Showing posts with label Self-service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self-service. Show all posts

Movies in a Theatre

 Our generation is not a self-service generation, in general. We had people serving us, in most industries. Now, the customer has to do most of the work. Online services included. Only after you do the work, including assorted passwords and OTPs, does their machinery start to move.

So, going to the theatre versus Netflix type movie-watching. You only had to go to a theatre and part with money after which you enjoyed your three hours. Barring the five hundred rupee popcorn combo (I am not kidding!), you can still enjoy it in a theatre, but after booking tickets yourself, online. And carrying the damn phone to show them that you did your job! They pat you on the back (not literally) and let you in. 

Luckily, the guys who fill the petrol in your car or scooter are still doing it, unlike in the U.S., where you had to do it, even in the eighties. 

Where will this self-service pandemic end, I wonder. I fear, not at all. So get ready to give your OTP to all and sundry! You are lucky if they don't ask you to fly your own plane, I suppose.

Why I Hate Self-service

Self-service is a non-starter, as far as I am concerned.

First of all, the meaning of service is that the service-person is dedicated to serve me, the customer. If I am serving myself, what is he there for? Serving himself?

I end up buying more of everything I don't need, because of these *&* damn self-service retail stores. Who will pay me for all the wasteful expenditure?

The self-service concept dumbs down the service-people. Try conversing with a bookstore service-person in a book store, and you'll know what I mean. Do we want them to reach the IQ levels of a McD service-person in the U.S??

I hate to do my own work, when I don't have to. If I look for products, order them online, pay for them myself, and collect them at my doorstep myself, what are the service people doing? Or instead of royally hailing a cab or an autorickshaw (tuk-tuk),, if I have to spend many minutes booking it, and then explaining to the cab guy where to find me, I am not exactly thrilled by the experience.

Say NO to self-service. I would have started a movement against it, but then, that would be another exercise in self-service...


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