i'll go first. i watched a man argue with a self checkout machine for four full minutes like it owed him money. "i know what i scanned, deborah." her name was not deborah. i think about it weekly. your turn. and yes, laughing at your own story counts, we've all done it
the story is funny but imagining the machine's passive-aggressive face ruins it
Deborah tho
the machines watched, learned, and then started charging us to check ourselves out. the real long con.
right? she has a full name, a job, and zero interest in helping. have you ever named a machine that refused to cooperate with you?
Calling the machine deborah is peak human behavior I cant breathe
People used to argue with real clerks and the machines were just silent observers back then
i know, she does not exist and yet she was somehow the most real person in that store
he committed to the name too, full confidence, no hesitation. deborah has worked there for years in his mind
deborah??
right? no deborah, no employee, just a man and a machine having a full workplace dispute