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Used bing copilot to write some quick code at work yesterday. Then it asked me what I was working on. I told it to fuck off and it was all “touché, code wizard”
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This seemed horrible yet unlikely to work well so I did the only sensible thing: used a photo of myself playing pinball.
It just gave my giant tits and a third arm so I guess it isn’t meant to be used on guys.
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One of my local Taco Bell locations is part of the pilot for AI drive-through ordering.
Fortunately, it’s not the location I go to when I go at all (a little more often recently because they brought back the tostada) because I don’t want to have to violate my policy of
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human till staff are a full-on value add to me now, i will more likely shop at your retail location if there are people at the end
even if it’s just a gormless teenager putting stuff in a paper bag, do you have any idea how novel that can seem in 202x
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My grocery store has made the self check out lines express only, so my Family Of Four loads have to go through a manned line now, which is good I like people, EXCEPT of course the place is still too cheap to also hire baggers, so everyone has to bag his or her oen groceries at the end of the line while the clerk scans them through, and of course bagging takes longer than scanning, so now I’m cramming them in as fast as I can oh god she’s done ok here’s my card oh gosh back to bagging wait here comes the next customer’s stuff sorry sorry I’m in the way wait is this broccoli mine? Or yours? Oh of course sorry hah yeah let me just load these up real quick oh sorry I bumped your cart ok I’m leaving have a good day
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baggers in (super)markets are just not a thing i can ever recall being widely deployed over here at any point in my lifetime
the scramble will make you strong, i promise
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okay so the trick is to put the produce on the conveyor belt last. this means they will get to it last, and produce takes longer because many things need to be weighed and manually entered. therefore you will have the bulk of your groceries available for bagging while they finish the more tedious part.
this also means going to get your produce first because carts are a sort of First In Last Out stack, with flexibility.
i also always get the frozen/dairy/other heavy stuff last because i want to put that on the belt first. since that needs to go near the bottom of the bags anyway so they don’t crush anything else.
additionally if you use reusable bags (but you don’t always have enough) the heaviest stuff gets in the sturdier reusables. also reusable bags speed up the process tremendously anyway, and if you need plastic/paper bags for some reason you can just take them and put them in your cart as you leave. god doesn’t care.
in general i am mentally bagging my groceries as i put them on the conveyor belt, and i sort of batch them with heavy → light stuff in order so i’m doing the minimum amount of thinking when i actually bag
hi i have autism
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i once made a chart of different produce and their evilness level based on crushability and heaviness. but i missed tomatoes
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I mean sure, I already do all this, but I’d rather the goddamn place just spend 15 additional dollars per hour and help a brother out
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only trust your bags, grocer will never help you
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I don’t mind self bagging but I hate the self checkout kiosks. I’m not even a big we need social interaction type guy those things just never work right and you end up having to have an awkward and fraught interaction with the over burdened employee trying to get the dang machine to recognize your bag s or scan the apple sticker or whatever, while half a dozen other rubes all struggle with their own shit, instead of just having a normal interaction where the cashier just helps everyone the same amount normally and in sequence and you maybe get to just be like “cold out there eh” instead of “tell me how to pay for this banana before I cry”
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The big stores here also have side by side conveyor belts in the bagging area which helps a lot ,you can take your time without worrying about slowing everyone else down
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Actually is there any other country in the world where baggers are a thing?
Honestly a bit shocking that Americans haven’t ever learned how to shop of all things but I’m happy to see bagging is skilled work.
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oh it’s not skilled work it’s what you start as. I mean it’s skilled work but it’s not skilled LABOR
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I bagged groceries for a year in high school. One of my first “real” jobs. We even carried them out to the customers cars too, sometimes got tipped, often didn’t. Made minimum wage which back then was 5.25/hr.
It was a fun job actually. I lost a lot of weight because I was up and moving all the time. I like jobs that are active like that but the pay is always so low. And I guess I’d feel different if I was still doing active, manual labor type work into old age.
I was at a store called Crest a week or so ago. We were checked out and bagged by high schoolers so I guess the job does still exist in some places. They didn’t carry them to my car though.
That aside, if you’re bagging your groceries, always remember to separate the chemicals/cleaners from the rest of the food items. Eggs and bread in their own bag. Glass and canned goods get double bagged. Paper is actually better for the environment than plastic since it actually biodegrades but these days you should be using your own reusable bags anyway.
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Since I discovered that capitalism market harbor deep-seated discrimination against such jobs and use eugenics to argue that only fools become cashiers or bagger, I have come to see machine replacement as a positive development.
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“48 water cups with light ice” is the code to get an actual person to attend to the drive through ime
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