Job: cashier

Item doesn’t scan

Customer: “That means it’s free, right?”

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Only about 4 weeks in as a cashier and I’ve heard this enough to last me a lifetime.

  • EleventhHour
    5•5 months ago

    I hate to break it to you, but even with the knobby versions, it’s still electronic under the hood. But I know what you mean about the annoying bleeps and bloops. Again, though, the Samsungs were always the worst offenders in that regard, omg…

    GEs make little noise, and LGs are pretty low-key. Whirlpools and Maytags just beep a couple of times.

    • bizarroland
      6•5 months ago

      When I bought my house it came with an induction stove.

      I thought it was pretty great being able to boil water in 2 minutes.

      It was a GE profile, and it just suddenly mysteriously failed on me. Kind of sucks, it wasn’t that old of a stove, maybe 5 years.

      The board that it needed to have replaced cost $1,700.

      So I said fuck that, I went and bought a Whirlpool induction stove. $900.

      It has worked really well for the last year and a half, but the one thing that I truly and honestly despise about it is that the controls are capacitive touch and that means instead of flicking your wrist and setting it on medium heat you have to hit a button to turn on the stove and then hit a different button three or four times to adjust it down to medium heat and it doesn’t always respond to the button touches.

      If I end up having to buy a stove again in the future, it’s got to have a knob on it. It’s such a tiny thing but it’s so fucking annoying.

      • EleventhHour
        2•5 months ago

        I’ll say this about GE appliances, until they were bought by Haier in 2016, they sucked too. But once they were bought out by Haier, their quality improved remarkably, and so did their customer service. They’re pretty great now.

        • @[email protected]
          2•5 months ago

          I’ve had exactly two dishwashers completely stop functioning in my entire life. Both were GE post Haier and within the last 6 years. Also had a Haier made GE microwave completely fail.

          I replaced the microwave (and the matching stove) with Samsung and haven’t had one bit of trouble with either.

          I thought I had just gotten a lemon, but three separate failures within a couple of years has really soured my opinion of them. I was a lot more worried about the Samsung appliances I bought, but they’ve been a dream.

          Note: I am not recommending Samsung appliances, at all. I got an amazing deal and fully expected them to fail shortly after the warranty was up. I’ve had to repair several of my friends and family’s washers, dryers, and refrigerators. Samsung’s poor reputation is well earned, I just got lucky

    • cheesymoonshadowOP
      4•5 months ago

      Of course they’ve been electronic for decades, but lately it seems they have overdone it so the thing actually becomes less convenient. Kinda like in cars.

      • EleventhHour
        5•5 months ago

        And some of the high-end models yes, but there’s still a wide range available with different levels of “functionality.”

        You should check out Electrolux. They make some really nice laundry appliances without any smart features at all. They’re great.

    • @over_clox
      0•5 months ago

      Have you ever rebuilt and repaired old electrical appliances? An old microwave with a turn dial timer is most certainly not electronic. Electrical sure, but not electronic.

      Those only basically have a mechanical timer dial, high voltage transformer, high voltage diode, magnetron, light, fan, turntable motor, fuse, and some safety switches for the door.

      Absolutely nothing electronic about them, they’re as dumb as an old-school toaster, they just happen to use high voltage to generate microwaves instead.

      • EleventhHour
        3•5 months ago

        i’m not referring to old appliances

        • @over_clox
          -1•5 months ago

          Well, generally speaking, most people discussing the benefits of appliances and stuff with turn dials are referring to older/simpler appliances, back before they started adding in unnecessary electronics and ‘features’ and stuff.

          I’ve never actually seen any microwave with a turn dial that has any sort of electronics in them, those are all built almost identical in schematics, aside from different sizes and wattages.

          • EleventhHour
            3•5 months ago

            Well, generally speaking, most people discussing the benefits of appliances and stuff with turn dials are referring to older/simpler appliances, back before they started adding in unnecessary electronics and ‘features’ and stuff.

            i don’t know why you’d assume that. lots of current/new appliances are still made with dials and knobs. in fact, most are.

            also, you’re the only one here discussing microwaves. so far, others and myself have been discussing refrigerators and laundry appliances.

            • @over_clox
              -3•5 months ago

              OP mentioned microwave ovens in the comment that you responded with “I hate to break it to you…”, so yeah guess you missed something there.

              • EleventhHour
                4•5 months ago

                i guess you missed the part when i said “i wasn’t referring to old appliances,” because you’re only talking about old microwaves.

                and since you’re clearly just here to troll and argue. i’m blocking you.

                bye.

          • @grueEnglish
            2•5 months ago

            referring to older/simpler appliances

            I think his point is that older and simpler can’t be equated like that, because new simple appliances are still electronic, not electromechanical anymore.