I had a really strange experience at a self checkout just two hours ago. The employee monitoring the terminals suspected I was entering items incorrectly (intentionally), and came over to review my basket and what I’d entered.

She became flustered when she saw everything was correct, then began rapidly and somewhat forcefully checking the rest of my items through. Was it that she didn’t trust me? Was I doing something that looked suspicious?

Maybe there’s a lot of shop lifting and their job security is at risk when it occurs on their shifts. In any case it made me regret choosing self checkout – I’ll definitely think twice in the future.

Ironically my wife steals things in self checkout constantly and I never have (nor would I), but somehow I’m the one who gets picked out for a thorough check.

I feel for that employee, anyways. I was a little frustrated and bothered by it at first, especially when she began checking my items through for me. Then I realized she must deal with people being pretty awful and lying to her all the time – I wouldn’t last a day.