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Comment Re:Speed and cost (Score 1) 294

...desk monkey hired for their appearance...

I think the manager that hires the majority of the people for their appearance needs to be fired. I see way too many troglodytes mashing keys in stores. There are a few attractive people working behind counters, but for the most part they are hideous creatures that belong under a bridge or in a carnival freak show.

Comment Re:Problem Solved (Score 1) 294

This will work except when the customer orders a small, medium, or large. Coffee shops like to use italian for their coffee sizes. I don't speak italian, so I don't know if Venti, Tall, or Grande is the bigger size. Keep your coffee down (here in the USA) to small, medium or large please. I hear it everytime, I pass a starbucks "I'll have whatever the large is". Solve that problem and coffee ordering will be easier. That and if someone orders a coffee with no other verbs, you just get him a cup of damn, black (with cream and sugar) coffee.

Comment Re:sorry but (Score 1) 294

You're not alone, it doesn't really work for some americans, either. Especially the americans with a strong southern accent. I get a kick out of listening to how many times some of the people I know, with strong southern accents, repeat themselves over the phone to a automated voice system.
I usually have an easier time understanding a Brit, unless he's using cockney, than some people in my own country.

Comment Re:A Kiosk won't upgrade me (Score 1) 294

I must be doing it wrong. You are supposed to tip the hotel check-in person, too?

Will these people get a nametag that instead of their name, says "You are supposed to tip me". How am I supposed to know who to tip and who not to tip? Are we supposed to tip everyone nowadays? We already tip the baggage handler, the valet, the hotel cleaning staff, and the elevator guy. How many more people do I have to support, because employers are too cheap to pay their staff?

Bring out the Manager, perhaps they need a tip, as well. Sorry for the rant about tipping, not because I am cheap, but because it is becoming a PITA to figure out who to tip, who not to tip, and how much to tip. Also, frustrating to carry around that many single bills in my pocket. I just really wished they started including all these tips into the room cost and stop nickle and diming me.

Comment Re:Place item in bagging area (Score 1) 294

Not around here. When the kiosks first came out, no one used them (was a wonderful line skipping time for us introverts). Now people are waiting in line to use one of the 4-8 kiosks. Usually I have to stand in a cashier's line, because either the line is too long for the kiosk, or there are clueless users of kiosks using them.

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