I used to work retail, and we had some stools at the registers and started getting a shocking number of customer surveys come in with low scores saying that the employees were too lazy to stand up at the register.
All I remember about Kohl’s is that when I work there they took all of the leftover clearance stuff and instead of donating it to a local shelter or anything put it straight into the trash compactor.
So you’re saying people shouldn’t be allowed chairs when they’re older because of things they did when they were younger and no one told them what you just did?
How about pregnant women? Okay for them to have chairs in the third trimester or will standing all day be good for the fetus?
Sure sounds like you were saying “no one needs to have a chair, they just need to stand when they were younger” and I don’t appear to be the only one who thought so.
The number of employees with chronic back, knee and joint problems that manifest only years later when they don’t work at Kohl’s anymore and thus are not visible to management has skyrocketed. – What actually actually happens
I deveoped varicose veins within my first few years of working on till in a grocery store. This was in my early twenties, and for the rest of my life. The company doesn’t care, even while you work there. Fuck these policies.
Yeup. They only make ADA exceptions and only in extreme cases. For example, they wouldn’t let my pregnant coworker have a stool to SOMETIMES sit on until she was 7.5 months a long. And even then she had to provide her own.
Yeah I don’t get it. As a customer, when I go into a store and the cashier is sitting down at the register, I don’t think to myself “wow, what a lazy jerk!”. I think “I’m glad these guys get to sit down while working”. Because I never see a cashier during idly just goofing off. Sitting or standing, they always seem to be working hard. And I don’t understand this stupid idea that sitting is somehow unprofessional.
Furthermore, as someone who gets lower back pain if I stand for too long, fuck these useless asshole managers!
I’ve seen cashiers goofing off when things aren’t busy… but I would still not give a shit if they had a chair beyond thinking, “at least they get to sit down doing an awful job like that all day.”
Some people just genuinely do not seem to understand that workers (and many other people) are actually thinking human being with thoughts and emotions and sensations like pain.
It’s something i’m very glad almost everyone here understands, workers are largely just treated like the normal people that they are and customers are more likely to actively help them than they are to make a fuss about anything.
Tangentially related, a friend of mine worked at Kroger years ago and was not allowed to have a stool or chair while 7 months pregnant because (from my biased one-sided understanding) the manager was on some kind of extra-petty suffering Olympics of “I worked every day until I gave birth on the factory floor so you can stand here” BS.
One day I popped in and noticed Dick Manager was standing nearby, and since I almost never shop at that one, has no idea who I am.
So I loudly proclaim (paraphrased) “Girl, you are FAR too pregnant to be standing up for a whole shift, what kind of heartless piece of human garbage would be making you work in one single spot without at least a stool? What is the world coming to when the future of our country is worth less than the fragile ego of some Middle management prick who wouldn’t know how to SPELL empathy, much less understand it” just like all the most over the top things I can think of to make a speech of how low an opinion I have of this hypothetically not present manager.
She was weeks away from quitting in preparation for having a child anyway so had no problem if it caused interpersonal issues. And I had fun talking mad shit about management. Even if it wasn’t my own.
I’m assuming she was working as cashier. I checked occupation safety requirements cashier and working as cashier implies working with computer which already requires rotating chair with ability to change height and chair back’s angle, but for cashier’s workplace there are additional requirements. No wonder, considering those requirements were written and adopted during red Duma(communist relative majority of 21% + 7% of agricultural party).
I worked at a video arcade in the 90s and there was a girl who worked with me who was late in her pregnancy, and when I wasn’t working, I’d come in at the end of her shift when she was closing on her own because the boss expected her to clean every game, top to bottom, which required getting up on a ladder and leaning way over to get to the back end of the top of the game. Of course, she also wasn’t given a chair.
I found out he was arrested later for embezzling from the store.
How bloody insane. I can’t think of too many indoor occupations that would require someone to stand in order to be better at their job.
Even surgeons should be as comfy as possible. If someone needs to cut open my skull to remove some badness, I’d really like them to be comfy the entire time.
It’s coming to the U.K. too. I’m assuming that this is about people working on tills. I honestly don’t see what the problem is with people who can sit, sitting.
i mean if you really think about it. The ground is just one really big bed. So if everyone laid down at the same time, would that technically mean that the entirety of humanity is cuddling?
Sad that it doesn’t seem like anyone else can tell this is an obvious manipulation. Blanking out a piece of paper and putting different text on it is the oldest shit on the Internet. This one isn’t even done very well, the fuck is that top margin.
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