Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoAnd a bunch of people here seem to adamamtly judge people with idiotic metrics based on nothing.
I’d be willing to bet up to $2k, more if I had it, that more than half of the serial killers that went quiet before being caught put their carts away and actually chained them in properly too.
If it’s left maliciously in a genuinely bullshit spot, then sure. If it’s placed in a way that doesn’t block anything or hit someones car then I really don’t see the problem. When I worked the grocery store it was literally the easiest task. Chain a few carts together, put them in the shed, repeat, easy. It was a fucking nightmare when I had to break apart the chain of carts spanning the entire lot and balance them without hitting any cars or getting hit by a car, which actually happened to a couple of the other workers.
And let’s not forget the anti mask/vax losers that harassed other shoppers. They put their carts away, and not only that they stuck around if someone wearing a mask approached and didn’t let them take the cart. The walmart and similar store memes are not only a real, but a regular occurance and much worse and more irritating when you work at a store.
I don’t think putting the cart away necessarily makes you a good person. However not putting it back reveals some serious selfish behavior, and probably reveals that you are a piece of shit in other ways as well.
I would also argue that people should make the effort to put them back correctly, but I’m less judgemental about that.
VARXBLE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Its explained pretty well in the OP image actually. It’s a metric of selflessness, doing a simple task with no reward purely for the convenience/order of others.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
simple task that often can’t be done properly because 15 people before someone didn’t connect it and eventually after person 40 put it in and the weight surpassed the holding power of a pice of 1 inch angle iron against a single pair of casters, and the train rolls away and smashes a car, now someone is super inconvinenced having to deal with the bullshit insurance procedures that never get you back to where you were before and the staff that there aren’t enough of to keep up get shit they don’t get paid enough to listen to. at least once a week at my store.
Now if you mean people that will specifically take the cart to the two sheds farthest away because they’re the only ones not way over filled then sure. But with the way people over fill them, put other store’s incompatible carts in, put them in sideways or backward leave garbage in the carts, and honestly way more dumb incompetent shit than I could remember, I just can’t see it. As a worker it has been continually way easier to just grab loose ones than redo the fucking mess. As a shopper I can see that all of the sheds are fucked up and everything needs to be removed and reorganized and that putting the cart in will just make it worse, therefore it would be best to place it somewhere it can’t roll away but is easy for one persom to take. In the end reality is too complicated for social theorists I guess.
The shopping cart theory is a test of who lives in imaginary fantasy land where everything is perfect and everything only has a right and a wrong answer and nobody needs to improvise a solution to anything and bad events born of good intentions but utter incompetence also make you a good person.
FarmTaco@lemmy.world 2 months ago
are the shopping carts here with us now
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Go to therapy.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
God damn I just read through this whole thread and people are actually frothing at the mouth about returning shopping carts to corrals. What a sad and pathetic existence to live, where you judge other people so harshly over the most insignificant things.
Lemmy can be really fucking weird about certain topics. People here should probably touch grass more frequently.