I just had a "Norma Rae" moment at the Mall-wart...

[dolo amber]

I despise that place, but unfortunately unemployed people have to shop where they can afford to...:(

So anyway, I was at the self-scanner thingy, and every time I'd scan something it said 'Please run item's barcode across the scanner and then place in bagging area'...which of course, is clearly what I was doing. So then the little attendant person would have to push some buttons or something and reset the stupid scanner thing before I could continue. :eyes:

After about 10 items I allowed a wee profanity-laced rant to escape...I couldn't help it, the whole situation was just so absurd...here I am shopping at the evil empire, scanning my purchases myself on a machine that has essentially replaced a live person, and the fucking thing doesn't even function properly, thus requiring a real live person to make adjustments so it WILL run properly. Wtf kind of crazy shit is this? And so I said as much, in a none too quiet voice.

Thankfully the other shoppers near me clearly felt the same way, as there were several laughs, and a loud "Yeah!". :D

Fucking Mall-wart...:grr:

[GOPisEvil]

1. Preach on, Sister D!!

[Gothic Sponge]

2. Welcome to the New World Order!

Dissent will not be tolerated!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. You shoulda just twatted someone. Right good and hard.

[Fenris]

4. Give me convenience or give me death!

:D

[CrownPrinceBandar]

5. Mall-Wart is using self-scanners now?.....

Makes a perverted kind of sense. I guess they found a way to not hire/pay as many folk. I guess its not bad enough to make folks work after they have clocked out and the corp. gets a huge death benefit for employees that die while employed there. What's next? A whole store operated by robots?

Good job, D. Fortunately I have so far avoided WM in my stint as the cretinous unemployed. But as my unemp. benefits are about to run out, I may be dumpster-diving soon.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. I love Norma Rae!

"Forget it! I'm stayin' right where I am. It's gonna take you and the police department and the fire department and the National Guard to get me to use a self-scanner!"

You rock, d.
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[dolo amber]

7. Yay!

My er...speech was a tad more colorful than that, but it didn't lack the conviction, dammit! :D

:yourock: for saying that :I rock:... :D

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. But no!!!

:yourock: for saying that I rock, for saying that :yourock:!

or something like that.
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[The empressof all]

9. Let's keep those folks employed

If you must shop at Walmart-Insist you are incompetent to run the scanner and must have a human to assist you. Let's keep those folks employed.