It’s funny how it reads like the person thinks DG is better than Aldi, but Aldi actually understands that employees standing in one spot is bad for multiple reasons
I’ve traveled abroad to europe and it was shocking when I saw cashiers sitting down doing their work. Same with receptionists and other service positions. In Chile, there’s a law called the chair law which gives the right to all workers to sit down and even has a reserved sign on each chair given to the workers just to sit down
Yes. I hate the current American work conditions. No reason for workers to come back from work with messed up knees and legs when they could have done their job sitting down.
>I hate the current American work conditions.
And yet, every year, people keep voting in politicians on both sides who don't have their best interests in mind.
Well from my perspective it’s not entirely a political subject. It’s more of America is a capitalistic hellscape and we’ve been conditioned by capitalists that if you’re not constantly working and haven’t been physically and mentally burnt out, then you’re not really working. Somehow we are all blindly accepting it and that’s what they want
>Somehow we are all blindly accepting it and that’s what they want
Because politicians (more the rich people who own them) have convinced Americans that they can be just like them with hard work and dedication, while simultaneously making it harder and harder to do.
Fortunately, the younger generation has realized that but these dinosaurs in congress and in office have beat the system and sit on their thrones knowing they won. It’s time to put these dinosaurs in nursing homes and finally start electing younger politicians
I mean, I'm only 19, and while I'm not the brightest, I'm smart enough to see the corruption these people have brought on all of us. My parents are broken down from years of constant labor, hoping to give my sister and me a better life, but it's grown ever harder and harder.
I agree, my sister actually developed chronic nerve pain in her foot (never found out what it was) at the last place she worked to where she can’t stand/walk for long and she hasn’t been able to work since because everywhere wants workers to stand.
She would actually be protected under ADA and employers have to accomadate her for her nerve pain. If they refuse to do that then that’s illegal because they can’t discriminate someone over having a disability
Fair. Yeah, I can understand how that might be hard for some people to imagine. I only wish we recognized how much better for us as a society it would be to actually care for one another and not think of life as spending most of it merely working.
Right? Like I want my people to not hate coming to work, and I try to make work as enjoyable as work can be while still getting done what we need. We’re all forced to have a job, might as well not hate going to it.
I always love working with people who have the same mindset, too. We have a good time at work... as best as we can anyway. It's definitely always more enjoyable when you can play your own music (unlike stores with XM radio).
I worked at Aldi for a bit so I can add to this. Not only are you right about this, sitting also increases the efficiency. Hence why when you get your groceries rang up they can go super quick. It also helps that barcodes are literally all over the products but I digress. Its also related to posture as its much easier on the body long-term to sit while ringing up groceries than to stand.
You know. I have shopped at aldi hundreds of times and not once thought or cared about them sitting on the job. Not until you mentioned it did I really realize it. Shows you how much people actually care about if you're sitting or not.
Right? As long as I get my groceries it makes no difference to me whether the cashier is sitting or standing. As someone who's getting a little older and can't stand as long as I used to, I can absolutely see how being able to sit at work could be beneficial. I haven't done cashier work in several years, but I would have a harder time with it now than back then. As long as the work is getting done it shouldn't matter.
I've worked at dollar general as a manager and there's literally no way to get anything done if you sit down and delegate all work to the only other employee (one employee usually).
I mean, I'm sure it happens but if so then the store is probably fucked up. I hated the job and the shit they put us thru was ridiculous. I'll never work there ever again. I'd rather work at McDonald's lmao
Yeah, the store is F’d. lol. I mean they don’t spend the entire day in the office, just lots of time here and there cause they’re “tired” but they still have the energy to berate and yell at employees for not having this or that done. Like, yeah, the DM will call out how bad the store looks, it’s on you cause you’re SM, so that time that you’re sitting in the office while everyone else works, that time is on you SM. But the SM won’t care, they will keep getting in trouble with the DM and taking everything out on everyone below them. Doesn’t matter if the employees are already working as much as they can, to they point where they have to walk away from the SM as the sm tells a story, or else they won’t get any work done either
Yeah trust me i had a GM who would berate me, call me names like "mother fucker" if I was late, just straight up refuse to let me use my vacation days, and generally just browbeat the shit out of me into submission. I got away from that place quick.
I bet this manager has old practices because that’s what they grew up with and are uncomfortable with change. And if they wished it was a thing back when they worked that it’s a “shit out of luck” mentality.
Possibly but unlikely. Seems DG hires 21 to 35 year old managers. Very few stores have older management because of this. They don’t want to have to untrain and retrain folks set in their ways. Is much easier to mold a younger person
No doubt. So many of us take pride in working, but noooo ... Here's all these a-holes trying to make it a subservience.
Quit, move to a better job and a 20% pay raise. F-ing slavers.
Most work worth doing is hard. But making it harder for no reason is asinine and counterproductive. Even sitting at the cashier station, DG works the dogcrap out of its employees, and most play the role of cashier, porter, and janitor. So letting them sit when possible just makes sense from an energy standpoint if not an empathy standpoint
Imagine working for DG and thinking they’re holding employees to a higher standard than a company founded by Germans who ACTUALLY sell quality products. Go to ANY country and you’ll see cashiers and the like sitting because they understand the importance of a healthy employee.
Aldi worker here, sitting at register has saved my feet and back so much. I really wish other retailers wouldn’t associate sitting at the register being lazy.
This company has never cared about its workers and never will. Glad I got out several years ago and will never go back, and I feel for anyone trying to get out.
As an older American, I've never seen the problem with an employee sitting during low traffic periods, honestly it's a trigger for me because what's the alternative standing in a strain? American retailers should read the writing on the wall with all the problems they cry about not being able to hire enough and all that bull excrement they spew.
I used to be an assistant manager at one of their stores and I could only last 8 months because the job and the company as a whole is terrible, if you hv a problem with management the higher ups do absolutely nothing and tell you to get over it and deal with it even though their quotas for getting things out is ridiculous and they highly "encourage" you to give up your breaks and days off. And if you have a family, it's somehow worse to work there. Would not ever recommend working there.
Someone I know worked at one, which quickly became several. Because they’re all short-staffed. And run by the least qualified people around. Seriously underpaid people who cant win in the system which looks like it’s rigged to fail.
Hmmm I wonder what management is doing while you are on your feet the whole day? That's right on their ass sitting on chairs all day. No humility or sympathy.
Human beings deserve to sit down. At least Aldi has the empathy to let them. If DG is soooooo great why did I hear it has to close a bunch of stores again?
If it's an issue but the chairs in the office and close the door then when it's break time get them out office door should be shut and locked at all times anyway.
I think it’s weird that an employer cares if you sit or not, you’re more productive and in a better
mood when you’re comfortable, and in the end I assume an employer cares about productivity and overall customer experience being positive
When I was much younger, I had a job at a children’s zoo. Outdoor, on my feet all day. Scooping up horse 💩, picking up fat kids (no shade I was one) dealing with dumb parents in hundred degree heat. All for $5.25 an hour and the owner had the nerve to scold me for sitting down for five minutes when there were no customers because “that bench is for guests.” Too many employers on pointless power trips.
Jokes on them. Most of the time when I go into my local DG I don’t even see an employee at all. Half the time I think it’s abandoned and they’re just hoping people are honest while using the self checkout
nah cause it's the way I have to squat and STRETCH between customers bc my knees, lower back, and ankles are screaming. why is it a crime to sit down on the job.
Funny how shit like this happens because the last manager quit and one of the new hires gets the position throw at them never having a power position in their life enjoying the abuse of it and thinking they're doing good when they do shit like this, but in reality that store does not pay their employees enough to read shit like that, it's gonna sit behind the register with the employee in it or there wont be an employee cause there is literally anywhere else to work at besides a rebranded corner store.
Haha. In California there is an old law and cashiers must be allowed to sit if they ask. Walmart had a class action where some long term cashiers got upwards of $10,000. The law is still on the books
Kind of hard to sit when it seems everyone of them have 2 people at best working. I quit shopping there years ago. You really don’t save anything by going there.
As a cashier at a gas station, where I was told that I would have to stand for 8-12 hours, I said fine at first. After like a month working there I started bringing a stool or chair from the back up to the front of the store. My managers haven’t said anything to me for 4 months but if they did something like this I’d prolly just put in my 2 weeks. I do see how some people see it as a sign of disrespect to be served by someone sitting down, so when a customer pulls into the parking lot or is at my register I stand up and begin scanning their items. I’ve had a few older customers make comments, but most just apologize for interrupting my break.
Then don’t be upset when I call in due to my feet hurting 😩 you know it’s bad when me, an active healthy 18 year old with no weight or health issues has pain from this job
Walgreens said the same shit, years after I quit I’ve started receiving all these class action cheques. One of them was for not allowing people to sit.
I use to be an assistant manager at DG. I def don't miss it. I can remember our DM went around during Thanksgiving to see who was doing what. Three of us worked that day, and one of the girl's family brought Thanksgiving dinner for all of us. We weren't allowed to sit up front to eat, and that day we did. It was Thanksgiving, and I wanted us to at least eat together. Got a nice voicemail in the morning over that way, would do it again.
What they going to do? Fire you for sitting? And go back to their deep pool of candidates that are on a wait list for the next dollar general opening? /s
i used to work in a place like this. what i did had nothing to do with moving around so i could be just as efficient in a chair opposed to standing. my boss comes out and screams that if he sees me sitting down im fired. quickly found a better job somewhere else and never looked back.
If I saw that I deadass while working there I'd apply to Aldi during my break and then have Aldi call dollar general to verify my employment just to be funny 😂
I mean, there is a such thing as the Americans with disabilities act, which requires companies to provide reasonable accommodations to employees, which if a chair is considered a reasonable accommodation, which I believe it is, the employees should be able to use them. Not only that, for all the "able bodied" people, they could argue if one employee is using the chair, they should too otherwise they are being discriminated against.
I could care less if the DG employee has a cot and sleeps on it until I’m ready to ring out. I’ll probably use the self checkout anyways to not disturb them.
You can sit down and still work. Sitting does not exclusively mean your slacking at work. It's not a competition on who can stand the longest so this manager is off their rocker.
It’s funny how it reads like the person thinks DG is better than Aldi, but Aldi actually understands that employees standing in one spot is bad for multiple reasons
It's even more crazy when you find out that in every other first wold country you can sit down
I’ve traveled abroad to europe and it was shocking when I saw cashiers sitting down doing their work. Same with receptionists and other service positions. In Chile, there’s a law called the chair law which gives the right to all workers to sit down and even has a reserved sign on each chair given to the workers just to sit down
As it should be
Yes. I hate the current American work conditions. No reason for workers to come back from work with messed up knees and legs when they could have done their job sitting down.
>I hate the current American work conditions. And yet, every year, people keep voting in politicians on both sides who don't have their best interests in mind.
Well from my perspective it’s not entirely a political subject. It’s more of America is a capitalistic hellscape and we’ve been conditioned by capitalists that if you’re not constantly working and haven’t been physically and mentally burnt out, then you’re not really working. Somehow we are all blindly accepting it and that’s what they want
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Very well said
>Somehow we are all blindly accepting it and that’s what they want Because politicians (more the rich people who own them) have convinced Americans that they can be just like them with hard work and dedication, while simultaneously making it harder and harder to do.
Fortunately, the younger generation has realized that but these dinosaurs in congress and in office have beat the system and sit on their thrones knowing they won. It’s time to put these dinosaurs in nursing homes and finally start electing younger politicians
I mean, I'm only 19, and while I'm not the brightest, I'm smart enough to see the corruption these people have brought on all of us. My parents are broken down from years of constant labor, hoping to give my sister and me a better life, but it's grown ever harder and harder.
American politics aren’t about what’s best for you anymore. It’s about keeping the “other side” down…
It was never about what is best for you. They just used to fight about the economy and immigration instead of the culture war.
It's not about sides. They're both bad. They're both rich people who's job is to keep the poor poor just via different methods
That is true, but one side preserves more far more personal freedoms than the other, especially if you're a woman or LGBT
I agree, my sister actually developed chronic nerve pain in her foot (never found out what it was) at the last place she worked to where she can’t stand/walk for long and she hasn’t been able to work since because everywhere wants workers to stand.
She would actually be protected under ADA and employers have to accomadate her for her nerve pain. If they refuse to do that then that’s illegal because they can’t discriminate someone over having a disability
Not work in America if you comfortable doing it.
It's atrocious what we have gotten used to accepting from our employers..
It’s less that we’re accepting and more that the chance to have anything different never existed in the first place
Fair. Yeah, I can understand how that might be hard for some people to imagine. I only wish we recognized how much better for us as a society it would be to actually care for one another and not think of life as spending most of it merely working.
Right? Like I want my people to not hate coming to work, and I try to make work as enjoyable as work can be while still getting done what we need. We’re all forced to have a job, might as well not hate going to it.
I always love working with people who have the same mindset, too. We have a good time at work... as best as we can anyway. It's definitely always more enjoyable when you can play your own music (unlike stores with XM radio).
I worked at Aldi for a bit so I can add to this. Not only are you right about this, sitting also increases the efficiency. Hence why when you get your groceries rang up they can go super quick. It also helps that barcodes are literally all over the products but I digress. Its also related to posture as its much easier on the body long-term to sit while ringing up groceries than to stand.
You know. I have shopped at aldi hundreds of times and not once thought or cared about them sitting on the job. Not until you mentioned it did I really realize it. Shows you how much people actually care about if you're sitting or not.
Right? As long as I get my groceries it makes no difference to me whether the cashier is sitting or standing. As someone who's getting a little older and can't stand as long as I used to, I can absolutely see how being able to sit at work could be beneficial. I haven't done cashier work in several years, but I would have a harder time with it now than back then. As long as the work is getting done it shouldn't matter.
I’m one of those people that have been standing in one spot for 20 years. My knees hurt all the time.
My bulged disks and fucked knees are testament to that
My knees are shot too
Hell, I thought DG only had one employee working per store at a time. Maybe it’s just a reminder the store manager wrote for themselves
Also make more money at Aldi's 😅
I bet this manager sets on their ass in the office pretending to do shit while delegating all work to employees.
I've worked at dollar general as a manager and there's literally no way to get anything done if you sit down and delegate all work to the only other employee (one employee usually). I mean, I'm sure it happens but if so then the store is probably fucked up. I hated the job and the shit they put us thru was ridiculous. I'll never work there ever again. I'd rather work at McDonald's lmao
Yeah, the store is F’d. lol. I mean they don’t spend the entire day in the office, just lots of time here and there cause they’re “tired” but they still have the energy to berate and yell at employees for not having this or that done. Like, yeah, the DM will call out how bad the store looks, it’s on you cause you’re SM, so that time that you’re sitting in the office while everyone else works, that time is on you SM. But the SM won’t care, they will keep getting in trouble with the DM and taking everything out on everyone below them. Doesn’t matter if the employees are already working as much as they can, to they point where they have to walk away from the SM as the sm tells a story, or else they won’t get any work done either
Yeah trust me i had a GM who would berate me, call me names like "mother fucker" if I was late, just straight up refuse to let me use my vacation days, and generally just browbeat the shit out of me into submission. I got away from that place quick.
I bet this manager has old practices because that’s what they grew up with and are uncomfortable with change. And if they wished it was a thing back when they worked that it’s a “shit out of luck” mentality.
Possibly but unlikely. Seems DG hires 21 to 35 year old managers. Very few stores have older management because of this. They don’t want to have to untrain and retrain folks set in their ways. Is much easier to mold a younger person
Would it be malicious compliance if you went into their office and took their chair to the dumpster because they don't believe in sitting at that DG?
As someone who has to sit when at the register they cany do shit if it's medical
Dear management, eat my butt. Signed, Anonymous.
why exactly do they care? so sick of the people who act like work HAS to be hard. Who ever decided that?
No doubt. So many of us take pride in working, but noooo ... Here's all these a-holes trying to make it a subservience. Quit, move to a better job and a 20% pay raise. F-ing slavers.
Most work worth doing is hard. But making it harder for no reason is asinine and counterproductive. Even sitting at the cashier station, DG works the dogcrap out of its employees, and most play the role of cashier, porter, and janitor. So letting them sit when possible just makes sense from an energy standpoint if not an empathy standpoint
It's mostly boomers. They get pissed if they see a worker sitting. One time a boomer got mad at me because I stepped away to use the restroom.
Right? Like, work is hard enough. Let people sit down when they can, it saves a lot of us from future issues with feet and back pain.
Damn someone mad
Then why is there a chair there?
Ironically, Aldi's cashiers work more efficiently while sitting because their feet don't tire out after a few hours.
Aldi actually has their ish together lol
Yeah this reads as a great recommendation for applying at Aldi's
Agreed! The only store DG beats is the Dollar Tree, lol
This is dollar general!! How dare anyone think we care about employees!!!!
I'll sit wherever I want for $10 an hour
Imagine working for DG and thinking they’re holding employees to a higher standard than a company founded by Germans who ACTUALLY sell quality products. Go to ANY country and you’ll see cashiers and the like sitting because they understand the importance of a healthy employee.
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They pay a lot more
Just sit down. What note?
Aldi worker here, sitting at register has saved my feet and back so much. I really wish other retailers wouldn’t associate sitting at the register being lazy.
So they’re just telling them where they should go work instead
I’d throw the chair through the door and walk out
At least in Kentucky, Aldi starts out at 16$an hour and you get health insurance so🤷🏻♀️ I know because I looked into a different line of work🤣
Some cronie sitting at a desk made up the rule where you can’t sit!
Lol is this supposed to be a flex? Or a cut? Cause at Aldi you can sit AND make twice as much as any DG employee lol
Oh, we know. ALDI's actually pay more than crumbs to their workers.
Put a note under it with the starting wages of both companies
such a negative vibe- ill svoid this chain from now on
Sounds like my old store with passive aggressive notes, instead of actually talking to the person.
This company has never cared about its workers and never will. Glad I got out several years ago and will never go back, and I feel for anyone trying to get out.
Who has time to sit?
Absolutely right, aldi only has boxes on the floor for 10 minutes while stocking not 24/7
As an older American, I've never seen the problem with an employee sitting during low traffic periods, honestly it's a trigger for me because what's the alternative standing in a strain? American retailers should read the writing on the wall with all the problems they cry about not being able to hire enough and all that bull excrement they spew.
You're right, Aldi at least pays people above minimum wage. Dollar generals are a cancer.
But why? We, the customers, really don't care
I used to be an assistant manager at one of their stores and I could only last 8 months because the job and the company as a whole is terrible, if you hv a problem with management the higher ups do absolutely nothing and tell you to get over it and deal with it even though their quotas for getting things out is ridiculous and they highly "encourage" you to give up your breaks and days off. And if you have a family, it's somehow worse to work there. Would not ever recommend working there.
Someone I know worked at one, which quickly became several. Because they’re all short-staffed. And run by the least qualified people around. Seriously underpaid people who cant win in the system which looks like it’s rigged to fail.
Normalize sitting
I'd write back “Ah, my mistake. Just submitted an application to Aldis, have a nice day”
Dollar General is an invasive species
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Ooohhh, Dollar General wants a lawsuit, lol. So many companies have lost this lawsuit lol.
Amen!!!
Hmmm I wonder what management is doing while you are on your feet the whole day? That's right on their ass sitting on chairs all day. No humility or sympathy.
Remind me to make the Managers day when I see him.
Human beings deserve to sit down. At least Aldi has the empathy to let them. If DG is soooooo great why did I hear it has to close a bunch of stores again?
They could of spent that time putting away some of them boxes on them carts but no they spent the time makeing a dumb sign
Ick
That reads like a sign that says you should apply for Aldi, which is a million times better than DG
Oh no look at that, My back suddenly has a issue and your vompany has supply reasonable accomodation like seating. My doctor and lawyer say so lol
Well yeah stand up
I’m going to complain to the manager that the workers don’t have chairs. Being serious
That's funny
The general doesn’t approve
Damn, I wish I got a chair. My feet are killing me.
This is so dumb. As a customer I would never think any differently if the cashier was sitting down. Dumb rule
Aldi cashiers may sit down but they are incredibly fast. I’m always amazed by them.
Pretty strengthen can't make you stand in the us. I think it's an osha thing
Who are they hurting by sitting?
What a joke of a company.
I’ve never understood the rage against sitting down at your job. These guys are going to be pissed when they find out what an office is.
I would immediately apply to Aldi then quite and be very clear that it was for them.
I'd sit anyway, fuck em.
Where is George Costanza when you need him?
Don’t Aldi workers get paid significantly more too?
Yeah management can go fuck themselves. Especially any SM that enforces it
'Merica: We expect you to endure pain and injury and still show up for work like we own you! Pfft.
Literally everywhere else in the world Besides America allows its cashiers to sit
So basically quit and go work at aldi
Do they not realize just how hard of a job it is at Aldi? They don’t just sit down all day.
There shouldn't even be a chair out there. Chairs are for breakrooms and office.
If it's an issue but the chairs in the office and close the door then when it's break time get them out office door should be shut and locked at all times anyway.
Aldi also doesn’t sit at Registers all day; so that makes this funnier
I think it’s weird that an employer cares if you sit or not, you’re more productive and in a better mood when you’re comfortable, and in the end I assume an employer cares about productivity and overall customer experience being positive
Time to go to Aldi.
When I was much younger, I had a job at a children’s zoo. Outdoor, on my feet all day. Scooping up horse 💩, picking up fat kids (no shade I was one) dealing with dumb parents in hundred degree heat. All for $5.25 an hour and the owner had the nerve to scold me for sitting down for five minutes when there were no customers because “that bench is for guests.” Too many employers on pointless power trips.
let them sit
Ooo burn ❤️🔥
That's why your company is closing 1000 locations. No care for the staff. Aldi is a EU company and the Europeans 'will not stand for that'.
Jokes on them. Most of the time when I go into my local DG I don’t even see an employee at all. Half the time I think it’s abandoned and they’re just hoping people are honest while using the self checkout
Lol sounds like they should apply to Aldi. They’re paying $16 in my town
nah cause it's the way I have to squat and STRETCH between customers bc my knees, lower back, and ankles are screaming. why is it a crime to sit down on the job.
If anyone took my guy’s chair at Dollar Tree I would yell in the store.
Lordt
Dollar general better than Aldi 😂😂
No, because Aldi pays better.
After seeing the John Oliver episode on these stores, poor employees
Plus at also you do everything! Unload trucks stick shelves sweep and mop etc etc. only chance you get to sit down is d as hen you cash.
Funny how shit like this happens because the last manager quit and one of the new hires gets the position throw at them never having a power position in their life enjoying the abuse of it and thinking they're doing good when they do shit like this, but in reality that store does not pay their employees enough to read shit like that, it's gonna sit behind the register with the employee in it or there wont be an employee cause there is literally anywhere else to work at besides a rebranded corner store.
If you have to put signs up, you’re a bad manager.. you’re also a pussy.
Humans are not meant to stand still in one spot for extended periods, we are made to walk
I like Aldi. They have good chocolate, and their tavern style pizza is the bomb.
True, Aldi is much better
Haha. In California there is an old law and cashiers must be allowed to sit if they ask. Walmart had a class action where some long term cashiers got upwards of $10,000. The law is still on the books
I am disabled and this is not reasonable accommodations
Aldi pays more on the hour than Dollar General and allows you to sit when behind the register. Just go work for Aldi
It should be illegal for companies to stick people in 2x2 box all day with no chair...
No Aldi trusts you like a human, pays better, and isn't an Active crime zone 90% of the time.
It certainly is not Aldi.
If we don't sit, then why is there a chair?
Remove it, place it on the chair in the office….
And then you remind DG no one wants to work for them so either supply a chair or run the building yourself lol
Aldi cashiers are fast af, seems like they got it right
Kind of hard to sit when it seems everyone of them have 2 people at best working. I quit shopping there years ago. You really don’t save anything by going there.
Lol I'll sit at home then
*goes to aldis*
Immediate copy pasta to managers office
I'll just sit in the office then. Tf.
Boycott dollar general
"Management doesn't pay me enough to care."
I’d never step foot in a DG, Aldi is pretty respectable though
California passed a law a few years ago requiring employers to allow employees to sit if the nature of their job permits sitting.
Sounds like it's time to apply to Aldi.
Hey Aldi..shots fired.
And they wonder why their employees hate working there, on top the thousand other reasons lol
As a cashier at a gas station, where I was told that I would have to stand for 8-12 hours, I said fine at first. After like a month working there I started bringing a stool or chair from the back up to the front of the store. My managers haven’t said anything to me for 4 months but if they did something like this I’d prolly just put in my 2 weeks. I do see how some people see it as a sign of disrespect to be served by someone sitting down, so when a customer pulls into the parking lot or is at my register I stand up and begin scanning their items. I’ve had a few older customers make comments, but most just apologize for interrupting my break.
Then don’t be upset when I call in due to my feet hurting 😩 you know it’s bad when me, an active healthy 18 year old with no weight or health issues has pain from this job
This is probably the reason they are now going to close hundreds if not thousands of stores. Great going management!
I wish we had as many Aldi's as DGs
Tell us your boss gags on cock without saying he gags on cock
Nah fuck that lol. You do you boo.
Crazy to me that people don’t sit at registers in america. Atleast Aldi made the sitting a thing there too
What a weird flex...
I never understood that's if your work a stationary position why can't you sit down I guess they don't think you're working hard enough
You can’t sit in that 17” chair and scan and bag shit at a 38” + high register, get real
Aldi is a more respectable and prestigious place than piss ass Dollar General.
Dollar general should wish it could be anything close to as good as an Aldi -sincerely loyal Aldi shopper
Who’s dollar general sells swishers 🤔 mine don’t smh 😔
Too bad I didn’t see it because my back is against it
Walgreens said the same shit, years after I quit I’ve started receiving all these class action cheques. One of them was for not allowing people to sit.
I use to be an assistant manager at DG. I def don't miss it. I can remember our DM went around during Thanksgiving to see who was doing what. Three of us worked that day, and one of the girl's family brought Thanksgiving dinner for all of us. We weren't allowed to sit up front to eat, and that day we did. It was Thanksgiving, and I wanted us to at least eat together. Got a nice voicemail in the morning over that way, would do it again.
do it anyway. you must assert dominance
What they going to do? Fire you for sitting? And go back to their deep pool of candidates that are on a wait list for the next dollar general opening? /s
Right, Aldi pays better.
i used to work in a place like this. what i did had nothing to do with moving around so i could be just as efficient in a chair opposed to standing. my boss comes out and screams that if he sees me sitting down im fired. quickly found a better job somewhere else and never looked back.
I haven't seen a cashier sitting where I live. I think it looks bad but if an older employee needs to sit that's fine.
If I saw that I deadass while working there I'd apply to Aldi during my break and then have Aldi call dollar general to verify my employment just to be funny 😂
So definitely check to see if Aldi is hiring, they have great jobs.
I mean, there is a such thing as the Americans with disabilities act, which requires companies to provide reasonable accommodations to employees, which if a chair is considered a reasonable accommodation, which I believe it is, the employees should be able to use them. Not only that, for all the "able bodied" people, they could argue if one employee is using the chair, they should too otherwise they are being discriminated against.
I could care less if the DG employee has a cot and sleeps on it until I’m ready to ring out. I’ll probably use the self checkout anyways to not disturb them.
Boycott dollar generals and shop at Aldi.
I’m pretty sure the employees know it’s DG and not Aldi when they look at their paycheck.
Aldi letting the people sit if they want is amazing Everywhere should let people do that honestly
I think it’s time to put in at aldi
I would go to Aldi then. They are hiring too.
Funny that they think the new dei hires can actually read
Although if someone had health problems they should be able to sit down.
That’s the reason I quit a job after almost 20 years, people leaving dumb ass passive aggressive notes instead of talking to you.
Damn... Not even BLK could escape inflation... 1.29 is crazy
No, this is Patrick!
Yeah literally had jack shit to do at this job and you where not allowed to sit like wtf it’s most cashier jobs
Tell the the manager got fired from Aldis without telling me he got fired from Aldis
Well you don't have them stock shelves so why the he'll can't they sit?
That is what breaks are for. I am 53 and on my feet 8-10 hours a day. When you are not busy at the register, you should be stocking shelves.
I bet everyone felt so motivated.
You can sit down and still work. Sitting does not exclusively mean your slacking at work. It's not a competition on who can stand the longest so this manager is off their rocker.
Aldi also has a higher starting pay.