Does anyone else here hate financial transactions?

[Southern Discomfort]

I get really nervous and anxious about them. I want it to be as quick and as painless as possible, like if I use a cash machine. It's memorising an order to repeat back, forming the words to say, dealing with where I look and talking to someone I don't know and hearing them over a noisy background - they usually mumble too which really doesn't help. The whole thing makes me think 'sod this, I might as well stay in bed'.

Perfect example of a financial transaction I hate, I went to the cinema with my siblings and friends last night to watch 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' (good film by the way). I bought myself a regular Coca-Cola and a small popcorn. Surviving the regular wave of anxiety that comes with this situation I got my drink but then realised the guy, obviously new, forgot my popcorn resulting in a whole ho-ha with me having to enter in my card details three times and sign a receipt. I'm not expecting to do this so as a result I'm on the edge and annoyed as I leave with my things I purchased to enjoy the film.

I'm usually okay in most social situations but this is an anathema for me which is strange because it's the most structured sort of situation but having read back the reasons why I find it hard it's no wonder I order most things off Amazon. The hardest part of that is maybe receiving packages off the postman, pretending to smile and that the reason I'm at home during the day is because I work night shifts and is not because I'm dying inside from the existential dread that comes with being an apparent adult.

If God is planning a personalised hell for the atrocities I've committed in my life he need only put me in a busy marketplace with a list of things I need to buy to satisfy my demonic overlords to stop the physical beatings from happening.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

And FYI I did not put in that hyperlink to Amazon. I'm not an adbot.

 

[ksheehan88]

I do sometimes... usually when they faf about or give you dirty looks because you give them a large note or lots of change -_-

 

[Sylar]

I don't hate transactions so much as having money. After all the bills are taken care of I feel the need to spend any leftover money out of some stupid fear that it'll screw me over at some point or someone will just take it away. I know it's irrational but I can't help it. I'd rather spend £10 in a shop using 2p coins than have money to spare.

And FYI I did not put in that hyperlink to Amazon. I'm not an adbot.

I've seen things like that in my own posts and it seems to be spreading. It's really intrusive epsecially when the ads are placed on a word in the wrong context. There was a thread that included amazonian mythology that would link to Amazon the store every time. Every forum I've had some kind of control in had an option to disable this which leads me to suspect the owners of this place are allowing it.

I know running a site costs money but there are members who pay money just to be V.I.P. members here even though it means next to nothing, they just want to support the place, and you can have as many ad banners as you want. Considering that, there's no way it costs so much to run that having ads placed involuntarily in our own posts isn't a way to make a profit.

 

[The Penguin]

The only part I hate about it is me ensuring the clerk haven't made any errors over scanning items. I can already estimate what the total purchase will be including tax before the clerk rings in anything. To the plus side, I can also detect when I was under change and I will take advantage of it as an extra discount in my favour.

 

[Misery]

I avoid this in one very, very simple way: I only deal with machines or online purchases. Most supermarkets (the only type of store I would have any conceivable reason to go to) now have automated checkout as an option... I havent been in an actual cashier line in ages, with the very rare exception of when I have to buy a new blasted controller (the security thing on it needs to be removed, the machines cant do that). And online purchases obviously dont involve even so much as seeing another person.

I do however buy my caffiene drink from the gas station, but I dont have to actually speak. I walk up, give them a dollar, and leave, nice and quick.

 

[biblophile]

I do well as long as nothing goes wrong. Most transactions follow a script so I know what to say in response to the standard questions like ."how are you?", " Nice weather we are having?", etc... I do not like it but it is tolerable. If the clerk starts with the small talk or is one of those people who like to tell complete strangers their life stories, it goes way out side my comfort zone and I start feeling anxious. If say I am short of money or there is something wrong with my card I start having a panic attack. And I can never bring myself to return any thing to the store.

 

[toothless]

i hate any form of interaction,whether its through financial transactions [my staff handle that and i have an legal appointee who is in charge of my finances] or something else.

 

[Judge]

The only thing I'm focused on at all times regarding financial transactions is that I have an accurate assessment of it all. And that hopefully the numbers are in my favor where they can or are supposed to be.

But yes, I cringe at any real-time situation where I perceive something has gone wrong. Though I won't just let it slide, either.

 

[garnetflower13]

I follow a script when in the check out lane, and really get distracted if someone wants to talk more than the usual pleasantries. I hate standing in line anyhow, because of having to focus so hard until the transaction is over with.

 

[LittleLemon]

I get really annoyed and if I can, I'll go to the self check out or just order online. Maybe annoyed is not the word. I think maybe low level anxiety might be it.

 

[toothless]

I get really annoyed and if I can, I'll go to the self check out or just order online. Maybe annoyed is not the word. I think maybe low level anxiety might be it.

i do that-go to the self check outs with my staff as i dont like interaction with the check out people but i also really hate it when the self checkout machines stop working [a common problem] and call the staff over as it means the staff want to interact and im not willing,but the pressure is unbelieveable.

 

[Mr Allen]

The only time I hate financial transactions is when I have to talk to the Bank themselves, hence my Parents have Authority to speak on my behalf to the Bank for any queries on my account or stuff.

I'm not being funny though but why would a Yorkshire based Bank have their main call centre in Scotland? Logic dictates that most of the big companies based in the Yorkshire region have the HQs in Leeds?! Which according to the BBC is the Epicentre of the whole of Yorkshire?!