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Randomocity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

As someone who has previously put carts away for a job. No, not only does leaving carts out make it more annoying to pick up it can also damage other people’s vehicles, and take up parking spots. Carts roll around or are difficult to see and can get hit. This is the equivalent of saying to just knock stuff off the shelf as you walk through the store, an employee would have to pick that up and it would just cost the company money.

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frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Leaving a shopping cart near your car is the same as deliberately causing damage to products in the store? Very very interesting point of view, if completely unhinged.

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- Randomocity@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You are right, I was being a bit hyperbolic. It’s equivalent to picking stuff up off the shelf and setting it on the ground. No damage to the product and would take workers more time to pick it up. Might as well start doing that every time you go to the store.
  
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- Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You have strong opinions on this topic for there being “a million more urgent matters” or whatever you said in your other comment.
  
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  - frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    What about what I said was strong? I don’t think you know what strong opinions are.
    
    Besides now im just messing with all the dumb fuckers, and I will always make time to mess with people who have weird fetishes they insist on forcing on other people. Like furries.
    
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Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I don’t think this comment actually responds to my points. I’ve worked many hourly retail and restaurant jobs myself. In many there was a regular struggle to hit minimum hours per week to qualify for benefits and managers were instructed to cut people during perceived slow times - none of this considering that I sat in an hour traffic to show up for my scheduled 8 hour shift that I need to meet to make my rent.

I was happy when gobacks piled up, shelves needed to be faced, tables needed to be bused and yes, to carts needed to be collected. When that was the case, I typically made my hours in those common, “we’re going to need to cut someone” moments.

Again, this entire conversation seems biased to the business owner, the corporation’s labor cost, and not the employee. Saying “all the carts are going to hit cars” is a false premise, in my opinion. And what I’m arguing for is the “good trouble” version of this. Place the carts safely away and maybe near the corral, but not in the corral.

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- Randomocity@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Near the corral doesn’t take a lot more time to pick up from in the corral. I agree that leaving then in the corral is fine, someone still has to pick them up from there. But leaving the cart randomly outside has the potential to cause issues for others, completely ignoring the business owner.
  
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  - Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    As stated previously, doesn’t seem you’ve ever worked an hourly job where management was actively working against that 29 hour threshold and sending people home early from scheduled shifts to make you avoid qualifying for expanded employees benefits.
    
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    Randomocity@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I definitely have and that doesn’t change the fact that I’d rather not risk damaging others property for an extra 15 minutes of work.
    
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