Job: cashier

Item doesn’t scan

Customer: “That means it’s free, right?”

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Only about 4 weeks in as a cashier and I’ve heard this enough to last me a lifetime.

    • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.worldOP
      12·
      5 months ago

      I can’t stand “fancy” electronic appliances. I hate all the musical beeping and half the time the panels don’t even recognize my finger taps. It makes doing chores more frustrating than it already is.

      We recently bought a fixer-upper and have had to replace a bunch of old appliances. I told my husband the simpler/cheaper the appliance is, the better. Knobs over digital displays.

      The only time I like the newer digital versions is with microwave ovens.

        • bizarroland@fedia.io
          6·
          5 months ago

          When I bought my house it came with an induction stove.

          I thought it was pretty great being able to boil water in 2 minutes.

          It was a GE profile, and it just suddenly mysteriously failed on me. Kind of sucks, it wasn’t that old of a stove, maybe 5 years.

          The board that it needed to have replaced cost $1,700.

          So I said fuck that, I went and bought a Whirlpool induction stove. $900.

          It has worked really well for the last year and a half, but the one thing that I truly and honestly despise about it is that the controls are capacitive touch and that means instead of flicking your wrist and setting it on medium heat you have to hit a button to turn on the stove and then hit a different button three or four times to adjust it down to medium heat and it doesn’t always respond to the button touches.

          If I end up having to buy a stove again in the future, it’s got to have a knob on it. It’s such a tiny thing but it’s so fucking annoying.

            • mark3748@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              5 months ago

              I’ve had exactly two dishwashers completely stop functioning in my entire life. Both were GE post Haier and within the last 6 years. Also had a Haier made GE microwave completely fail.

              I replaced the microwave (and the matching stove) with Samsung and haven’t had one bit of trouble with either.

              I thought I had just gotten a lemon, but three separate failures within a couple of years has really soured my opinion of them. I was a lot more worried about the Samsung appliances I bought, but they’ve been a dream.

              Note: I am not recommending Samsung appliances, at all. I got an amazing deal and fully expected them to fail shortly after the warranty was up. I’ve had to repair several of my friends and family’s washers, dryers, and refrigerators. Samsung’s poor reputation is well earned, I just got lucky

        • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.worldOP
          4·
          5 months ago

          Of course they’ve been electronic for decades, but lately it seems they have overdone it so the thing actually becomes less convenient. Kinda like in cars.

        • over_clox@lemmy.world
          33·
          5 months ago

          Have you ever rebuilt and repaired old electrical appliances? An old microwave with a turn dial timer is most certainly not electronic. Electrical sure, but not electronic.

          Those only basically have a mechanical timer dial, high voltage transformer, high voltage diode, magnetron, light, fan, turntable motor, fuse, and some safety switches for the door.

          Absolutely nothing electronic about them, they’re as dumb as an old-school toaster, they just happen to use high voltage to generate microwaves instead.

            • over_clox@lemmy.world
              23·
              5 months ago

              Well, generally speaking, most people discussing the benefits of appliances and stuff with turn dials are referring to older/simpler appliances, back before they started adding in unnecessary electronics and ‘features’ and stuff.

              I’ve never actually seen any microwave with a turn dial that has any sort of electronics in them, those are all built almost identical in schematics, aside from different sizes and wattages.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        22·
        5 months ago

        Get commercial washer and dryer, Speed Queen, on the used market.

        A used model will cost as much as a new Samsung consumer model, but it’ll last far longer and has replaceable hardware inside.

          • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
            31·
            5 months ago

            Right, right.

            Because commercial laundromats don’t have to pay for water or energy.

            Pray tell, how would a washer tear your clothes when they’re the same washing mechanism as a consumer model - a tub with paddles on the sides.

            Donyour clothes get torn at the laundromat? Not seeing how they’d stay in business if that were the case.