Oh god no. I am a cashier, and trust me we are not paid enough to deal with that bullshit. Just lemme scan your shit, pay for it all, and then go! We have stuff to do other than helping customers and don’t need to be playing counselor or customer service clerk for someone who just is trying to take up our time.
You are not helping. You are not giving us job security. All you’re doing is causing us undue stress.
Ah, sorry to hear that! I’m definitely not advocating harassing people or rudely taking up the time of cashiers who are having a horridly stressful day. I’ve worked as a cashier at a grocery as well, and it definitely has it’s annoyances! You make a great point that we should never be intentionally creating more stress for workers in our efforts to show solidarity.
Having said that, self checkouts are literally a direct threat to the jobs of human cashiers, and resisting that where possible is a good thing. It’s a sad reality that automation could be a great boon, but capitalism makes it a literal threat to survival.
Oh god no. I am a cashier, and trust me we are not paid enough to deal with that bullshit. Just lemme scan your shit, pay for it all, and then go! We have stuff to do other than helping customers and don’t need to be playing counselor or customer service clerk for someone who just is trying to take up our time.
You are not helping. You are not giving us job security. All you’re doing is causing us undue stress.
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Ah, sorry to hear that! I’m definitely not advocating harassing people or rudely taking up the time of cashiers who are having a horridly stressful day. I’ve worked as a cashier at a grocery as well, and it definitely has it’s annoyances! You make a great point that we should never be intentionally creating more stress for workers in our efforts to show solidarity.
Having said that, self checkouts are literally a direct threat to the jobs of human cashiers, and resisting that where possible is a good thing. It’s a sad reality that automation could be a great boon, but capitalism makes it a literal threat to survival.