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roseofhybrids · 27 days ago

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I've never understood the "it's their job" or "creating jobs" argument either.

not just for not returning the cart, but stuff like knocking things over in a store and not picking it up, leaving trash sitting on shelves, or just being rude in general when they assist you. "it's their job" isn't an excuse to act like a toddler whose parents are there to clean up after them.

Now, sometimes there are things that an employee will have to do for you that you as a customer can't just take care of by yourself. Getting a step stool and getting something off the top shelf for you, cutting and packing up meat and cheese for you at the deli, I once had a customer who picked up a case of beer, but the bottom of the cardboard was wet so it ripped, and the bottles smashed on the floor. We're not gonna expect you to clean up a massive spill or broken glass. But if you knock a can or a cereal box to the floor, it will take all of 5 seconds for you to fix that. If you take a couple jars off the shelf to compare the ingredients, then you can just as easily put the unwanted ones back in the right spot. If you brought in a coffee or other drink, then you can keep the empty cup with you till you find a trash can.

(seriously, I can give some leeway to things being knocked over or misplaced, provided you don't do something like leave a frozen item sitting on an ambient shelf. Maybe you can't bend down to the floor to reach it, maybe your cart bumped something off the shelf as you passed, and you didn't notice. It's fine, it happens. But who just leaves empty Starbucks cups sitting on shelves? There are trash cans all over the store, just keep the cup with you till you pass one, it's not that hard) Because the people that have to sort that all out when you don't are, more likely than not, already hired to do other things around the store. The job has already been created, purposefully leaving things a mess just means that job is made harder without any compensation No one is getting paid extra to deal with stuff like that, no one new is getting given a job to deal with that either

just because it's someone's job to help you, that is not an excuse to not act like a decent person. Just because they are getting paid to do this, that is not an excuse to make their lives harder

#just return the damn cart (if you're able)#it's basic courtesy #<prev #whenever I see an item left on a random shelf in a store #I remember the time I worked at a grocery store collecting items for online orders #while getting a box of soda I found a cabbage sitting in the back of the shelf #at least I THINK it was a cabbage #it had been there so long it had turned into a flat brown mess of rot and brown liquid #the soda aisle was right next to the refrigerator section #you could have put it in there #you could have taken it with you to the registers the registers are RIGHT NEXT to the produce area #hell you could have put it on top of the stack soda boxes right across from the shelf where it could be SEEN by someone #but instead you stuck it on the back of a shelf #and someone making 10 an hour had to fish a rotten cabbage off the shelf because of it

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