My uni friend used to sit on the benches outside some professors’ offices. Then our uni started sticking up papers saying those seats are “reserved”.
We walk past that place a good amount every week, and there’s always no one.
That’s when you sit there and when someone tells you it’s reserved you say, “yep. It’s reserved for me.”
- Remove papers
- Crumple up papers
- Throw away papers
- Sit on bench
I’m somewhat of an Anarchist myself
A true anarchist would set up more benches.
I read the title differently, chemistry.
“Ever since we kept the chair out of the break room, sales have skyrocketed!”
- Make believe logic
…the number of employees seen limping has skyrocketed!
– What actually happens
The number of employees with chronic back, knee and joint problems that manifest only years later when they don’t work at Kohl’s anymore and thus are not visible to management has skyrocketed. – What actually actually happens
I deveoped varicose veins within my first few years of working on till in a grocery store. This was in my early twenties, and for the rest of my life. The company doesn’t care, even while you work there. Fuck these policies.
I used to work at Walmart
My first sign was seeing like almost every employee have a slight limp
My second sign was me proceeding to develop a slight limp
I was litterly only there for 3 months And we had chairs in the break room
All I remember about Kohl’s is that when I work there they took all of the leftover clearance stuff and instead of donating it to a local shelter or anything put it straight into the trash compactor.
This is standard practice at Kohls.
Fuck Kohl’s in particular.
Kohl’s? You mean the Amazon returns dropoff facility?
yeah lmao the population of Kohls shoppers and Amazon returners is completely different it’s kinda ironic how the higher ups thought this was gonna fix their geriatric demographic.
I do enjoy working at the Amazon return counter tho. since its a bad attempt to get a younger customer base I’m slapped in the back corner of the store all by myself. eight hours of vibing to my own music and having barebones conversations while playing 3d Tetris with the returns. and bonus I haven’t recieved a sex toy return in a while either!
good stuff
Lol I must look the worst. In the world of video calls tied to laptop cameras. Due to varyfocal glasses, I keep my screen at an angle. This makes me look like I’m slouching on camera.
To ease the tension in off timezone customers my ice break joke is its the end of my shift. I’m knackered.
I think you ended up in the wrong place somehow.
Probably those varyfocal glasses
“If you’re sitting you look lazy, and no one wants to see an employee being lazy”
I’d rather they not look like they’re contemplating suicide all day long.
The allotment of employees permitted to sit simultaneously has been reduced from one to zero. Thank you, management.
Sounds like someone’s about to have an injury
Oh no, I slipped and fell on this very conveniently placed puddle, better bring that chair back quick smart!
Anyone that uses elliptical ellipses shouldn’t be given any power at all.
I had a boss that did this (automotive corporate shop). I said “you threw out my chair?” He said “yup”, I said “cool, I quit”. Started two days later at a better place making 20k a year more. WITH A FUCKING CHAIR.
Your office desk chair?..?
…and you cut his brake lines, right? … Right?
This is a Seinfeld plotline
Young Seinfeld, or Friends. I can’t see Jerry, Kramer, Elaine, or George doing retail. I could see Joey, Rachel, Monica, or Phoebe doing retail.
You misunderstand, it is a Seinfeld plot line:
Imagine being such a neurotic micromanager that you literally don’t even let your employees sit because “SITTING IS UNPROFESSIONAL!”
Meanwhile you probably spend the majority of your day at a desk
Seriously? They remove the chair because sitting is unprofessional??
Yeup. They only make ADA exceptions and only in extreme cases. For example, they wouldn’t let my pregnant coworker have a stool to SOMETIMES sit on until she was 7.5 months a long. And even then she had to provide her own.
That’s the excuse for making cashiers stand
I’ve started leaving negative reviews for stores when I see there’s no seating available for the cashiers.
Good idea! I’m gonna do that to my local stores.
Honestly I want all my cashiers to sit down, it’s cruel for them to stand up for no reason.
Cruelty is the point in this. Some people get off on being able to force discomfort on those that they see as less than them.
That is utterly ridiculous.
They should remove the manager’s chair too.
Yeah I don’t get it. As a customer, when I go into a store and the cashier is sitting down at the register, I don’t think to myself “wow, what a lazy jerk!”. I think “I’m glad these guys get to sit down while working”. Because I never see a cashier during idly just goofing off. Sitting or standing, they always seem to be working hard. And I don’t understand this stupid idea that sitting is somehow unprofessional.
Furthermore, as someone who gets lower back pain if I stand for too long, fuck these useless asshole managers!
I wouldn’t care if a cashier was goofing off a little 😂 as long as they got around to doing the job
I’ve seen cashiers goofing off when things aren’t busy… but I would still not give a shit if they had a chair beyond thinking, “at least they get to sit down doing an awful job like that all day.”
Some people just genuinely do not seem to understand that workers (and many other people) are actually thinking human being with thoughts and emotions and sensations like pain.
It’s something i’m very glad almost everyone here understands, workers are largely just treated like the normal people that they are and customers are more likely to actively help them than they are to make a fuss about anything.
Tangentially related, a friend of mine worked at Kroger years ago and was not allowed to have a stool or chair while 7 months pregnant because (from my biased one-sided understanding) the manager was on some kind of extra-petty suffering Olympics of “I worked every day until I gave birth on the factory floor so you can stand here” BS.
One day I popped in and noticed Dick Manager was standing nearby, and since I almost never shop at that one, has no idea who I am.
So I loudly proclaim (paraphrased) “Girl, you are FAR too pregnant to be standing up for a whole shift, what kind of heartless piece of human garbage would be making you work in one single spot without at least a stool? What is the world coming to when the future of our country is worth less than the fragile ego of some Middle management prick who wouldn’t know how to SPELL empathy, much less understand it” just like all the most over the top things I can think of to make a speech of how low an opinion I have of this hypothetically not present manager.
She was weeks away from quitting in preparation for having a child anyway so had no problem if it caused interpersonal issues. And I had fun talking mad shit about management. Even if it wasn’t my own.
I’m assuming she was working as cashier. I checked occupation safety requirements cashier and working as cashier implies working with computer which already requires rotating chair with ability to change height and chair back’s angle, but for cashier’s workplace there are additional requirements. No wonder, considering those requirements were written and adopted during red Duma(communist relative majority of 21% + 7% of agricultural party).
Petty. I love it :-D
I worked at a video arcade in the 90s and there was a girl who worked with me who was late in her pregnancy, and when I wasn’t working, I’d come in at the end of her shift when she was closing on her own because the boss expected her to clean every game, top to bottom, which required getting up on a ladder and leaning way over to get to the back end of the top of the game. Of course, she also wasn’t given a chair.
I found out he was arrested later for embezzling from the store.
Micromanagers never heard about occupation safety
How bloody insane. I can’t think of too many indoor occupations that would require someone to stand in order to be better at their job.
Even surgeons should be as comfy as possible. If someone needs to cut open my skull to remove some badness, I’d really like them to be comfy the entire time.
Time for chair pants aka ‘chants’ to gain some popularity.
sit on the fucking floor
This is something I never got. Does the job performance suffer from sitting? Is someone getting paid by the blister?
I used to work retail, and we had some stools at the registers and started getting a shocking number of customer surveys come in with low scores saying that the employees were too lazy to stand up at the register.
People suck, this is I think in the break room though. So I guess people realllly suck?
Inside door of the break room won’t say “Employees Only.”
It’s probably the customer service counter that had the stool removed, and that’s a behind the counter going to the offices.
Ah still stupid, but not pants on head stupid.
I swear Customers like this have never worked like Litterly any job ever I guess
If job performance suffered by sitting, all those millions of office cubicle desks around the world would be at standing height.
Weird part is they also hate standing desks for those same office workers. Something about being healthy at work must be killing profits.
There should be laws against forcing people to stand for their entire shift.
In relatively civilized countries, there are. Unfortunately, the US is not a civilized country
It’s coming to the U.K. too. I’m assuming that this is about people working on tills. I honestly don’t see what the problem is with people who can sit, sitting.
