when do you get to skip the queue

85603

so a geebag skipped me while i was in a queue the other day.

breezes right past me on the basis that there was a problem with an item she'd paid for (sorry i have to keep it vague).

i let it go, the teller served her as he recognized there was some unusual circumstance going on, but still, what is the logic behind this?

when do you get to skip a queue?

personally i tend towards 'never'.

you need a pen, or need a stamp, or want to ask, or forgot to. thats great. nothing to do with me, get in line. where do some people get the balls.

Smee_Again

In a previous job I would regularly get people March to the top of the queue to complain to the manager (me) and I would ask them to join the queue and my colleagues would help them when their turn came.

I never understood why people think that just because they’re angry about something (not all complaints were our fault) they should get to skip the queue.

TP_CM

You know when you're queuing in Lidl, and you've been waiting and waiting and then they open another till and the people behind you jump over to that new counter. That's one of those little things which really p!sses me off for some reason.

TP_CM

Oh to answer the question. Old men and women. Like who clearly have just a few years left. I reckon they can get away with skipping pretty much any queue.

Lesalare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bW1aMAkhs

accensi0n

When you're an alcoholic and it's 9:59 pm.

con___manx1

Some people are just self entitled. I worked with the public in my younger days. i couldnt do it now. Id end up punching some self entitled prick.
Its the same driving. these kind of people just park anywhere dont give a **** about anyone else.

Fils

TP_CM wrote: »

You know when you're queuing in Lidl, and you've been waiting and waiting and then they open another till and the people behind you jump over to that new counter. That's one of those little things which really p!sses me off for some reason.

All humanitarian rules are void in Lidl.

martingriff

TP_CM wrote: »

You know when you're queuing in Lidl, and you've been waiting and waiting and then they open another till and the people behind you jump over to that new counter. That's one of those little things which really p!sses me off for some reason.

They moved quicker. Be faster

People in supermarkets have really come to expect to be able to push on if they have a basket and you’ve a trolley. I had to tell the one on the checkout in Super Valu the other day that I was leaving the whole thing on the belt if she didn’t send someone back behind me. Entitled pricks.

Fils

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

People in supermarkets have really come to expect to be able to push on if they have a basket and you’ve a trolley. I had to tell the one on the checkout in Super Valu the other day that I was leaving the whole thing on the belt if she didn’t send someone back behind me. Entitled pricks.

Perhaps the one with the basket is a frontline worker after working a 24 hour shift and there you are with all the time in the world with first world problems giving out about it.

Fils

Fils wrote: »

Perhaps the one with the basket is a frontline worker after working a 24 hour shift and there you are with all the time in the world with first world problems giving out about it.

And perhaps they’re not. Even if they asked like people used to then I’d consider it but telling me I don’t mind as they walk past me means they can go and fist themselves.

the beer revolu

If your friend is in the queue you can legitimately jump the queue to that point, apparently!

Obviously, I'm talking about when the two people proceed separately to the checkout and aren't shopping together, as such.

(people genuinely think this is OK, and seem genuinely puzzled when pulled up on this - but, my friend was in the queue!)

Sheep Shagger

TP_CM wrote: »

You know when you're queuing in Lidl, and you've been waiting and waiting and then they open another till and the people behind you jump over to that new counter. That's one of those little things which really p!sses me off for some reason.

You snooze you lose when another checkout is opened, its not skipping the Q.

What gets me is when clowns Q up in say McDonald's in a single line and when they get to the top of the Q they go to one of the tills open.

There should be a Q for each open till so don't give me a filthy look when I walk up to a till, not your stupid single file Q.

Sheep Shagger

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

You snooze you lose when another checkout is opened, its not skipping the Q.

What gets me is when clowns Q up in say McDonald's in a single line and when they get to the top of the Q they go to one of the tills open.

There should be a Q for each open till so don't give me a filthy look when I walk up to a till, not your stupid single file Q.

That’s definitely skipping and a staff member should tell you to go back.

The DayDream

TP_CM wrote: »

You know when you're queuing in Lidl, and you've been waiting and waiting and then they open another till and the people behind you jump over to that new counter. That's one of those little things which really p!sses me off for some reason.

IME when you hear the announcement 'we're opening till x for you', you're best to just stay where you are anyway, as the staff member usually doesn't actually materialize to open the till for a another 2 minutes.

But if another one does open up quick and I'm at the back of the queue I'm not waiting to let the ones in front of me go in front of me again. It's a new queue IMO you're rights from the other queue don't carry over.

punisher5112

When I'm driving a BMW, Audi or Merc I'll not be having any of this talk of having to wait in line with peasants..... The right or left only lane ah will ya stop....

Mr.Crinklewood

Speaking of queues, annoys me when I see staff in supermarkets in queues.

Surely they can pay later, or somewhere out of sight.

Sheep Shagger

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

That’s definitely skipping and a staff member should tell you to go back.

No it's not - q at each till not a stupid single file Q for the next avaliable till. Never see it in other countries and thankfully its not that common here but where it happens....

hynesie08

Fils wrote: »

Perhaps the one with the basket is a frontline worker after working a 24 hour shift and there you are with all the time in the world with first world problems giving out about it.

Or they're just a prick.

Sheep Shagger

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Speaking of queues, annoys me when I see staff in supermarkets in queues.

Surely they can pay later, or somewhere out of sight.

Too hard to police paying later although when i worked in a supermarket years ago there was a till out of sight (only if you were say buying your lunch not a weekly shop).

Meant you didn't spend half your break in a Q too.

punisher5112

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Speaking of queues, annoys me when I see staff in supermarkets in queues.

Surely they can pay later, or somewhere out of sight.

Then be danger of theft. They can't ring up their own items for example at a till they're on for this reason.

Mr.Crinklewood

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

Too hard to police paying later although when i worked in a supermarket years ago there was a till out of sight (only if you were say buying your lunch not a weekly shop).

Meant you didn't spend half your break in a Q too.

Out of Sight would be perfect.

Anyway....not the biggest of worries to have!

Galwayguy35

TP_CM wrote: »

You know when you're queuing in Lidl, and you've been waiting and waiting and then they open another till and the people behind you jump over to that new counter. That's one of those little things which really p!sses me off for some reason.

Ha this exact thing happened to me today, we were in line with me in front when a staff member told us to move to the free line she was going to open.

I had only a few things in a hand basket but she horsed past me to the other one with her trolley filled to the brim.

Mrs OBumble

When you ride a bicycle, you skip queues all the time.

JustAThought

little ole ladies and elderly gentlemen I let skip all the time. Also people desperately trying to turn in or out of their driveways on busy roads - feel sorry for them. Anyone obviously handicapped. Including young people on crutches but not junkie types. Also smelly piss drenched roaring drunks - they might get by - I don’t to get the smell off them & they’ll just get a pass out card from the courts if they stab you in a rage so why get a lifelong injury or scar.

Sheep Shagger

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

No it's not - q at each till not a stupid single file Q for the next avaliable till. Never see it in other countries and thankfully its not that common here but where it happens....

It’s very common in Britain. That single line is the queue for all the tills.

They should probably formalise it with some kind of barrier.

JustAThought

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It’s very common in Britain. That single dime q is the queue for all the tills.

Has the UK rejoined the USA?
Dime q’s????

TP_CM

TP_CM wrote: »

You know when you're queuing in Lidl, and you've been waiting and waiting and then they open another till and the people behind you jump over to that new counter. That's one of those little things which really p!sses me off for some reason.

See.....i think thats a new queue

Wanderer2010

con___manx1 wrote: »

Some people are just self entitled. I worked with the public in my younger days. i couldnt do it now. Id end up punching some self entitled prick.
Its the same driving. these kind of people just park anywhere dont give a **** about anyone else.

Saw this one today. Woman had parked her car sideways and right outside the entrance to a petrol station in such a way that anyone using the pump in front of her car had to inch out really slowly to avoid hitting it. And she wasnt some awl one, she was in her 40s and just walked out with an ice cream and the newspaper as if it was totally normal to park like that. I wouldnt say it crossed her tiny mind for a second that she was inconsiderate..

One eyed Jack

85603 wrote: »

so a geebag skipped me while i was in a queue the other day.

…

where do some people get the balls.

Far queue!

Larbre34

Move to Italy. Nobody queues. For anything. Survival of the fittest.

Once you get used to it, it's fine.

JustAThought

JustAThought wrote: »

Has the UK rejoined the USA?
Dime q’s????

Given that I edited that immediately that’s impressive pedantry.

Duckworth_Luas

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

No it's not - q at each till not a stupid single file Q for the next avaliable till. Never see it in other countries and thankfully its not that common here but where it happens....

So there is nowhere in the world where they have a ticketing system where you take a ticket and you will be meet by the earliest available window in numerical order.

Every bank branch in the world uses the single queue method.

In the US and the single queue is used everywhere. Best thing about the US is that people know how to queue, not the free for all bullsh*t in Ireland.

A single queue guarantees that nobody is going to get stuck behind that individual that takes forever while every other queue progresses.

JustAThought

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Given that I edited that immediately that’s impressive pedantry.

Sorry - didn’t realise it was an error or you were correcting!!

I guess I might be beating you in the Lidl new checkout now open sprint!!!

Duckworth_Luas

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

So there is nowhere in the world where they have a ticketing system where you take a ticket and you will be meet by the earliest available window in numerical order.

Every bank branch in the world uses the single queue method.

In the US and the single queue is used everywhere. Best thing about the US is that people know how to queue, not the free for all bullsh*t in Ireland.

A single queue guarantees that nobody is going to get stuck behind that individual that takes forever while every other queue progresses.

Actually I thought that MacDonalds did that these days. Haven’t been in there for a while.

touts

I was in a shop a few days before Christmas a couple of years ago. The queues were mental. Eventually I made my way to be second in the queue. This lad in a suit walks up to the middle aged woman in the queue in front of me says something and steps in front of her. I pipe up. "Sorry there is a queue". He turned around and said "She doesn't mind". I responded "I do you didn't ask me or the 20 people behind me". He scowls and says "I am double parked outside". I responded "The top deck of the carpark was empty 30 minutes ago. **** off and move your car". He tried to then cut in behind me and I loved hearing the man behind me just say "**** off to the back". He stormed out. The queue laughed and there was a real sense of Christmas cheer.

Hoboo

TP_CM wrote: »

You know when you're queuing in Lidl, and you've been waiting and waiting and then they open another till and the people behind you jump over to that new counter. That's one of those little things which really p!sses me off for some reason.

That's a new queue, fair game.

YFlyer

accensi0n wrote: »

When you're an alcoholic and it's 9:59 pm.

Yes especially in a supermarket.

I saw a guy drive past the queue of cars at the Covid vaccine centre , when he got out and joined the queue of people standing to get into the building he realised he left his ID in the car , off he went to get it and had to join the end of the queue, Karma

YFlyer

Noticed Russian people don't queue. First seen it at the embassy in Dublin. Then when I was in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

quickbeam

I queued to pay at a garage, only to be told that the card machine was out of order, but I could withdraw cash from the ATM in the corner. I was raging, but took the money out of the ATM, and too right but I skipped the queue to pay once I had the cash, as I wasn't going to queue up again.

Hoboo

Hoboo wrote: »

That's a new queue, fair game.

It isn’t really. The problem is they can’t enforce queue discipline in a large supermarket. Smaller supermarkets can because there’s generally one queue in one aisle and newly open tills just speeds up that queue.

YFlyer

When you call people boss.

JustAThought

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It isn’t really. The problem is they can’t enforce queue discipline in a large supermarket. Smaller supermarkets can because there’s generally one queue in one aisle and newly open tills just speeds up that queue.

Do you remember the SPRINT to the toilet roll section at the start of the pandemic when people spotted them bringing out another pallet! So funny. The opposite of queing!! No prisoners taken!!

pc7

I’ve done it at toilets once when the smallie shouted ‘the poo is coming’ queue parted like the Red Sea.

pgj2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG5WBTXgh_o

meep

When you get to your table in McDonald’s or similar fine establishment and realise they forgot to give you ketchup / dip / straws / salt whatever.

It’s ok to skip the queue to get what you need before your food goes cold.

Am I wrong?

Strumms

Fils wrote: »

Perhaps the one with the basket is a frontline worker after working a 24 hour shift and there you are with all the time in the world with first world problems giving out about it.

While we appreciate front line workers we also expect that they appreciate that it doesn’t enable them to disregard the courtesy and good manners of first come first served... if a shop want a separate Q for front line workers no problem but if a shop and it’s staff are facilitating and enabling front line workers to skip people queuing for shopping ? I’d be redirecting my cash elsewhere and giving them a bit of feedback too for all to see.

Strumms

meep wrote: »

When you get to your table in McDonald’s or similar fine establishment and realise they forgot to give you ketchup / dip / straws / salt whatever.

It’s ok to skip the queue to get what you need before your food goes cold.

Am I wrong?

That’s not skipping, that’s just returning to get what you should have been given, if you forgot to order chips, got 4 instead of 5 yes your food can go cold as that’s another transaction/interaction that you are not entitled to without waiting your turn.

a_squirrelman

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

No it's not - q at each till not a stupid single file Q for the next avaliable till. Never see it in other countries and thankfully its not that common here but where it happens....

It’s actually the most efficient and quickest way to queue. It means nobody is slowed down if there is one slow cashier or a customer is taking too long.