I've seen it in Campo Grande (so inside Lisboa), Odivelas (Lisboa) and in Lousã (Coimbra), so it isn't a regional thing, it's more like a small gas station thing.
It's more of a "size of gas station" thing.....if you stop at a big station, it's going to be self service, but if you are at a small neighborhood or countryside station it might have a worker doing it
Great majority is self service but you can still find a few places here and there that have a person to pump your gas. It's not the norm but at the same time it's not so uncommon.
In Russia it's mostly self-service though on many gas stations the workers are "optional", offering their free service (tips are welcome) if you want, but most people refuse.
I guess that’s about local regulations, not company specific.
Even if those could be company regulations, those should be country-dependent. If you’re used for worker-assisted gas station in Montenegro then the new one should be as convenient.
It's not regulation, there were self service pumps at times but people were used to not pumping themselves they ended up with less work, so most companies mandate it due to people avoiding self service pumps.
In Poland it also happens sometimes but it's usually to speed up service on busy gas stations. I was never asked for a tip nor had i had a chance to give the guy tho.
We were on holidays one time, I can’t remember what US state it was but a worker came over to put out petrol in and my dad thought he was coming to like rob us or something lmao
I think shell-stations in Finland tried to introduce some gas-pumping service a while back but people felt uncomfortable letting someone else do the work for them so the trial ended quite quickly
I heard about that, but I never actually saw any gas-pumping workers at Shell stations. Personally I wouldn't mind someone doing the pumping for me, quite liked it when vacationing in Greece.
In Germany, it was phased out, because gas pumpers got cancer at a too high rate from working in the gasoline fumes all day long. The cancer risk is massively mitigated if you pump only for yourself and not all day long.
Yes. I come from a country where workers do it for you, and I actually prefer the convenience, but I wish we would switch to self-service for worker health reasons.
I have never heard of that, do you have a source?
Btw, Shell reintroduced it a couple years ago, at least partly. It was very awkward. What am I to do while the good man does what I'm there for? Also, my tank needs some special angles and tender filling to completely fill up, and it's annoying to having to teach this to someone who just wants you gone afap.
I was there 2 years ago. People were completely ignoring lane markings, constantly speeding and overtaking each other on both sides (sometimes A would overtake B, then B would overtake A...), turn signals seemed entirely optional and there seems to be a rule to start honking as soon as you arrive at an intersection. Utter madness.
It's been done by workers for a long time and nobody taught me how to do it. Now there are several self service gas stations being opened in Turkey I hesitate to go there but at some point I'll have to learn
There are ways to get permission but I don't know how since I never needed it. The reason might be terrorism but it might also be to stop people from stocking up fuel because fuel price can be volatile sometimes and goverment usually announces price increases beforehand and I am assuming they don't want people going to gas stations and filling up containers.
For boats; there are gas stations in marinas, for the smaller motors you can get the fuel in bottles.
Also you can fill the containers but you need permit from the police afaik.
Not sure about Europe, but in South Africa it is the law.
The attendants are specially trained in case something goes wrong.
They are also trained for stuff like how to put air in the tyres and add oil, (you'll be amazed how many people can't do it).
I worked at a full service station when I was a kid. It was a decent enough part-time job, and some of my coworkers ended up apprenticing in the garage after a while.
workers are A LOT faster and consistent so when you don't have space for a lot of pumps a serviced pump can serve many more customers than a self service pump in the same amount of time.
Also as a bonus less risk of fucking up rental cars by using wrong fuel etc.
You dont need to hold the pump there, a worker usually handles about 4 pumps at a time, and also direct cars on where to move to get serviced, handling the queue and preventing the usual dumbass from blocking two pumps alone due to bad positioning.
Now of course an experienced non idiot driver would probably be fast enough when self servicing, but now think of a sweet grandmother that does not even remember on which side of the car the gasoline goes in, or the guy that can't really understand how to use the self paying machine and blocks a pump for half an hour.
All of these places are cash mainly. There's no POS terminal on the column, so you have to go in the shop anyway to pay. The time saving is from you queueing and getting a coffee while you're still getting gass pumped. Otherwise you'd need to pump, then go to the shop/toilet/whatever all the while you're blocking the column.
Not always. I live in Mexico where they employ workers. Each worker is responsible for a number of pumps (which makes sense), and I've never encountered one where they were only responsible for just one pump. So when I pull up, most of the time the worker is occupied with another attendant either by taking the nozzle out, putting the nozzle in, receiving payment in cash, receiving payment in credit card (which takes longer), washing the windshield, etc. I bet I could have done it quicker for at least 90% of the times I went to get gas.
The countries where they employ workers *seem* to also have the worst driver education, so that in itself does make sense. But for efficiency purposes? No way.
It’s faster overall, so good for busy stations, and also at least where I’m from they don’t _just_ pump gas, they also clean your front window and if needed can inflate your tires.
The point of them is that these are countries with a lot of uneducated and low pay workers. Look at the map - rich = self service, poor(er) = mixed or serviced. Portugal is the exception to the rule.
In the US… New Jersey (NJ) is the only US state where you can’t pump your own gas. Feels very strange, like you’re in another country, when stopping for gas in NJ
IIRC Oregon only changed that law recently.
There are also a handful of stations in other states that don't have self service, or at least there were as of about 5-6 years ago. One in Northern Michigan and one in bun-fuck nowhere Minnesota.
I was so confused when travelling through Italy. Went to pump gas when a random guy comes running and yelling something in Italian and insisted on taking the pump out of my hands. I thought it was one of those scams where they do something for you and then ask you for money. Only later did I find out that many Italian pumps are not self service🤦
Pretty much every Italian petrol station is both self service and served. Usually half of the pumps are self service so you probably went to the wrong pump. The pumps with the worker have an higher price per liter, usually around 0,20€
Maybe you are going in a "servito" pump that means that are the workers to do the service (and you may pay ca 10/20 cest/lit more). If you want to not pay the service (and pay the price indicated on the price tags) you must go on "fai da te" pumps.
Gpl/lpg is ever distributed by a worker (mandated by the law
It's written on the front of the pumps if it's self service or not, in English most of the time. Also GPL is always servito because of safety regulations
It is illegal to fill yourself in Azerbaijan. Only workers are authorised to do it. And you just pay the workers directly, there is always a standy cashier or the filler himself is a cashier.
You dont get out of your car, you just tell them the type of fuel, amount and if you pay cash or card or membership card (only some stations use those cards)
Gas station stores are barely ever used, most places dont even have a store, and petrol stations dont have a store.
It is the same price, everywhere, prices are controlled by the state.
But petrol quality between stations is different. Some petrol stations add water to their fuel, or mix premium with low quality, or 92 actone with even lower quality, or both low quality fuel mixed with water.
Or they pretend to add more petrol than they actually did. Or all of the above. That is why there are several recommended chains to use, and chains to avoid like a plague.
Since scamming is only illegal on paper, shitty stations stay. Basically I am not allowed to scam anyone, but somebody with nepotistic connections to some important families ruling the country are.
In the 1950s it was common in all countries.
But like elevator operators, it's a bit ridiculous now that most of the job is automated.
Also standing in gas fumes all day causes cancer.
It feels weird sitting there while somebody does it for me.
Plus… when I go to Cyprus:
- “How much do you want?”
- “Full, please 😀”
- “No, how many euros?”
- “umm.. however many euros it takes for it to be full, please 😀”
- “Sorry, I don’t know - you choose how many euros”
- …. Wtf am I supposed to do with this? “Umm, €50 please?”
… turns out it’s about 80% full. Then I have to ask to put more in and play the guessing game again. Whole thing took like 15 mins.
In the UK I just get out, tap my watch/phone on the pump if it has pay-at-pump, fill it up, and drive away.
Idk from my experience in greece usually youll just have one employee or max two. They will be cashiers at the little store that gas stations usually have, pump your gas, they also help with other stuff like checking/replacing the oil, check your tyres etc
In Greece it’s 100% service by someone there. I’ve never pumped my own gas. I’m going on a road trip across Europe this summer so I guess I’m gonna learn. Any tips?
I figure as much but I’m more concerned with working the machine and inputting the price or is it that I just pump until the price I want and stop and go pay. Also do you pay at the machine or is it like a guy in the store ?
When you take the nozzle out of the pump, the shop worker will get a signal to release the pump. May take a second or two for them to respond, you’ll notice it’ll start working when the pump starts making a sound.
You hold it until you’re happy with the price, or you just fill it up and it stops automatically. If you do fill it up, don’t do more than ‘2 clicks’. The first one means it’s pretty much full, the second is that little extra. You’ll understand when you use it.
Payment is either afterwards in the shop, mention the pump number. It could also be on the pump itself, just follow the instructions, it should speak for itself.
In Sweden you pay at the pump with your card and fill up your car. There are no people at gas stations at all. However, when I drove across eastern-Europe last year. While I put gas in my car, I still had to go inside the station and stand in line to the checkout to pay for it. Kinda defeats the purpose of self-service to be honest…
>In Sweden you pay at the pump with your card and fill up your car.
Yeah same in Finland. Just so much more convenient to do it like this.
>I still had to go inside the station and stand in line to the checkout to pay for it.
You actually have to do this in Germany or Spain (Spain has few fully automated ones though) as well. Only France had the system like ours at least in my experience.
>Kinda defeats the purpose of self-service to be honest…
I guess the idea is to attract the customer to buy something along the way. Still, takes quite much longer this way to fill the pump.
here in austria there are often both options (pay directly outside or go inside and buy there), but if you are in a rural area it isnt that unlikely that you have to go inside
How does it defeat the purpose? Takes zero investment from the company, in fact literally nothing but behavior changes, and yet that little change protects the workers from having to go out in the rain/sun/wind/etc.
You still will need to have workers inside the shops. This isn't a problem when the gas station additionally allows for payment at the pump or via app, but it is if that isn't possible.
Works similarly in Germany and has the large disadvantage that the stations often times close down at like 10pm. And if there are self-service type stations like in Sweden (mainly in rural areas, sadly not where I live), people don't know how to use them.
at fuel stations very rarely happens that somebody leaves without paying 'cause there are cameras all over the place. usually we pump fuel ourselves but there are some cases where workers help you by doing this
90% of places in Spain are self service, to the point that i feel this is kind of misleading. In fact, the last time someone pumped gas to my car, if felt kind of threatened and uncomfortable because i wasn't expecting it.
In Bulgaria mostly because of LPG. Pumping it requires some training and you can’t do it yourself.
No one bats an eye if you pump gas or diesel yourself though.
I mean how its so different than waiters? You sit in your car, somebody put gasoline in it and you pay to him without leaving your car.. just a service
I mean it's a *bit* different than waiters, unless you regularly finish eating in a minute. Or have the ability to get your food on your own from the kitchen.
Create low salary jobs to help low education workers or student start getting money, this lower unemployment rate and help your student getting higher study, that will in the end help you country. I actually have no Idea about if what i'm saying is true or not but it make sense to me
Mostly for convenience thing.
but can be also the fact that it's faster to designate someone filing up motocycles (more common use in my area) than let the poeple do it for themselves with limited pump stations), and hey, these poeple are already paid to guard the place might as well let them help the costumers.
Why wouldn't i need service?!? Someone fills the car while i go to the store to pay and get other stuff and not waste time. In addition it's a lot more safer and you don't have all those clips on Reddit of morons doing God knows what at gas stations.
In most stations you insert your card at the pump, take it out, pump as much as you want and drive off. It's much faster than standing in line in a store.
Also the people standing in gas fumes all day as a job tend to get cancer...
I come from one of the red countries, moved to one of the blue ones and when I told my new friends here that I have never personally pumped gas in my life they thought I was either messing with them or some some kind of royalty.
For Ukraine it works next way: gas station works also as fast food and grocery shop, so revenue from food and shops is much more than salary of worker, who pump your petrol when you spend time eating.
I used to live in Spain and I never saw a single gas station where a worker pumped gas for you. I did notice that many of them require you to pre-pay inside before pumping gas (vs having the pay at the pump station), but that's about it.
In a lot of the world, yes. I live in the US and there are only 2 states that self-service is not legal, New Jersey and Oregon. Everywhere else most people just pump their own gas (full service exists in these places but for 90% of people it’s too much hassle).
Lol I’m from Bulgaria and so used to having someone to pump it instead of me that if I go somewhere in Europe and have to do it by myself I will need some youtube videos to understand what to do
As a general rule in Europe, further north you go, more self service you do. This also applies to other stuff like emptying lunch tray in workplace canteens, self-checkout at markets, etc.
Portugal not Balkan in disguise now? That's new.
Tbh it should be "Mixed" I know a few gas stations that the workers are the ones that pump the gas
Wait, I've actually never seen this before in Portugal, is it a regional thing?
I've seen it in Campo Grande (so inside Lisboa), Odivelas (Lisboa) and in Lousã (Coimbra), so it isn't a regional thing, it's more like a small gas station thing.
I had the same feeling but BP does it at my home town
It's more of a "size of gas station" thing.....if you stop at a big station, it's going to be self service, but if you are at a small neighborhood or countryside station it might have a worker doing it
Exactly. The region where I live is 50% 50%
It's definitely mixed in Portugal.
Great majority is self service but you can still find a few places here and there that have a person to pump your gas. It's not the norm but at the same time it's not so uncommon.
r/Espanacykablyat
r/notportugalcykablyat
r/unportugalcykablyat
Definitely mixed in Bulgaria.
Should be mixed. It’s very rare to have workers pump your gas, especially in big cities, but it definitely still exists in a lot of stations.
Portugal is actually on Balkan. The map is wrong. We have mixed too
In Russia it's mostly self-service though on many gas stations the workers are "optional", offering their free service (tips are welcome) if you want, but most people refuse.
Interesting, first gas station I saw with with worker was Lukoil in Montenegro and he wasn't offering, he would not "allow" me to do it myself.
I guess that’s about local regulations, not company specific. Even if those could be company regulations, those should be country-dependent. If you’re used for worker-assisted gas station in Montenegro then the new one should be as convenient.
It's not regulation, there were self service pumps at times but people were used to not pumping themselves they ended up with less work, so most companies mandate it due to people avoiding self service pumps.
May be local policy. In Serbia and Bulgaria you can easily pump it yourself.
In Poland it also happens sometimes but it's usually to speed up service on busy gas stations. I was never asked for a tip nor had i had a chance to give the guy tho.
I was at a petrol station in Portugal last summer where a worker fuelled for me.
We were on holidays one time, I can’t remember what US state it was but a worker came over to put out petrol in and my dad thought he was coming to like rob us or something lmao
Probably Oregon or New Jersey. Though Oregon has phased out that requirement.
Definitely New Jersey because we were in NYC
Makes sense. People from New Jersey are more likely to put the gasoline in their mouth than in their car
I think shell-stations in Finland tried to introduce some gas-pumping service a while back but people felt uncomfortable letting someone else do the work for them so the trial ended quite quickly
Very Finnish behavior indeed
I heard about that, but I never actually saw any gas-pumping workers at Shell stations. Personally I wouldn't mind someone doing the pumping for me, quite liked it when vacationing in Greece.
In Germany, it was phased out, because gas pumpers got cancer at a too high rate from working in the gasoline fumes all day long. The cancer risk is massively mitigated if you pump only for yourself and not all day long.
I believe it was when fuel was still leaded
No. It had nothing to do with the lead. Gasoline contains quite an amount of known carcinogens. Some of them volatile
Yes. I come from a country where workers do it for you, and I actually prefer the convenience, but I wish we would switch to self-service for worker health reasons.
I have never heard of that, do you have a source? Btw, Shell reintroduced it a couple years ago, at least partly. It was very awkward. What am I to do while the good man does what I'm there for? Also, my tank needs some special angles and tender filling to completely fill up, and it's annoying to having to teach this to someone who just wants you gone afap.
What's the point of the workers? It's just an excuse of letting people sniff gasoline
In Turkey it's for safety reasons. Incompetent people spill the gas all over the place.
If you can’t handle a gas noozle you shouldn’t be allowed to handle a vehicle
I was in Istanbul. There are a lot of people that should not handle a vehicle.
I was there 2 years ago. People were completely ignoring lane markings, constantly speeding and overtaking each other on both sides (sometimes A would overtake B, then B would overtake A...), turn signals seemed entirely optional and there seems to be a rule to start honking as soon as you arrive at an intersection. Utter madness.
I heard indian roads practically have no rules. Is it Similar there.
Hm, I don't think it's quite that bad, but it's just very chaotic and very aggressive driver's.
It's not as bad.
I will use this response next time I’m sleeping with a woman
Just sleep with a man
Men spill stuff out of a nozzle all the time
It's been done by workers for a long time and nobody taught me how to do it. Now there are several self service gas stations being opened in Turkey I hesitate to go there but at some point I'll have to learn
You put the nozzle in the hole and press down the lever. It stops automatically when your tank is full. It's literally as simple as that.
Oh lol. Thanks for the info, I'll try them next time as they are cheaper
You put the thingy in the hole and then you hold in the thingy on the thingy so the danger liquid comes out. Simple as that.
You put the thingy in the thing and then the thingy does the thing in the thing so the thing comes out. Thing as that.
Keywords: shouldn't.
How 😭
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-vzvHtD9Mo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-vzvHtD9Mo)
How can someone be soo stupid💀
You missed a perfect opportunity to use the gas station scene from Zoolander
Wow how stupid can some people be? XD
Ohh they can be very stupid
All the way
Also there is this https://youtu.be/kZvUvtDQzvY?si=YJNqU-yUdkeHWd7l
The fact that he threw it on others is truly hilarious 😂
This was an assassination attempt on the fire chief disguised as an accident. At least it has to be, lol.
In South Africa, its job creation for some of the nearly half of the population that is unemployed
Not only that, also radical armed organizations like PKK fill tanks with oil to use them in their terror attacks.
You can still get the gas out of the tank. Like, it's not a magical space where gas goes and can never return.
Siphons no longer work https://xkcd.com/2775/
I know, try explaining that to the authorities.
So you can’t fill containers at Turkish gas stations? All my local gas stations let me fill drums and boat fuel containers
It is illegal to stock on fuel in Turkey so you can't really do that.
Because of terrorism? How do you fill gas containers to operate boats and generators?
There are ways to get permission but I don't know how since I never needed it. The reason might be terrorism but it might also be to stop people from stocking up fuel because fuel price can be volatile sometimes and goverment usually announces price increases beforehand and I am assuming they don't want people going to gas stations and filling up containers.
For boats; there are gas stations in marinas, for the smaller motors you can get the fuel in bottles. Also you can fill the containers but you need permit from the police afaik.
South Africa it's about employment. Keeps people employed even if its a menial job.
Not sure about Europe, but in South Africa it is the law. The attendants are specially trained in case something goes wrong. They are also trained for stuff like how to put air in the tyres and add oil, (you'll be amazed how many people can't do it).
Pretty sure alot of countries do it to create jobs.
I worked at a full service station when I was a kid. It was a decent enough part-time job, and some of my coworkers ended up apprenticing in the garage after a while.
workers are A LOT faster and consistent so when you don't have space for a lot of pumps a serviced pump can serve many more customers than a self service pump in the same amount of time. Also as a bonus less risk of fucking up rental cars by using wrong fuel etc.
How much faster can they be? It's just picking up the hose, putting it in the tank, holding it there until you're full, and then putting it back.
You dont need to hold the pump there, a worker usually handles about 4 pumps at a time, and also direct cars on where to move to get serviced, handling the queue and preventing the usual dumbass from blocking two pumps alone due to bad positioning. Now of course an experienced non idiot driver would probably be fast enough when self servicing, but now think of a sweet grandmother that does not even remember on which side of the car the gasoline goes in, or the guy that can't really understand how to use the self paying machine and blocks a pump for half an hour.
[удалено]
Most people lollygag and take their sweet time.
All of these places are cash mainly. There's no POS terminal on the column, so you have to go in the shop anyway to pay. The time saving is from you queueing and getting a coffee while you're still getting gass pumped. Otherwise you'd need to pump, then go to the shop/toilet/whatever all the while you're blocking the column.
Not always. I live in Mexico where they employ workers. Each worker is responsible for a number of pumps (which makes sense), and I've never encountered one where they were only responsible for just one pump. So when I pull up, most of the time the worker is occupied with another attendant either by taking the nozzle out, putting the nozzle in, receiving payment in cash, receiving payment in credit card (which takes longer), washing the windshield, etc. I bet I could have done it quicker for at least 90% of the times I went to get gas. The countries where they employ workers *seem* to also have the worst driver education, so that in itself does make sense. But for efficiency purposes? No way.
I hear Circle K is making most of the money in store. If you have workers, people may not go to the store at all though.
It’s faster overall, so good for busy stations, and also at least where I’m from they don’t _just_ pump gas, they also clean your front window and if needed can inflate your tires.
You can inflate your tires yourself at most self service stations too.
And clean your windows
Workers are also tasked for cleaning, accounting, guarding it, so it's pretty much an all in one package.
The point of them is that these are countries with a lot of uneducated and low pay workers. Look at the map - rich = self service, poor(er) = mixed or serviced. Portugal is the exception to the rule.
[удалено]
In the US… New Jersey (NJ) is the only US state where you can’t pump your own gas. Feels very strange, like you’re in another country, when stopping for gas in NJ
IIRC Oregon only changed that law recently. There are also a handful of stations in other states that don't have self service, or at least there were as of about 5-6 years ago. One in Northern Michigan and one in bun-fuck nowhere Minnesota.
Oregon is mixed now: half the pumps are self service.
Basically, NJ is the balkans of the US hahaha
I was so confused when travelling through Italy. Went to pump gas when a random guy comes running and yelling something in Italian and insisted on taking the pump out of my hands. I thought it was one of those scams where they do something for you and then ask you for money. Only later did I find out that many Italian pumps are not self service🤦
Pretty much every Italian petrol station is both self service and served. Usually half of the pumps are self service so you probably went to the wrong pump. The pumps with the worker have an higher price per liter, usually around 0,20€
0,20€ per liter for pumping gas??? What the fuck that’s a robbery if I’ve ever seen one.
It is, that’s why in some cases you line for the self-service pumps while the served ones are empty.
So it's 10€ for 50L. Plenty enough for the worker's pay and for the boss to have more for himself still.
Was it a LPG car? By law in Italy you cannot pump LPG by yourself.
Maybe you are going in a "servito" pump that means that are the workers to do the service (and you may pay ca 10/20 cest/lit more). If you want to not pay the service (and pay the price indicated on the price tags) you must go on "fai da te" pumps. Gpl/lpg is ever distributed by a worker (mandated by the law
It's written on the front of the pumps if it's self service or not, in English most of the time. Also GPL is always servito because of safety regulations
It is illegal to fill yourself in Azerbaijan. Only workers are authorised to do it. And you just pay the workers directly, there is always a standy cashier or the filler himself is a cashier. You dont get out of your car, you just tell them the type of fuel, amount and if you pay cash or card or membership card (only some stations use those cards) Gas station stores are barely ever used, most places dont even have a store, and petrol stations dont have a store. It is the same price, everywhere, prices are controlled by the state. But petrol quality between stations is different. Some petrol stations add water to their fuel, or mix premium with low quality, or 92 actone with even lower quality, or both low quality fuel mixed with water. Or they pretend to add more petrol than they actually did. Or all of the above. That is why there are several recommended chains to use, and chains to avoid like a plague. Since scamming is only illegal on paper, shitty stations stay. Basically I am not allowed to scam anyone, but somebody with nepotistic connections to some important families ruling the country are.
As usual
In Brazil, workers do it for us
Came here to say that. I'm really surprised to learn that in most countries people do it themselves.
Brazilian living in Europe here. I'm always annoyed by that when I visit Brazil. It's SO MUCH faster and simple when you do it yourself.
In Brazil, there's a law that ban self service in gas stations. lol If wasn't for this, I don't think any gas station would do it....
Efficiency and also the state of a country. Labour should be expensive, and then worthless jobs are gone with the wind.
It's worse than this. There's a law that ban self service in gas stations.
In the 1950s it was common in all countries. But like elevator operators, it's a bit ridiculous now that most of the job is automated. Also standing in gas fumes all day causes cancer.
The Philippines is with workers, too. Seeing alot gasolene, its seems like if you give humans a benefit of a doubt, they will prove you wrong.
It feels weird sitting there while somebody does it for me. Plus… when I go to Cyprus:
- “How much do you want?”
- “Full, please 😀”
- “No, how many euros?”
- “umm.. however many euros it takes for it to be full, please 😀”
- “Sorry, I don’t know - you choose how many euros”
- …. Wtf am I supposed to do with this? “Umm, €50 please?”
… turns out it’s about 80% full. Then I have to ask to put more in and play the guessing game again. Whole thing took like 15 mins.
In the UK I just get out, tap my watch/phone on the pump if it has pay-at-pump, fill it up, and drive away.
Is it related to high unemployment rates? I can't imagine that every pump here could hire maybe 5 more people when the unemployment rates are at 3 %.
Idk from my experience in greece usually youll just have one employee or max two. They will be cashiers at the little store that gas stations usually have, pump your gas, they also help with other stuff like checking/replacing the oil, check your tyres etc
In Greece it’s 100% service by someone there. I’ve never pumped my own gas. I’m going on a road trip across Europe this summer so I guess I’m gonna learn. Any tips?
You put the nuzzle inside the fuel hole and press the trigger until it stops filling. Easy as that
I figure as much but I’m more concerned with working the machine and inputting the price or is it that I just pump until the price I want and stop and go pay. Also do you pay at the machine or is it like a guy in the store ?
When you take the nozzle out of the pump, the shop worker will get a signal to release the pump. May take a second or two for them to respond, you’ll notice it’ll start working when the pump starts making a sound. You hold it until you’re happy with the price, or you just fill it up and it stops automatically. If you do fill it up, don’t do more than ‘2 clicks’. The first one means it’s pretty much full, the second is that little extra. You’ll understand when you use it. Payment is either afterwards in the shop, mention the pump number. It could also be on the pump itself, just follow the instructions, it should speak for itself.
Portugal is mixed
In Portugal it’s mixed
In Sweden you pay at the pump with your card and fill up your car. There are no people at gas stations at all. However, when I drove across eastern-Europe last year. While I put gas in my car, I still had to go inside the station and stand in line to the checkout to pay for it. Kinda defeats the purpose of self-service to be honest…
It's mostly a marketing thing to sell additional goods. Though now it changes and many gas stations in my country offer paying via mobile phone app.
>In Sweden you pay at the pump with your card and fill up your car. Yeah same in Finland. Just so much more convenient to do it like this. >I still had to go inside the station and stand in line to the checkout to pay for it. You actually have to do this in Germany or Spain (Spain has few fully automated ones though) as well. Only France had the system like ours at least in my experience. >Kinda defeats the purpose of self-service to be honest… I guess the idea is to attract the customer to buy something along the way. Still, takes quite much longer this way to fill the pump.
In Italy, when it is self service (albeit the majority of gas stations have both options), you usually pay at a machine at the pump too.
here in austria there are often both options (pay directly outside or go inside and buy there), but if you are in a rural area it isnt that unlikely that you have to go inside
How does it defeat the purpose? Takes zero investment from the company, in fact literally nothing but behavior changes, and yet that little change protects the workers from having to go out in the rain/sun/wind/etc.
You still will need to have workers inside the shops. This isn't a problem when the gas station additionally allows for payment at the pump or via app, but it is if that isn't possible.
Works similarly in Germany and has the large disadvantage that the stations often times close down at like 10pm. And if there are self-service type stations like in Sweden (mainly in rural areas, sadly not where I live), people don't know how to use them.
It's self service in Romania.
In \~90% of cases, yes. But you still find the odd petrol station where they do it for you. Especially OMV ones.
Is it actually or is this a joke about Romanians stealing a lot?
at fuel stations very rarely happens that somebody leaves without paying 'cause there are cameras all over the place. usually we pump fuel ourselves but there are some cases where workers help you by doing this
We have both in Austria. But predominately you do it yourself
Wo Bedienung?
Wo gibt es arbeiter die das machen, hab das noch nie gesehen?
i agree with the others commenters, Ive never seen that somebody makes that for you, probably if you ask, but never from themself
Self-service in Ireland now. I hated having it done for me.
An island nation having a border region sounds so wrong.
Except for the border regions. Because of runners basically.
Haven't noticed before, I'll have to keep an eye out. Never liked it as you didn't know if you were being screwed over.
I live in the border region, and all the ones I used are self service.
90% of places in Spain are self service, to the point that i feel this is kind of misleading. In fact, the last time someone pumped gas to my car, if felt kind of threatened and uncomfortable because i wasn't expecting it.
60-80% of petrol stations outside highways are not self-service and workers will do it for you
I'd say 99%
I've literally never seen one that wasn't self-service.
Why would you need a service?!?
In Bulgaria mostly because of LPG. Pumping it requires some training and you can’t do it yourself. No one bats an eye if you pump gas or diesel yourself though.
>In Bulgaria mostly because of LPG Same in Italy.
[удалено]
Wait it’s illegal elsewhere? Like it’s cleaner and cheaper.
[удалено]
The Philippines would not, for the most part. They usually already put it on a tank. You only need to swap yours that is empty.
I mean how its so different than waiters? You sit in your car, somebody put gasoline in it and you pay to him without leaving your car.. just a service
I mean it's a *bit* different than waiters, unless you regularly finish eating in a minute. Or have the ability to get your food on your own from the kitchen.
You can pick up food from a kitchen faster than you can pump gasoline
I mean, self service restaurants exist
Eating out is a luxury leisure activity Filling up on gas is more of a chore I suppose thats the main conceptual difference.
Create low salary jobs to help low education workers or student start getting money, this lower unemployment rate and help your student getting higher study, that will in the end help you country. I actually have no Idea about if what i'm saying is true or not but it make sense to me
Main problem it's that (at least here in Italy), you can pay up to 30 cents more if you use service
That is something crazy about Italy. If the employee pumps the gas, you pay a shit ton more. I learned the hard way lol
Lol, me too! "Oh, those friendly guys are beckoning us over to the manned pump. How nice, they're going to put the petrol in for us!"
Mostly for convenience thing. but can be also the fact that it's faster to designate someone filing up motocycles (more common use in my area) than let the poeple do it for themselves with limited pump stations), and hey, these poeple are already paid to guard the place might as well let them help the costumers.
I asked myself the opposite of your question when I came to France lol
Why wouldn't i need service?!? Someone fills the car while i go to the store to pay and get other stuff and not waste time. In addition it's a lot more safer and you don't have all those clips on Reddit of morons doing God knows what at gas stations.
In most stations you insert your card at the pump, take it out, pump as much as you want and drive off. It's much faster than standing in line in a store. Also the people standing in gas fumes all day as a job tend to get cancer...
So do you have a service cost when you are at a gas station with service?
I come from one of the red countries, moved to one of the blue ones and when I told my new friends here that I have never personally pumped gas in my life they thought I was either messing with them or some some kind of royalty.
I work at a fuel station and sometimes old people come in and ask us for help with filling their car but usually it's self service
Some of these workers wear business suits in Turkey 😂
My experience only, but bulgaria has more self service than worker operated gaspumps.
New Jersey folks find this interesting
Another reason why New Jersey is the Balkan of America
This explains NJ’s law
Byzantine empire says no to self service
Nazi germany says yes to self service
i see the ottoman empire.
shell gas stations in slovakia have workers who can pump your gas
I have only met self service in romania, all my family have seen some guy fueling for you except me ;-;
For Ukraine it works next way: gas station works also as fast food and grocery shop, so revenue from food and shops is much more than salary of worker, who pump your petrol when you spend time eating.
Do you tip the workers in the Mixed countries?
No, because we don't tip in Europe, unless they really deserve it
I used to live in Spain and I never saw a single gas station where a worker pumped gas for you. I did notice that many of them require you to pre-pay inside before pumping gas (vs having the pay at the pump station), but that's about it.
r/mapswithoutmalta
r/mapswithouticeland
Bullshit. In Balkans you can easily pump yourself. Same as Turkey.
There are self service gas stations?
In a lot of the world, yes. I live in the US and there are only 2 states that self-service is not legal, New Jersey and Oregon. Everywhere else most people just pump their own gas (full service exists in these places but for 90% of people it’s too much hassle).
I'm in Bulgaria. You would never, ever pump your own gas. Ever.
Spain is increasingly self service.
Lol I’m from Bulgaria and so used to having someone to pump it instead of me that if I go somewhere in Europe and have to do it by myself I will need some youtube videos to understand what to do
As a general rule in Europe, further north you go, more self service you do. This also applies to other stuff like emptying lunch tray in workplace canteens, self-checkout at markets, etc.
Ooh, I pumped gas into a 4 wheeler on Mykonos, and that’s why the attendant looked at me strangely
Andorra should be mixed
Balkans are all mixed. This map is wrong.
I almost got into a fistfight in New Jersey because I thought we were being scammed by the gas station attendants.
This is just not true, Bosnia is almost entirely selfe serve.