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Don't forget to tip your gas station
Submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
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Jezebelley@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty sure that’s not a touch screen, as evidenced by the buttons on the side. My assumption is photoshopped but also only a matter of time.
blujan@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
In mexico ATMs are like this, touch and with buttons that still work.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The buttons are for the visually impaired.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The amount of people not recognizing this as fake really, really bothers me.
kattenluik@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I don’t remember at what company, but I’ve seen this more than once and it’s always hilarious. It’s quite funny watching my SO try and find the hidden mute or close ad button too. I’m glad I’m not from the US myself.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
None of the gas stations around me have rhe “mute” button enabled, but thankfully most of the stations locally don’t blare ads at you while pumping gas. There was one station that tried it years ago and their pumps were constantly vandalized.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I can see this happening on a system originally designed for a different retail environment, and nobody bothered to get rid of the tip screen.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Or someone was about to disable the tip screen and some clueless middle manager asked if the tip screen could increase the amount of the sale, then ordered it left in.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I should be legally allowed to smash those screens if they play ads while I’m pumping my gas.
You used to be able to mute them by pressing one of the side buttons but now that just cancels your transaction and stops the pump.
I don’t need advertisements shoved in my face every second of every day.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Standing there pumping gas is one of the last vestiges of just stopping and being there.
Last time I discovered a machine’s ads couldn’t be muted, I stopped the pumps and I’ll never go back to that gas station.
The level of disrespect is mind boggling.
IcansmellyourBundt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Second button down on the right didn’t work?
Johanno@feddit.de 11 months ago
You guys have ads on your gas pumps?
Ok the US is really the preview of the dystopian future companies imagine.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s annoying but I wouldn’t call it dystopian.
At least where I live, it’s an equal mix of “wear your seatbelt”, “don’t text and drive”, and weed dispensaries.It’s not exactly prime advertising space, so you really just get PSAs and weed.
Worst part is when you’re getting gas late at night, say after driving back from a family dinner in another city and so you’re tired and full, and you’re all alone at the pumps on an otherwise quiet night.
Something deep inside the pumps makes them decide to start playing their advertisments from all the pumps at once, but they’re not perfect, so they’re just a little out of sync.
So it’s dark and you’re tired, relaxed, and almost home. When out of nowhere, from all around you, comes the stereophonic cacophonous cry of “B-B-B-BONGS! B-B-B-BLUNTS! AND MORE, AT THE HOUSE OF DDDDANKKKKK!”It’s definitely annoying, but I wouldn’t call it a dystopia.
tycho@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
We have them in France too :(
Devadander@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s hell
citrusface@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep - screens on every pump play ads the entire time you get gas.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s actually one of the few places I’m fine with ads. I’m just standing there and I can’t look at my phone so why not. Ads are only annoying when I’m trying to do something else like watch a video.
rosymind@leminal.space 11 months ago
I don’t drive much anymore, but when I did I would avoid gas stations with screens (aside from payment screens obviously). If I saw that an unfamiliar gas station had one, I’d get back in my car and get gas elsewhere even if it was a tad more expensive. Forced viewing of advertisements makes me violently angry, and I don’t need the stress of trying to repress that anger
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You used to be able to mute them by pressing one of the side buttons
That only mutes the shit that plays constantly from the pump even when nobody is there using it. Once you start pumping, they start playing different shit that can’t be muted.
lyam23@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Depends on the station. I am still able to mute at most of the stations I’ve used recently.
Kase@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Alright I haven’t been to a gas pump in a few months, but when did they start playing ads??? Shit is crazy. Maybe I just never noticed, come to think of it I’ve never been the one pumping the gas before
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Some have been playing ads for years.
Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’ve been playing ads for at least a decade… though in the early days, some of the gas stations near me played some cringy jimmy kimmel shit instead of ads (somehow, i preferred having my ears violated by the ads)
Yet one more thing that makes me thankful to have gotten rid of my car completely… not being dependent on gas stations is super liberating.
chriscz@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
What is this world coming to?? That’s just nuts
badbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This has to be from theonion
recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Wait, you guys have non-selfservice gas stations? Is this some American thing I’m too europoor to understand?
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Most states do (illegal to pump your own in New Jersey), but the joke is more about tipping culture in this country.
wunami@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This meme isn’t implying that it’s unusual to pump your own gas. It’s implying that tipping culture in the US is progressing to the point of asking you to tip when you didn’t receive a service performed by anyone since you did it yourself.
Self service is the default for most of the US. New Jersey and (I think) Oregon require full service gas stations though.
4grams@awful.systems 11 months ago
Today I had lunch at a restaraunt, I was given the option to tip so I did, expecting to get service. I got the fast food treatment, they threw a tray on the counter that I had to pickup and when I went to leave they made me bus my own table…
I’ve got family that used to rely on tips so I’ve always been a generous tipper. The recent tip culture has completely changed me though and now these expected tips just piss me off.
recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Oh, I see. Yeah the wording is weird in that case, “forced” to pump your own gas
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
In some parts of New York you have to wait and have someone else pump your gas, they call them and attendant. I lived in New York for a while, and it was just terrible, any gas station that required you to wait for someone else to pump your gas I just drove past. Because they would always be slow as hell. Meanwhile it was a clear in and out at all of the self-service stations
Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve almost never seen this in NY. It’s a jersey thing, and it’s stupid as fuck.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
In Mexico there are people working in the gas station, and it is up to you to tip or not, I usually only do it when they (unasked) clean my windows.
kadu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same in Brazil - in fact, if you tried to pump your own gas the employee would probably get scared and call the cops lol
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Please tell me this is photoshopped and these fuckers aren’t seriously asking for tips at self service stations…
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 months ago
Hey, don’t be so cruel. These machines are paid below minimum wage, and if you don’t tip, they won’t be able to pay their rent and student loans.
Rolando@lemmy.world 11 months ago
they won’t be able to pay their rent and student loans.
You mean their software subscriptions and cloud storage fees.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Those night classes to move up from soda dispenser to gas pump will pay off eventually.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do real servers not deserve to pay their rent/student loans?
atocci@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah haha definitely fake, these pumps don't have touch screens so this interface wouldn't work on them. Choices have to be aligned with the 4 buttons on the left and right. Second one from the top on the right side will mute the ads also.
harrim4n@feddit.de 11 months ago
I’m sorry, did you just say “mute the ads”? Damn, america really is in the terminal stages of late stage capitalism
Rolando@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Second one from the top on the right side will mute the ads also.
Not always.
krakenx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That touchscreen plays ads loudly as well.
FaeDrifter@midwest.social 11 months ago
Drink a verification can of Mountain Dew to continue pumping gas.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
So since you’re the one providing the labour in the transaction, this means you’re getting a tip FROM the gas station, right? R… Right?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yes, you just have to pay it yourself since you are also the customer
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
In which case I’ll choose the 200% tip
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s because the POS (point of sale) software isn’t customized for the application correctly. Either through laziness, ignorance, indifference, or a level of greed that only insane troll logic could make sense of
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Not only do you pump your own gas you also are the one to pay at the pump and deal with any issues that come up.
CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I scan my own groceries and i’ll keep track of the hours to eventually hit them with a “freelance register operater” bill for €55 an hour.
As i’m freelance i need to pay 49% taxes on that and another x amount for insuring myself in case i have a work related accident, i’ll be left with roughly €20 an hour which is a little over my actual wage as i’m apparently so skilled they want me to do the job so it must be worth it to them.
I think everyone everywhere should pull this shit, even if it’s just to make a point. Show them how much they rely on free labour while living in big houses and driving fancy cars lol.
systemguy_64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sure, I’ll leave a -20% tip!
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Here’s a tip; stop asking for a tip.
firewyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is why we have arson
hahattpro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It seem to be best practice, and predatory best practice.
Some people fear of being jugded if they don’t follow the mass. And the tip screen make them question themselves like “everybody else tip, what will they think if I don’t ?” “What if someone watch over my shoulder and feel disgusting if I don’t tip ?”
GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 11 months ago
And those people we call “suckers”
Jakdracula@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. (Augustine)
bquintb@midwest.social 11 months ago
Help your local business pay its employees!
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Goddamn 2023. The tip screen embarrasses me at work, where I make a normal hourly wage.
“Just hit the skip button bro”
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I find myself apologizing for my company’s systems all the time.
Our POS doesn’t display the amount you’re about to pay. I read it to you, but it doesn’t display. It’s disrespectful to the customer IMO.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is clearly fake. Tip screens all now start at 20 or 25% .
ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually, I’m gonna need a refund
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Where I live we had one gas station with full service when I was a kid, and it cost like a third more than any other gas station in the area so almost no one went there and it eventually went to self serve pumps like every other station. Aside from the one time I went there I have always pumped my own gas, and I’d feel weird if someone else did it for me lol
Sabata11792@kbin.social 11 months ago
The cheapest gas station around me is the only full service one around. I hate it. I'll pay extra to not have to deal with the forced interaction. Tipping cancels out the discount anyways.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 11 months ago
A state near mine that I visit occasionally has laws in place that prohibit pumping your own gas. I always forget this and get out of the car, which leads to a very awkward confrontation with the attendant. It definitely feels weird.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You must be near New Jersey lol I think that’s the only state left that has that law
chepox@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I have never pumped my own fuel on my car except when I visit the US. I feel like a 7 year old handling that pump thing. Happy I don’t have to do that where I live.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My parents started me to pump the gas for them since I was like 10, so I’m pretty used to it now lol
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Be happy you(we) can pump your own fuel. Some states don’t allow that and as such the fuel costs are higher, and tipping the attendant is customary.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He isn’t complaining about having to pump his own gas. He is complaining about the gas station’s audacity to ask for a tip.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Sad robo noise. Machine would be sad. They won’t be kind to you when they take over😉
PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let’s move away from a car-centric society, please.
Mateja23@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would leave them the tip of my penis
JTC5@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Don’t give them anymore ideas. Mine is already already playing non stop 60 decibel ads
thegoodyinthehoody@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
So who would that money go to?
art@lemmy.world 11 months ago
knacht1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
FOAD
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Say psych right now
anhkagi@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Or they just display you loud ads, same intentions.
DrPop@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I wish gas was $3.457 where I’m at. (So wierd that has years fractions of a cent)
henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 months ago
This is a tip for me being such a good customer, right?
Can I start asking businesses for tips? Like for not committing crimes, and paying for my goods and services as agreed upon, you’re going to have to subscribe to the premium customer program.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is tipping culture out of control.
obinice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tipping culture is tipping culture out of control.
You should see the insane way it’s worshipped in the USA, all as an obviously thin front to avoid paying wages and giving workers rights. It’s wild.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Worshiped? What country do you live in? The biggest argument I see for it is ‘its absolutely bullshit but some jobs that’s almost all they make’
I don’t think I’ve ever, in my 41 years here, seen a single human being say it’s an amazing system.
_number8_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
there’s a great citations needed episode on the shitty origins of it and the shitty circumstances it creates: soundcloud.com/…/ep-118-the-snitch-economy-how-ti…
iheartneopets@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Tf are you on about? Idk where you’re getting your impressions from but it is absolutely not ‘worshipped’ in the US.
soloner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it’s shopped
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I could see them doing this
Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 months ago
These screens aren’t usually touch-sensitive, no? I don’t usually fill up at Valero’s, but those buttons on the side are often used because the screens aren’t designed for touch. I’m in a cold climate though, so maybe they just don’t use them here…
gerryflap@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Hopefully it’s close to a tipping point
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Corpos with their first already up your ass, now asking for more: “Come on, just
thea tip?”