I am heavily considering sending out a market research survey to all of Simblr regarding the new pets “pack” EA is releasing, the results of which would be nicely formatted and sent to the Sim Gurus once completed.
This thing will need traction in order to make a point.
If you are interested in helping out with this initiative, please reply here or reblog to spread the word.
I will compile the survey and create a Google form for it this weekend.
The only major chain retail store that I know of that allows their cashiers to sit is the Aldi grocery store, a German chain. Their starting pay is also $12 an hour chain-wide.
The interior of the store looks like this so they save money on the annoying shelf restocking. Products remain in their boxes until being removed by customers. No unboxing and putting stuff on shelves, and constantly having to rearrange it. Also, the boxes make inventory a breeze as a sealed box has a defined number of items in it.
Typical American grocery stores have shelves like this
Every item has to be unboxed and neatly stacked on the shelves. If they get messed up by the customers, everything has to be rearranged back to specific rigid order. When you have to verify the inventory, every item has to be removed from the shelves to be counted and put back. Aldi’s also do not have plastic bags. You can buy reusable bags or simply use the empty cardboard boxes that are available.
Last is the carts. Most grocery stores have their carts strewn across the parking lots, rolling around and hitting cars until a store employee is sent out to collect them, after being yelled at by the manager when they were told to do other tasks in the meantime. Aldi’s chains those carts together and you have to put a Quarter in to release it. When you are done, you plug the chain back in and get your Quarter back. If others are lazy, you can collect and return the loose carts and collect the Quarters.
It stops this…
Then the employees have to do this
reblogging this because I love Alidis
With the exception of the shelf stacking, all of this is totally normal in every single supermarket chain in the UK… what the heck America
Same for Germany… why would you make it any more complicated than that. Just. Why not let them sit??
They’re not normal for no reason. The right to sit during work seems normal for most retail workers in these countries because they are it is part of the labor rights that have been won by unions. Sometimes the right to sit was won in an agreement with the store and sometimes it was put down in national laws.
For example, in the UK your employer legally has to provide you with a comfortable seat if you do work that can be done while seating. In the Netherlands you have to be provided a seat if you work at a cash register for more than 4 hours a day or for more than 1 hour uninterrupted.
Unionize.
America’s Unions got killed.
PLEASE LET ME SIT, I CAN FEEL MY KNEES DETERIORATING AT WORK AND IM LITERALLY 17 ALMOST 18
hey, guys. i just want you all to know how much i love you. we all struggle with things, whether that be anxiety or depression, or something else entirely. but it’s important to remember that those thing do NOT define who we are. so if you are struggling, please PLEASE don’t be too ashamed to seek help. because you DO matter and you ARE worth it. you are NOT a burden. you are NOT too much. and you ARE enough. so give yourself your best chance and don’t allow yourself to rest in your suffering. keep moving. keep pursuing happiness. reach out. seek help. i love you.
hey fellas last night i took a medication which is more or less the anxiety equivalent of a horse tranquilizer & essentially enterred the fifth dimension of sleepwalking in which i awoke but enterred a dissociative fit so strong i was really confused why my loving girlfriend was not my good friend and fellow viking bjorn, who i had to bring some furs to. also i might’ve cried about this. don’t remember
was informed i left out the best part of this 3am experience which was the bit where i, in tears, gestured to our dog and shouted, “i don’t know what this is!”
bruh you astral planed so hard you fell back into a past life
NOT SO BERRY
Now came time for Astrid’s little sugarplum to become a child!
NOT SO BERRY
Of course Astrid couldn’t keep the pregnancy from her best friend! Grayson wasn’t very surprised about her best friend’s news but congratulated her and wished her the best pregnancy!
Pootaint 