ecstatic. I absolutely do not want to speak to anyone, specially in the store, specially on the fucking phone in the store.

 

[Syntha Claus]

I hate asking clerks for help at shops, they never know anything. Often when I ask for something they start mumbling and stumbling around like they don't even work there. Or they just confidently say that they don't have it, I then spend some more time and eventually find it myself.

Give me access to your digital inventory and I will be ecstatic. I absolutely do not want to speak to anyone, specially in the store, specially on the fucking phone in the store.

I hate to admit it, but I sort of agree with you.
How many of us have asked for something at Home Depot AFTER looking at the shelf, where it should be AND all the back stock in the overhead, only to have the "staff" walk back and forth looking at everything just like we already did? I get it, customers and "the masses are asses" but when you see them looking around and you can tell they couldn't tell you what 1% of shit in THEIR department is for, you aren't going to gett very far.

I remember when companies like Best Buy used to advertise "we don't work on commission". I remember going into the store to buy something fairly expensive. After learning NOTHING from him about ANY of the products in his department, the guys was quick to tell me he wasn't working on commission.
My reply was "I can tell."

 

[Syntha Claus]

Don’t hang onto the past forever

Bro, it's allI have.....

 

[Big_Jimmy434]

I hate to admit it, but I sort of agree with you.
How many of us have asked for something at Home Depot AFTER looking at the shelf, where it should be AND all the back stock in the overhead, only to have the "staff" walk back and forth looking at everything just like we already did? I get it, customers and "the masses are asses" but when you see them looking around and you can tell they couldn't tell you what 1% of shit in THEIR department is for, you aren't going to gett very far.

I remember when companies like Best Buy used to advertise "we don't work on commission". I remember going into the store to buy something fairly expensive. After learning NOTHING from him about ANY of the products in his department, the guys was quick to tell me he wasn't working on commission.
My reply was "I can tell."

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that this post contradicted and nullified your original post.

 

[tommygunz]

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that this post contradicted and nullified your original post.

He just needs to GTFO out of Spokane it’s rubbing off on him

 

[Hughmangoes]

I hate to admit it, but I sort of agree with you.
How many of us have asked for something at Home Depot AFTER looking at the shelf, where it should be AND all the back stock in the overhead, only to have the "staff" walk back and forth looking at everything just like we already did? I get it, customers and "the masses are asses" but when you see them looking around and you can tell they couldn't tell you what 1% of shit in THEIR department is for, you aren't going to gett very far.

I remember when companies like Best Buy used to advertise "we don't work on commission". I remember going into the store to buy something fairly expensive. After learning NOTHING from him about ANY of the products in his department, the guys was quick to tell me he wasn't working on commission.
My reply was "I can tell."

Went to buy a TV give years back, decided not to spend weeks researching on my own as usual and just trust the guy working there. Fucker sold me a tv with some unique OS which doesn't have any smart TV features and was as useful as a CRT. Thankfully I was savvy enough and got an nvidia shield which made the TV functional.

Went to Sephora few years back looking for a specific perfume as a gift for my wife. It was some hot shit which was just launched. Lady told me that oh unfortunately that perfume has been discontinued and we no longer sell it, it's a very old release. OK lady, it's literally your job to know this shit.

Thank you for reminding me how much I absolutely abhor dealing with store clerks. I'd rather leave the store without what I came for rather than ask someone for help.

 

[OlePhart]

Well, I'm glad we have SOME digitized stuff. Not all of it. Remember before, it was ALL stand in line with everybody else. A line out the damn back door because of checks and fucking coupons.

 

[Syntha Claus]

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that this post contradicted and nullified your original post.

Explain please?

 

[Big_Jimmy434]

Explain please?

Post #1 - Gatekeeper on a guy that avoided going to ask for help and "Talk about avoiding human interaction"

Post #2 - Agreed with the "i hate asking clerks for help" and continued to talk about how clerks are mostly unhelpful.

Contradiction: Statements or ideas that are opposing.

Should the guy have asked for help or are clerks idiots?

 

[Milford King]

Post #1 - Gatekeeper on a guy that avoided going to ask for help and "Talk about avoiding human interaction"

Post #2 - Agreed with the "i hate asking clerks for help" and continued to talk about how clerks are mostly unhelpful.

Contradiction: Statements or ideas that are opposing.

Should the guy have asked for help or are clerks idiots?

Both

Lol

It’s all part of the human experience!

 

[Syntha Claus]

Post #1 - Gatekeeper on a guy that avoided going to ask for help and "Talk about avoiding human interaction"

Post #2 - Agreed with the "i hate asking clerks for help" and continued to talk about how clerks are mostly unhelpful.

Contradiction: Statements or ideas that are opposing.

Should the guy have asked for help or are clerks idiots?

The laziness in not asking staff for help. Staff all over the store. He chose to just call. Using a phone to avoid human interaction as in person-to-person. You know, like looking away or down at your feet to avoid smiling at a person as you pass them.

I hate it when asking staff for help and they are unhelpful due to medioctrity formed by lack of professionalism. Not all are but many seem to be these days.

What is “gatekeeper”? Is that someone who critiques every word to be sure it follows some pattern or logic they won’t feel a need to be dismissive about?

 

[Big_Jimmy434]

What is “gatekeeper”? Is that someone who critiques every word to be sure it follows some pattern or logic they won’t feel a need to be dismissive about?

No, its a boomer that gets triggered when someone's grocery shopping interaction, or lack there of, does not follow some "standard" that they themselves set as the guideline for all humankind.

...or something like that.

 

[Syntha Claus]

No, its a boomer that gets triggered when someone's grocery shopping interaction, or lack there of, does not follow some "standard" that they themselves set as the guideline for all humankind.

...or something like that.

Ahhhh, I see. To be critical of someone born in a certain timeframe is not the same as being critical of someone not being critical of themselves.
Beautiful!

Love these words like "critical" and "gatekeeper". Developed a whole new language instead of using the one that exists.

 

[Big_Jimmy434]

Developed a whole new language instead of using the one that exists.

...but i believe the language that currently exists was also developed.

Nah, I'm not being critical. Just giving you a little shit without malice or ill intent.

 

[Durro NoHurtNoBigShirt]

The other day I was in this small grocery. They carry the A2 half and half I have come to love.

I was over by the dairy stuff and I saw a couple; dude with an infant and a Baby Bjorn, hair/headband thing, a wife (or whatever) looking pretty dirty hippy to me.
He is making a call, it looked like. I hear the person on the phone (because every cunt today has their phone volume on blast or use the speaker) answer "Hello, thank you for calling Natural Grocers".
But simultaneously, I could hear the same thing coming across the store from the register area. Then I listen to the whole conversation between the dude (?) and the grocery employee in stereophonic sound. He was asking if they had something in stock that would have been right in front of him.

Blew my mind. I have seen some lazy shit in my time, but this takes the cake. Talk about avoiding human interaction.

I am telling you folks, we are fucking doomed.

That’s proof that humanity is slowly handing over their souls to computers/technology.

Anyone remember this song? It was released in 1984. Listen to the lyrics.

View: https://youtu.be/0fMwOSFVmMg?si=dLR9n6714zJ5D5Ma

 

[Syntha Claus]

We could do a poll.
Who would be standing in a small convenience store like 7-11 or a WaWa or whatever, and call the cashier to ask if they have an item instead of just walking over and asking?
I mean, if it was a Buc-ees, I could see it. But 20-30 steps?

 

[Syntha Claus]

That’s proof that humanity is slowly handing over their souls to computers/technology.

Anyone remember this song? It was released in 1984. Listen to the lyrics.

View: https://youtu.be/0fMwOSFVmMg?si=dLR9n6714zJ5D5Ma

Watch any youtube of people being arrested. They are in the process of being handcuffed and the only thing on their mind is "my phone, my phone".
Before talking, they have to pull out their phone. I have seen people in these videos literally dying and their biggest concern is where their phone is.
As far as human interaction, my wife and I laugh everytime we pass people on the sidewalks. They are either frowning or on their phones. Either way they WILL NOT make eye contact.
But this is the opposite in Mexico. Can't wait to get back. Our neighbors always come out of their apartments and hug us, tell us how much they missed us. And it is genuine.

 

[Omoplata]

asked for something at Home Depot AFTER looking at the shelf, where it should be AND all the back stock in the overhead, only to have the "staff" walk back and forth looking at everything just like we already did?

I lol’d

 

[heckler7]

the clerks in korea type the price into the cash register 1000 times faster than clerks in USA scan barcodes.

 

[Big_Jimmy434]

Anyone remember the days before cellphones when the home phone would ring, and we would argue over who was going to answer it. "You answer it. I answered it last time." We used to hate the phone.

Now days, people hear their phone ring and knock down 7 people and 3 kids to get to it. What happened?

 

[heavydutygorilla]

Anyone remember the days before cellphones when the home phone would ring, and we would argue over who was going to answer it. "You answer it. I answered it last time." We used to hate the phone.

Now days, people hear their phone ring and knock down 7 people and 3 kids to get to it. What happened?

Not for me. I fucking abhor the "always available" facade that came with the rise of the cell phone. I will respond to your text, call or voicemail when it fits my schedule. My phone is only off silent/vibrate when I'm expecting an important call or notification for appointments etc. I do remember the excitement of recording the answering machine message back in the day though, that was a highlight of childhood. I would change that shit weekly to troll my folks and friends/family.