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they….. they made no nut november legally binding….

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HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY STEVEN UNIVERSE!

( First episode of each season )

I met and hugged Terrance Zdunich and Saar Hendelman.

I’m still super happy

#terrancezdunich #saarhendelman #antirecital #repo! the genetic opera #devils carnival

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White Stag with Magnolias

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LET 👏 RETAIL 👏 EMPLOYEES 👏 SIT 👏

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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

hclark70

reblogging this because I love Alidis

brighdethebonsai

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

putrandomnamehere-deactivated20

Same for Germany… why would you make it any more complicated than that. Just. Why not let them sit??

queeranarchism

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.

maxofs2d

When I had an American friend coming over to this side of the planet to visit France, she had her mind absolutely BLOWN that cashiers were sitting

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rebelmeg

Okay, but this is an excellent method to use when anyone is being inappropriate. Pretend that you don’t get it. Whether the comment is sexist, racist, sexual, misogynistic, inappropriate, off-color… watching them squirm as they try to explain and realize just how awful their comment was it is better than being angry about it.