Process of Elimination?

Process of Elimination?

by Serendipitous | Published on August 19th, 2009, 10:40 pm | Life

Evidently, the process of elimination just isn't obvious enough for everyone.

Every few days, I go to my neighborhood Food Lion to pick up a few items on my way home from work. Most of the time, I find myself in the same express line and I almost always use a debit card, as many customers do. I have noticed the wear on the PIN pad... and it seems so have others.

YES was written in Sharpie next to the oval button above NO. It seems YES had worn off from being pressed a lot (the most?), and folks needed a little help finding the YES button. But a few days later, I saw this...

Are you ready?

Think you can handle it?

When the big YES isn't enough, you must add a smaller YES as well as arrows POINTING to the button. :doh:

Maybe being in the express line, folks just don't have time for process-of-elimination games? Or maybe they really need everything spelled out for them. :think:

Although you could really mess with them and write.... "Maybe" with an arrow to it.

Sometimes I have to wonder if this country really deserves computers. We seems to also have a lot of trouble using vehicles with 4 wheels and a motor for some reason...

Just remember, when dealing with the general public you have to make reservation for the lowest common denominator.

Me and Rhys were talking about this the other day.... What would the McDonald's employee do without the picture of the bigmax on his register in lieu of a calculator like register?

Liv wrote:Me and Rhys were talking about this the other day.... What would the McDonald's employee do without the picture of the bigmax on his register in lieu of a calculator like register?

Not sure but Mickey D's would be forced to pay higher wages.

I thought they paid them in French fries.

Sanjuro wrote:Just remember, when dealing with the general public you have to make reservation for the lowest common denominator.

I don't know -- Around here, the lowest common denominator might be "illiterate." Meaning maybe the buttons should be green or red, like traffic lights.

Liv wrote:I thought they paid them in French fries.

So yeah -- super-sized fries twice a week for the upper echelon.

Hey one of my first thoughts after quiting my job was going and doing the "American Beauty" thing... and say "give me the job with the least responsibility"...

Okay, I work at Food Lion, truuust me we get all kinds. Do you know how many times a day we have to explain the most obvious thiings to people? What's so funny is that we have people come in wearing business suits and asking "what does hot mean"? Scary some of these people are high ranking, highly paid and running businesses we rely on. They will hold up a box of "spicy zings" and "mild dings" and ask, "which chicken wings are the hot ones?" OMG We have people bringing back food out of our hot bar all the time because when we hand write the time on the chickens (marking the clock picture with AM and Pm after the number) they believe it is the price of the food rather than the time. Yeah, ok, use your brains people, do we really charge $1.30 for an entire oven roasted chicken? I could go on all day long about stupid customers. :roll:

SouthernFriedInfidel wrote:
Sanjuro wrote:Just remember, when dealing with the general public you have to make reservation for the lowest common denominator.

I don't know -- Around here, the lowest common denominator might be "illiterate." Meaning maybe the buttons should be green or red, like traffic lights.

There you go making sense!

This was at the Lowe's express checkout.

Just got back from Food Lion and ours has a green arrow taped on because "yes" wore out.... (and we thought of this thread)...

I would also like to say how dehumanizing it feels when you can't afford the $500+ dollars of school supplies the kids need to start school... I'm ready to cry.

$500? You can't be serious. Hyperbolic, right?

No I'm serious....

I feel inhuman right now... I'm trying to figure out how to buy food for the weekend....

The school has one list we have to buy for and then each class has a list....

Like 8 Clorox wipes, mustard ketchup, forks, spoons, 3 types of zip lock bags, batteries, film, sissors, hand cleaner, play doh, plates, cleaner, paper, etc...

Then the fees... for their readers, and science subscriptions....

Then snacks daily, and for the class... plus we have to buy or pack the kids lunch from dominos, chick-fila....

We're just outclassed.... I feel like a horrible parent barely keeping up with all this....

We haven't even gotten to buying the kids clothes or shoes yet....

Makes you feel like a (expletive) parent....

The other day when I was in our local Food Lion (not my store) my attention was drawn to the handwriting on a school supply donation list. They had these lists on the checkstands and someone had noticed that the word children was mispelled and took a marker and hand wrote it on the sign. I chuckled and then noticed not only had they spelled chirden but had also : sisors and highliters on the sign that no one had yet noticed. I brought it to their attention and had to explain the mistakes. I was joking and said "boy the schools around here really do need donations if they are teaching graduates to spell these signs." Holy smokes I think that sign had been up for a few weeks before any one (including myself) had noticed. Terrible.

Poor spelling skills is a rampant problem. I have seen truly terrible spelling and grammar in memos at every place I have worked. I understand that my command of the language is far from perfect, but when I see some of the stuff that comes to me in mass mailings from company directors or veeps -- it just makes me sad.

And of course, having spelling checkers hasn't helped at all. They make people lazy about their spelling efforts, and too often, they don't even bother to notice the auto-corrected words that automagically appear now as they type. With mostly hilarious results. Sometimes tragic, but you know what? That's a learning opportunity.
:think:

I saw what SFI originally wrote before he put it through his translator/spell check:

SouthernFriedInfidel wrote:POOR SPELLIN SKILLS IZ RAMPANT PROBLEM. I HAS SEEN TRULY TERRIBLE SPELLIN AN GRAMMAR IN MEMOS AT EVRY PLACE I HAS WERKD. I UNDERSTAND DAT MAH COMMAND OV TEH LANGUAGE IZ FAR FRUM PERFIK, BUT WHEN I C SUM OV TEH STUFF DAT COMEZ 2 ME IN MAS MAILINGS FRUM COMPANY DIRECTORS OR VEEPS -- IT JUS MAKEZ ME SAD.
AN OV COURSE, HAVIN SPELLIN CHECKERS HASNT HELPD AT ALL. THEY MAK PEEPS LAZY BOUT THEIR SPELLIN EFFORTS, AN 2 OFTEN, THEY DOAN EVEN BOTHR 2 NOTICE TEH AUTO-CORRECTD WERDZ DAT AUTOMAGICALLY APPEAR NAO AS THEY TYPE. WIF MOSTLY HILARIOUS RESULTS. SOMETIMEZ TRAGIC, BUT U KNOE WUT? THAZ LERNIN OPPORTUNITY.

Look as long as I've be online, everyone knows my grammar and spelling is less than perfect. It has however gotten better through the years.... and I'm under the belief even the worse spellers shouldn't be excluded from communicating or creating art because of it....

..that's why we have spell checkers.... I live by mine... and occasionally I still get it all wrong....

What I can't stand is pompousness...

I use to go into work and they'd bitch how stupid we were then hang up a huge 8 foot poster to welcome clients that costed $500 to print and something would be printed wrong...

I'm sorry.. that's fair game.

did you say costed? August 21st, 2009, 8:34 pm Reply with quote

did you say costed?

shannon wrote:did you say costed?

it's costeded..dededed....

[define]costed[/define]

English
Verb costed

Simple past tense and past participle of cost.
We've costed the project at £1,000,000.

Liv wrote:[define]costed[/define]

English
Verb costed

Simple past tense and past participle of cost.
We've costed the project at £1,000,000.

verbally accostededed?

Hey I'm a product of Guilford County School systems.... the irony, that I would one day create a website written by me an illiterate, grammar butcher... is just hilarious....

...I is what I is....

Now where's my crackin' spinach.