Boomers please take note

[Crushingdandelions]

First sign you're of a certain age...you always pay in cash and count out every last frickin' bit of change no matter how big the queue is behind you.

Just don't? Use a card please. I don't want to count out your 5p pieces.

Also - why do you need a receipt when you have bought 2 items worth £1.49?

I'd report again and ask them to check if the OP has stated their age in the past, and if it matches up.

These are her only posts under this username.

I'm older than the Op and spent many years behind a till and really enjoyed it despite low pay. Just thought the Op should know what it feels like to be unfairly categorised.

I'm a boomer (I am 63 so only just). I always pay using my card and I rarely ask for a receipt. I am extremely tech savvy. Even my DM who is 85 will tap her card and won't always ask for a receipt. Stop being so ageist.

I have an old humungous jar full of 1p and 2p coins I can bring in too (plus some pfennigs, pesetas and Lira). I could happily while away 10 mins paying for my Daim bar and Writers Weekly.

Exactly! I used to hate the till calculating it for me - I like to use my brain. I remember once I was served by soneone, it was something like £3.20 so I gave them £5. They rang it through and as they hit the button, realised I had the 20p. I said “I’ve got the 20p if that’s easier” - the look of panic on their face as they said it didn’t made me realise some people do leave school without having learned basic maths. I recognise that I have a head for numbers, but I’m sure most kids play “shopkeeper” at some point and have to work out the change etc - is it really that hard?

I am 65 and always pay with the app on my phone. I haven't seen anyone counting out change for years. 70/80 yrs - bank cards. Just a few people of all ages with cash. Ageist bollocks on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

Oh do fuck off OP

I am not a boomer. That word is an offensive to me as the N word is to Black people. I was born in 1944 so officially I belong to the so-called Silent generation. However I am far from silent.

I am 81. I have a doctorate in Human Computer Interaction and am currently working on an AI research project. And how I pay for things is my own bloody business missy.

Do you work in a small shop @Crushingdandelions?
Im a boomer! You wouldn’t like me either as I pay cash and, even more annoying, I use self serve at the supermarket and let my grandchildren put the cash in the machine AND always want a receipt.
What if the item is faulty and you want to return it?
Or you are buying for someone else and need to show the £?
Or (as in my daughters case) you are asked to prove you have paid for the items on leaving the supermarket but didn’t ask for a receipt?
I will continue to pay cash when it’s just a piece of garlic and a courgette, I don’t want my statement cluttered
with loads of tiny transactions.
Maybe get a job in a mortuary?

Do you let your grandchildren put stuff through, smiling indulgently, while people are queuing up ?

Apparently, I'm a Jones - this means that we're in with the cool kids like Michelle Obama.

I've not aged as well as she has. On the plus side, I get my state pension in a month or so. "Woot!" [Is that X speak?]

I'm allowed to say this, I think: Arse-end Boomers. I think it's '59 to '64? (Someone's probably answered by now, but I'm beginning a campaign right now to my right to be referred to as an Arse-end Boomer.)

[Primly] I think you'll find that it starts a wee bit earlier than that. I'm going to have to look it up now.

Now I realise that I'm an OLD Arse End Boomer. sigh

No I don’t, but there are plenty of tills for anyone else waiting to use them, it’s not busy at that time.
It takes the same amount of time
as I’m packing the shopping while they do it!

I once tried to swipe a £20 across the card machine in the wee Co-op. It's my age...

You can fuck right off with your 'Boomers' comment.
My life is on my phone and laptop for all things financial and investments...but if you work behind a till I guess you won't have much of that going on.
What a twaty ageist comment.

I was once stopped in Morrison's and was only saved by my receipt.

The Security Guard insisted that I walked straight out of the booze aisle. Fibber!

In actual fact, I'd come straight from the till. He homed in on my bottle of lemonade, looked through my receipt and turned bright red...then muttered something about only doing his job.

I never saw him again - I'm assuming that he found it too stressful.

Our morrisons now have a gate that you need to scan your receipt at self service to get out,

Can I point out that 'twatty' has two 't's ?

As to the boomer comments - I am stating facts; as unpalatable that is for everyone here today 😃. I have never had a youngster count out change painstakingly.

I am remarkably patient with all and sundry and was venting frustrations on here only.

Yeah I can work out change without a computer - thanks.

This is a retirement job as I didn't make enough money as an airline pilot 😅

I work on the checkouts and know what you mean OP.

If it's very busy(we get busier in the summer with tourists), it can be frustrating if someone is faffing about with cash. We cant have that much money in the till either. We have to put it in the counter cache, so if someone gave me say £150 in mostly £10 notes, it holds the queue up, while I sort it out. People seem to have less patience these days too. If it's quiet though, i dont mind at all.

Being ageist and being 63 aren't mutually exclusive.

I am not of the age bracket you are "venting" about if I use money and cards and id I have a purse full of change i will count it out, I don't want to swipe for a bottle of milk or whatever so I use small change, I shall think of your irritation of your older customers as I am counting my 5ps 😀

You can point it out. How is a misspelled word or typo relevant to the discussion? Nitpicking like that can be deemed NITS.

I don’t think customer service sounds like the right fit for you as a job.

maybe try something with less people interaction.

if your shop takes cash, they can pay with pennies if they so wish.

I in-fact imagine your face & you huffing & puffing when these scenarios happen, I would take pleasure in taking in just pennies to pay the next time & you having to count them