Can they stop over complicating simple tasks like airport parking?

This is what happens when you don't want to pay for employees and equipment that both always give you a headache (as an employer and a customer)

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The take a ticket, pay on your way out method has worked fine for decades. Now it’s all on a stupid app that you have to QR code and then register your vehicle etc. Then they charge you a service fee for this shite that you didn’t want to deal with in the first place. We are going too far with tech.

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Have you seen the its always sunny episode where Dennis has a mental break about how apps are ruining the world?

Man IDK. They switched all of downtown BR's garages to this QR thing and I thought it would be annoying, but you literally use it once and it remembers you. So anytime you enter, it knows you're there. And when you exit, it sends you your receipt without you logging into anything or pressing anything.

I just did it for the first time on Tuesday, and it already knew my license plate before I typed it in. Then when I went to leave -- having no account I set up or anything -- it knew how long I was there by simply driving out and sent me my receipt. (It used my Apple Pay automatically to pay)

Same with eateries now in the airport esp IAH. Scan QR code, then register with the app. which entails all the credit card info, etc. just to order something simple.

Common sense has gone out of the window. Glad I have United Club access.

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Then they charge you a service fee for this shite that you didn’t want to deal with in the first place.

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They replaced employees with an app, which likely saved a ton, and then they want us to pay extra for using the damned app. That kind of thing drives me crazy.

It's equivalent to a grocery store charging extra for using self check.

I've yet to encounter this and I hope I never do. The Louisville and Cincinnati (really Covington, KY) airports have unmanned booths but are still ticketed. You just input your ticket into the machine when you leave and you pay there. It takes 20 seconds and is amazing.

Back in the dark ages when you went to a doctor and needed some medication they would write it down on a slip of paper and you'd take it to a pharmacist and hand them the slip of paper and most of the time in about 15 minutes you paid for it and left, usually with some shite you didn't know you needed until you walked through the drug store of if you were a kid and it was your prescription maybe a new toy. It was SOOOOOO Complex. Now all you have to do is visit the doctor, tell them what pharmacy you want to go to, find the address for the doctor 'cause you know where it is but they ain't got a clue where walmart is apparently and they may or may not send the pharmacy the prescription electronicall. Chances are they won't do it or won't do it for a day or so and so you get to call them and ask them about it. Of course they don't check if the pharmacy has it in stock and if they don't the process starts all over again. Finally, once the pharmacy gets the prescription and they have the drug in stock they will fill it in 3-4 days and won't let you know when its ready to pick up so you have to call them several times. You then get to go to the pharmacy, probably wait in line longer than it took for them to fill the prescription, pay and leave with a bunch of shite you did not know you needed until you saw it walking the mile and a half back across the supercenter the pharmacy is in. It is sooooo much easier now than it used to be.....

I'm Dennis in that episode to a T.

Everything now requires an app or to register online, fill out all your personal info and credit card info.

QR code menus are the fricking worst. You're taking one of the last bastions of social interaction that people still do regularly and making people stick their head in their phones the moment they sit down.

Flew out of MSY recently and did the online QR code thing, not an app, and it was pretty simple. It even shows you the availability to make sure you’re not trying for a full lot.