"Would you like a chair?"
Posted on 06/20/2011 12:01:30 PM PDT by george76
Trial attorneys use obscure labor law that sees retailers facing millions in damages. Retail store operators may want to sit down for this one — if they can find a chair.
Nearly every national chain is under legal attack in California for failing to provide “suitable seating” for cashiers and other employees who are expected to spend most of their work day on their feet.
Enterprising trial attorneys by the dozen are using an obscure California labor law requiring retailers such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Target to have enough seats on hand for their workers.
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"Would you like a chair?"
As someone still there, I can say this: you’re better off staying away.
Aldi still pays well above the average for retail jobs.
You can tell though when you walk in the store they are designed to run with absolute minimum staffing.
The whole world supply chain runs on bar code scanning, instantaneous data transfer and reordering. Ringing up the old way just would not compute, no matter how good their people were at doing it.
Darn I just saw this thread and immediately thought of that Seinfeld episode. Too late :-)
Maybe on average among cashiers barcodes are faster, but I’ve still never seen anybody scan as fast as I’ve seen some people key. They don’t wait for the barcode beeps, and they start keying as soon as items hit the belt, before they even get to where the scanner would be. I’ve even seen them key what’s in your shopping cart if you pull items out too slowly.
wait till walmart gets the RFID stuff all figured out. Roll the cart up and one big BOOP happens and you pay.
Bag it yourself of course.
Wife left walmart for Aldi once.. while they pay a few dollars extra, you want to work your butt off, you could key 1000 items a second, and they would not be happy until it was 1001. They will be the next ones to get in trouble for not allowing breaks or making you work through them.
Wife is back at walmart and loves it.
Even with barcodes, Aldi still tracks scans per hour. Most retailers do. One of the reasons they’re so cheap is minimal staffing, and the faster the cashiers, the fewer you need.
A few days ago she was sitting on a stool. Well, I think it was a stool, because I couldn't see any part on it.
I mentioned that it was nice for the store to let her sit down now. She said the stool was provided because she was disabled.
I asked her if she had been injured, and she said ...”NO, I'm fat”
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