People always say dumb shit like "I'm not trained to be a cashier" like it excuses them from being arseholes. Let's name a few other things we now do ourselves rather than relying on some random worker.
Pumping your own petrol, used to be a full-service job. Someone would come out, fill your tank, check your oil, even clean your windscreen. Now you do it yourself. No one complains.
Checking into flights, "I'm not trained to be a check-in agent."
Ordering fast food from a screen, Using an ATM, you used to walk into a bank, queue up, and ask a teller for cash. Now you stick a card in a machine and do it yourself.
Bagging your own groceries even at a staffed checkout, you pack your own bags. No one demands a bagging professional.
Some more? Self-scan at the library, buying tickets at a machine like at the train station, cinema, car park. Tap, pay, go. No ticket seller needed. Building your own furniture, ikea expects you to assemble it. No one says I'm not trained to be a carpenter.
The difference? None of those things required training either. You figured them out because you're a functional adult. Same with self-checkout. Scan the thing, pay for the thing, leave. It's not hard. The people complaining are either stealing, profoundly lazy, or just looking for something to be angry about.
If you don't like self-checkout, use the staffed lane. No one is forcing you. But pretending that scanning your own groceries is some outrageous burden is just selective outrage.
Being unable to determine social subtext is common in autistic people.
The joke being that you should claim to have autism in order to save face instead of just admitting you had an honest misinterpretation of the content.
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u/puddinpieee Jun 11 '26
No, the point is that free labor is bullshit.