Cheeseless pizza is flavored bread.
Well, pizza is flavoured bread, really. It’s bread. With stuff on it.
I understand the wanting to be shown how thing. Mr. Lissar tried to explain how to use a dvd player to my 77-year-old dad, and concluded that it’s hard to explain multi-function buttons to someone with no computer experience. Dad’s fine with VCRs, because they have separate buttons- on, off, rewind. He lacks the computer experience with things like icons. He doesn’t have a frame of reference.
Being mildly (extremely) technophobic myself (and I’m 30, thank you) I think it’s easy for people who are familiar with the structure of a type of technology to say it’s easy to use. It is easy, sometimes, once you understand the symbols and the procedures. But if you don’t? If you don’t know how to retrieve data you erased by mistake? If you don’t know what to do when the computer freezes? And if you don’t know what you did that caused it? Punching buttons sometimes works, but if you’ve had little experience with the machine and you just screwed something up, surely nervousness is reasonable.
I’m not saying it’s a good excuse, but surely it’s reasonable to be uncomfortable and want guidance with something new?
I guess. I don’t like people showing me how to do things, not one bit. I’d prefer to try on my own, and then, if I can’t get it, to then ask somebody.
Often the people who do this often have an aversion to learning something new, anyway. They’ll ask you, and you’re teaching them, and you know by looking in their eyes they are not listening to you one bit, they just want you to do it for them.
The two examples you gave (data erased, computer freezes) those are problems and I would expect someone to ask what to do - the first or second time - for those. But just to do iTunes? Why can’t they do a little research on their own?
I don’t really understand people whose first instinct is to shout for help.
At least where computers are concerned, I think the reason most people automatically ask for help rather than dive right in is because they consider them to be costly, both to buy and repair. So if you screw something up beyond belief, you’ve got a huge outlay ahead for a problem you might not have caused if you’d had help.
Well, you know, cheese is binding.
Swell. Good for you. I bow to your superior intake of sustenance. However, the issue was not that places that offer cheeseless pizza don’t exist, not that there are people who prefer cheeseless pizza. No. The issue was that such places were, to use your exact words, “very common.” They aren’t. To the point that I don’t recall ever being in one. Yes, I’m sure if I specifically looked for one, I could find it but since I’m not specifically looking for one, your “open your eyes” comment wasn’t merely foolish, it was a bit insulting. Get over yourself. The VAST majority of pizza places don’t have cheeseless pizza (and if you insist that’s not true, I will produce at least five menus from places that don’t for every one you can provide from places which do) and I’d wager even among those which do, if you go in and ask for a regular pizza, they’ll know you mean with cheese.
They are often people who have been abused and ridiculed for making ordinary, correctable mistakes. It can be completely situational, I’m normally a competent person who’d rather figure it out than ask questions, but my current manager is so nasty about mistakes, I get paralyzed with indecision. I’m hoping I recover myself quickly once I find a new job.
I’m the only employee that actually does that, although my own system is different: you add DOWN to nines, and a final ten. Frinstance, the purchase is $2.73 and they give you a ten, to arrive at the change ($X.YZ), you compute the following: X+2=9; Y+7=9; z+3=10. This gives you $7.27. I don’t know what this is called because I made it up myself, although I’m sure I was not the first. Anyway, it’s what works fastest and most accurately for me; I can do a $3,000 drawer like this and be accurate to the penny. (If they give you a five, your X equation will equal 4, etc.)
And I always count it into their hands: “$2.73: twenty-seven makes three, seven makes ten.”
Clearly an argument for more cheeseless pizzerias. Release the vegans!
Counting out sixty five cents certainly isn’t out of line. Unless you mean it’s all in pennies or something like that.