What's Annoying About Old People

I love old people. They can say and do whatever they want and no one does a thing lol. And I think I figured out why. Annoying as they might be, you gotta respect them. They survived. They made it through everything life throws. They've earned their right to fart at the dinner table and not apologize.

Plus they're really interesting to talk to.
 
anathelia said:
Number 2 needs something added to it. Old people also should not be allowed to own credit or debit cards. For as bad as they are with their paper money, they are so much worse with the card. It's this eternal wait while they peer OVER their glasses trying to read the screen, that says the same thing every time. And I swear they have to read the whole list of options. And they don't GET how it works. It drives me crazy. haha
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:24:

Our procedure where I work for debit/credit:

If it's asking you a marketing question (which it does on occasion) answer before swiping. Yes, that's what I said. You have to answer it first before swiping.

Make sure to bitch at cashier about how invasive and none of my stores' business the question is.
Continue to swipe card furiously in hopes the question will just go away. It wont.

Swipe card. It will now ask for your Zip Code. Not your pin. But please, enter your pin anyway even though I let you know it will ask for your zip first. Also, please use the numbered buttons below the screen. Writing your zip on the screen w/the pen does nothing as the screen isn't capable of reading yet.

Now enter your pin. Should be a simple data entry request, no? No. "I put in the wrong number! How do I go back??? Just hit the Yellow/Clear button to go back. Push, Push, Push...

Now, here's where it gets tricky. If using a Credit card instead of a Debit card, when it asks for your pin number, you must, in your most exasperated voice, mention this is a CREDIT card. Then I will prompt you again - since I already did - to push the Red/Cancel button so that the Credit option comes us. Never fear, if it takes you more than 30 seconds to engage your brain, the Credit option will pop up on it's own. No, you don't sign the screen. I'll be giving you a slip to sign.

Using your Debit card, after you've correctly entered your pin number you will be given an option for Cash Back. I'm sorry that the maximum amount I can give you is $50. There is a bank in the parking lot whose ATM has a $600/day limit tho.

Now, please look at the total amount you are approving to be deducted from your debit card. If it is not the same amount I've just told you it should be it doesn't mean I'm trying to rip you off. It means you accidentally entered an amount for Cash Back and it's been added to your total. Now, in your confused haste, if you continued and hit Approve, I cannot take the extra monies back that I am handing you. If you were thinking ahead enough to call me a thief/nincompoop I will instruct you to hit the Red/Cancel button to cancel the offending amount and start the whole process over again.

Yes, you really do have to answer the question again.....

How "Question; swipe; zip; pin; cash back; approve; can be so difficult for some is eye-opening. Both young and old. :willy_nilly:

p.s. If I had a dollar for every time some lamented on how all debit/credit terminals should be uniform from store to store I could have already retired.
 
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MoonOwl said:
:24:

Our procedure where I work for debit/credit:

If it's asking you a marketing question (which it does on occasion) answer before swiping. Yes, that's what I said. You have to answer it first before swiping.

Make sure to bitch at cashier about how invasive and none of my stores' business the question is.
Continue to swipe card furiously in hopes the question will just go away. It wont.

Swipe card. It will now ask for your Zip Code. Not your pin. But please, enter your pin anyway even though I let you know it will ask for your zip first. Also, please use the numbered buttons below the screen. Writing your zip on the screen w/the pen does nothing as the screen isn't capable of reading yet.

Now enter your pin. Should be a simple data entry request, no? No. "I put in the wrong number! How do I go back??? Just hit the Yellow/Clear button to go back. Push, Push, Push...

Now, here's where it gets tricky. If using a Credit card instead of a Debit card, when it asks for your pin number, you must, in your most exasperated voice, mention this is a CREDIT card. Then I will prompt you again - since I already did - to push the Red/Cancel button so that the Credit option comes us. Never fear, if it takes you more than 30 seconds to engage your brain, the Credit option will pop up on it's own. No, you don't sign the screen. I'll be giving you a slip to sign.

Using your Debit card, after you've correctly entered your pin number you will be given an option for Cash Back. I'm sorry that the maximum amount I can give you is $50. There is a bank in the parking lot whose ATM has a $600/day limit tho.

Now, please look at the total amount you are approving to be deducted from your debit card. If it is not the same amount I've just told you it should be it doesn't mean I'm trying to rip you off. It means you accidentally entered an amount for Cash Back and it's been added to your total. Now, in your confused haste, if you continued and hit Approve, I cannot take the extra monies back that I am handing you. If you were thinking ahead enough to call me a thief/nincompoop I will instruct you to hit the Red/Cancel button to cancel the offending amount and start the whole process over again.

Yes, you really do have to answer the question again.....

How "Question; swipe; zip; pin; cash back; approve; can be so difficult for some is eye-opening. Both young and old. :willy_nilly:

p.s. If I had a dollar for every time some lamented on how all debit/credit terminals should be uniform from store to store I could have already retired.
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haha, that sounds about right.


I don't envy you. ;)
 
Wow... there sure is a lot of prejudice being shown against old people by the younger generation.

fwiw you chillen should keep in mind that if you're fortunate enough not to become a sad statistic prior to reaching your golden years you too will be in the same boat as what you think is so true and funny. Remember... you come into this world as a baby and you'll go out as one.
 
MoonOwl said:
:24:

Our procedure where I work for debit/credit:

If it's asking you a marketing question (which it does on occasion) answer before swiping. Yes, that's what I said. You have to answer it first before swiping.

Make sure to bitch at cashier about how invasive and none of my stores' business the question is.
Continue to swipe card furiously in hopes the question will just go away. It wont.

Swipe card. It will now ask for your Zip Code. Not your pin. But please, enter your pin anyway even though I let you know it will ask for your zip first. Also, please use the numbered buttons below the screen. Writing your zip on the screen w/the pen does nothing as the screen isn't capable of reading yet.

Now enter your pin. Should be a simple data entry request, no? No. "I put in the wrong number! How do I go back??? Just hit the Yellow/Clear button to go back. Push, Push, Push...

Now, here's where it gets tricky. If using a Credit card instead of a Debit card, when it asks for your pin number, you must, in your most exasperated voice, mention this is a CREDIT card. Then I will prompt you again - since I already did - to push the Red/Cancel button so that the Credit option comes us. Never fear, if it takes you more than 30 seconds to engage your brain, the Credit option will pop up on it's own. No, you don't sign the screen. I'll be giving you a slip to sign.

Using your Debit card, after you've correctly entered your pin number you will be given an option for Cash Back. I'm sorry that the maximum amount I can give you is $50. There is a bank in the parking lot whose ATM has a $600/day limit tho.

Now, please look at the total amount you are approving to be deducted from your debit card. If it is not the same amount I've just told you it should be it doesn't mean I'm trying to rip you off. It means you accidentally entered an amount for Cash Back and it's been added to your total. Now, in your confused haste, if you continued and hit Approve, I cannot take the extra monies back that I am handing you. If you were thinking ahead enough to call me a thief/nincompoop I will instruct you to hit the Red/Cancel button to cancel the offending amount and start the whole process over again.

Yes, you really do have to answer the question again.....

How "Question; swipe; zip; pin; cash back; approve; can be so difficult for some is eye-opening. Both young and old. :willy_nilly:

p.s. If I had a dollar for every time some lamented on how all debit/credit terminals should be uniform from store to store I could have already retired.
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God you poor thing! Ours isn't as 'complex' as that, but we still have trouble. The screen says 'Ready', so people think "Oh, I must be able to swipe". No, it's ready to swipe when I press the EFTPOS button on my screen and the EFTPOS terminal says "Insert/swipe card". Even more annoying when people try to swipe cards with chips and it says "Swipe not accepted, insert card instead", but they still keep swiping. Or the chip wasn't read and they still keep trying to insert it. Or god they insert and don't leave it in there, or take it out too soon. Some people ask for cash out on credit, which we don't do. Then they get all narky with me and ask why as if it's my fault. They usually walk off pissed off after I've said "It's not my fault, blame the manufacturer". Yeah that's right, blame someone else.
But hell, even young people make these mistakes too.
Our EFTPOS is a simple swipe/insert. If savings/cheque, we ask for cash out and they say yes/no, enter how much they want and press okay. Then they have their pin. Or if credit, they might sign. And that's it.
 
KimmyCharmeleon said:
God you poor thing! Ours isn't as 'complex' as that, but we still have trouble. The screen says 'Ready', so people think "Oh, I must be able to swipe". No, it's ready to swipe when I press the EFTPOS button on my screen and the EFTPOS terminal says "Insert/swipe card". Even more annoying when people try to swipe cards with chips and it says "Swipe not accepted, insert card instead", but they still keep swiping. Or the chip wasn't read and they still keep trying to insert it. Or god they insert and don't leave it in there, or take it out too soon. Some people ask for cash out on credit, which we don't do. Then they get all narky with me and ask why as if it's my fault. They usually walk off pissed off after I've said "It's not my fault, blame the manufacturer". Yeah that's right, blame someone else.
But hell, even young people make these mistakes too.
Our EFTPOS is a simple swipe/insert. If savings/cheque, we ask for cash out and they say yes/no, enter how much they want and press okay. Then they have their pin. Or if credit, they might sign. And that's it.
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When I worked as a cashier, Credit and Debit were fun games and all, but EBT (foodstamps) were like the Olympics.
 
anathelia said:
haha, that sounds about right.


I don't envy you. ;)
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KimmyCharmeleon said:
God you poor thing!
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No biggie really. I help more of them than I don't. I strive to take it all in stride so I can continue to keep my job :cool

What's interesting to watch is the people waiting behind said customer. Oh the eye-rolls. The exasperation.

And, these past few weeks of Christmas shopping madness, the anger.

Yo! Impatient person. Didn't you realize you had to don your ArmourOfPatience before you came out Holiday Shopping Right Before Christmas? Hello?????? Of course there are huge lines. Of course things will go slow. It's expected. hehehehehehehehehehe.... Like, duhhhhhh

Yep, glad this season is over.:24:
 
AUFred said:
I believe elderly is an attitude more than a number. I have met people in their 40's who act older than people in their 60's. I try not to act my age. As long as I can fool myself I will continue to try.
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My mother is 87 and she is more on the ball than most people here.
 
there's something awry in the way people talk about respect. if we use the golden rule as standard, we should be respectful of everybody, regardless of age or any other parameter, if we expect to get treated with respect in return.

every person who crosses our paths is worthy of a certain amount of respect just for being a human in our path. if we want people to be aware of our own boundaries and respect them, it would follow that we should do the same.
 
TommyTooter said:
there's something awry in the way people talk about respect. if we use the golden rule as standard, we should be respectful of everybody, regardless of age or any other parameter, if we expect to get treated with respect in return.

every person who crosses our paths is worthy of a certain amount of respect just for being a human in our path. if we want people to be aware of our own boundaries and respect them, it would follow that we should do the same.
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:homo:
 
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