Self Scan Hell…

I hate self scan and it seriously needs to be banned. And those God forsaken easy scan its.

The other night I was working, a guy came in my line with a easy scan it and put all his shit on the belt. I was like you need to bag that stuff that was the fucking point of using easy scan its. So I scan the gun and I asked him for his card.

“I don’t have my card.”

Me, being confused, asked him how did he get the gun without the card (because you need it in order get a gun; you scan your store card and a gun lights up for you to grab.) “Oh, some lady let me borrow hers.”

Well that’s just great dude. Now that I ended his order, I don’t know if that lady has gone through yet or not with her card and groceries. I explained the problem, scanned his order, and then got rid of my line, and ran over to the place where the guns are kept to reset it.

Here’s what could’ve happened. If that woman had not gone through yet, and the gun was still in the mode to finish and pay, that lady if going in line within the time period, could’ve been paying for his groceries as well as hers. Because the gun he used all his groceries for are on her card, and if scanned, the items pop up on the bill. Then she would’ve been left wondering what all these groceries are, and since she might not have bought the same stuff as him, we would have to void the order out and rescan her groceries.

It was idiotic on both parts. Both of them should’ve known you can’t “borrow” a card to use the easy scan its, if we did that there would be more problems.

Self scan was fine for the first half hour, then it got swamped. I watched a number of stupid things today.

I still don’t know why people are sliding their Stop and Shop cards through a credit card machine. To make it even funnier to watch, this one lady told me she was looking for her receipt after she finished buying her stuff. She was sliding her Stop and Shop card through a credit card machine to get her slip….hmmm. She claimed it was her first time. Well even if it isn’t your first time, obviously you wouldn’t slide a card to grab a receipt from the machine. What an idiot.

I saw another foolish lady trying to sign for her credit card, except instead of trying to sign in places where I know people  get confused, like the screen where you see your receipt, or the other screen where you process your card, she was trying to sign the small tv screen where you can see yourself, because you’re on camera. Who the hell tries to sign on a camera, when you can clearly see yourself when doing it? It’s not like it was one of the broken cameras where I can see that it’s black because it’s blanked out. And why would you sign something up in the air like that? Who does that?

And during that time period, I was going back and forth bagging for my mom, and I walked into a middle of a situation.

Apparently a woman customer had bags on top of her groceries, and my mom inquired on them. They were our regular plastic bags, so usually we don’t think of them as being reused, because most people don’t. So apparently the woman was appalled by this and got upset. She was like “I’m here all the time, and they looked use, and you insulted me.”

How is she insulting you? You know how many people grab bags off a register to use? And they look wrinkled, anyone can wrinkle the bags, doesn’t make them used. Maybe look used but not necessarily. It’s not an insult. And we’ve never seen you before. What a fucking moron. We gave a bag credit now get the fuck out…lol.

I can’t complain too much except watching a lot of moronic stuff. And being really busy. And we need to hire more people. We had two cashiers on and self scan. Like hello? From 7 to when I left all we had was two cashiers, almost no baggers and self scan. Cutting hours is not working. Add more hours or hire more people or both. Ever since my boss cut hours we’ve had unneccessary lines. It’s not busy, just stupid things. I’m used to having 30 hours during the summer, I’ve gotten close once and since I’ve not gotten more than 20ish hours. Makes me mad.

Need a new job. Sooner rather than later.