As someone who had that job as a teenager, saying it’s better than other tasks is not a high bar. Yeah sure, it sucks less than cleaning the bathrooms or dealing with particularly shitty customers, but that doesn’t mean I was pumped to have to walk the whole fuckin lot to gather all the loose carts that lazy assholes couldn’t be bothered to put back. Gee thanks for the extra work for the lowest paid person at the store, how generous.
Do you think we never got to stop working for a second? Yeah, retail is notorious for the whole “time to lean, time to clean” thing, but we actually did get to chill out if we were caught up. But we were almost never caught up because some people are jerks who leave their carts all over the lot.
As someone who had that job as a teenager, saying it’s better than other tasks is not a high bar. Yeah sure, it sucks less than cleaning the bathrooms or dealing with particularly shitty customers, but that doesn’t mean I was pumped to have to walk the whole fuckin lot to gather all the loose carts that lazy assholes couldn’t be bothered to put back. Gee thanks for the extra work for the lowest paid person at the store, how generous.
How is it extra work? If you weren’t spending the time doing that task, wouldn’t you be spending the same time doing a more disliked task instead?
Do you think we never got to stop working for a second? Yeah, retail is notorious for the whole “time to lean, time to clean” thing, but we actually did get to chill out if we were caught up. But we were almost never caught up because some people are jerks who leave their carts all over the lot.