Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees

zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  cashiers aren’t allowed to sit in usa?

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  • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Only office workers and managers are allowed to sit. If you’re in a customer-facing position with a chair, you’re supposed to stand up when helping a customer.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And as we all know, middle management does so much work and therefore deserve that right.

      (sorry I vomited in my mouth a little bit)

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When I worked retail, at one of the stores you weren’t allowed to drink water where customers could see you. I chose to ignore that rule and only got chewed out when the store owner happened to be nearby

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  • JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cashier stations with chairs are VERY rare, yes. The general trope is that managers/owners think it makes workers appear lazy.

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  • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not at most places. At some point, someone told all the MBAs that it makes the customers mad if the employees look lazy or some shit.

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    • thesystemisdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They also tend to make them stand at the beginning of their lane when they don’t have customers. Apparently a light signaling that they are available just isn’t enough.

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      • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hereabouts*, the lanes each have a sign with their number. Glows red = closed, glows green = open. Super convenient, and I’ve seen it across multiple store chains, so it’s not like it’s only one store doing it.

        *Southern Germany, observed across different cities, though I can’t vouch that it is universal

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  • Balooog@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, and even worse “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean”

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, turns out I do have PTSD from a decade of working retail and food service.

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      • Illuminostro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And multiple addictions. Thanks, Olive Garden. Anybody got a bump? I’m draggin.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      (to manager in response) “then why the fuck aren’t you cleaning all the time, then?”

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  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In California, companies are required by law to provide them seating and let them sit down, but most everywhere else they are expected to stand.

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  • zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s this bizarre thing. Management want them to “look busy” or some bullshit. Aldi looks busy.

    You’ll see this on some factory floors too. No chairs even for the management or QA logging numbers on computers. Chairs are for break time or some such.

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    • Thisiswritteningerman@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Depends on the company and plant. Not to brag on my Corporate overloads as they’ve gaslit employees and poisoned the global water supply, but they do a good job of making production’s life tolerable enough (above average pay for the area, regular Kaizens for them to voice their opinions, good safety culture, keeping up 5s) that people want to work for them.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Corporations make that decision.

    Yes, seriously.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Other than Aldi, pretty much no.

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  • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Aldi is the only place I’ve seen. However, Aldi recently started installing self checkout, which I despise.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I love good self checkouts. I hate bad self checkouts.

      Bad self checkouts are those that alert the sole employee running around between twenty terminals of some discrepancy for every fucking thing. Weight discrepancy! Remove duplicate item! They didn’t select number of bags! Check their receit!

      Just leave me be and let me scan my flatbread and leave already. Or open another cashier. Or just don’t implement self-checkout if it’s not really self-checkout.

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      • FJW@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, a good self-checkout is amazing and a competely different category from the garbage you see elsewhere.

        In the Netherlands at Albert Heijn the only verification consists pretty much of occasional random checks and in the one closes to me they replaced two of the manual counters with eight self-checkouts, meaning that the queues are pretty much gone. You can also self-scan while shopping, if you want with your own phone in which case payment is 90% of the time just scanning a barcode and paying at a debit-card terminal.

        And while you are not supposed to, nobody ever cares if you use your own backpack instead of a shopping basket/car, in which case you don’t even have to pack up your stuff. If you do get a random check with it, you just open it up wide and let the employee pick a few random items to scan and they won’t even say a word.

        The only other delay is age-verification if you buy alcohol, which in my case means that an employee looks over from across the room and sadly decides that I’m an old enough fuck to not need my ID inspected. (Then again, being trans without legal stuff having happened yet (soon though!), it does make things easier.)

        Could you steal? Of course, but you can do the same with regular counters!

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  • JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cashier stations with chairs are VERY rare, yes. The general trope is that managers/owners think it makes workers appear lazy.

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  • UniversalMonk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    cashiers aren’t allowed to sit in USA?

    Not in any stores I have seen in my city.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We don’t have it in Australia either apart from Aldi.

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  • JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cashier stations with chairs are VERY rare, yes. The general trope is that managers/owners think it makes workers appear lazy.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You might want to repeat that a few more times for the people in the back of the room.

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