You're Not Being Funny (Page 2): Hmmm, there goes my old fart routine! Now I've got to find some new material!

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

jerryc41 wrote:

I was talking to a friend who works the register i... (show quote)

Hmmm, there goes my old fart routine! Now I've got to find some new material!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Impressionist wrote:

Work long enough in any trade and one will hear the same lines. Premium or Regular before a barium enema always an ice breaker.

I think that would depend on the patient's insurance.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

firtree wrote:

Yes in an effort to appear friendly (which I'm really not:) I have made a comment or two when checking out. Lately, my reply to the cashier when he/she tells me how much I saved on this trip, has been "I would have saved a lot more by not coming in." Amazing the gambit of looks and reactions to that.

Yes, that's another common response.

machia Loc: NJ

I walked into a bakery yesterday for some Italian bread and when the baker walked out from the back I said to him; " What we're you doing back there , loafing ? "

bobbyp7714 Loc: Orange MA

I work in retail also. One of the answers I give to the question "do you know where the diapers are (or whatever they are looking for) ? I answer yes and wait. After about 30 seconds I'll ask if they want me to tell them where they are.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

bobbyp7714 wrote:

I work in retail also. One of the answers I give to the question "do you know where the diapers are (or whatever they are looking for) ? I answer yes and wait. After about 30 seconds I'll ask if they want me to tell them where they are.

It's okay to do that as long as they're not fidgeting and asking where the restrooms are.

Mark-VA

I guess I'd rather work with people who try to make conversation then stoic, unfriendly people. If you remember back to when UPC codes and scanners first came out, people didn't trust them so most stores had a policy that if it scanned wrong, it was free. That may be the source of the joke about it being free.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

machia wrote:

I walked into a bakery yesterday for some Italian bread and when the baker walked out from the back I said to him; " What we're you doing back there , loafing ? "

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Mark-VA wrote:

I guess I'd rather work with people who try to make conversation then stoic, unfriendly people. If you remember back to when UPC codes and scanners first came out, people didn't trust them so most stores had a policy that if it scanned wrong, it was free. That may be the source of the joke about it being free.

NYS has a rather sever law about food scanning incorrectly in supermarkets.

This is from Erie County, but I know there's a state law, too.

http://wivb.com/2015/10/05/overcharged-at-checkout-lane-get-even-with-a-super-refund/

And Michigan -

http://www.lawrefs.com/scanner-law/

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

Aincha got no sensayuma? Try this one on for size. As a clergyman I once joked to an undertaker that "We are the last people to let others down." The undertaker had hear it too much and didn't find it funny.

jct842

As far as those self check outs go, I just refuse to use them......They have put a low level worker out of work and I am not going to do that work for free! And yes I am sure I could do the scan just as well as a paid worker.

Kuzano

When they do the felt tip pen check on a 100 dollar bill and take it, I say, "Oh man, I'm glad it passed. I just printed it this morning and it's a quarter of an inch too long!"

Odd, no one has ever pulled out a tape measure?

Some originality helps a lot.

mikenolan Loc: Lincoln Nebraska

Making jokes about counterfeit money at a store is like making jokes about security at the airport--generally a bad idea. I'm not humor-challenged--at least not much (though my wife might disagree with that.) But I'm a barrel of laughs compared with the United States Secret Service.

Most of the local grocery stores here still have a policy that if there's a price difference on a scanned item you get that item free. (If you're buying multiples of the same item, only the first one is free.) I think I've utilized this policy maybe once in the last year.

Self-scanning checkout is a technology that still needs some maturity, I avoid it at WalMart but find it works OK at Sams Club (same parent company, different systems.)

Smudgey Loc: Ohio, Calif, Now Arizona

Part of the job is to be friendly and congenial with customers, which includes smiling and laughing at the jokes that you have heard a million times. Your friend should be grateful that it's a joke and not a complaint.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

jct842 wrote:

As far as those self check outs go, I just refuse to use them......They have put a low level worker out of work and I am not going to do that work for free! And yes I am sure I could do the scan just as well as a paid worker.

Most of the time there is a line at the cashiered checkout but the self-help has at least one free machine. Don't have to stand there and wait your turn. And if someone ahead of you has a problem then the wait is even longer.