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so, this new chip and pin business.
tell me, when you're serving a customer, do you prefer them to stick the card in themselves, or to hand it to you so you can do it?
i never know. and thought i would seek opinions.
tell me, when you're serving a customer, do you prefer them to stick the card in themselves, or to hand it to you so you can do it?
i never know. and thought i would seek opinions.
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can't win. scary as fuck asda, that one. tis a shame, cause they're cheap and they do good food :thumb:
The queue started to stretch out the bloody door as I kept fucking up, and I could see she was getting stressed. I asked her if she could just sort so all I had to do was type my pin in and she called me an idiot.
I went off my head and and made a complete tit of myself. My mates were in stitches.
are you on about the same asda we all know, its terrible there
At the two Asdas I visit here, they want you to do it. And glare if you don't.
Maybe your assistant was just a plank.
A bit odd really, seeing as we've just had a refit and have lots of new stuff. And the proper tills have them, so why shouldn't our little cafe till?
On a side note, I've never used a chip and pin thingy. Woe is me.
lucky. they are the bane of my life. i have two debit cards and two credit cards, and remembering all the pin numbers is a pain in the arse.
Ours Tesco's rocks. They've just installed a system where you scan in the stuff yourself. Then pay to a machine. No till staff needed. It's fun :hyper:
Us too...and I doubt we'll be getting a chip and pin bugger any time soon. Shop's meant to be closing down...I only started on Saturday too. Mih.
We have had them for a while and they are well scary this lady shouting unknown item on the conveyabelt at you.
I work at tesco and we have the chip and pin things but whenever i scan cards into the tills it never prompts me to use it and you just get signing recipts as normal? Which im assuming is kind of odd.
HAHA NO U FREAKS NOW U CAN LEAVE ME ALONE AND GET A LIFE
im very passionate on the subject
bad day?
Anyhoo, I like to put the card in myself, and stuff the assisstant
But I'm not sure there is a rule yet, and some till operators cannot understand that I am clever enough to be able to put my card in the machine without being told to.
Sainsbury's have had that for ages. Thieves!
But that might be because our chip and pin thingies are behind the tills and you have to hand them to them anyways.
heee
it's 'fun' in that it's kinda like a game where you get to be the till boy/girl and swear at items when they don't scan properly, then place it on the conveyor which then tells you to put it on the conveyor (yes, i typed that twice for a reason) whilst it actually thinks about what you've done.
this whole process takes roughly 5x longer than if you'd not be an antisocial dickhead and actually go to a till with a person manning it.
and to answer the question, i like to put the card in, as not all cards do the chip and pin thingy so customer puts it in, our till goes 'nope' then they hand it to me anyway to play with.... saves fuss.
However, ours is in a pretty awkward place for us, so I'm guessing we'll be expecting customers to put it in themselves...
I haven't used one yet, I've only just had my new card come through, so I am a complete newbie to the whole chip and pin concept
I have to do it all the time at work.
Just now you can do that. After new year shops wont be as keen because then they would be liable if the card was being used fraudulently.
I know.
Perish the thought that someone would want to take their money out of their bank account in the way most conveinent to them.
Your best bet is probably a proper job, you know.
You work at a bank right? And you work on the tills? Hmm There was me thinking that it was you job to give people money from their accont....funny that....