Ugh, working under managers like that is rough. Sorry you have to, askye

I was thinking this morning how I've spent the last 40 years intermittently working cash registers (some fairly long stretches where I don't touch one and lately it's once or twice a year with the outlet sales only, but the habits come right back every time) and how the rote things I say to customers have change over time. Just a couple of years ago I had "you can take your card back" burned into my brain as "Remove your card" popped up on my screen but nothing beeped for customers to hear but I hardly ever say that this year, everyone is ready to tap and just needs help finding the right spot. A far cry from actually counting back change and writing DL#s on checks

everyone is ready to tap and just needs help finding the right spot.

I feel like one of my Boomer traits is being utterly confounded when the place I *think* I should tap isn't the right spot. (Please note that the place I think I should tap is usually the screen, while the right spot is just sitting there with the correct icon on it, clearing its throat at me.)

(This post bought to you by my ability to slow down the self-checkout line at Aldi.)

On the devices we now use for the outlet sale (we switched from registers to handhelds that are kind of in between a phone and a tablet a couple years ago) the spot to tap IS on the screen. Which is also confusing since so often it isn't.

the spot to tap IS on the screen. Which is also confusing since so often it isn't.

This is why I end up causing a backup in the checkout at Aldi, dang it!

The spot to tap should always be in the same place!

At least anyone having trouble getting that to work in my line doesn't have to feel bad about keeping people waiting as the wait for the receipt to print will always be longer and there's nothing any of us can do about it

(That was weird, I hit Read New and it came up as a blank post)

(There's a nonzero chance I actually hit Post by accident. See above re: I am also very old and sometimes click wrong things)

Co-signed on all of that up there.

In dentist chair waiting for a couple of small fillings. I'm holding off on the crown replacement for now. My wallet hurts too much, even with dental "insurance." Just need to breathe for a couple of months.

Also just got an estimate for cosmetic work on my pre-molar to pre-molar up-top teeth, and it was way more reasonable than I was expecting. Still need to budget it out, but... I think it'll be doable.

Good luck with dentistry!

Agree they need to standardize where to tap for tap to pay.

Going to have computer maintence done today--that ought to turn my frown upside down. As if. Count me in on the whole tapping thing, even if I'm not usually the one that does it.(Also, touchscreens really aren't easier for EVERYONE--ask me how. Sometimes I could kill Steve Jobs again for sticking me with that without an alternate. Even if he is the only tech overlord I'd have a smoothie with. Kind of ripped some guy for being all "Well, actually, there is a lot of healthcare fraud," but, since he was a stranger, I held off on the "Regulating The Poor" monologue. This time.(it won't be fully sad if I lose track of Facebook, which was, like almost everything in my adult life, supposed to be fun and ended up "demented and sad, but social."