Congrats, liberals, you wanted a higher minimum wage, and now people lose jobs because of it. Fucking idiots.
They've been introducing them before the min wage thing. McDonald's have had them for a few years now.
Yeah, a few places were going in that direction. Also, Winco and other grocery stores implemented their self service checkout a few years ago.
It helps people like me and @JFizzleRaider , the McDonald's by me I did 3 orders, and used 3 different coupons. The human would have said no, one coupon per visit, the machine didn't know the same person had made the 3 orders. I BEAT THE MACHINE!
Seems like some of the grocery chains have been pulling them out lately. Probably theft reasons. Albertsons and safeways dont have them by me anymore.
I once used the self check out at the Hawthorn Freddy's and got $40 cash back. Being dumb, I grabbed my groceries but left my $40 in the machine along with the book I was reading (A Confederate at Big Sur). I didn't realize until I had walked all the way to Night Light on Clinton street. I had a friend drive me back up there and before I even walked in, a homeless kid that I saw all the time handed the money and book back to me said that he saw me leave it and grabbed it for me. He had never read that book, but loved Richard Brautigan, so I gave him the book and had him join us at Night Light. The moral of the story: Machines are cold uncaring boxes of misery. Humans, at times, can be absolutely amazing. I met a friend that day that I still check in with from time to time.
I left a $20 at a self checkout once and remembered right when I got in my car. By the time I walked back inside it was gone.
That's exactly what I was expecting. Luckily, I always talked to the guy pretty much every day before that. He was one of the guys that sold "Street Roots" in front of Powells and I just so happened to start every day getting coffee inside at Fresh Pot.
That's pretty awesome. This one difference of experiences we have explains why you have a positive outlook on a lot of things and I hate everyone.
Hehe. I suppose a lot of our feelings and thoughts are informed by past experiences. That is why I won't leave my bike locked up for more than 2 hours in public. Bad shit happens though. It is inevitable. I always try not to let it color my perception, but, we are all human.
Soon only a security guard will be on duty. He will by training not know how to get your change for the twenty out of the machine.
I hear that banks are soon going to be replacing their tellers with this thing called an atm. The future is scary.
First time at Freddy's doing the self checkout, I left my $40 cash back in the little trey. Got to my car and back.....gone! I deserved it I guess. Only blame myself.
Damn sorry man, that sucks. In your car and back is whack, the person behind you in line might have taken it... I wonder if you were to leave that $40 behind 10 years ago if it would have lasted until you got back. Shit I think it would be interesting do to a hidden camera and ask people why they took it, or why they left it behind. Keeping lost money is a grey area for me - I found $20 lying on the ground at Excalibur in Vegas as a kid and kept it. Not sure what I would do if I found $40 sitting in one of those machines though. I think I would be inclined to take it to customer service, feeling safe that the only person looking to claim $40 would be the person who left it behind. I saved up to buy a pair of Oakley's as a kid and left them at my doctors office. The SOB set them out in the waiting room, not realizing exactly what they were. Needless to say some asshole stole my sunglasses. I look back on that situation as a life lesson that no matter what it is that's left behind you can never claim to know how important it might be to someone. So to this day whenever I find something that is not mine I always try to go the extra mile to try and make sure it ends up in its owners hands. I know I wish that's what the dickhead who stole my sunglasses had done. It's definitely a philosophical question though. If you found that somebody left $40 behind would you act differently than if you found their $40 sunglasses?
I was borrowing a $3000 camera and lens a few years ago and left it by the outside of my car when I was leaving. I realized, and returned about a half hour later. Pissed at myself I looked around when I got back to where I had parked, and there was no camera. I got back into the car and as I was driving away a man comes running out of his house with the camera bag in one hand and a flyer he had made in the other hand which said that he had found a camera and would return it if anyone could describe it in detail. I thanked the man, offered him a reward but he wouldn't take it. Then I offered for him to give it to a charity and he told me all about his church and how much they could use the funds. I gave him $100 reward for him to give to his church. Later that year I found a wallet with an envelop tucked into it with $600 in cash (plus more in the wallet). I tracked down the wallet's owner and she offered me a reward, which I gave to charity too. That man who returned the camera, and saved me money and mostly grief, made a difference on how I lead my life.
