Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Blogging Comes of Age ...
There is a golden thermometer that I and others use for technology known generally as the Tesco Checkout Girl Test (TCGT). This is the test of what happens when someone, with often limited ability, has to use technology in order to carry out their job tasks, such as credit card checkers, changing till rolls, rebooting an electric till etc. It comes as a shock to me then to have been standing in a queue in my local Tesco tonight and hear two checkout girls discussing the optimal ways to ensure comment moderation in their blogs and discussing the merits of Blogger versus MySpace, Facebook or TagWorld. In fact when it came to my turn to be served I went and stood in another queue and left them to it so I could listen some more.
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Guido Fawkes
9 comments:
That wasn't a girl, it was Tim Ireland.
I work at Tescos,and its a bit of a generalization to assume that we live in some sort of feudal bubble, you know
Nice assumption that checkout operators are all stoopid.
Hopefully some of them will read this and smash your eggs, preferably in your face, next time you are in the store.
Bigotted tosser.
Ok I will, for the sensibilities of those who insist that any attitude toward checkout staff must equate to fascism (??), change the title from "Tesco Checkout Girl Test" to "Non-specific Retail Outlet Checkout Person Test".
I trust that this will bring a nice warm glow to those Jade Goody fans who can now vent their moral outrage that someone would ever dare to suggest that your average checkout staff is lacking in technological aptitude.
What about checkout staff who can't confidently identify the basic groceries they sell? The worst example I recall was a lad who, picking up a bag from the conveyor, asked me "Do you know if these are plums at all?". (they were).
Nice one anon. I once went to a Presto (pre-Safeways takeover, pre-Morrisons takeover of Safeways) and asked for Anchovies, since I couldn't see any.
They directed me to the breakfast cereal shelves...
I used to be a Tesco's Checkout Girl part time while I was at college and I knew all about technology. Can't remember having anyone else there to discuss it with, though.
Maybe you should try the test at PC World. I once had to explain to a PC World employee what a KVM switch was (they sell them).
Doh! It's not the Tesco referebce per se that's the problem. Its not churlish to think that the line "when someone, with often limited ability" is insulting.
For someone accusing others of being stupid you're a bit thick.
Did you get a start in Daddys company or something?
You ought to be careful about putting your bag of plums on the belt:
http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-10.html
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