what irritates you Monday
Welcome back to what irritates you Monday. This meme was began by Delores and I'm having fun being able to air some of my irritations publicly. Irritation #3 is related to work. "if you have a flybuys* card, please scan it now". When scanning customers items we are required to ask if they have a FlyBuys * card. When using the self-serve checkouts however, the machine does the asking. As soon as you select "start" on the touch screen, a voice asks you to "please scan your first item". Fair enough. And then it reminds you about the card. "If you have a FlyBuys* card, please scan it now". But it doesn't stop there. It continues to "remind" you at short (very short) intervals until you've finished your shopping, paid and taken your receipt. I bought one item yesterday and in the time it took me to start, scan and pay, the machine requested that I scan a flybuys card four times. FOUR. When I touched on ...