Clean up on aisle 5

Have they tried not making the cashiers stand there the entire shift? Was gobsmacked when I saw that in supermarkets; like some sort of childish power-move to not let them sit

Try that in Europe, you'd end up in court lol

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The given excuse is "Customers don't like seeing you sitting down."

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- as a customer in Europe I want my chashier to be comfortable while working, it means they don't get tired as fast and won't make as many mistakes that come from being tired
  
  USA is just weird
  
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- Have they actually polled customers? It seems like the bosses don't like seeing them sitting down.
  
  And regardless of what the customers think, don't the employees matter?
  
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- fuck racism and homophobia, cashiers sitting down is the worst offense in this universe
  
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- I figured it was because of our fucked up "if there's time to lean, there's time to clean" mentality.
  
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- Actually only the shittiest customers mind that.
  
  The ones who get your attention by clearing their throat.
  
  The ones who whistle to get your attention. I have a coworker who fucking hates that. I feel a bit disrespected by it but he will talk about it for days if a customer whistles at him.
  
  The ones who ask you to tell them which appliance is the best one.
  
  The ones who are already glaring when they see you. The ones who come to your section, when a different section’s staff is nowhere to be found, and say “Think maybe I could get some help??” as if the reason you weren’t helping them was laziness.
  
  The ones who bitch about nobody working and how service is so bad, completely failing to understand that you are the one at work, doing your job and that the people they’re pissed at are home, not there in front of them.
  
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...even supermarkets have seats in Latin America for the cashiers

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EU, I belive in you!

To be fair I don't remember ever seeing cashiers stand in Russia either.

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Baby boomers will quit from natural causes though

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This comment is gold

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Aw, my folks are boomers and I hate thinking about this :'(

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It is a shame that there are no generations between Boomers and Z...

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No no, don't bring millennials into this! We're just trying to mind our own business...

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- Gen X is forgotten again...
  
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- Ah, you finally learned from Gen X?
  
  Let's see how long that lasts.
  
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As a millennial I'm just glad that everything isn't my fault now 👍

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Complete disappointment tbh

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Don't hire baby boomers, they'll expect to be able to buy a house and a car and raise a family on a part-time salary.

Then they'll invite you out to go... bowling!

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Boomers are 64 years or older. Most boomers are retired. This is just trolling

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I've seen plenty of old folks working at places like this unfortunately. Social programs are really failing us

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- Walmart has sought out retirees, particularly for greeter positions, for a long time.
  
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60 years or older*. Plenty are still working, and not everyone retires exactly at 65. Especially these days…

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- I never implied 65, the retirement age in Norway is 67. But I thought Boomers were those born before 1960, so I guess I remembered that part wrong. 7 (or 5 in your country) years is a bit more than those 2 years, fair enough.
  
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It's also dated 4/20. I'm amazed they didn't manage to sneak a 69 in there somewhere to get the full meme potential out of it.

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- It would have been so easy too! "Must be born before '69 to apply"
  
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The boyfriends standing there for the whole shift does sound bizarre. Maybe they were chatting with the cashiers the whole time and of course that wouldn't be okay

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I used to hang out and chat with my friends at their jobs for extended periods of time all the time when I was young. I just made sure not to interrupt or get in their way when they needed to deal with a customer. And their bosses were always cool with it.

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Why?

They are human beings, and I want to buy stuff, not get undivided attention.

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- Well you're supposed to be at work. To your employer or to customers it might look like you're distracted and unprofessional, which would reflect badly on the store.
  
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- If you don't like the owners need for you to put in 40 hours of work then you can both separate ways like was done here.
  
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This was probably more the cashiers got shouted at for talking to their boyfriends for a couple minutes when they came in.

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Yeah because nobody ever got caught slacking off at work 🙄

You have no clue when the info here, you just WANT it to be his fault .

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- Its not that deep my guy, its a meme post.
  
  BUT, lets engage your theory, why would they quit and not be fired if they were truly slacking off???
  
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...And the store was permanently closed a month later.

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I would love to see any boomer take this job.

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Boomers are incredibly fragile. Any time they don't understand something their go-to move is to get angry.

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- I was thinking more about the massive cognitive dissonance they’ll suffer between their wages (with this job) and the CoL.
  
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- “What do I do now?”
  
  “What does it say on the screen?”
  
  “What? Oh I uh … it says click here to continue”
  
  “There you go”
  
  “These things are so confusing”
  
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picture of handwritten note taped to a window that criticizes Gen Z and praises Baby Boomers.

I'm not the brightest cookie in the toolshed but I know bait when I see it.

Edit: The top left hand corner of this is also dated 4/20. As the Brits would say "Someone's taking the piss."

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Thank you for saying this. Whether this is a real sign or a fake sign, it should be treated as a fake sign.

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Just hire the boyfriends?

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And tell them how much their girlfriends suck? (no pun intended)

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If this is real and in the US, I would love to see a Gen Xer or elder Millennial apply, make sure to mention their generation, and then get this dumbass owner to say in writing that they aren't hiring them because they aren't a Boomer.

IANAL, but that seems like a slam dunk age discrimination case as long as the applicant is at least 40.

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Maybe pay one dollar above minimum wage and see if you get people to apply

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That is a hilarious reason to have someone quit.

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Hire the boyfriend to work the register next to your employee, so they CAN stand there for the entire shift, and even get PAID for it!

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Yeah, but have you seen Aiden? Aiden sucks.

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- That’s a real good point!
  
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- Yeah Aiden sucks, but without Aiden, Lexi quits.
  
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skipped a few years there but ok. not like he’s worth working for in the first place.

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Because he doesn't want people who aren't hired standing there during work hours? Possibly being a nuissance?

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- because he wants 60 year olds since the 20 year olds weren’t working out. because he isn’t considering 21-59 year olds. because selection bias.
  
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On the bright side, a shop is about to be sold for cheap - maybe it can be converted into a home living space? :-p

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totally fake... nobody would hire only 70 year old employees...

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Unless you want to run a country

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Except the 72 year old entrepreneur.

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God help them if they need to save a PDF.

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There's a chance that note is bullshit

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I’d like to give the boomers the benefit of the doubt, but it appears they deserve all the derision they’ve racked up.

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We're doomed

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We have been since 1985. Doom is relative though. Some are gonna be living their best lives in the future. We should strive to be one of them.

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