Seattle is sounding better and better, seriously. I am ALL FOR avoiding personal contact!
At the movie theatre I usually go to, there are 4 ticket kiosks, and only rarely have to actually wait for one - more likely it's just that I don't want to go all the way over to the other side of the lobby to use an empty one so I CHOOSE to wait five minutes for one to free up - but the lines are always mobbed. I always thought it was something to do with people preferring to pay with cash (I don't even know if you can put cash in the kiosks or not, hm...) but yeah, I wonder if all those people in line don't really know what the kiosks are for.
Also, I used to buy my subway tokens from a machine even when there was a window open in the station, and more than once I have had the attendant SHOUT at me to come to the window, that the window is open, that I don't need to use the machine because the window is open - what else do I prefer that is automated... I like the order screens at the Wawas where you just order what you want on the touch screen and a ticket prints out and you go pick it up when it's ready. This avoids, one, the counter person (again) SHOUTING at me when I'm far, far, FAR away from the area you order your food from (and taking care not to make eye contact) CAN I HELP YOU? WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE? MISS! MISS! WHAT CAN I GET YOU? MISS! YOU CAN ORDER NOW! MISS! HELLO! MISS! CAN YOU HEAR ME? HELLO! and it also avoids me having to politely refuse constant upsells (no, I don't want a larger size than what I ordered, no, I don't want more than what I ordered, no, I don't also want this that and the other thing, and so on and so forth...)
Hmmm. Is shouting like that also unheard of in Seattle? Like hitting people with shopping carts? (I have been watching, and I have asked other people - it is NOT just me who gets run into with carts on a regular basis, especially when in line)
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Date: 2012-07-11 06:58 pm (UTC)At the movie theatre I usually go to, there are 4 ticket kiosks, and only rarely have to actually wait for one - more likely it's just that I don't want to go all the way over to the other side of the lobby to use an empty one so I CHOOSE to wait five minutes for one to free up - but the lines are always mobbed. I always thought it was something to do with people preferring to pay with cash (I don't even know if you can put cash in the kiosks or not, hm...) but yeah, I wonder if all those people in line don't really know what the kiosks are for.
Also, I used to buy my subway tokens from a machine even when there was a window open in the station, and more than once I have had the attendant SHOUT at me to come to the window, that the window is open, that I don't need to use the machine because the window is open - what else do I prefer that is automated... I like the order screens at the Wawas where you just order what you want on the touch screen and a ticket prints out and you go pick it up when it's ready. This avoids, one, the counter person (again) SHOUTING at me when I'm far, far, FAR away from the area you order your food from (and taking care not to make eye contact) CAN I HELP YOU? WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE? MISS! MISS! WHAT CAN I GET YOU? MISS! YOU CAN ORDER NOW! MISS! HELLO! MISS! CAN YOU HEAR ME? HELLO! and it also avoids me having to politely refuse constant upsells (no, I don't want a larger size than what I ordered, no, I don't want more than what I ordered, no, I don't also want this that and the other thing, and so on and so forth...)
Hmmm. Is shouting like that also unheard of in Seattle? Like hitting people with shopping carts? (I have been watching, and I have asked other people - it is NOT just me who gets run into with carts on a regular basis, especially when in line)