@butt-berry Bulbasaur is finally finished!!! I’m so happy, I think my artist did an amazing job! Thank you so much for allowing me to use your bulbasaur artwork for this piece! I even bought some nice tops with openings in the sleeves so I can show it off while still looking professional at work. Thank you!!!
So I don’t usually feel upset because of how other people act but while watching Bohemian Rhapsody almost everyone in the cinema booed or hid their eyes when a gay scene came up and I literally can’t express how disgusted I was by the reactions. I’m speechless. Btw, please, PLEASE watch Bohemian Rhapsody if you have time, it’s such a beautiful and amazing film!
I’m taking my dad on a father-daughter date tomorrow to see Bohemian Rhapsody! He raised me on Queen, and ACDC, and ELO and I’m so excited!!!
The only major chain retail store that I know of that allows their cashiers to sit is the Aldi grocery store, a German chain. Their starting pay is also $12 an hour chain-wide.
The interior of the store looks like this so they save money on the annoying shelf restocking. Products remain in their boxes until being removed by customers. No unboxing and putting stuff on shelves, and constantly having to rearrange it. Also, the boxes make inventory a breeze as a sealed box has a defined number of items in it.
Typical American grocery stores have shelves like this
Every item has to be unboxed and neatly stacked on the shelves. If they get messed up by the customers, everything has to be rearranged back to specific rigid order. When you have to verify the inventory, every item has to be removed from the shelves to be counted and put back. Aldi’s also do not have plastic bags. You can buy reusable bags or simply use the empty cardboard boxes that are available.
Last is the carts. Most grocery stores have their carts strewn across the parking lots, rolling around and hitting cars until a store employee is sent out to collect them, after being yelled at by the manager when they were told to do other tasks in the meantime. Aldi’s chains those carts together and you have to put a Quarter in to release it. When you are done, you plug the chain back in and get your Quarter back. If others are lazy, you can collect and return the loose carts and collect the Quarters.
It stops this…
Then the employees have to do this
reblogging this because I love Alidis
With the exception of the shelf stacking, all of this is totally normal in every single supermarket chain in the UK… what the heck America
Same for Germany… why would you make it any more complicated than that. Just. Why not let them sit??
They’re not normal for no reason. The right to sit during work seems normal for most retail workers in these countries because they are it is part of the labor rights that have been won by unions. Sometimes the right to sit was won in an agreement with the store and sometimes it was put down in national laws.
For example, in the UK your employer legally has to provide you with a comfortable seat if you do work that can be done while seating. In the Netherlands you have to be provided a seat if you work at a cash register for more than 4 hours a day or for more than 1 hour uninterrupted.
Unionize.
America’s Unions got killed.
I worked as a cashier and shelf-stocker for three years at a privately-owned, in-name-only chain grocery store in Midwest America. In a 6 hour shift, you were only allowed 15 minutes for a break, but it was not guaranteed. If you worked more than 7 hours, you were given 1 hour unpaid lunch, but no other break during your shift. And when I first started there, of 5 registers, we had two floor mats, one of which was torn in half and didn’t even fill the space we had to stand in. Cashiers would ROTATE who got the floor mat. We spent TWO YEARS asking management for new mats for the registers. Nothing happened until the owner came for one of his regular walk throughs and one of the cashiers confronted him (very politely but firmly) about it – he said he wasn’t even aware of it. The next day our very disgruntled store manager was measuring for new mats while making snide comments at our cashiers. Never mind chairs, heaven forbid if we had cushioned floor mat to stand on instead of tile on concrete.
