• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Imagine being such a neurotic micromanager that you literally don’t even let your employees sit because “SITTING IS UNPROFESSIONAL!”

    Meanwhile you probably spend the majority of your day at a desk

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      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!

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        I wouldn’t care if a cashier was goofing off a little 😂 as long as they got around to doing the job

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        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.”

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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).

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      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.

      Time for chair pants aka ‘chants’ to gain some popularity.