My brother used to say that if you had enough of those dividers you could solve every property dispute because nobody violates that line.
Ive had cashiers blatantly ignore it and scan items for the wrong person many times now…
…I still use the stick, but also make sure theres plenty of space.
In Arkansas you’re now allowed to shoot at the feet of cashiers who sass you, so they keep tabs on it
Is that a white thing? I do love it, but I don’t know if it has anything to do with my race. It makes it easier for the cashier to tell when one person’s groceries end without having to pay attention to who is putting what on the belt.
I put one down behind my items just yesterday, and the Black woman behind me thanked me for doing so. So there’s a data point.
3 data points so far, we’ve practically completed a study!
I haven’t lived in a predominantly-white area in over 20 years and I have never been in a situation where someone should have used a divider and didn’t…so I have hundreds of data points to back yours up
No, it’s not. Just people making stupid shit for online acceptance.
You’re right, from now on I’ll wait until they scan the next person’s item and then go “ew, god no. you really think I’d buy that garbage?”
Someone will try to make everything about race.
Only white people use them? I moved from the PNW down south and I can say they get used much less down here. Haven’t paid attention to race though
I don’t get it. I don’t want to stand in line longer waiting while the cashier unscans my items from the person ahead’s order or unscans the next persons items from my order. They also often fuck it up anyway but still
I wouldn’t have any problem with not having this stick, but cashiers can’t seem to tell that a six-inch distance between my order and the next order is a good place to stop. Then we’re all sitting around for an extra couple of minutes while they try to get someone to come and authorize voiding the items.
Whole comment section up in arms. Relax it’s just a joke😭
The joke is bad and it should feel bad
I don’t want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries
Did their chocolate get into your peanut butter?
And bathrooms
The only reason we have sex based bathrooms is because the women’s bathrooms used to say colored on them and we never got the building codes changed.
Couldn’t possibly help with preventing sexual harassment either.
Yeah man, because it’s definitely the trans kid doing the pee-pee dance and not the officer snapping coochie picks for “safety” we should be worrying about.
When did I say anything about transgender people?
I think they were talking about coed bathrooms, not about letting trans people pick the bathroom that matches their gender.
I personally agree that coed bathrooms would likely result in more sexual harassment/assaults.
That’s the same argument from a different false equivalency. Co-ed bathrooms exist all around the world. The fact that uncle Jim can’t stop fantasizing about watching someone pee shouldn’t stop other men from using the public restroom.
It’s called the Internet Jim. Look it up.
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Yes you’re probably right on that account.
The only sexual harassment that I hear about in restrooms are either trans people being harassed or cisgender people being accused of being trans. Both of these problems go away when you have desegregated restrooms.
Unfortunately I’m not so confident those problems would disappear, conservatives have a tendency to only follow the laws they like.
You aren’t a victim when someone you don’t like uses the bathroom
Grass is green.
Thats not true. The history of segerated bathrooms are worse than that… during the Victorian era, public bathrooms were men only. Women were not expected to travel from their home, or carry piss pots with them. Women had to fight for their right to have access to facilities. Also employers used the excuse of lack of women facilities to not hire women. The reason segerated bathrooms exist in building codes are because of decades of women fighting for their rights…
Dont pin it on racism on good old fashion sexism.
Ah yes, that’s why in the rest of the world that didn’t do racially segregated bathrooms there are only unisex bathrooms.
Most of the world has unisex bathrooms
Pretty much any large enough venue will have urinals, anywhere in the world.
I’m not sure what gave you that idea.
I just realized I haven’t used a conveyor belt checkout since before the pandemic. It’s either grocery delivery or self-checkout.
Mr Richie Rich here, getting food delivered.
If you purposefully don’t use the divider, you shouldn’t be allowed to shop there. Also, what the hell does this have to do with race?
Right? I’m not paying for your shit!
Racist.
That’s racist!
“Segregation” is referring for “racial segregation”, probably specific to the historical policy in the US.
Hope this helps~
it’s sneaky racism, the implication being, ‘black people are rude and inconsiderate’
which is, of course, a common racist stereotype.
blackpeopletwitter on reddit is about 100% dedicated to furthering that…
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nazis have been strategizing ways to spread their hate online since before computers had pictures on them.I thought the point is white people are silly and do unnecessary stuff
Well either way racism is bad chat
but the divider is so the person behind you can start unloading their cart onto the conveyer, and the cashier won’t mix up your groceries with theirs…
everyone does unnecessary and silly things….
Why specifically black people? Doesn’t it just mean every other people doesn’t use it
no
But there’s a lot of other peoples than white and black, why would white people stereotypically doing something be targeting specifically black people, in your opinion?
the style it’s written in and the stereotype it’s perpetuating.
Seems pretty normal writing to me? What stereotype?
boring, sea lion
It just seems such a self-own to say how the divider is a white people thing. You’re putting yourself down there lol
4chan style racial garbage? in my fediverse? it’s more likely than I think 😔
Shouldn’t have cropped the top person’s username so we could see who supports being slightly disruptive, lol.
This is no stick. This is a KUNDENDIFFERENZIERUNGSMODUL
No it’s obviously a WARENTRENNER
Yeah fuck that noise! You’re supposed to wait until they accidentally scan the next persons items and then make them get a manager to make the correction like God intended!
Or you can just avoid that and use the divider so the cashier knows when they’re done with your items…
In theory leaving a significant amount of space should give the cashier enough information, but then again, we don’t live in a world where everything is as it should be…
As someone who was once a cashier, not everyone places their items logically.
Since its a continuous belt loop, a significant amount of space behind the next customer could mean placing your items right at the front of the belt.
The belts usually move forward automatically, eliminating any space left intentionally between two groups of things on it once the first group has been removed from the belt.
Yeah but cashiers have eyes and can see that there is space behind the last item they are currently grabbing, I would think.
I use dividers when I can, but sometimes not enough of them are available.
Maybe, but they’re paying attention to the task of scanning items, running the register, and the customer at the front of the line. I don’t really think it’s reasonable to expect them to keep an eye on that moving target as well. I’ve seen the very thing happen: Loading my stuff on to the belt, trying to leave a space because there is no divider available, the cashier is busy concentrating on the other things they are doing and the customer in front of them (not me and my stuff), they grab the last item of the other person’s stuff, scan it and bag it, turn back to check for more stuff (by this time and while the cashier’s back is turned the void I’d left is gone because the belt doesn’t stop advancing until a divider or product blocks the sensor). They may not ever see a gap (only the next item to be scanned).
There’s no perfect solution here, but I don’t see any reason to heap any more responsibility or blame on to an overworked, underpaid, daily abused retail worker just trying to stay sane in one of the most soul crushing and mind-numbingly repetitive jobs I’ve ever known.
I agree. It should be that stores just provide enough dividers that the problem doesn’t arise.
Sounds space inefficient.
And the other person doesn’t get to unload their cart as early
