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Captain Buckeye said:
What drives me crazy is people using the microwaves at work. There were two microwaves with time remaining (one with 3 second and one with 13) and I’ve noticed this as a trend at work. Why don’t they just let the full time run? Swear it’s annoying as shit.
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Maybe they are just trying to keep it from beeping when it's finished? I do that at home sometimes because the beep is annoying. (They should still clear the time off of it, though.)
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Maybe they are just trying to keep it from beeping when it's finished? I do that at home sometimes because the beep is annoying. (They should still clear the time off of it, though.)
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I do it too because sometimes I'm impatient and think " those 3 seconds aren't going to make a difference". I do clear the time off because it's a public microwave. My wife does the same at home but never clears the time.
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
I do it too because sometimes I'm impatient and think " those 3 seconds aren't going to make a difference". I do clear the time off because it's a public microwave. My wife does the same at home but never clears the time.
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Sometimes I'll leave some time on the clock at home just to see if it will drive my wife nuts, but she never even notices. I think maybe she's a psychopath. :shrug:
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Sometimes I'll leave some time on the clock at home just to see if it will drive my wife nuts, but she never even notices. I think maybe she's a psychopath. :shrug:
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When I see it I keep my mouth shut because if I were to say anything it would open the pandora's box to my many of similar failings that she has observed of me and is just waiting for the right time to bring it up. There would mentions of the used q-tip I left on the bathroom counter 20 years ago and I don't want to hear it.
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
Been to a grocery store lately? A line of people at one open register plus the line of people waiting to use self checkout.
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Oh, NOW you've done it. You've gone and got me started on the fucking grocery stores again. Thanks a lot, pal. Rant incoming.

They could get workers, but they don't want to. Or if they do, they don't want to pay them a livable wage. One person can cover 6 self-checkout stations so 2-3 employees could cover all of the self-scan stations at any given time --- but go in at 9 PM and you'll only find one set of 6 self-scans open and you STILL have to wait in line to buy a gallon of milk. Our Kroger even has a robot driving around the store doing inventory now. That's definitely better than a person. (Half the shit is still out-of-stock, of course). And now they are also outsourcing their office jobs. But surely all of that will mean that our grocery prices have gone down, right? Right?

And when you DO find a deal, you have to buy multiple items to get it -- you want a bag of Doritos? $6. But if you buy 2, we'll give you 2 more for free! Bug 5 of these miscellaneous items and get $1 each! 12-pack of soda? $11.99 each. But if you buy 2 on Thursday-Saturday, we'll give you 3 for free. What if I come in on Wednesday? Fuck you. How about Sunday? No, seriously, fuck you. Couldn't you just normalize the pricing and charge something reasonable everyday so people don't have to buy 5 12-packs of soda to get the best price? Fuck off and die, comrade! Make sure you have your have a shopper's card, or you don't get ANY deals! And did you clip the digital coupon? Gotta clip the digital coupon in our app that you have to have and that definitely isn't mining and selling your data! Oh, good job -- you dealt with all of our bullshit to get the best price. Guess what? We may still ring it up wrong when you checkout! But we won't let you find out until you've already checked out and paid. Because EVERYTHING rings up on the screen at full price and we only apply the discounts after you click "checkout". Oh, we charged you too much? Better go stand in line at customer service with everyone else we are overcharging. But only during certain hours when normal people are off working. Got overcharged at 10 PM? lol too fucking bad.

But at least Kroger managed to scrape together a spare $24B to try to buy Albertson's, so that's nice for them. Of course, that fell through and Albertson's is now suing them for $8B. Surely they'll learn their lesson --- what? Now they are trying to buy Giant Eagle for $1.65B? Cool, cool, cool. Glad they are still finding a way to make ends meet in these trying times.

They do have a mural in the store about 1/3rd of our food going to waste and 1-in-9 people facing food insecurity because they are a GOOD company that CARES about people. Gee, I wonder why the fuck that is when you make people buy more food than they need to get the best price and also charge people that can't afford to do that more per item? At least we can roundup at the register and they'll probably pass that money onto a charity to help people than can't afford food.

It's some fucking dystopian shit, man.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Oh, NOW you've done it. You've gone and got me started on the fucking grocery stores again. Thanks a lot, pal. Rant incoming.

They could get workers, but they don't want to. Or if they do, they don't want to pay them a livable wage. One person can cover 6 self-checkout stations so 2-3 employees could cover all of the self-scan stations at any given time --- but go in at 9 PM and you'll only find one set of 6 self-scans open and you STILL have to wait in line to buy a gallon of milk. Our Kroger even has a robot driving around the store doing inventory now. That's definitely better than a person. (Half the shit is still out-of-stock, of course). And now they are also outsourcing their office jobs. But surely all of that will mean that our grocery prices have gone down, right? Right?

And when you DO find a deal, you have to buy multiple items to get it -- you want a bag of Doritos? $6. But if you buy 2, we'll give you 2 more for free! Bug 5 of these miscellaneous items and get $1 each! 12-pack of soda? $11.99 each. But if you buy 2 on Thursday-Saturday, we'll give you 3 for free. What if I come in on Wednesday? Fuck you. How about Sunday? No, seriously, fuck you. Couldn't you just normalize the pricing and charge something reasonable everyday so people don't have to buy 5 12-packs of soda to get the best price? Fuck off and die, comrade! Make sure you have your have a shopper's card, or you don't get ANY deals! And did you clip the digital coupon? Gotta clip the digital coupon in our app that you have to have and that definitely isn't mining and selling your data! Oh, good job -- you dealt with all of our bullshit to get the best price. Guess what? We may still ring it up wrong when you checkout! But we won't let you find out until you've already checked out and paid. Because EVERYTHING rings up on the screen at full price and we only apply the discounts after you click "checkout". Oh, we charged you too much? Better go stand in line at customer service with everyone else we are overcharging. But only during certain hours when normal people are off working. Got overcharged at 10 PM? lol too fucking bad.

But at least Kroger managed to scrape together a spare $24B to try to buy Albertson's, so that's nice for them. Of course, that fell through and Albertson's is now suing them for $8B. Surely they'll learn their lesson --- what? Now they are trying to buy Giant Eagle for $1.65B? Cool, cool, cool. Glad they are still finding a way to make ends meet in these trying times.

They do have a mural in the store about 1/3rd of our food going to waste and 1-in-9 people facing food insecurity because they are a GOOD company that CARES about people. Gee, I wonder why the fuck that is when you make people buy more food than they need to get the best price and also charge people that can't afford to do that more per item? At least we can roundup at the register and they'll probably pass that money onto a charity to help people than can't afford food.

It's some fucking dystopian shit, man.
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You’re my spirit animal.

And this is why people saying AI will give us universal high income are full of shit. Fuck right off with that, the businesses will replace the workers and then pay out massive bonuses to the executives. The only way universal income happens at the behest of AI is if we basically embrace socialism.

Well considering the conservatives want AI but hate socialism and then the democrats hate AI but want socialism that ain’t happening.

Greedy sneaky fucks and it’ll get worse if they can replace the workers.
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
You’re my spirit animal.

And this is why people saying AI will give us universal high income are full of shit. Fuck right off with that, the businesses will replace the workers and then pay out massive bonuses to the executives. The only way universal income happens at the behest of AI is if we basically embrace socialism.

Well considering the conservatives want AI but hate socialism and then the democrats hate AI but want socialism that ain’t happening.

Greedy sneaky fucks and it’ll get worse if they can replace the workers.
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As someone who has been in the middle of this since about 2012 and have seen the numbers, labor budgets started shrinking right after covid hit as cost rose. The price of goods, the cost of everything from maintenance, minimum wage hikes, electricity and other hidden costs have gutted labor budgets, the only thing that can be controlled. It's not just us, go to and google reviews of any grocery store. You'll see the same thing. People complaining about not enough cashiers and having to use self check out. It also affects customer service as someone forced to do the job of three people get a bit surly when having to deal with angry customers. It's not pretty. We open at six, the first real cashier arrives at 7. In the meantime customers are force to use an unsupervised self check out and they rob us blind. When a rush hits clerks from other departments who have been trained to be cashiers are called to help out leaving departments under staffed in the meantime. Makes me remember this line from this movie
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Oh, NOW you've done it. You've gone and got me started on the fucking grocery stores again. Thanks a lot, pal. Rant incoming.

They could get workers, but they don't want to. Or if they do, they don't want to pay them a livable wage. One person can cover 6 self-checkout stations so 2-3 employees could cover all of the self-scan stations at any given time --- but go in at 9 PM and you'll only find one set of 6 self-scans open and you STILL have to wait in line to buy a gallon of milk. Our Kroger even has a robot driving around the store doing inventory now. That's definitely better than a person. (Half the shit is still out-of-stock, of course). And now they are also outsourcing their office jobs. But surely all of that will mean that our grocery prices have gone down, right? Right?

And when you DO find a deal, you have to buy multiple items to get it -- you want a bag of Doritos? $6. But if you buy 2, we'll give you 2 more for free! Bug 5 of these miscellaneous items and get $1 each! 12-pack of soda? $11.99 each. But if you buy 2 on Thursday-Saturday, we'll give you 3 for free. What if I come in on Wednesday? Fuck you. How about Sunday? No, seriously, fuck you. Couldn't you just normalize the pricing and charge something reasonable everyday so people don't have to buy 5 12-packs of soda to get the best price? Fuck off and die, comrade! Make sure you have your have a shopper's card, or you don't get ANY deals! And did you clip the digital coupon? Gotta clip the digital coupon in our app that you have to have and that definitely isn't mining and selling your data! Oh, good job -- you dealt with all of our bullshit to get the best price. Guess what? We may still ring it up wrong when you checkout! But we won't let you find out until you've already checked out and paid. Because EVERYTHING rings up on the screen at full price and we only apply the discounts after you click "checkout". Oh, we charged you too much? Better go stand in line at customer service with everyone else we are overcharging. But only during certain hours when normal people are off working. Got overcharged at 10 PM? lol too fucking bad.

But at least Kroger managed to scrape together a spare $24B to try to buy Albertson's, so that's nice for them. Of course, that fell through and Albertson's is now suing them for $8B. Surely they'll learn their lesson --- what? Now they are trying to buy Giant Eagle for $1.65B? Cool, cool, cool. Glad they are still finding a way to make ends meet in these trying times.

They do have a mural in the store about 1/3rd of our food going to waste and 1-in-9 people facing food insecurity because they are a GOOD company that CARES about people. Gee, I wonder why the fuck that is when you make people buy more food than they need to get the best price and also charge people that can't afford to do that more per item? At least we can roundup at the register and they'll probably pass that money onto a charity to help people than can't afford food.

It's some fucking dystopian shit, man.
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I’m guessing they were out of decaf?
 
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