That was never my intention in this thread and if someone took it that way they were mistaken.
My point was always this kind of thing, entry level employment, is just that…the bottom. It’s a means to begin, enhance or just something a little extra.
OT: Bagging groceries
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My point was always this kind of thing, entry level employment, is just that…the bottom. It’s a means to begin, enhance or just something a little extra.
Margins in grocery stores are razor thin, so anything they can do to cut costs they will. And sometimes it's a "bite off your nose to spite your face" kind of situation. For example, long ago I refused to go to a store once I figured out that they only bought a finite amount (a small finite amount!) of their loss leaders for the weekly sale and never replaced them.
Gail was in the constrution office in charge of permits, etc. She was a major ball buster years ago and then she got really nice..and then she got arrested ..
I’ve worked with her a bunch. Never saw the “really nice” version I’m afraid.
My sources back home are telling me the locals are out with pitchforks over the suggestion that the construction office be permanently closed.
That would expkain why us in East Amwell would lose WA as a shared service. Aa we were notified some weeks ago.
It’s comical seeing people trying to position bagging groceries as a career. I like how a store I grew up near does it now. They hire people on the spectrum or whatever they are called now. That’s the level of job it is.
Yeah this thread went off the rails hardcore. As a former bagger as a high school kid now retiring in my 50’s, hard work pays off. I washed dishes at a pizzeria when I was 13. These jobs exist and are not glorious but they are needed.
Obviously not a place to support a family off of as a bagger. But as a union job, I don’t know. I worked hard, showed up and got promoted to dairy, and also for frozen, and even seafood and as the “guy” who worked the receiving bays at 6am for trucks. Before having a driver’s license . There is a pathway in a grocery store, albeit not glamorous. I sucked at sports so it was smarter than pretending to be something I wasn’t.
But it was money and work as a kid and taught me to basically work hard for the next 40 years. Is that a bad thing?
Went to Trader Joe’s for first time today in maybe a decade. Wife wanted some nonsense. A friendly adult lady bagged my stuff. I was stunned. Very friendly and I thanked her twice. Maybe I should have looked down on her. Sad!
Obviously not a place to support a family off of as a bagger. But as a union job, I don’t know. I worked hard, showed up and got promoted to dairy, and also for frozen, and even seafood and as the “guy” who worked the receiving bays at 6am for trucks. Before having a driver’s license . There is a pathway in a grocery store, albeit not glamorous. I sucked at sports so it was smarter than pretending to be something I wasn’t.
But it was money and work as a kid and taught me to basically work hard for the next 40 years. Is that a bad thing?
Went to Trader Joe’s for first time today in maybe a decade. Wife wanted some nonsense. A friendly adult lady bagged my stuff. I was stunned. Very friendly and I thanked her twice. Maybe I should have looked down on her. Sad!
Similar story for me. First job at 13 or 14 was at car wash for $2.35/hour. Saved every penny like a miser and paid for my own first car and the insurance, and, later working 3 jobs, my own tuition, room and board at RU. From small things, big things one day come.