Imagine being such a neurotic micromanager that you literally don't even let your employees sit because "SITTING IS UNPROFESSIONAL!"
Meanwhile you probably spend the majority of your day at a desk
208Yeah I don't get it. As a customer, when I go into a store and the cashier is sitting down at the register, I don't think to myself "wow, what a lazy jerk!". I think "I'm glad these guys get to sit down while working". Because I never see a cashier during idly just goofing off. Sitting or standing, they always seem to be working hard. And I don't understand this stupid idea that sitting is somehow unprofessional.
Furthermore, as someone who gets lower back pain if I stand for too long, fuck these useless asshole managers!
108I wouldn't care if a cashier was goofing off a little 😂 as long as they got around to doing the job
57I've seen cashiers goofing off when things aren't busy... but I would still not give a shit if they had a chair beyond thinking, "at least they get to sit down doing an awful job like that all day."
10Some people just genuinely do not seem to understand that workers (and many other people) are actually thinking human being with thoughts and emotions and sensations like pain.
It's something i'm very glad almost everyone here understands, workers are largely just treated like the normal people that they are and customers are more likely to actively help them than they are to make a fuss about anything.
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They should remove the manager's chair too.
66Tangentially related, a friend of mine worked at Kroger years ago and was not allowed to have a stool or chair while 7 months pregnant because (from my biased one-sided understanding) the manager was on some kind of extra-petty suffering Olympics of "I worked every day until I gave birth on the factory floor so you can stand here" BS.
One day I popped in and noticed Dick Manager was standing nearby, and since I almost never shop at that one, has no idea who I am.
So I loudly proclaim (paraphrased) "Girl, you are FAR too pregnant to be standing up for a whole shift, what kind of heartless piece of human garbage would be making you work in one single spot without at least a stool? What is the world coming to when the future of our country is worth less than the fragile ego of some Middle management prick who wouldn't know how to SPELL empathy, much less understand it" just like all the most over the top things I can think of to make a speech of how low an opinion I have of this hypothetically not present manager.
She was weeks away from quitting in preparation for having a child anyway so had no problem if it caused interpersonal issues. And I had fun talking mad shit about management. Even if it wasn't my own.
47I worked at a video arcade in the 90s and there was a girl who worked with me who was late in her pregnancy, and when I wasn't working, I'd come in at the end of her shift when she was closing on her own because the boss expected her to clean every game, top to bottom, which required getting up on a ladder and leaning way over to get to the back end of the top of the game. Of course, she also wasn't given a chair.
I found out he was arrested later for embezzling from the store.
14I'm assuming she was working as cashier. I checked occupation safety requirements cashier and working as cashier implies working with computer which already requires rotating chair with ability to change height and chair back's angle, but for cashier's workplace there are additional requirements. No wonder, considering those requirements were written and adopted during red Duma(communist relative majority of 21% + 7% of agricultural party).
9Petty. I love it :-D
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Seriously? They remove the chair because sitting is unprofessional??
25Micromanagers never heard about occupation safety
18How bloody insane. I can’t think of too many indoor occupations that would require someone to stand in order to be better at their job.
Even surgeons should be as comfy as possible. If someone needs to cut open my skull to remove some badness, I’d really like them to be comfy the entire time.
Time for chair pants aka ‘chants’ to gain some popularity.
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I had a boss that did this (automotive corporate shop). I said "you threw out my chair?" He said "yup", I said "cool, I quit". Started two days later at a better place making 20k a year more. WITH A FUCKING CHAIR.
127...and you cut his brake lines, right? ... Right?
26Your office desk chair?......?
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Kohl's? You mean the Amazon returns dropoff facility?
100yeah lmao the population of Kohls shoppers and Amazon returners is completely different it's kinda ironic how the higher ups thought this was gonna fix their geriatric demographic.
I do enjoy working at the Amazon return counter tho. since its a bad attempt to get a younger customer base I'm slapped in the back corner of the store all by myself. eight hours of vibing to my own music and having barebones conversations while playing 3d Tetris with the returns. and bonus I haven't recieved a sex toy return in a while either!
good stuff
23Lol I must look the worst. In the world of video calls tied to laptop cameras. Due to varyfocal glasses, I keep my screen at an angle. This makes me look like I'm slouching on camera.
To ease the tension in off timezone customers my ice break joke is its the end of my shift. I'm knackered.
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"Ever since we kept the chair out of the break room, sales have skyrocketed!"
- Make believe logic
98...the number of employees seen limping has skyrocketed!
– What actually happens
40I used to work at Walmart
My first sign was seeing like almost every employee have a slight limp
My second sign was me proceeding to develop a slight limp
I was litterly only there for 3 months And we had chairs in the break room
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My uni friend used to sit on the benches outside some professors' offices. Then our uni started sticking up papers saying those seats are "reserved".
We walk past that place a good amount every week, and there's always no one.
47For me, it’s the inconsistent line spacing.
46For me, it's the ellipses with way more than three periods.
20Think of it as slam poetry
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Micromanglement relying on petty and unnecessary suffering to assert dominance on their wage-slaves.
41The chair?
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31Woah! I didn't expect that.
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There should be laws against forcing people to stand for their entire shift.
36In relatively civilized countries, there are. Unfortunately, the US is not a civilized country
18It’s coming to the U.K. too. I’m assuming that this is about people working on tills. I honestly don’t see what the problem is with people who can sit, sitting.
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Sounds like they're suggesting that someone needs to have an injury.
28This is something I never got. Does the job performance suffer from sitting? Is someone getting paid by the blister?
28If job performance suffered by sitting, all those millions of office cubicle desks around the world would be at standing height.
23Weird part is they also hate standing desks for those same office workers. Something about being healthy at work must be killing profits.
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I used to work retail, and we had some stools at the registers and started getting a shocking number of customer surveys come in with low scores saying that the employees were too lazy to stand up at the register.
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“If you’re sitting you look lazy, and no one wants to see an employee being lazy”
23I'd rather they not look like they're contemplating suicide all day long.
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i'm sittin on the floor now. I hear it's comfy down there.
Fuck it, i might even lay down a little.
19Cuddle on up we already down here...
7i mean if you really think about it. The ground is just one really big bed. So if everyone laid down at the same time, would that technically mean that the entirety of humanity is cuddling?
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everyone needs to learn to squat, turns out humans have a built in camping stool
1a proper slavic squat is pretty good but can stiffen up the knees after a long while.
I hear the ground is omnipresent though.
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Posting this in all caps in a location that is apparently customer facing is certainly a choice. Depending on the location, it could also be against the law.
18The allotment of employees permitted to sit simultaneously has been reduced from one to zero. Thank you, management.
11All I remember about Kohl's is that when I work there they took all of the leftover clearance stuff and instead of donating it to a local shelter or anything put it straight into the trash compactor.
This is standard practice at Kohls.
Fuck Kohl's in particular.
10Sad that it doesn't seem like anyone else can tell this is an obvious manipulation. Blanking out a piece of paper and putting different text on it is the oldest shit on the Internet. This one isn't even done very well, the fuck is that top margin.
9even if it's fake, i have worked at enough places where we weren't allowed to sit or to talk to each other to believe it could be real.
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Sounds like someone's about to have an injury
7Oh no, I slipped and fell on this very conveniently placed puddle, better bring that chair back quick smart!
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This is a Seinfeld plotline
6Young Seinfeld, or Friends. I can't see Jerry, Kramer, Elaine, or George doing retail. I could see Joey, Rachel, Monica, or Phoebe doing retail.
2You misunderstand, it is a Seinfeld plot line:
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Oh so badly. I once had a job where I was an independent contractor working with Kohl's and they treat their people so fucking badly.
5Anyone that uses elliptical ellipses shouldn't be given any power at all.
4sit on the fucking floor
4I'd bring a camping chair fuck that
4I read the title differently, chemistry.
2As a side note: try to stand if you can, it’s way better/way easier for you past the first two weeks of getting used to it
Your future back will thank you
-22How about giving people the option to sit down if they want to?
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