hey as someone who worked at a grocery store (albeit not in cart return, just get to see the cart return people a lot): at least at my store, theyre still getting paid whether theyre doing carts or not. but now, theyre just getting paid to do something harder and more annoying when they could be getting paid to stay inside in the AC/heating
“oh but then theyll have to schedule extra people to do the car-” no they arent fucking scheduling extra people because you and a few other people give cart returners a collective extra 30 minutes of work a day, theyre just telling them to work faster when theyre not on cart return because theyre behind. theyll get paid the same whether theyre on bagging duty or cart duty, because the managers yell at you if you get any overtime
in the most literal sense no you are NOT costing the company/“”“creating jobs”“”, youre just making someones day that theyre ALREADY GETTING PAID THE SAME AMOUNT FOR BY THE COMPANY slightly worse and increasing the stress. corporate does not give a single solitary shit. unless yall somehow did enough shit with cart return to add an extra 12 hours a day of work out there, they probably aint even gonna consider adding extra hours for cart return. Theyll schedule extra baggers on expected generally busy days of course, like weekends/holidays, but they wont just say “oof a lot of people leaving carts in weird places!! better add some more hours exclusively for carts!!”
you know the ACTUAL leftist thing to do? making their job easier (or at least not purposefully making it HARDER) so they can chill tf out and not work themselves ragged as much. give them time to just pretend to look busy or chit chat. or just slow down a bit when theyre grabbing the carts instead of trying to hurry because “god theres so many carts on the grass today what is WRONG with people”.
(also “”“fresh air”“” yeah these people are having to do a fucking workout out there and sometimes when its 90°, fuck 100° out. does that sound like fucking fresh air to you???)
Also people gotta internalize that, for massive corporations, there is no amount of damage you can do that they will notice. Even if leaving the carts did somehow increase labor hours by a large amount it wouldn’t prevent them from making a profit.
Walmart (as an example) makes money on an absurd scale. You could burn down one of there stores and it wouldnt register as a blip on their financial radar. They are functionally untouchable, you are ONLY hurting the underpaid worker who now has to fetch the cart. No one else anywhere in the chain of command will notice.
amhrancas 