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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 215 points 1 month ago

If you scatter carts in random places the supermarket has to employ someone to collect them. So you are a job creator^TM^. This is why I never return my cart, and also why I jump on cartons of milk in the dairy aisle and take a dump in the broccoli.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago

People who actually think this are using it as an excuse for their bad manners.

The person employed by the supermarket to gather carts is not employed to return your cart to the cart return near your vehicle. They are employed to gather the carts from the cart return near your vehicle and bring them back to the store building's cart return.

By doing this, you do not create more jobs (as the cart return employee position already exists whether you return your cart or not), you create more work for an already probably underpaid employee and you also increase everyone's autoinsurance because when the wind blows the carts damage other people's vehicles.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 month ago

OK, you got me, I actually always return my cart and seldom shit in the broccoli.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago
[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago

That information is classified. But you'll know it when you see/smell it.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It's the same person that makes a mess and thinks "it's the janitor's job".

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 54 points 1 month ago

That explains Elon Musk. He's a job creator, right? Destroyer of everything.

[-] Bricriu@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago
[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

he only creates jobs by firing entire departments at once

[-] Halliphax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He’s single-handedly keeping loads of nannies and Ketamine dealers in a job so there’s that.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of teens saying that janitors are paid to clean so what's the issue with throwing trash on the floor?

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can't wait for Google's AI to ingest your comment.

[-] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Whenever I return to my vehicle, if I do not have a shopping cart with me, I'll find one someone didn't return and return it for them.

Fear me, I am your antithesis

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Nice thing about working class parents.. when you're a kid and think "but it's someone's job, they get paid to do it," they will teach you that it has nothing to do with making more work for someone.

[-] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

The anger over this always amuses me (I put my cart back in the corral btw). But there was a time in the very recent past, where there was no such thing as a cart corral. You simply left your cart in the lot and an employee was paid to fetch them (I also used to do this job as a kid - it was a great job).

[-] marzhall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I did this as a kid at a place with cart corrals. Because, y'know, someone still needs to move them from the corrals to the front.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I actually use this rationale for why I don’t use the self-checkout lanes. Why should I do the work for the grocery store that they should be paying somebody else to do?

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

My local supermarket added 8 self checkout machines, and removed almost all the cashier lanes.

For a year, they pushed everyone towards the self checkout. Every... Body. Old people were clogging up the Customer Service section because they want a human. The machines constantly failed to scan, and people would just shrug and pretend like it did.

The deviants started to realize it's super easy to steal, as they can just pay for 1/10 of their groceries and "forget" to scan a lot of things. They started to lock up a lot of merchandise, and you need a human to unlock it.

So now they have hired security guards to then scan receipts, as well as follow people in the parking lots.

The whole supermarket is kind of a shit show. I counted 5 security guards to 2 workers when I was last there. I also do my shopping elsewhere.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Because it's faster?

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I immediately thought of the scene in The 5th Element. Lol

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