Some people slow down when people are behind them. This holds true no matter the location or circumstance. For some its the thought of having some control in their life. Even if that control consists of being a dick length.
They only took two minutes too but there’s a time dilation field that increases the closer you get to the front of the line.
You are intrinsically more likely to get stuck behind people who spend a long time there than people who spend a short time there, even if the effective people outnumber the ineffective people by roughly under the same factor of how many times longer the ineffective people take
Yup. Survivor bias, just like when people say modern online dating sucks, one of the contributing factors is it’s rotating the same shitty people through the pool, because the good ones have already matched or left in frustration and gone permanently.
Maybe you have a small package
mailed it
Or, if you prefer
boom, posted
Ahem, that would be median
Me placing the box on the scale with the prepaid label facing the employee:
“I printed the label and sealed the box, it’s all ready for you.”The other customer with an armful of loose items:
“How do I make these go different places?”us: “The package contains no lithium batteries. Here’s a list of the contents on the customs declaration and a receipt for the duties paid.”
them: “I have to bring my own box?! Isn’t it your job to give me one for free? Also, whaddayamean I can’t send cigarettes to my nephew back in my home country?!”
Everybody laughing at this comment needs to know that THIS DOES HAPPEN. Ex-employee had to return her laptop, so we send a UPS return label via e-mail. She shows up at the UPS store with the laptop in hand and is surprised when they tell her it needs to be in a box. We received the laptop inside the wildest combination of two boxes taped back-to-back and filled with garbage that didn’t even form effective packing material.
Some people have literally never shipped anything in their life before, despite being 30 🤷
I’ve never shipped anything through a UPS store but their website explicitly states that they offer packing services.
Yeah they sell boxes and shit there. I don’t know what that other commenter is complaining about. I’ve had to ship laptops back to employers. Usually they first ship you an empty box specifically for shipping laptops. It even includes a sticker you put on the outside about lithium batteries or whatever. I’d say it’s more the company’s fault and not this ex-employee’s fault for how the laptop is returned. Plus I’ve had to return laptops to places where I’ve been laid off. They’re lucky I didn’t piss on the thing and take a hammer to it. They can be happy they are getting back anything at all. Send a goddamn shipping box for Jesus.
A guy in front of me: what do you mean I can’t send black pudding to my friend on the other side of the country? I promised him I would send it. It doesn’t matter it’s bank holiday weekend, who cares that blood based perishable product would be in transit for a week and stink to high heaven, I promised!
That went on for at least 20 minutes. I had queued for a few hours and lost my will to live
I actually know a way he could have shipped it, but he probably wouldn’t want to pay that much.
Freeze the black pudding, flash freeze if you have access to a commercial flash freezer. I don’t know what the shops would be called in the UK, but here in the US you’d go to an industrial supply company like Granger, grab a styrofoam cooler as the “box”, grab some packing peanuts as filler, and purchase half a pound of dry ice. Seal that up and the food can be in transit for up to 1.5 weeks without worries.
Just relax, Tex. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and you’re going to be doing what you love soon.
The people working there have a tough enough job. Make their day better by being chill and lighten the room.
I don’t know what post office you’re using, but I might consider moving there, that’s not how mine works :)
A friend of mine made a game of this. At the grocery store, she labels people with “Oh Shit I Have To Pay?” Syndrome.
Her and her daughter text each other every time they encounter a person who somehow arrives at a cashier completely unprepared, who somehow managed to stand in line for several minutes and didn’t realize that they had to actually do something when they reached the front of the line.
Zomg, I had this issue at an event the other day.
It’s a baseball game with pizza food trucks. When you arrive you are given 10 tickets which effectively work like cash.
Go to the food truck, order and give tickets. Easy.
There are only two trucks because some had to back out. Lines are long, I’m in line for about 45 minutes, but I’m watching a baseball game nearby so no big deal. Truck I’m at has a giant sign “pepperoni or cheese 4 tickets”.
By the time the people just in front of me get to the order taker I hear the conversation
Lady: “I don’t know how many tickets I have, how much pizza I can order, but I want 16 pieces of cheese”.
Order taker: “you have 40 tickets”
Lady: “what does that mean?”
45 minutes in line specifically for food, she doesn’t read the sign, count her tickets, prepare a plan, nothing.
Well if the average Americans reading proficiency is the same as a 4th grader some of them straight up can’t read the signs.
Lol that’s why the line was so long in the first place. Probably half the people in that line did the same thing.
Which is exactly true. I met up with the truck owner as he has a brick and mortar near my library. He said like 50% of people had no idea what to do when they got there.
Dude said he made a killing though, he was there like 4 hours and made 1400 bucks.
When sending mail like in the meme I get it what people could do wrong. You can prepare much there.
But how in the world is someone unprepared at a normal grocery store? I just lay my items down. Wait. Then the cashier scans, while scanning I take the items and put them into my Bag. Then I say that I want to pay with card, and I take out my card, hold it against the money-vanish-machine until it beeps and say goodbye. There is nothing to prepare. So what in the world could be unprepared for some customers? I’m actually curious. Are there idiots that like don’t even place down the items or what xD
She calls it "Oh Shit I Have to Pay?” because that’s the step that most people completely tune out. They’ll put their items down, wait for the cashier to scan them, get everything bagged and then when the cashier says “that’ll be XXX” people just snap out of it like they’re dreaming and then fumble around to find their card. Like the step was completely unexpected. “Oh shit, I have to pay for all this?!”
How do people like that remember how to breathe?
while scanning I take the items and put them into my Bag
well, see, right there’s your problem
Oh so you just leave the shop while leaving your items behind?
This is so many people. It’s astounding. So many people just seem completely overwhelmed at all times no matter where they are or what they’re doing and cannot simply prepare for what comes next. I suspect a large part of it is they’re just distracted on their phone like zombies.
Preparation.
Nah, last time I sent something I had several questions for the person at the counter and I still finished in a quarter of the time of the other people. There has to be something more.
Introverts vs extroverts.
Some don’t mind shooting the shit and chatting.
Ever been to a mail counter in a southern state? It is brutal
Hmm maybe
I want to send my grandson this claymore. Where do I put the stamp?
Sword or landmine?
Yes.
Sword for my son and claymore with this side toward enemy to my evil step mother
I was checking out at Aldi the other day, and I shit you not, the woman in front of me with a huge cart of groceries waited until it was her turn to start slowly putting her things on the belt one by one.
Power play or stupidity? No matter either way, if you show reaction you lose
