Millennial here. I fucking hate people and conversing with them, especially small talk bullshit, but I hate companies and their profiteering more.

I would rather more people had jobs and were able to earn a wage and the companies had less profit than using those infuriating machines. I don't even get cheaper prices for having to do the work myself on those infuriating machines.

I think I would be less annoyed if they gave people the option between the two so people like yourself could use the self service machines and they still employed some people to work checkouts but these days there is usually one or two checkouts designed to be run by staff and they hardly ever have a staff member on them so you are forces through the self service bullshit.