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LET 👏 RETAIL 👏 EMPLOYEES 👏 SIT 👏

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

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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 in grocery stores for years. The only time I saw people allowed to sit down was if they had a note from a doctor for a broken foot, or were 7 months pregnant. That’s it. It was disgusting.

…. $12 isn’t… very much as a base wage…? america u ok

Our federal minimum wage for non-tipped workers is $7.25/hr.

How are disabled and interracial illegal???

Interracial marriage was outlawed for the longest time, and disabled people lose government benefits when they get married so they cannot have reassurance that they will continue to LIVE if they get married.

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I am a virtual ghost hunter please reblog this post with cursed images

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what do you mean this is the most blessed image i’ve seen all day

I wish I was as naive about that image as you are

Please, REBLOG, if you think it’s not a sexual preference. Pedophilia will be never be a part of LGBT+ community. It is a sexual disorder. Uncontested sexual behavior cannot be a preference, despite whatever “fetish” one has. If someone gets turned on at the idea of someone who is helpless or doesn’t want them, they need mental help. Period.

“Scholars” aren’t saying this. A medic student with flimsy references who was allowed to speak at an independent TEDx event in Germany is.

We don’t support pedophilia.

Also very very important to note - the “pro-pedo” “Minor-attracted people” “add pedo to LGBT” BS you may have been seeing around the internet over the past few months is, by and large, not being made and pushed by any actual pedophiles. It is a false flag mission by alt-right 4chan trolls who create fake accounts and pose as pedophiles looking for inclusion in the LGBT community, in an attempt by said trolls to delegitimize the LGBT community and give off the impression that it is associated with pedophilia. Please point this out whenever you can to anyone who actually thinks their is a large-scale push to include or accept any kind of pedophilia in the LGBT community

Reblogging for the last part because I’ve seen people on here take the bait, HARD.

Yeah, this sounds like crazy deep conspiracies, until you just find the 4chan page or archives of it where they just blatantly discuss it, and look at the history of 4chan to see that they’ve followed through and accomplished similar things in the past. It’s surprisingly not secret.

Don’t believe everything you read. 4chan trolling again.

Source: twitter.com

the way this sentence is phrased makes it sound like the fact that he is the donkey kong high score record holder is what makes him eligible to be the president of taiwan 

i’m gonna keep thinking about it that way