Local Coles has moved on from self checkouts as an option, to bullying people into using them.

They now have only one human operated checkout, and there's always a queue of people willing to wait longer for the sake of the principle that people are more important than corporate profit. So Coles has appointed a staffer to harrass people in that queue.

Perhaps Coles has finally figured that we're  not actually computer shy, that our choice is political. (Most times I don't  even go to Coles but they do have my favourite coffee.)

Anyway, they've given a staffer the job of gracelessly ordering people to leave the human checkout and follow her to the other.

"No" I said emphatically, I'm going through here", pointing to the checkout in front of me. As she turned away I called, "I don't  work for Coles."

Not only am I not going to do the work of a staffer without pay, I'm not going to be rudely bossed around as if I was a staffer, for the sake of Coles' profit.

#ToxicCapitalism