Bagging groceries. That job doesn’t even exist anymore
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SGforce@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoI can’t even remember what jobs teenagers were supposed to have. Newspaper delivery? Ice cream bike guy? That’s all I got.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Work that grocers have passed onto their customers that they used to do themselves:
- Gathering the groceries from the shelves.
- Bagging the groceries.
- Checking out the groceries.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Good ol shadow work.
Ikea is the greatest.
- You look up the items in inventory and find their warehouse locations
- You traverse the warehouse, locate the items, and load them on your dolly
- You take them to the front and self checkout
- You load them in your delivery vehicle and complete last mile delivery
- You unbox and assemble the item with minimal instruction and provide your own tools
All of those used to be paid work, some even being part of the “white glove” service. Instead, we pay with our time, a finite resource.
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
When is comes to Ikea, what you pay in time is taken off the price, according to my experience
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My dude here opening a Heathkit and being like “why the fuck did I pay less to have to assemble everything?!”
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
i mean i wouldn’t want another employee touching every single food item. this is also a hygiene issue.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How do you think your produce ends up in the bin in the produce section?
dingus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It still does in my area. Not every grocery store, but the big grocery chain around here definitely does. Sometimes they even offer to take my groceries to the car for me which has surprised me.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Market Basket, Stop and Shop, and so many others still have people for this.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hello New Englander.
Yeah even having moved from there to the US South most grocery stores still have traditional checkout lanes/humans bagging your items if you so choose.
xav@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
How about none ? You’re a teen, you just need to learn, socialize and have fun. Don’t work before your an adult.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah, privilege. Parents had ok jobs. As soon as I needed sports equipment or wanted to go out to eat/pay for friends etc etc it was lawn mowing, paper route, construction from 6th grade.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I dunno, I wanted to work, because I know it would give me money to go do things I wanted to do. Got my first job at 15, which was the youngest you could work in NJ, and have had consistent employment ever since. Money is, unfortunately, important.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
If it’s possible to earn something voluntarily is great.
Tyvm.I delivered advertisement for a marketing agency of various local businesses.
Was the pay shit? Yes
Did I make enough money to not be a bum and make my mother pay for a gaming pc? Yes.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you didn’t mow lawns, you were never a tween/teen.
redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Lemonade stands
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
teenagers as a group designation used to not be a thing. you were a child until you could do adult jobs and then you were an adult.
children would have menial jobs like coal miner, day labourer, the guy who sticks their hand into the mechanical loom when it gets stuck…
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
True, but not in the late 20th century when pizza by delivery was common but there was no gps
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
we didn’t have delivery where i lived at that point, only take-away. quirks of living in a place with less than 10 people per km^2^ on average.