[…] Me: “I don’t work here”
This gives me big “ok boomer” vibes. Instead of this, imo, snarky response, could you not simply politely say that you prefer a human cashier?
Remember the human.
I AM the human cashier when I do self-checkout. People don’t care WHO or what does it, they themselves just don’t want to.
[…]People don’t care WHO or what does it, they themselves just don’t want to.
Then don’t? Are you arguing that there doesn’t exist an alternative that doesn’t require one to self-checkout?
The point is that we are being asked as paying customers to perform work which previously employed people to do it for us, strictly out of a profit motive for the store.
They are destroying jobs by shifting the workload onto the customer, so that some chain cunt can marginally increase their already immense wealth while fucking over the workers and the customers.
Be all that as it may, I don’t see it as a justification for, imo, rude behavior towards others — in particular employees who, I would presume, have little control over the actions required of them while they are working.
As as introverted person, I gotta say self-checkout machines are my favourite invention in stores.
