There is nothing – nothing – fun about using the self checkout. Hey Walmart – and all you other grocery/general stores that have these self-serve checkouts… we’re not stupid. You have them there so you don’t have to pay another cashier to work a register. Don’t act like you’re doing us a favor, okay?
From the monthly archives:
July 2010
When the iPad was first released—has it really only been 3.5 months?—I railed against it for being nothing more than an oversized iPod Touch. I didn’t see the value of it, I didn’t see where it could fit between a smartphone and a laptop (especially if the smartphone was an iPhone and the laptop was [...]
Or woman. Whoever is in charge of coming up with promotions needs to be replaced. This isn’t the first time I’ve written about Papa Johns, and I suspect it won’t be the last. Here’s their latest batch of WTF: You’ve probably spotted the problem, but I still feel compelled to point it out. Numbers 1, [...]
Part of the premise of my We Were Not Born Yesterday posts is the realization that some people or companies are dishonest. Noting the dishonesty, be it here or at other blogs or publications, says to those people or companies, “Hey. We know what you’re doing. We’re not stupid.” Too often though, we are lied [...]
A good writer posts updates like this to Twitter: Some people behave boorishly on our forums and then mention they’re subscribers, as if that makes their behavior acceptable. It doesn’t.Sat Jul 03 20:31:36 via TwitterrificJason Snell jsnell A poor writer would have phrased it: Some people act like jackasses on our forums and then they’re [...]
