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2 McDonald's staff today told me they don't take Apple Pay
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Average age of fast food workers is 29. What are they supposed to do if that's all they're able to get in the current job market?
Blame your stupid ass system for not allowing career advancement.
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Wow...job market is cut throat, you can't just ****ing make a job appear with the snap of your fingers. Think man THINK!
Yeah I've learned to keep my mouth shut...if you say something too advanced then you might actually just screw yourself...Sorta like the saying better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission....Just Do It (Like Nike!)
Move in with their parents.
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Then move back in with your parents if you can't find a real job.
Not everyone has parents who can afford to support them indefinitely.
You sound like someone who hasn't lived through a day of real hardship in your life.
I guess I speak on behalf of working with customer service...
Yes, they might have the terminal to do so, but it still needs to be set up both hardware wise and software wise. In addition to the actual register terminals themselves. It's very likely that they aren't victimizing anyone and telling the truth that hey, their system isn't working yet.
Yes, they might have the terminal to do so, but it still needs to be set up both hardware wise and software wise. In addition to the actual register terminals themselves. It's very likely that they aren't victimizing anyone and telling the truth that hey, their system isn't working yet.
Well Apple Pay is supposed to be transparent to the terminal. If it accepts NFC (which as far as I'm aware, all McDonalds do today), it will accept Apple Pay
how is that miss information. they both said they do not take it "yet". McDonalds and hundreds of thousands of location. give it time, Apple Pay just rolled out. just wait for them to update.
Me. I am. Like tech-tiles.
Also, both of my local McD's have NFC readers outside of the Windows. So do all the Tim Hortons.
Mcdonalds IS a real job.
What if they left their parents because they couldn't deal with them? Parents couldn't financially support them?
What ever happened to radical self reliance?
What have we learned so far?
Strategy #1
Don't ask the clerk if they take Apple Pay; instead, know how to identify an NFC reader and attempt usage on your own. If Payment using iPhone / Apple Watch fails, then move to strategy #2
Strategy #2
Bust out a CC and do what you have been doing for years.
Do you go to McDonald's and ask if they take VISA or MC? NO! You just see that there is a device that you are familiar in using to swipe cards and do it... sometimes you even swipe your CC before the clerk is ready. Admit it, it has happened to you just as much as everyone else...
So why is this any different? You wanted to be an early adopter of emerging technology, so go out there into the world and just be confident about your actions, walk the walk and don't be afraid of embarrassment if it doesn't work as expected.
Expecting some random clerk to know how to please your technological idiosyncrasies is ridiculous during the initial stages of something like this, don't be silly.
What have we learned so far?
Strategy #1
Don't ask the clerk if they take Apple Pay; instead, know how to identify an NFC reader and attempt usage on your own. If Payment using iPhone / Apple Watch fails, then move to strategy #2
Strategy #2
Bust out a CC and do what you have been doing for years.
Do you go to McDonald's and ask if they take VISA or MC? NO! You just see that there is a device that you are familiar in using to swipe cards and do it... sometimes you even swipe your CC before the clerk is ready. Admit it, it has happened to you just as much as everyone else...
So why is this any different? You wanted to be an early adopter of emerging technology, so go out there into the world and just be confident about your actions, walk the walk and don't be afraid of embarrassment if it doesn't work as expected.
Expecting some random clerk to know how to please your technological idiosyncrasies is ridiculous during the initial stages of something like this, don't be silly.
I feel for you. I really do. There are times however, when I've been greeted by some frowny faced cashier or ignored and then you seem like you're bothering people to do what they are being paid to do which is wait on the customer not talk on your cell, talk to your friends, txt your boyfriend, etc.
I don't think those people are "stupid" - I think they should find another job because they aren't good at the one they have & certainly don't deserve a raise. Not ALL but some.
I do agree that they probably aren't as up to the minute with apple pay and other advances so - have a little patience people. It's really not the end of the world to pay the old fashioned way.
You'll find that a lot of the people who HAVE worked their way through hardship to get to a better life are the ones with the least sympathy for those who prefer to whine about how unfair the world is when their bad decisions come home to roost.
(and they're also often the first to lend a helping hand to those striving to get out of a bad situation; a helping hand mind you, not a handout to those who just wallow in self pity)
It's not the 1950s anymore, grandpa. Have you gotten up from your computer lately? Take a look at who is actually filling the service jobs when you're buying your gas and your food and your products. Hint: it's not Norman Rockwell teens making a few bucks before swim practice.
Your idea of who these jobs are "intended" for is irrelevant and out of touch — they're being filled by people who need employment, period. I know it's inconvenient for your thinking, but a lot of these people have *gasp* families to support, and they can't do it on wages that have, after inflation, dropped precipitously over the last few decades.
But by all means, please sit there at your keyboard and tell us all about who should be working where and why people who work service jobs should be paid poverty wages.
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