Inconsiderate ATM users

Dudess wrote:

A question to the people who take FOREVER to use the ATM: are you not embarrassed by the fact that there's an ever-lengthening queue forming behind you, no doubt comprising people who are in a hurry, yet you continue to snail away?

I always find putting the card in (removed from my wallet before it's my turn to use the machine), pressing the relevant buttons, taking out the money and GOING to be quite an effective method. I don't know, maybe I'm missing something.
But I really don't see any benefit in: waiting til actually being at the machine to take out the card, pressing the buttons really slowly (it's not brain surgery), taking a certain sum out, then deciding to take out more, thus having to repeat the whole tedious process; staying at the machine to slowly put the card back in the wallet and then back in the bag/pocket.

Complete assholes.

Who pissed in your cornflakes? What difference is taking your card out before you get to the machine going to take, 10 seconds? Maybe they are rightly cautious about taking their wallet out until they have to. It also can appear that someone is using the machine twice if they put their card in to check their balance and press the wrong button to exit the screen. Maybe they pressed the wrong amount? And staying under the camera to put your money in your wallet, after all the threads we have had in AH talking about being scammed at an atm? Tbh, you sound like the asshole here.

DemocAnarchis

Who pissed in your cornflakes? What difference is taking your card out before you get to the machine going to take, 10 seconds? Maybe they are rightly cautious about taking their wallet out until they have to. It also can appear that someone is using the machine twice if they put their card in to check their balance and press the wrong button to exit the screen. Maybe they pressed the wrong amount? And staying under the camera to put your money in your wallet, after all the threads we have had in AH talking about being scammed at an atm? Tbh, you sound like the asshole here.

If she did, she's been swiftly replaced . Good job.

10 seconds on top of a transaction that could be done in 30, combined with the other 10 seconds here and there from generally being slow, multiplied by the other people in the queue = lots of extra waiting. People who know what they're doing and are in any way intelligent and efficient can arrive at the machine, press the buttons "code, withdraw cash, e20, continue" put their card back before the money is dispensed and put the money in the wallet while walking away.

It's very simple. The OP is pissed off at people who take 3,4,5 minutes, press many buttons, check things, change their minds, make repeated attempts at taking 20's after the machine clearly says it doesn't have any, try and get a f*cking mortgage and slow down everybody else. It's a valid thing to be annoyed at.

Yeah when i'm in a long queue and its finally my turn, I deliberately go as quick as I can just to show how fast it can be done. I only choose 50 (on all but BOI machines where you have to manually type this amount in why?, where I choose 20) so you only get one note and its quicker, decline the receipt and run from the machine when the card and money come out then put everything back together: just to show how much quicker men are at using machines in general!!

Note: its mainly women who are slow what with topping up their phone, checking their balance, taking out money, putting in purse putting in bag, farting etc...

enda1 wrote:

Note: its mainly women who are slow what with topping up their phone, checking their balance, taking out money, putting in purse putting in bag, farting etc...

You think that's bad, I remember being stuck for ages behind one woman who had numerous cards and accounts, I genuinely began to wonder if she was part of one of those scams where they use some method to catch your card while a mate notes what numbers you press for your PIN...

it really boils down to this for me

men: use the queue to actually think about the transaction and get their card ready.
women: where's the next pair of shoes coming from?

I find woment he worst offenders at this, I partly blame this modern trend for huge bags on it. The worst case's always being when some woman gets to atm then proceeds to root around in a bag thats big enough for me to fit two weeks of clothes in while i get annoyed standing in the queue behind here. :mad: :mad:

On a similiar note I was on the luas when a very loud phone began to ring it was a young woman who had one of these stupid bags it took her several annoyingly loud minutes to find her ringing phone she answered concluded her business and then just threw the phone back into the bottomless pit of a bag so the same scene could be repeated later:mad: :mad: :mad:

I hate everyone. It's just easier that way.

i dont get it either. never fails to surprise me how some Twat can stand there for Aaaaagggess and you take less than a minute yourself.
they should have a "Slow persons" bank Machine and a Quick one.
i know which order im gonna press the buttons in. i practically know it before i do it.

Yeah, Duggy has the nail on the head there. I've seen slow men, but by and large the slow users are mostly women, and even slow men are faster than slow women.

It's reckoned that it's because women are better money managers than men - they spend more time considering what they're going to do, doing sums in their head, and then checking their balance and redoing their sums in their head. Since women in general are less adept at head sums than men it only serves to exacerbate the issue.

Men go to the ATM to take out what they need. They don't care how much they have so long as the ATM gives them what they need.

It's the same phenomenon as the checkout.

1. Stand in line, waiting and looking around, bag over shoulder.
2. Your turn appears. Walk slowly to ATM, while rummaging in bag.
3. Continue rummaging in bag while standing at ATM. Take out wallet, rummage in oversized, overfilled wallet for bank card.
4. Insert card. Slowly.
5. Wait for PIN prompt to appear. Think about PIN for about two seconds. Put wallet back in bag.
6. Insert PIN. Ensure that each time you press a number, you press strongly and deliberately with your index finger. Then listen for the beep, but pause to look at the screen anyway to make sure you see a little star, then proceed to enter the next number in the same fashion.
7. Look around you while the machine verifies your PIN. We all know that machines are terrible at working with numbers, so don't expect it to finish soon.
8. Turn around five seconds after the cash prompt has appeared.
9. Look at the various options available. Do you need money? As you go to select a cash amount, reconsider and put your hand back down. Do this at least twice. Select "Show Balance".
10. Wait for balance to appear, and stare at it for about five seconds. It does look quite low, doesn't it? During those five seconds, think about all of the transactions you've made over the last two days in an attempt to figure out where your money has gone.
11. Select "Another transaction"
12. Think again about how much money you want. Perhaps you might need a little more tomorrow. Are you sure? Again, make at least two false starts before actually choosing the amount. You need to keep the machine on its toes.
13. Look surprised when the machine prompts you as to whether you'd like a receipt. Pretend that you've never seen this screen before. Consider this option for at least five seconds.
14. Request a receipt. I know, it is very difficult to subtract €200 from the balance that you saw 30 seconds ago.
15. Listen to machine beeping and wait for card to be fully expelled from machine before rummaging in bag for wallet. Extract card and place in wallet. Close wallet.
16. Take money, open wallet and stand there while you put the money in.
17. Take receipt, but remember - stay where you are! If you walk off, then you can't come back and correct any mistakes on your receipt.

In fairness, I'm not going to say this is most women. Of course it's not. But I've never seen men act like this at the ATM.