You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

UnsufficentBoobage said:
When you grab chicken in the store and it promptly leaks vile liquids all over your hand.
I had wet wipes, but can this just not happen with priced-down meat? Bag it, you mongs.
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Last week, a woman had her cart parked in front of the item I wished to grab (sliced ham, $5 package), so I had to reach for it from a distance without inspecting it head on. When I got it home, it turns out that said package was ripped at the front. This escaped my detection at the time, the cashier's detection at the register, my detection at the register and I did not notice until I got home. It seemed the contents were intact and the ham was only slightly dried so I considered letting it slide until 1 second later I considered the microbial possibilities (not to mention potential human tampering) and realized that I had to throw that ham no matter what. I was fortunate enough to be able to show the store the next day and get a replacement without receipt. It was an isolated incident in 4 years of reliable products and the error was accounted for, so I am not particularly sore about it, it falls within the margin of error by my estimation.

When it comes to produce and meat, you really do have to do a manual check before taking it to the register. On occasion, I've gotten berries that came home mushy but that was entirely an operator error (me).
 
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Mysterious Figure said:
This pisses me off so bad. People always stop right in my way when I'm looking.
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Honestly, I think I can make poor grocery cart operation in general (pacing in the aisles, stopping at the same place another cart is stopped, leaving carts unattended in critical walkways to do a quick grab of an item in another aisle), doing a run for a forgotten item WHILE AT THE REGISTER, etc.) my gripe of the day. Just understand that your goal in the grocery store is to have a full inventory of what you want, don't spend more than a handful of seconds contemplating options (and move your cart out of walkways if you absolutely must), have an idea of where all your items are located and calmly and efficiently complete your task with a mindfulness of efficiency, but not to the obsessive point that you treating it like a speedrun. Come in with a plan and do all your thinking/calculations before the task. Do this while parked in the lot if you are running a busy schedule. You're doing your contemplations and calculations either way, it is better to front load them as not to make a cascade of error while shopping. Concentrate on your shopping only (do not mentally drift) until task completion. This might be a *bit* overmethodical, but the costs of over preparation are far preferable to the costs of under preparation.
 
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Rick Nekieta said:
Honestly, I think I can make poor grocery cart operation in general (pacing in the aisles, stopping at the same place another cart is stopped, leaving carts unattended in critical walkways to do a quick grab of an item in another aisle), doing a run for a forgotten item WHILE AT THE REGISTER, etc.) my gripe of the day. Just understand that your goal in the grocery store is to have a full inventory of what you want, don't spend more than a handful of seconds contemplating options (and move your cart out of walkways if you absolutely must), have an idea of where all your items are located and calmly and efficiently complete your task with a mindfulness of efficiency, but not to the obsessive point that you treating it like a speedrun. Come in with a plan and do all your thinking/calculations before the task. Do this while parked in the lot if you are running a busy schedule. You're doing your contemplations and calculations either way, it is better to front load them as not to make a cascade of error while shopping. Concentrate on your shopping only (do not mentally drift) until task completion. This might be a *bit* overmethodical, but the costs of over preparation are far preferable to the costs of under preparation.
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I’m going to add - write your shopping list (write a list!!) in the order things are laid out in the store. Or at least group them by section.

And as to carts - if people just pay attention to what’s happening around them and make an effort to accommodate others, then irritation is minimized. I just know the clueless who clog aisles and block shelves and never get the “dance” right are equally poor drivers, because it’s the same concept. Pay. Attention.

…And I will move a cart that’s parked in my way while the owner meanders elsewhere. It freaks people out sometimes if they see their cart move - some get alarmed or even look ticked, but I just say, oh, so sorry, I needed to get to the X, with a mildly tight but not unfriendly smile and look them in the eye. That either relaxes or shames them, which is fine by me. (Or if I’m in a chiller mood, I might let them know (ma’am/ miss/ sir included) I’m moving their stuff ahead of time and when they get flustered or apologetic i give a sing-song a oh, you’re fine, it’s no trouble, thank you so much [for what? Nothing. - but my point is turning my and their petty annoyance into a positive interaction].) No wonder I avoid grocery shopping - that’s a lot of social effort…though tbh afterward I feel good.
 
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Rick Nekieta said:
When it comes to produce and meat, you really do have to do a manual check before taking it to the register.
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I'll bet that bitch cashier knew about the ham the first time around, but just didn't say anything out of spite for customers in general.

I'm a self-scan man for this and many other reasons.

(And, no, trying to steal shit from the store isn't one of them. What would I steal, anyway, since they always seem to be out of items that I actually want to buy?)

**Thread tax**: Is it that hard for a store to calibrate the self-scan scale or allow shoppers to mute the robotic voice that blares the price of the jumbo pack of Magnum XXL condoms (ladies 😉) and Reddit-Whip dessert topping to everyone in the vicinity?
 
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ChompChomp said:
(And, no, trying to steal shit from the store isn't one of them. What would I steal, anyway, since they always seem to be out of items that I actually want to buy?)
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People who actually do steal shit from the store. One of the local stores turned off their single self-serve register because despite having a video camera on it that shows you on it, people kept stealing stupid shit. Not even expensive shit according to the cashier but just bullshit like candy bars and impulse buy shit.

So now it takes at least twice as long to check out.

It pisses me off they never prosecute for that minor bullshit because anyone that fucking dumb and niggerish deserves to pay some massive fine for stealing something less than a buck. And that store is in as lily white a place as it gets so it isn't THAT demographic.
 
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AnOminous said:
People who actually do steal shit from the store. One of the local stores turned off their single self-serve register because despite having a video camera on it that shows you on it, people kept stealing stupid shit. Not even expensive shit according to the cashier but just bullshit like candy bars and impulse buy shit.

So now it takes at least twice as long to check out.

It pisses me off they never prosecute for that minor bullshit because anyone that fucking dumb and niggerish deserves to pay some massive fine for stealing something less than a buck. And that store is in as lily white a place as it gets so it isn't THAT demographic.
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Because of COVID there are a LOT less all night places near me and the ones that exist are overutilized and understaffed and have been for YEARS. My friend and I are generally serial loiterers but we don't displace guest seating space or require any assistance once our food/coffee has been delivered and we typically tip high. After COVID restrictions abated and people remembered these places existed, the customer base was once painfully small. It has grown significantly since then and they have not staffed it in accordance. While waiting to pay (no check was received at the table in many hours and we were waiting at the register for 10 minutes) a group of vibrant youths dined and dashed. Normally this would incense me, but the owners/managers of the establishment were SOOOO lax in their staffing (I am being held hostage for 15 minutes just WAITING TO PAY) that I legitimately considered this the equivalent of jumping in the tiger's den and blaming the tiger. The business more or less consented to the dine and dash, as niggerly as that behavior is, because a 80 year old woman in a walker can dine and dash that place because of corporate corner cutting. Effectively, it is the same as abandoning a kiosk with a sign that says "please do not steal."

I do not wish to take something I did not pay for, I have morals. But I do get sore when I have to WAIT for 15 minutes to do the bare minimum of the right thing, whereas the scum not only keep their money, but their time.

At a certain point, if your anti-theft measures are comically underwhelming, you can't have too much sympathy for the theft victims. This is especially true when they are failing miserably at their legitimate function.

It bears noting that the floor of the restaurant has NO cameras and is unsupervised more often than it is supervised. High trust business model with low trust demographics.
 
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ChompChomp said:
**Thread tax**: Is it that hard for a store to calibrate the self-scan scale
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That's the job of your local weights and measures agent. They come in with their little box of weights and make sure the scales are accurate and put their sticker on it. You'll see it on gas pumps too. The store has no access to it, at least on NCR machines in my experience, which are the majority.

Tldr; blame the government

AnOminous said:
People who actually do steal shit from the store. One of the local stores turned off their single self-serve register because despite having a video camera on it that shows you on it, people kept stealing stupid shit. Not even expensive shit according to the cashier but just bullshit like candy bars and impulse buy shit.

So now it takes at least twice as long to check out.

It pisses me off they never prosecute for that minor bullshit because anyone that fucking dumb and niggerish deserves to pay some massive fine for stealing something less than a buck. And that store is in as lily white a place as it gets so it isn't THAT demographic.
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Here's my thread tax. As part of my duties at a store I used to work at I was to watch for theft and report it. A woman and her probably 8 year old kid was acting really weird. I started to listen to them and heard "ok now take the bags under the cart. Be careful. Put them over there. Don't say anything to anyone" from the mom. Kid touches the bag and the loud rattling sound of tons of full medicine bottles. I go call who I'm supposed to call. They confront them. They won't open the bags. We can't forcibly search them. Have to let them leave. The store in it's infinite wisdom of 3 aisle redesigns in a single year happened to put the medicine aisle in the one aisle without cameras.

Walmart is probably the only store that will actually fully utilize state law to detain you for a reasonable time for shoplifting. If that's a law on the books. Some states it is. Any other store is too afraid of being sued. It's not that we didn't know theft was taking place. It's that we couldn't really do anything about it. The store doesn't empower the workers to, quite the opposite. The one time the meat manager chased some ghetto banger out of the store who was trying to steal spray deodorant and the guy fell in the parking lot tripping on his down to his ass pants, there was a tizzy about if the manager would get in trouble
 
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Pisses me off when parents have obvious bias/favoritism towards one specific child which either leads to them getting away with everything or getting blamed for everything depending on which category they fall into. Like some little tard could hit his sister and get coddled and told its not his fault, while his sister gets blamed when he hit her and she defended herself. Such retarded parenting logic to put one child over the other.
 
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The post-Zelensky "draft" hysteria has mellowed, but the internet is still busy convincing Zoomers they’re one bad election season away from trench warfare.

The usual suspects keep pushing it—pro-Trump/pro-NATO, pro-Bibi/pro-Hamas—whatever fits the grift.

“Vote for me or it’s World War 3” is basically Lyndon LaRouche’s campaign slogan dusted off for a new generation who still need parental permission for field trips.
 
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Gas pumps. Moreover....gas pumps as of recently. The annoying advertisements that constantly play when you try to pump your gas, the fact that every single week at least 3 of them are "out of service" and constantly have to be fucking fixed, the fact that there is a chance that itll tell you to "pay inside" after you waste a few minutes of your time trying to swipe your card, and also the fact that some of the pumps at certain gas stations pump at a snails pace.

Am I the only one noticing how gas pumps nowadays are breaking more often? I'm aware of how some scammers will tamper with these things, but how is it that these things are so prone to breaking every single damn week now? I don't remember it being as prevalent 4 years ago.
 
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When people are like "oh I'm doing lent, it's lent time" that shits not real. That's like telling me you're doing magic spells. You're on the computer. People saying they're catholic on the internet is crazy. "Oh yeah I'm all super serious no nonsense on the computer complaining about crazy people. Also I rub magic dust on my head and make sure I don't eat cow because God will hit me with a lightning bolt. No No I have a complex inner world that makes this make sense and you cant ever argue with me about it. That doesnt mean I'm faking. " You're faking. You're faking or you're crazy. Or both.
 
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