@@Dead25m if you think it's better, that's your opinion (I personally haven't seen the swedish version, so I can't say which is better). Usually just write "in my opinion" next time, and I know it sounds criticizing but it's not... I'm just trying to look out for you that's all.😊😊😊
Nah old geezer was wrong. Would you go to a grocery store and open a gallon of milk and tell the cashier you only want half? If the store only sells in quantities of 6 ft then that’s just what it is
The whole point of the spool of rope is to get the amount you want if they allow you to take off 5 feet of rope why would they charge you for 6 feet also they literally sell half gallons of milk at most stores so that analogy is redundent…
@@ActivStormNo, it isn't redundant. Because sometimes there is nothing but the bigger size milk left, so no. It isn't redundant. You're just hollow in the head
In other countries, even in grocery stores it’s extremely normal to open packages to only take what you need and be charged fairly for it, in America we dont really do that, although I wish we would
@@surfsupdawg4550 that's a fucking stupid way for grocery stores to work. There are reasons we don't want people just opening packages. Like seriously that's why there are single serving stuff like Little Debbie shit, we don't need people to start opening every little box that has stuff they need so they can get what they want out of it.
The beauty of this story is that you absolutely hate him in the beginning, and you’ll absolutely love him by the end. Backman created one of the best character arcs of all time with this one.
I have to wonder if she was just being obtuse to spite him. She _could_ be that absent of mind, or she could be trolling him. His jimmies got rustled either way.
Spoiler warning if you actually plan on watching this: One thing that baffles me about this scene is the fact that hes fighting over 33 cents and yet his money won’t even matter to him after this purchase. The whole reason he’s getting the rope is is to remove himself from the mortal realm once he gets home and yet that’s 33 cents are worth fighting for
In the movie, he clearly says it's not about the money (as another guy offered to pay him the 33 cents), but about the principle about the store scamming people for the price.
@@PuraCaseus the thing is it isn't a scam. They sell by the yard not by much people want. Most people would get tired of people always complaining about it is not about the money it is about the principal. And you know what the worker do. Eventually they just give him the extra yard for free. Sell him one yard when he got two and the customer is happy because they think they won. Computers have become easier to work for the dumbest employees but harder to manually charge. Which why so many Computers registers have pictures on them. But don't have button for a coupon that was made before the system was even considered.
@@PuraCaseus Yes, which is why it’s the perfect way to set up the audience hating him at the start of the movie. I mean, unless the viewer is also a grumpy old man who would fight over 33 cents for the principle of “not scamming people” when he really just didn’t read the price.
That's the point. The main thing outside of fear that stops him is his burning need to correct others and make sure things are done the right way. In enforcing one of these situations, he starts the actual plot that drives the movie.
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@@ConManOh7 thats how buying things works. you give money in exchange for goods and services. in this case, the good or service was rope sold by the yard. you dont get to order a hamburger, eat half of it, and then expect to pay half the price of the hamburger.
@@CHIEF.42no it’s a massive pain in the ass when there’s some old person yelling at you when there’s literally nothing you can do to change the price to what they are complaining about those computers have set buttons and you can’t change anything on them. Got some old fuck yelling at me over the counter like I chose the prices
if you buy something priced by the pound and it’s a few ounces short of two pounds.. you don’t pay the rounded price of two pounds.. you pay the fractional amount set by the per pound price point. this is no difference. The yard sets the standard at 99c (or whatever it was) so therefore, any amount smaller, including but not limited to a foot can be logically mathed out for quantifications sake. Similarly to meat at a deli, or tomato’s in the produce section. you pay for the raw weight similarly to tom hanks here paying for raw length of material.
@@MrDasfried Clearly American economics at least is beside you, because consumer rights extend beyond the rights of the seller in MANY different scenarios (whether or not this is one of them, who knows). I believe my original logic stands, if you have a standard set by length, weight, or quantity- all other variables of purchase can be calculated for fairness
@@snap5605 So, if you only want 3/4 of a gallon of milk, do you just pour out the rest and try to haggle at the register? Some pizza places sell by the slice, and some don't. If you go into a place that doesn't and try to buy 5/8 of a pizza, they're going to tell you they can't do it. What you're not considering is that the store may buy rope in spools that are divisible in feet by 3, so they sell by the yard. If they sell him 5 feet, then they will be left with 1 foot of rope at the end that nobody will buy, and the store will be short 33 cents. They choose not to do that. I guess the subject of American economics is beyond you, but stores can choose to do what they feel is best for them because it's a free market system. Unless they're breaking the law, which they're not, they absolutely have the right to sell rope by the yard. Furthermore, if their computer system only has rope inventoried by the yard, then it will only recognize sales by the yard. In order to process sales by the foot, these entry-level employees would likely have to call the store manager to have them contact the company that manages their POS system and adjust the system to accept the sale. As it is, they physically do not have the ability to sell rope by the foot because their system has no option for it. It seems like you just have no idea how anything actually works.
@ryandegrave8978 that is an ignorant comment. They sell 1/2 Gallons for that purpose. Like buying meat. You buy 1/2 pound and way you say you should pay for a whole pound. This is how it works. I have bought 3 feet of wire before and they didn't charge me like this in the movie. Instead they charged me by .75 cents a foot. So it was cheaper then for a yard. Common sense.
@@lincolnls0416 Milk is sold by gallons, half-gallons, and other measurements as determined by the vendor, not the customer. You don't get to buy 3/4 of a gallon because that's not how they sell it. With the rope, there are many options available as determined by the vendor. For example: 1 yard, 2 yards, 3 yards, etc. They're not making you buy the entire rope. Try telling the grocery store that you only want 4 1/2 cups of milk, and let me know how that works out. The wire that you purchased was sold BY THE FOOT, so they sold it to you by the foot. Try buying 19 inches worth of wire, and I guarantee they're going to sell you two feet. Meat is sold in whatever increments the vendor determines is appropriate. Try to buy less than a single serving. Tell them you only want 2/3 of a ribeye steak and see what they say. Better yet, try that at a restaurant. Go to a Chinese food place and order half an egg roll. Hell, some places only sell them in orders of two or three. Tell them you only want 1. Your comment is so insanely stupid that it's almost unbelievable. Don't talk to me about common sense until you get some, kid. PS- If you bought 3 feet of wire, it wasn't cheaper than buying a yard. You literally did buy a yard of wire, and they charged you for a yard of wire. The only difference is that they charge by the foot, as opposed to the rope in the movie, which is only sold by the yard. 3 feet = 1 yard. Don't tell someone they're ignorant and then claim that 3 feet is less than a yard.
The source material for this story is a Swedish book titled, ‘A Man Called Ove’. His view of the world, and what is right and civil, is very rigid. Life events have caused him to determine that he no longer has a place here (that’s code to prevent the algorithm from removing this comment). In the book, he spends a non-proportional amount of time and effort on home maintenance before his plan to check out. He really isn’t ‘ornery’ at all, but has an intolerance for the absurd and general incivility, but today some might assess him as ‘a bit on the spectrum’. I haven’t seen this film yet, but if it has remained true to the source material, it is a good story worth your time.
This reminds me of a store I go to often, curiously, this is every single time I go there, when I get to the register it always gets the correct amount, but when I get my change they'll always keep part of my change, it's just like 3,4,or 8,9, cents, they "round" the amount, I don't care much about it, but what bothers me is that they always round the amount "upward" but NEVER downward.. this is been going on for over a year, I don't know if they do the same to everybody or just me,
Yeah… I dealt with a lot of that when I worked at McDonald’s (first job, I’m a carpenter now) I agree with Tom’s character but you can’t blame the kids either the system set in place by the company is designed to set them up for failure, the computer only has what it has on it and if they charge less then what they can punch in they’ll get in trouble. It’s all designed to rip off the customer and keep those responsible from being accountable for their actions. The workers at entry level jobs like that are meant to take the fall for everything
The cash registers have predefined items. One "piece" of rope (which is 1 yard) costs a certain amount. You sadly can't change that as a user so I don't understand that man. Also just put an Information up that you charge per every started yard.
For all of you saying he's wrong, he's really not, as everywhere I've ever been that charges per unit of something goes to several decimal points, not integers. Just think of the last time you bought produce or meat by the pound, or fabric by the yard. If you want 5 feet of rope and they charge you by the yard, then you should only be charged for 1.667 yards of rope (which is how many decimal places my workplace goes to). If the company is charging him for a full 2 yards, and it doesn't come in precut pieces, then they are literally stealing from him by charging him for something he didn't get and they didn't sell, and the company can be fined for fraudulent business practices. Those two employees honestly need better training.
He is wrong because that’s not how the store does it. The computer rings it up by the yard, they can do the math themselves and input a sale for that price, but that’s more trouble than it’s worth, so they don’t do it A pizza place has the ability to make each slice on a 12 slice pizza different toppings; if you ask them to do that they’re gonna smack you in the face
@@jarretirish7281 I get that in the movie the computer only rings up yards, yet in real life any store that sells rope on spool to be cut will charge by how much you get. So yes in the movie the old man is wrong, but in real life he isn't. It seems people are choosing real life or the movie world on whether he's right or wrong.
@r.j.bedore9884 Still to this day, if you go to a Tractor Supply or Theisens or some other farm supply store, chain or larger rope are sold by the foot. Lumberyards tend to sell smaller ropes and in packaged lengths. Nobody sells rope by the yard. LOL
Do you get to pull 1/2 the sodas out the pack and then argue you pay half? No, because it's packaged as 12 sodas. The rope is in packs of 1 yard, and he grabbed 2, meaning he pays for 2.
I related a lot to this character and fully agreed with him in scenes like this, sick and tired of people wanting to 'help' me and jobs being dictated by stupid computers
It is not unusual. Items are sold by a set amount. It is not about the computer. Lumber yard will custom cut for you, but you have to pay for the full amount. Also, I would have told him to leave as soon as he started giving my employees a hard time. Lowes has a sign saying as much. I do not understand how customers believe they can act this way. Some are worth losing.
I understand the way our world works nowadays I was a store manager and had issues like this daily in a small town, grudges were made often. Older people lived in a simpler world for sure, best way to go about it was to be humble. Actually kinda funny I had this old man come in and showed me a 6 pack of those small cans with one that had a hole in it, I simply took the faulty one and gave him a new one. Made a good friend that day
What you did with the old man is what a manager should do instead of being a lap dog that says they can't do anyhting because it's corporate's policy just because they are afraid of any ounce of stress. Work to help the customers while not doing anything wrong instead of siding with corporate, you are closer to your customers than your corporate bosses
@@BMJgunnerwas thinking the same thing but with eggs. A dozen eggs cost $x. I don't want 12 eggs, I want 2 eggs. Since we know how much 12 eggs cost you can figure how much each egg is and figure how much 2 eggs would cost.
@tonyblake7569 Then you go to a farmers market nd buy two eggs. You don't take 2 eggs out of a box of 12 to buy them separately. It's sold as a box of 12
@@BMJgunner that's the point. I was using that as an example of his logic here. But obviously even if you can easily calculate different measurements, yards to feet or the individual eggs, doesn't mean they sell them like that. It was the same thing you were talking about how you don't do it with milk, only reason I used eggs was it's a closer example to what he did here. I wasn't saying I agree with him.
Being retired after 43 years in customer service I used to see this stuff all the time with people mostly older which I am too now but the point is sometimes we need to make exceptions for humans because it’s the kindness which brings them back and that’s just part of doing business and trying to make every customer happy I’d at all possible and why my company was never out of work because we put customer satisfaction up with profit and that’s what made us busy when everyone else was out of work😳
Come on man, I can see how most young ppl in comments don't get it but if you're retired after 43 yrs, you're 60+; these guys may not have experienced loose goods because they're accustomed to pre packed factory scaled products but things used to be sold in bulk, small merchants buy from wholesalers and you're charged in your local shop with respect to how much you take. Saw a guy commenting, would you ask dump out 100ml of milk just coz you want only 900ml, and expect to pay for 900ml; But if milk isn't pre packed and is sold in loose, you ask for whatever amount you ask for. Big retail chains just threw this practice out coz it put the wastage amount & cost on customer's head and not on them. Point is what he's doing is logical, for rope, how can you a boomer not realize it even if young ppl dont!
@@GokulOnFire if there is an entity to blame, blame the company. make a complaint to the company, not the employee. the employees are there to sell it the way the company makes them or packages them, the employee simply scans them through the till. if they are sellable loose, the employee will charge them as loose/weighed/measured/etc. there is no way for the employee to sell them any other way on their computer/device if the option is not available thanks to the company's short-sightedness.
As a retail store manager, fuck the guy Tom Hanks is playing lol. Shit aggravates me. Sure, let me just drop everything im doing to come tell you the exact same thing my cashier told you because we dont have the command or function to override the point of sale to appease you, sir. While I'm at it, let me just go ahead and get myself and my team in trouble field leadership and/or corporate because you want me to break SOP for pocket change. I'll get right on that. Legit had an old dude threaten to burn my store down over an expired coupon, that he knew was expired prior to walking in my store, and when I checked him and documented the threat, he went on a tantrum about how I was over reacting to harmless joke. Never wanted to put paws on an old man as much as I did that dude.
Lucky enough I didn't stumble upon that kind of customers. I work at pet shop and repacked cat food will always stay 1 kilogram no less and no more. If a customer asked for "customized weight" cat food, i simply said "our store policy never include customize weight for selling" Not to mentioned that most big store didn't allow that, only small store allows that, didn't wanted to waste our time serving over one customer while others gonna have to queue longer.
Your lack of intellectual capacity is as appealing as I've seen in a while. If you work SERVICE industry. You serve. Shut up and do as your told oompa loompa.
from the clip, it did not say he could not get a customized sized rope. you should know as a manager a lot of functions that should be there is not there
@dez135 accept Tom Hanks' character cut a pre-packaged length 6 ft rope in half. The item he is purchasing is packaged, and sold as a single upc. It's the same concept as buying a 12 pack of coke from the grocery store. You can't take 6 cans from the 12 pack and buy them for half the price. You also can't cut a 6 ft rope in half and pay half the price. It's still a 6 ft rope.
This is the most realistic retail scene I've ever seen. Anyone who doesn't work in retail will wonder if this scene is exaggerated for Hollywood. No, it is not. People like this actually exist. They talk exactly like this. They act exactly like this.
Yea its realistic because you would obviously be a little mad if a hardware store had rope where you can choose the length you want but only charge you in certain integers. Its a scam.
I’ve seen worse one time a customer came in and demanded to see a manger for no reason at all screaming beyond me and then once the manger comes who is in the middle of a delivery since no one else their at the moment can do it and she then shows a receipt for green bananas (which don’t ripen) we have a sign and they cost like 80 cents a pound or something and she was demanding a full refund over some green bananas and whole scene in the store for maybe 3 dollars it probably cost her more to drive to the store then refund them he promptly gave her 5$ bill he personally had and left asap cuss he was not having it 😂
@@spandexturtle It's hardly a scam. Are crisps a scam because you can't empty half the packet out before purchasing to get half price? No. Can you imagine if you thought this way about every product? "But I don't want a whole packet of cookies - I only want to buy fourteen!" "I don't want a full liter of milk. I want 900 millilitres!" "I don't want a whole bag of dog food, I'll just take enough to do me the month!" You buy things as they are sold. If the store is charging by the foot, then you pay according to that, not according to what you want.
Yes they do I no longer work in retail but dealing with this kind of customer so many times has convinced me that we truly live in a simulation and npcs exist
Even if you think they should be able to charge for 5 feet of rope arguing with employee level staff is just rtarded because at the end of the day they cant override it even if they wanted to
If the computer only recognizes rope sales in yards all they had to,do was ring up 1.67 yards. But that would have ruined the story. If it were a real scenario, I doubt a majority of today’s school age kids would be able to figure it out. I worked in retail management for 27 years and have run into many undereducated kids that think they got it all figured out. I had one employee that was told to check the tire pressure on one of the delivery vehicles as it looked low. He reported back that it had 100#s of pressure. I asked how he determined that. Well he said, I could only find a gauge that went to 50 psi so I checked it twice and it registered 50 psi both times and 2x50 = 100. I took a gauge off the shelf that went beyond 100 and told him to check again. It only had 65#s. Can make this s4it up. I worked closely with him for several months as he was a good employee, just not to bright.
What a lot of this comment section isn’t getting is the fact that the store charges by the yard and he measured in feet, so it’s not the same as buying half a burger etc, he did a simple conversion to get the cost however the computer is simply unable to calculate the cost in feet which is what poses the issue, that is why he is mad cause back when there weren’t computers, they wouldn’t have to worry about a computer only calculating the cost in yards and they would manually calculate and charge him the amount in feet. Obviously times have changed. Anyways he is portraying a cranky old man who tends to complain about a lot, but he has great character development so definitely check the movie out.
It's literally exactly the same as trying to prorate the cost of half a burger. It's equally stupid. Especially arguing with employees who can't do shit about it.
Cashier could do maths and insert the actual price as misc. on the computer, but cowardly retail workers think that will get them fired, wich is not what gets one fired, being fired means you are a shitty or sublar worker
@GamingGoalieYT By law there is no disclaimer needed, the product sold is the product you get in the US. You can't just cut it off and only take part of it
As someone who works at a store, I’d just open the register and let him pay the correct amount. At the end of the day, the business still makes the correct transaction
How would you ring it up? Unless you are a tiny mom and pop store with a till from the 1950s you enter a product code and the till works out the price. Rope is priced by the yard. One unit of rope is one yard. The store needs this for stock control and to know when to order more rope. You cannot ring up "two thirds of a product". You can't ring up "two thirds of a baseball cap" or "two thirds of a T shirt". If the store says they sell rope by the yard then you can either accept that or go to another store. The store COULD sell by the foot, or any fraction thereof, but that is their choice. You cannot force them to do so.
We all seem to agree this is just silly boomer behavior. My favorite part though is this entire interaction is happening over less than 50 cents. Perfect boomer representation right there. Not understanding simple concepts and fighting with everyone about it. You know how prices are different when you buy in bulk? That's like if you looked at the price per product of a 100 pack of your favorite drink and it was significantly cheaper than a single one on the shelf. So you open up the box take one out and demand they give you the price that it would have been in bulk. "I only wanted 5 feet of rope" yeah and they sell hot dogs and hot dog buns purposefully in different amounts, shut up.
My question would be, if your 33 cents off of your order and can't afford to pay it bc that's all you have. Would they let off with the item ? In essence, it looks trivial, but when the tables are turned, you realize it's a way to horde even more money by greedy cooperations. There is a reason why it's not just 20 but 20.9 . Easy way to almost make an extra buck bc people who pay cash won't have it down to the exact cents.
I feel ya mr hanks. I recently went to an arbys restaurant. Paid for food at counter. Next to register, they were selling solar eclipse glasses for $2 each and said they were donating proceeds to some charity. I got 3 pair, so I owed $6. I paid with a $10 bill. The young girl at the register was going to try to give me $12 back as change. I don’t believe in taking advantage of people, so I tried teaching her how to count back change and show her that you don’t have to do the math in your head. She did not get it at all. I worry for the future sometimes. She was going to give me $12 and not think twice about it.
As someone who's worked in retail I would have actually just explained why I can't charge him for 5 feet. " Yes, sir, it's not that our computers can't do math.It's just our system has a set parameters of how much we're supposed to charge.I understand you want to buy five feet But our system does not allow us to charge by the foot. But due to this inconvenience , I We'll charge you five feet a rope for the price of a yard." Boom no more any geezer no more stress.
Yeah but that’s the problem. Than they think they can get away with it with other people. If they come back and say somebody did for me last time I bought it and point you out than you get in trouble. That’s why people like him think like that cause we give to much slack cause we want to get rid of them. I sometimes do them a favor but I won’t say anything or I tell them I won’t do it next time and neither is my co workers. Just so they don’t get used to it
As someone who's worked in retail, the moment he said some smartass shit like "shouldn't you be in gym class" I'd be refusing service and calling the next customer. No point in humoring people who just want to butt heads imo. Especially if I physically cannot do the 5 foot charge and they can't comprehend that.
He comes from a world where the merchant is there to serve the customer but in today's world the customer is expected to accept the terms laid out by the merchant. So for the customer this is accepting theft at the hands of the merchant You're paying for something that you're not receiving. We've all been conditioned to accept these terms because all the alternatives have been removed there is no place left to go or you can get the kind of deal you're looking for. And that's what auto is upset about his choices have been eliminated. He's not willing to accept that. The rest of us are.
This is a perfect microcosm of what customers expect from people in retail despite people in retails arms being tied by corporate policy in 99% of cases
I work in retail. I deal either customs like this. The cashier does not make the stupid store policy rules, he’s just trying to get his next paycheck. The customer is wrong. The cashier is right.
Tom Hanks is such a top notch actor, been my fave since I was a kid and pretending to do his Wilson scene haha. In this particular movie though, you'll hate him then love him. That's how effective he is!😂❤
They destroyed the alternatives though? Sometimes they sold below cost or at cost until they had not completion and now people have not alternative left. So spare me the capitalist posturing for clearly uncapitalistic companies.
@@beatrizpereira60 yes, I have a clientele that visits my place of business and I treat them like royalty, hence why they keep coming back. I however don't tolerate disrespectful people that want to do whatever they want. I treat everyone the exact same way until they step out of line. I've refused service to many people in order to protect my employees from such behavior.
When I worked at Ace Hardware, we charged for rope and chain by the foot, but the computer could accept 0.5-ft increments. We could also manually change the price of any item by up to twenty dollars to satisfy a customer. There's no reason the computer should've been programmed like that, and no reason the cashier (and especially the manager) couldn't just "make things right" (as we said it) for the customer. Also, the customers attitude was crappy.
I remember this gentle film. It actually made comedy out of his attempts at suicide, which must have been very difficult to achieve. He didn't succeed, thank goodness. As the film develops, we learn the reasons for him being so miserable, and the ending will make grown men cry.
Every produce dept of every supermarket in usa, you buy alot of stuff by the POUND. But you dont have to buy a WHOLE pound. It gets WEIGHED and you pay for the PART of a pound you want. That is actually a good analogy. (Pardon the caps) Of course a hardware store has the right to charge in units of 3 feet, or 50 feet, or whatever they like. At the expense of happy customers of course. P.s. managers can always enter a custom price, like for a dented paint can. Not special or unique. You know that, right?
Of course something to remember is that they only charge by the yard so they can profit extra off the round up. And you know they’d be pissed it you needed a four foot length of rope, went and cut off a 4 foot length, then left the other 2 feet there in 2” chunks on the floor.
@@yt.personal.identification a really small amount. For example to simplify things, if 1 ml is 1 cent and you want 1.01 ml of gas,you would be charged 2 cents. I've seen a lot of arguments here about how "you don't pay for 40 liters just to get 20" trying to poke wholes into the minimum amount policy, but that just doesn't make any sense because gas isn't sold in bundles of 40L
@@scienceisthetruth5927 Exactly. Gas isn't sold in portion sizes. You acknowledge it, but try to make it appear as if you are disagreeing. It's a bizarre way to argue.
Idc who thinks the old man is right. Bro could have just bought the thing as a whole and cut it at home and figure out what to do with the part he cut later.
It's kinda difficult to decide what to do with the rest later when ur hanging from the ceiling with the first 5 feet you wanted... (That's what he's buying it for in the movie)
He is wrong. He doesn't get to redefine the units that the seller agreed to sell it for. If his criteria of buying by the foot disqualifies the store offer, then he can leave and find another store. But he is the one in the wrong without question. He was cranky accusing the kid of disrespecting him when he wasn't, and then justified in his head that scamming the naïve young kids was ok. The gray hair doesn't mean wisdom and piety are attached. And it is only principle. Not enough money. But he is in the wrong. And it isn't even as silly of a situation as hot dog buns being a different number than hotdogs. It's just the rope, and only by the yard in unit increments. Take it or leave it.
I am69 years old and can understand what he is asking. But bulk items are sold in some established increament. BUT on the other hand I was in a Subway store, the woman in front of me paid for 12 cookies with her online order. When she was there to pick it up they only had 6 cookies and told her they could not give her the money back. THAT IS STUPID.
man. this kinda like generational humor... isnt. This is like that boomer humor where everyone hates their spouses. Its just sad. I really hope I never end up like that generation. Generational and culture wars are so tiring. Get therapy.
You say you do not end up like the Boomer gen but say gen wars are tiring. Gen hate is a new thing. Boomers did not hate, disrespect, and blame previous gens.
It's an inventory issue. If the system isn't setup to handle specific amounts, then its just doesn't handle those amounts. It would be like going to a place that sells whole pizzas and demanding to pay for only 3 slices. Unless tge computer has a per slice option or a way to put in unusual amounts, inventory is going to show something weird when it gets checked.
JUST PAY WHATEVER YOU WANT!! I watched this movie and don’t remember this scene. Is this a sign of clinical depression??? So sad! I try not to be judgmental of anyone I want everyone to be happy. Life here in America is so stressful way too much work to many hours of work and stress!!! Peace and Love to everyone all the bad weather will pass and you will see a beautiful clear day ahead the storm will not last forever and don’t feel guilty. The depression will go away eventually it may take months perhaps I will recommend to take medication instead of suffering unnecessary for months when medication will relieve the suffering much much sooner DONT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT ANYTHING WE ARE ALL JUST HUMAN BEING WE MUST FORGIVE OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER I LOVE YOU!!!!
I know where he's coming from. When I was a kid, if you needed two 4" long, ⅛" diameter nails, you could go into an ironmongers and buy them. Nowadays, you have to buy a pack of 20, in a plastic blister pack that requires a blow torch to open just to get the two nails you want. Plus, you're left with 18 nails you don't need which, if you ever do need two more nails in the future, you will never be able to find. They say that the earth's resources are being used up at an alarming rate. I'm not surprised, especially if you're being forced to buy nails you don't need, which will languish in a cupboard in perpetuity. The shop used to sell rope by the inch, not by the yard. What has gone wrong with the world?
This scene is about how digital technology has changed the world for the worse in many ways. We are conforming to it rather than it conforming to us; things are unbelievably biased toward the tech vs the consumer. This example is just a microcosm of the issue. And just for the record, I have worked in customer service for over 30 years; this scene exemplifies one of the rare cases where the customer is indeed right; companies need to stop using this kind of software and pressure the software companies to at least have a manual function to do these types of calculations and ensure that their employees can do these types of calculations; especially in a hardware store where a variety of specific measurements are a common variable.
He is not wrong. But that is what has happened due to litigation and corporatizing all of retail. The reason brick and mortor stores are dies is not cause folks want to shop online. It is cause shopping at corporate stores can be draining. Employees are under paid and don't know the products they sell.
Unfortunately, this is no exaggeration. I worked a lot of retail, in a small town, no less, and I would still get one of these guys at least once a month. I don't deal with the public anymore.
