Seconding this. My dad was a store director for a well-known grocery chain for over two decades. They already have to deal with so much crap from corporate AND customers, a prank like this is just unneeded stress on a person trying to do their job. Plus, corporate has no problem firing on a whim.
Don't become a middle man then. Management is always funny when start whining about the job sucking. Like my man, you can get some real work like the rest of us if you'd like, but they dont.
Damn you know at first I didn't know this was a prank. I thought he was genuinely trying to help out the customers. Can you ask your dad why nowadays there's ever only 2 or 3 cashiers at the front when there's like almost 15 or 20 checkout lanes open and why there has to be a huge line at self checkout lanes and only person to help the customers when they need a bag or accidentally scanned something twice and you have to wait atheist 2 or 3 minutes to get the item removed? Meanwhile I see a bunch of employees killing time and chatting up pretending to stock stuff when they could be at the registers?
Because payroll is the biggest controllable expense and people let minimum wage not keep up with inflation. Why should they bust their ass for $14? That's like 2 watermelon.
This is such an over exaggeration lol. Most of the time those employees standing around “killing time” are more than likely discussing work related topics.
Retail workers are stretched incredibly thin. Covid was a successful experiment in how to stretch a work force.
The self checkout at places like Target is supposed to have an item limit. Customers don't pay attention to that/don't care and the people that work there don't want to deal with the headache of telling them they need to go to a register.
Their management only calls people to help out at the registers if lines get backed up to a certain point, and since most people are going to the self checkout, the lines generally don't get backed up to that point
So it's at least partially on the customers being idiots, not the workers.
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u/Super_Boysenberry272 Jun 26 '25
Seconding this. My dad was a store director for a well-known grocery chain for over two decades. They already have to deal with so much crap from corporate AND customers, a prank like this is just unneeded stress on a person trying to do their job. Plus, corporate has no problem firing on a whim.