• Rhaedas@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Close enough, it’s not blocking a space. Better to be secure, but got to take what wins we can get. It’s possible that when that cart was brought there the corral was full and the person retrieving them didn’t get the loner. It’s like the pictures of the car parked across several spots without the context that there was snowfall and no lines were visible then.

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      It’s somewhat secure with that post nearby. Also, it’s more accessible for people who park the other side of the stall.

      I love it when I find a cart away from the stalls but conveniently in my path towards the store.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah I feel like if you get it into the corral, I’ll give you a pass, even though why not just finish the job at that point.

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      If the corral was full then go to a different one or take it back to the store like a decent person. This is like assholes in my neighborhood who put boxes next to their trash can because they filled it up. And then the wind blows their shit all over the neighborhood.

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    11 months ago

    Did you have one epically infuriating shopping trip spread out across multiple posts or are parking lots part of your beat?

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      It was the former. I had a bizarre, slightly yet constantly irritating shopping trip. I thought the cart was funny. Then handicap ramp man. What I didn’t post about is how people kept walking in front of me, forcing me to jerk my shopping cart to a halt, and how a major supermarket lost all of their macaroni and cheese. They recently had a remodel and three employees and I couldn’t find it anywhere. It was a weird trip.

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      11 months ago

      “job creation” they would say as they throw their receipt on the ground before leaving…

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      11 months ago

      “oh man, I have to do what I’m paid for”.

      ~ you, probably

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        If you know anything about grocery stores, you’d know that relatively few of them actually hire dedicated cart pushers. The people who are asked to go out and get carts are typically people whose primary job is something else that they have to put on hold. And with stores struggling to hold sufficient staffing even before the pandemic made things worse, these are people who are also already very overworked and would probably love to not have to spend longer than needed out in the elements when they’re behind on everything else.

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          Well, in our capitalist, corporately run oligopoly, its essentially the owners’ and managers’ responsibility to have as few employees as possible and to get them to do as much work as possible, to maximize shareholder profits. If being stressed makes you do more work, they want you to be stressed.

          The customer already rings themselves up half the time, as it is. What else can we get them to do?

          Should the customer bring the cart back? Probably. Would you like them to also sweep the floor if they track in any dust? Why don’t we have the customers just get the products they want off of the truck? Why do we need these companies to pay employees for any of this?

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          I’ve pulled carts before. It’s not a big deal.
          If you’re upset over it you’re being dramatic for no reason.

          Edit. Goddamn people white knighting HARD.
          I guarantee most of the people upset here don’t even walk the extra ten feet to the corral.

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        They’re not paid to collect carts like litter in the parking lot, they’re paid to move the carts from the corral to the store.

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    No pass. It technically IS blocking a walkway, the path next to the corral. Though I guess you could push it but the problem is that other lazy bones will pile carts up there until it causes even more blockage.

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    What’s annoying about this layout is that it is only one-sided. It looks like they approached from the back of the corral and then decided good enough. I’d say this is a failure of the parking lot design.

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    Well there’s nothing to hold the carts in. That’s the problem. How are you supposed to attach them if you can’t?

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        Oh. Well that explains it. In Europe leaving any of those carts like that is considered rude so…

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          hence why op is aggrivated by the situation. some EU business push for it to be organized with the 1 euro cost to move the carts which need to be put back in order to take back the 1 euro deposit.

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    There’s just no pleasing some people. Its next to the cart return and seems somewhat parked between the light and the return so its not rolling anywhere. Feel free to make up problems in your head to be mad about though

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    This is the least thing to get upset about. The cart is out of the way, and isn’t blocking any parking spaces. They obviously were on the other side of the corral. They even put it next to the corral. You’re just upset for no reason.

    I’ve done this job. There are far worse things to get frustrated about than this. This isn’t remotely mildly infuriating. You’re mildly lazy at your job.

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      I’m not the cart guy, I just shop there.

      It’s interesting, reading this comment and your others here, how you have to make things up so you can pass useless judgment on other people. That’s also mildly infuriating - you’re just shitting on people while saying nothing of value.

      You might want to think about why you do that. I can understand saying things people might not want to hear but should, but the only thing that would change if all your comments here just disappeared is everything would be more pleasant.

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        What exactly am I making up?

        Have you ever done carts before?

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          Yep, I’ve done carts. I worked retail over two decades ago. You have made up…

          “oh man, I have to do what I’m paid for”.
          ~ you, probably

          A comment based on no evidence so you can dunk on someone. You’re just being a dick.

          Goddamn people white knighting HARD.
          I guarantee most of the people upset here don’t even walk the extra ten feet to the corral.

          It couldn’t be that you say useless, inflammatory things. Nope, it’s everyone else that’s the problem.

          You’re just upset for no reason.
          I’ve done this job. There are far worse things to get frustrated about than this. This isn’t remotely mildly infuriating. You’re mildly lazy at your job.

          Here we have you assuming, with no evidence or indication for it, that I’m the cart guy so you can call me lazy. Again, the majority of the comment is just you being a judgemental dick.

          You just seem to be one of those people who is so outraged and feels such a strong need to tell everyone how they’re wrong that you generate a slew of assumptions so you can slap together meaningless judgement. I mean, seriously, what do you think you’re contributing to this comment section other than making it worse?

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            Wheres you’re “evidence” you’ve done the job before?
            If I need evidence you do too.

            I’m the least outraged person in this thread. I think you’re projecting a little bit too hard. Fuck man, you’re writing essays in response lmao.

            I think you’re an idiot, and you manufactur outrage. That’s what I’m contributing to this comment section. I’m calling you out.

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              Nice deflection, bro. I figured you’d be too much of a coward to actually respond to anything but it’s always worth a shot. Easiest block I’ve made this week.

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      Gathering carts was my favorite job when I worked at a grocery store! Fresh air, a break from all the people, help old people with loading their trunk. At the time the cars and carts were still made of metal and shit got scratched up. Now everything is made of plastic and I don’t get the outrage. I got a million problems and this ain’t one of em