should people who are cack-handed at cash machines/ticket machines stick with using human-operated counters?

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Kind of related to that breaking rules thread. Should cash machines be made to reject any transactions that takes more than 10 seconds per keystroke (and remembers the card so that you can't put it in again the second time)?

Good lord. Some people really are rubbish at machines. I was once in Argos and thought yay! the new time-saving self-service machine counter, with only two people in front of me instead of the queue of 10. BUT FUCK, this person at the machine, spent 5 minutes there being a total fuckwit. Making it actually quicker to have just queued up for the much longer human till. arrrgh. aarrrrrrrrrghhhhhhh.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

BUTT FUCKED at Argos

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the person in front of me at the cashpoint always takes longer than I do. It's obvious they are doing it to spite me because I have a British passport.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm noticing this a lot at Tesco's new self-service checkouts too. The novelty factor here is interesting too; only this morning I saw a queue of people at the self-service and at least three manned checkouts with no queue.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

All points of service should originate from one singe queue. So you can always go to the next available point, instead of trying to guess which line will be faster.

Also, at the post office, if you have all kinds of bullshit to do, and there's already someone with all kinds of bullshit working with a clerk, get in line behind them, instead of tying up a second clerk and making 20 people wait in line for both of you to finish. you fuck.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Why do banks and post offices allow their staff to take lunch breaks at lunchtime?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

They're trying to get the Investors In People award.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

What about the Investors in Customers award? HUH?!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I can understand why some people have problems with ticket machines/Tesco checkouts/Argos etc cos they are relatively new and change often and stuff, but I do get annoyed when people take a long time at cashpoints, I mean they've been around for decades, and haven't changed since then! How can you still have to take ages to work out how to put in your PIN and press the button for your money? WTF? I'm quaking with anger at the mere thought of such loutish behaviour, etc.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

People who are cack-handed should wash their hands!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

they're cack handed because they can't work out how to use the tap, dan!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Or toilet paper, apparently.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

or toilets

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Or rubber gloves.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

matt wins

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

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