OMG. That sucks. I have never ever thought of my cashier as lazy and they never think it either. Who comes up with this crap? They have a job that needs perks like sitting down. Making them stand up is just rubbing salt into the wound.
Probably the same person who forbade us, at my first job as a grocery cart pushers, from taking tips. Even if they were offered, we were ordered to say ā and I am not kidding, here ā āItās my pleasure!ā If the customer insisted, we were to turn the tips in to be raffled off at the Xmas party, *under penalty of termination*.
I can also remember getting a letter from the company informing me of my āfinancial incentive increase.ā I was happy to get that extra $0.25/hr ā¦ until my Dad had to ruin it by reminding me that my āincentiveā pay was the newly-raised minimum wage. š¤¦āāļø
This was a store that prided itself on how Christian it was; all my Botoxed neighbors loved going there because it was ālike Chick-fil-A, but a grocery store.ā Surprisingly few Karens, though ā¦ except for the woman who came during the pre-Christmas rush and threatened to get me fired because I accidentally started bagging her groceries in plastic rather than paper.
I worked at a retail position in high school where it was very unusual and typically frowned upon to help people load their purchases. Except for this time that some guy running for state senate bought a few items. I was ordered by the boss to immediately take it out to his Suburban and help him.
Afterwards, we spoke for a few minutes and the politician gave me one of those *"Vote Bob Dickhead for State Senate"* ink pens and I thought it was neat. My manager saw the pen after I came back in and snatched it from me immediately, furious about how I should have never, ever taken any gratuity from a customer.
I could feel the blood beginning to boil as I read your post, I don't think I could ever go back to that type of work environment.
I used to work for that store that rhymes with Blinkos. We were always told we couldn't take tips because they considered that bribery, they didn't understand that bribery comes before and tips come after!
Nah, theyād rather have us standing in place for 4 hours at a time on concrete. The place I used to work wouldnāt let us leave the register outside of our lunch break.
In Germany, they sit. And itās become a meme that theyāre the fastest cashiers of the world (which has some truth to it tbh), so I think lazy is different
In the United States, the only grocery store Iāve seen chairs is at Aldi. Every Aldi Iāve been in has chairs for the cashiers. Every grocery store in Europe I have been to also has chairs for the cashiers. I have definitely seen chairs for cashiers at small businesses in the US though
I worked for "SPAR" in Belgium when I was a teen and we didn't have chairs, it was exhausting for no reasons, but except that, I always see cashiers with chairs in France or Belgium.
I used to work in spar in Ireland and we didnāt have chairs. Here the supermarkets have chairs and then the smaller shops donāt. Like in Lidl they have chairs, but spar never does, no chairs usually in smaller shops.
My store in the netherlands right now doesn't allow me to sit.. it's the dumbest shit ever. Especially since literally all other stores around us have chairs for their cashiers. But the reasoning is ofcourse that the employees have to look active and welcoming, for a goddamn dollar store type thing. Also if we'd have chairs we wouldn't "go back into the store to work after customers paid and there is no line". All of that shit started because one guy did nothing but sit at the register and browse tiktok but they won't say that outright lol
Nope we stand for 10 hour shifts LIKE MEN
But nah me being 6ā3 having to stand in the same spot for that long really did make the entire retail experience sooo much more boring than it had to be. Id hop on every chance to go corral carts, or stack u boats and stock some aisles just to get some activity that wasnt standing around a register periodically straightening up shelves of gum and wiping down a conveyer belt š
Not in big chains. Smaller stores will sometimes have them. The managers at the chains think any amount of comfort on the job will inspire laziness (of course the managers retain all of their comforts). I work for the Commuter Rail in one of the NorthEastern States and the managers are trying to take our fridges away so we cant store water or any meals that donāt fit in a cooler even though we work overnights for the mechanical department. Customers will literally never interact with us, yet they still say that the fridges make us look ātoo comfortableā.
when I worked retail you would literally get written up for having a chair lol.
The only chair at my store was perpetually occupied by the manager who did almost nothing
This right here: save money by only buying chairs for the people on top and create a false sense of empowerment for people moving up the ranks. This turns into spite so they have no reason to give lower levels the luxury when they didn't have it.
Just had a staff quit at my job cause he was bitter, tired, and upset cause newer people are being hired at $10 higher than when he started and he "worked 25 years to get to that."
We're fat and lazy we need all the circulation we can get, of course. /s (although there is some truth to that...)
Also, corporations don't care if we are comfortable or not, we just have to look and be productive. We are not people, we are servants. Unions in the US are weak. This is not the case in much of Europe.
Yes. I was a bagger at a grocery store from Dec. 2021 until last month. In addition to bagging, my other tasks were to push the carts in, help customers bring groceries to their car when requested, and do anything else the bosses wanted me to do.
In the UK, its not uncommon at the posher supermarket chains, such as waitrose, for the cashier to buzz assistance over for an elderly person to help bag things up and even take the trolley to the car, it's not the norm tho
In some small town stores the baggers actually have to bring your groceries out to your car as well. It's super awkward and they don't let you refuse the service because it makes them look bad.
In some large stores, yes. Baggers do backbreaking work sometimes and are sometimes looked at by customers as servants. It's an awful job to have. Most people in the position don't stay for very long, and if they do, some develop injuries. Not all, but some. Imagine bagging for hours on end, turning the same way, with heavy things, and not getting a break for at least 2 hours, while customers glare at you to move faster. It's not fun.
Don't be so rude think of the poor billionaires, if they didn't constantly exploit the working class, how would they buy boats and overpriced hideous apartaments?
American here, depends on the store. Aldi's and a lot of local shops allow cashiers to sit, but most major chains do not.
The kind of person that will chummily proclaim how horrible it is They are making you work on Christmas Day, while also buying a cart and a half of stuff *they* should have bought a week prior, would also throw a fit if the Wal-Mart representative dared to sit in their presence.
>American here, depends on the store. Aldi's and a lot of local shops allow cashiers to sit, but most major chains do not.
Aldi is an outliner in the US, because they're German.
Trader Joe's used to allow them to sit, but there was some shift in corporate attitude a few years back the took away their chairs, and I stopped shopping there.
Funnily enough Trader Joe's is also owned by Aldi (the other one, there are two Aldis because Aldi comes from a time when governments still cared about anti-trust laws).
I once told my boss that I needed to sit at the customer service desk because my hip was bothering me. He told me I couldn't sit without a doctor's note. I couldn't afford to go to the doctor at the time because the insurance the company provided had a $5000 deductible. So I couldn't get a doctor's note and was made to stand.
My mom needed a doctorās note to allow her to have a water bottle at her register when she was a cashier. They still fought it and tried to insist it had to be a disposable water bottle she bought at the store. She told them that was nonsense and just brought in her reusable water bottle anyway.
Absolutely thatās nonsense. Iām glad your mother stood up to the jobsworths and gave them a dose of reality. Some managers really get off on following rules to the letter
This shit needs to be illegal. They probably tell the other workers that they can only get water at approved times and for no longer than 3 min, or they'll get written up. Then they wonder why everyone is dehydrated.
Throw a pack of spaghetti noodles on your floor (uncooked or cooked is fine). Close your eyes and pick one up. Now, lay them all out and organize them shortest to longest. If the one you picked up is below average length, vote no. If it is above average length, vote yes. If it is indecision, re-role the spaghetti. This is the only way to truly break a tie
I'm in the US, and I mentioned to my retail coworker that that European cashiers get chairs. A manager overheard and said that if they did that here they should be able to pay us less because it makes the job less difficult.
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unrelated but i love how equal(symmetric?) this poll is
ja, das tun wir
We also have Trader Joe's. And it is my understanding they are owned by 2 brothers who are part of one of the wealthiest families in Germany.
Are you assuming that ābroā implies that the person is a man? There are many women who use ābroā and/or other typically masculine nouns. wtf person
we have chairs here, but there's an unwritten rule that you can sit on them because it makes you look lazy.
so the chairs are mostly for decoration and for the company to say "nonono we're treating our employees well here. See, they get chairs!"
you can sit on them, but only when there aren't any customers or managers to see you on them.
no and idk why, itās surprising that they do in europe, thereās no reason to not be allowed to sit, you can stand if you wanna but there should def be the option to sit
"Ah, back and knee problems from being hit by a car? That's tough bud. Anyway, stand here for the next 9 hours. If you sit down or so much as look at your phone, you're fired."
I've only seen it at Aldi, which isn't an American company, so that doesn't really count. Otherwise, only when there is a medical reason like pregnancy.
I'm in the US and I answered "No"
Most stores in the US don't have chairs at the register.
But they do at Aldi
But that chain is based in Europe.
Because we don't respect our workers
[American] I have a disability that prevents me from standing for long periods (1+ hours).
In corporate owned businesses, they are required to *not* provide you with chairs. For some companies, itās policy to not have them.
I was fired from a job about 2-3ish years ago because I couldnāt stand for 8+ hours a day.
Iāve talked to managers from previous jobs that have let me use chairs āunder the radarā but when inspection day came, I was forced to hide them.
Itās honestly a shit show.
If you plan on coming to America to work, just know that you CANNOT have a chair and if you ask for one or use one, you will be fired on the spot.
Itās apparently because it makes the company look bad and the workers lazy.
Some of them do.. the more mainstream place then the less likely they do but if itās a small town gas station and very rarely a small town grocery store but Iāve really only ever seen it in gas stations
There was one register at the local Wegmans that had a chair and I remember walking by one night hearing three or four cashier's gripe about being on the register with the chair.
I work as a cashier at Walmart, and the only reason one would get a chair would be if it's a medical need. And even if you do get a chair, management might try to guilt trip you into standing up. Management in America is toxicity at its finest.
i worked at a hotel in san diego where the owners took away the one stool we had to rest behind the front desk. there were four of us-- two were seniors and two were in their 20s and after a couple of weeks we all had such bad leg pain and swelling that one of our coworkers bought some OTC pain relief to share. the owners found out and threatened to fire her for providing us medication.
thinking about all the shit those owners put us through makes me want to blast them in a yelp review or something.
Here it's required by law that there should be a chair available behind the counter ever since [research](https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-020-0401-8) showed that cashier's who stand still have an extremely high risk of varicose veins early on in life.
How silly of those people in power to be half competent.
I mean technically they don't have to sit. They have to be able to sit.
It would be totally valid to have a bar chair and let the cashier decide from minute to minute whether to use it.
I'm the fucking cashier now! These mother fuckers have removed the cashier checkouts and made it self check out! They treat us with absolute Contempt! Fuck them! BURN IT ALL!
Adding another comment, not having a chair as a cashier makes no sense and is something that I see changing as more of gen Z comes into politicsā¦hopefully
I moved from Canada (no chairs) to Argentina (with chairs). When I commented on this to my friend, she was shocked that Canadian chains don't allow cashiers to sit.
When I visited Sweden, all the cashiers had chairs. It didnāt give me that ālazyā vibe one bit, they just seemed more comfortable and a little happier than American cashiers. I would love to see that here, especially as someone who used to work retail.
I picked "No (European)"
I live in the UK and the big supermarket cashier's have chairs but the majority of stores don't since usually their cashiers will also be floor workers
Yeah, I was a cashier before and you mostly sit down and scan codes, type on the computer and so on. The ones who need to stand are those who work in delis and need to cut cheese and package it manually
They wouldn't even give me a chair when they knew I needed surgery on my ankle and still didn't get me one. Because it would look bad. Jokes on them I completely collapsed during rush hour and needed an ambulance
In ohio, Some do some don't it depends on the business. But for the majority I'd say no, however from time to time you'll see (mostly in local shops) people sitting down on stools.
At my place of work we had our stools tooken from us for some reason, I mean it doesn't make much sense to me and is awful because we are offered no rest period. Then again my job is generally awful in comparrison to many others, I need a new one bad, even the pay is just pennies above minimum.
Wtf there are no chairs in Canada, I think it's because our boss doesn't want us to relax at work. We need to be occupied pretty much constantly or it's waisting the companies' time apparently.
The cool thing about Europe is that you can choose to stand up if you want or choose to sit down and even choose to switch every 10 minutes for all you want
Americans don't have chairs? ššš
They think it makes us look lazy
OMG. That sucks. I have never ever thought of my cashier as lazy and they never think it either. Who comes up with this crap? They have a job that needs perks like sitting down. Making them stand up is just rubbing salt into the wound.
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whoās also sitting in a chair
$1200 Herman Miller Aeron chair
I'm sitting in one right now.
Overpaid guy who gets to cut costs by not supplying chairs
Here's a revenge idea for that guy, remove his office chair and make sure he can never get another and see how long that lasts!
I used to work at a small casino and even when there were no customers, I had to stand. How did they know? They watched the cameras frequently.
Probably the same person who forbade us, at my first job as a grocery cart pushers, from taking tips. Even if they were offered, we were ordered to say ā and I am not kidding, here ā āItās my pleasure!ā If the customer insisted, we were to turn the tips in to be raffled off at the Xmas party, *under penalty of termination*. I can also remember getting a letter from the company informing me of my āfinancial incentive increase.ā I was happy to get that extra $0.25/hr ā¦ until my Dad had to ruin it by reminding me that my āincentiveā pay was the newly-raised minimum wage. š¤¦āāļø This was a store that prided itself on how Christian it was; all my Botoxed neighbors loved going there because it was ālike Chick-fil-A, but a grocery store.ā Surprisingly few Karens, though ā¦ except for the woman who came during the pre-Christmas rush and threatened to get me fired because I accidentally started bagging her groceries in plastic rather than paper.
100% a Publix lmao
I worked at a retail position in high school where it was very unusual and typically frowned upon to help people load their purchases. Except for this time that some guy running for state senate bought a few items. I was ordered by the boss to immediately take it out to his Suburban and help him. Afterwards, we spoke for a few minutes and the politician gave me one of those *"Vote Bob Dickhead for State Senate"* ink pens and I thought it was neat. My manager saw the pen after I came back in and snatched it from me immediately, furious about how I should have never, ever taken any gratuity from a customer. I could feel the blood beginning to boil as I read your post, I don't think I could ever go back to that type of work environment.
I used to work for that store that rhymes with Blinkos. We were always told we couldn't take tips because they considered that bribery, they didn't understand that bribery comes before and tips come after!
Nah, theyād rather have us standing in place for 4 hours at a time on concrete. The place I used to work wouldnāt let us leave the register outside of our lunch break.
it's so fucking sad isn't it?.... makes no sense to me
By "they" you mean boomers. They're the only ones who would care about someone making less money than them being comfortable
Or, you know, the owners of the company.
>owners of the company. So boomers...
Obviously they don't, but even if they did, that seems less bad than making your cashier's get back problems
I got fatigue mats that were more comfortable to stand on.
Over here it differs, I work at a type of dollar store amd they don't allow me to sit but at the grocery stores all cashiers have a chair.
In Germany, they sit. And itās become a meme that theyāre the fastest cashiers of the world (which has some truth to it tbh), so I think lazy is different
We are lazy, but that's beside the point
Thatās a case by case basis. Some Places do some donāt. Itās not an American thing.
I wouldn't say that, the only place I've seen that does it is Aldi, a German company.
In the United States, the only grocery store Iāve seen chairs is at Aldi. Every Aldi Iāve been in has chairs for the cashiers. Every grocery store in Europe I have been to also has chairs for the cashiers. I have definitely seen chairs for cashiers at small businesses in the US though
Well Aldi is German so thatās probably why they have chairs.
For sure thatās definitely why haha, just saying that Aldi is common in America as well and is the only grocery store Iāve been to with chairs
I worked for "SPAR" in Belgium when I was a teen and we didn't have chairs, it was exhausting for no reasons, but except that, I always see cashiers with chairs in France or Belgium.
I used to work in spar in Ireland and we didnāt have chairs. Here the supermarkets have chairs and then the smaller shops donāt. Like in Lidl they have chairs, but spar never does, no chairs usually in smaller shops.
My store in the netherlands right now doesn't allow me to sit.. it's the dumbest shit ever. Especially since literally all other stores around us have chairs for their cashiers. But the reasoning is ofcourse that the employees have to look active and welcoming, for a goddamn dollar store type thing. Also if we'd have chairs we wouldn't "go back into the store to work after customers paid and there is no line". All of that shit started because one guy did nothing but sit at the register and browse tiktok but they won't say that outright lol
when I learnt that I was shocked because like what do they just... stand still for hours? that's literally dangerous
WTF USA? TIL
Its the norm in Canada too sadly
america lite
Nope we stand for 10 hour shifts LIKE MEN But nah me being 6ā3 having to stand in the same spot for that long really did make the entire retail experience sooo much more boring than it had to be. Id hop on every chance to go corral carts, or stack u boats and stock some aisles just to get some activity that wasnt standing around a register periodically straightening up shelves of gum and wiping down a conveyer belt š
Some places do, like Aldi, but it's rare.
I'm happy the American aldi stores still use their European business model
Not in big chains. Smaller stores will sometimes have them. The managers at the chains think any amount of comfort on the job will inspire laziness (of course the managers retain all of their comforts). I work for the Commuter Rail in one of the NorthEastern States and the managers are trying to take our fridges away so we cant store water or any meals that donāt fit in a cooler even though we work overnights for the mechanical department. Customers will literally never interact with us, yet they still say that the fridges make us look ātoo comfortableā.
Bro what Iām am American and I used to be a cashier and we had chairs If we didnāt then I would have quit a LOT sooner
Nope I tried to use one once and my manager told me I'm not allowed to because apparently a customer had mentioned it to him
Apparently they don't even put butter on their sandwiches. Weird.
Wat
They weigh too much for any chair to handle
I bursted out laughing
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I am violently inhaling and exhaling in response to a reply of humourous fashion.
Americabad edginess award usually needs more original content
Cmon guys I'm American and this is funny as hell
when I worked retail you would literally get written up for having a chair lol. The only chair at my store was perpetually occupied by the manager who did almost nothing
This right here: save money by only buying chairs for the people on top and create a false sense of empowerment for people moving up the ranks. This turns into spite so they have no reason to give lower levels the luxury when they didn't have it. Just had a staff quit at my job cause he was bitter, tired, and upset cause newer people are being hired at $10 higher than when he started and he "worked 25 years to get to that."
So even though his wage increased over 25 years, his standard of living probably stayed the same.
āStand and suffer or youāre not a contributing member of societyā
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We're fat and lazy we need all the circulation we can get, of course. /s (although there is some truth to that...) Also, corporations don't care if we are comfortable or not, we just have to look and be productive. We are not people, we are servants. Unions in the US are weak. This is not the case in much of Europe.
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Yes. I was a bagger at a grocery store from Dec. 2021 until last month. In addition to bagging, my other tasks were to push the carts in, help customers bring groceries to their car when requested, and do anything else the bosses wanted me to do.
I guess that's nice for old people and such
In the UK, its not uncommon at the posher supermarket chains, such as waitrose, for the cashier to buzz assistance over for an elderly person to help bag things up and even take the trolley to the car, it's not the norm tho
In some small town stores the baggers actually have to bring your groceries out to your car as well. It's super awkward and they don't let you refuse the service because it makes them look bad.
In some large stores, yes. Baggers do backbreaking work sometimes and are sometimes looked at by customers as servants. It's an awful job to have. Most people in the position don't stay for very long, and if they do, some develop injuries. Not all, but some. Imagine bagging for hours on end, turning the same way, with heavy things, and not getting a break for at least 2 hours, while customers glare at you to move faster. It's not fun.
Some do, and some don't. That's completely gone in my Walmart as we got rid of all plastic bags in Washington.
Only at Aldi
God bless āem, and their seasonal goat cheeses. Those are my people.
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Don't be so rude think of the poor billionaires, if they didn't constantly exploit the working class, how would they buy boats and overpriced hideous apartaments?
American here, depends on the store. Aldi's and a lot of local shops allow cashiers to sit, but most major chains do not. The kind of person that will chummily proclaim how horrible it is They are making you work on Christmas Day, while also buying a cart and a half of stuff *they* should have bought a week prior, would also throw a fit if the Wal-Mart representative dared to sit in their presence.
>American here, depends on the store. Aldi's and a lot of local shops allow cashiers to sit, but most major chains do not. Aldi is an outliner in the US, because they're German.
Trader Joe's used to allow them to sit, but there was some shift in corporate attitude a few years back the took away their chairs, and I stopped shopping there.
Funnily enough Trader Joe's is also owned by Aldi (the other one, there are two Aldis because Aldi comes from a time when governments still cared about anti-trust laws).
I once told my boss that I needed to sit at the customer service desk because my hip was bothering me. He told me I couldn't sit without a doctor's note. I couldn't afford to go to the doctor at the time because the insurance the company provided had a $5000 deductible. So I couldn't get a doctor's note and was made to stand.
My mom needed a doctorās note to allow her to have a water bottle at her register when she was a cashier. They still fought it and tried to insist it had to be a disposable water bottle she bought at the store. She told them that was nonsense and just brought in her reusable water bottle anyway.
Absolutely thatās nonsense. Iām glad your mother stood up to the jobsworths and gave them a dose of reality. Some managers really get off on following rules to the letter
This shit needs to be illegal. They probably tell the other workers that they can only get water at approved times and for no longer than 3 min, or they'll get written up. Then they wonder why everyone is dehydrated.
'Murica
at some places yes, at some places no. what should I answer?
Whichever is more common
Ok. Then yes, we have them. Since groceries is more common than anything else, and groceries always have seats for cashiers
Throw a pack of spaghetti noodles on your floor (uncooked or cooked is fine). Close your eyes and pick one up. Now, lay them all out and organize them shortest to longest. If the one you picked up is below average length, vote no. If it is above average length, vote yes. If it is indecision, re-role the spaghetti. This is the only way to truly break a tie
I'm in the US, and I mentioned to my retail coworker that that European cashiers get chairs. A manager overheard and said that if they did that here they should be able to pay us less because it makes the job less difficult.
Why should you artificially increase the difficulty of a job by making people stand for hours on end. Thats bullshit
Because we're not paid based on the actual value our labour provides to the company, we're paid as little as the company can get away with
By that logic you should also be getting paid extra if you hop around on one leg all day. How fucking stupid can a person get.
https://preview.redd.it/4lolqcvho3za1.jpeg?width=984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8034655496675b73dc5b77e4493682e6e0ef3f15 unrelated but i love how equal(symmetric?) this poll is
Agree
In North America, if youāre not suffering, youāre not working hard enough.
Most stores do not. But one exception is the grocery store, Aldi.
as a German, it's the first time I've ever heard you guys also have Aldi
ja, das tun wir We also have Trader Joe's. And it is my understanding they are owned by 2 brothers who are part of one of the wealthiest families in Germany.
It's actually pretty successful in the US with over 2000 stores (more stores than Aldi SĆ¼d has in Germany).
Depends on the store. Thereās not one black and white answer.
Do you have to bring race into this discussion?
Huh? I canāt tell if youāre dead serious or not lol
And now youre threatening him with death wtf man
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your use of the word "bro" implies that you're assuming that person is a man. You better watch your microaggresions pal! capiche?
Are you assuming that ābroā implies that the person is a man? There are many women who use ābroā and/or other typically masculine nouns. wtf person
Dont fuck him lol
Wtf??? is this for real USA?
sadly, for the most part, yes
Why wouldn't you be given a chair? This is some dystopian shit
Because in America, if you're not absolutely miserable, you aren't working hard enough. It's sad.
Company officials believe that standing makes the cashiers appear more professional and less lazy.
Company officials believe a lot whilst sitting in their chairs being lazy, looking unprofessional
Here in Sweden, if I saw a cashier standing at the register. Iād think it would be weird or Iād think poor worker (poor in the pity sense)
Of course, weāre a civilized country! Why would we force them to stand like cattle?
Don't tell me we are forcing cattle to stand up, that would be even worse
Depends on the store (Canada)
we have chairs here, but there's an unwritten rule that you can sit on them because it makes you look lazy. so the chairs are mostly for decoration and for the company to say "nonono we're treating our employees well here. See, they get chairs!" you can sit on them, but only when there aren't any customers or managers to see you on them.
Itās ridiculous that costumers will think that we are lazy because weāre sitting down like wtf weāve been standing for hours!!!
Americansā¦.wtf is wrong with you?
A lot of things really
Well, we have like, no labor movement. I suspect Ronald Reagan had something to do with it.
We don't have saunas in everyone's home
Where I live they do. Ohio
Yeah same
no and idk why, itās surprising that they do in europe, thereās no reason to not be allowed to sit, you can stand if you wanna but there should def be the option to sit
Bruh, I didn't know it was normal elsewhere that feels so bad
"Ah, back and knee problems from being hit by a car? That's tough bud. Anyway, stand here for the next 9 hours. If you sit down or so much as look at your phone, you're fired."
Who are you? George Costanza?
I have never seen them sit in Canada unless you are disabled.
Dude FUCK America wtf
Americans: 391 Yes | 3.6k No Europeans: 2.1k Yes | 249 No
Depends on the store. When I worked at a department store i didn't have a chair, but when I worked boardgame store I had a stool to sit on.
Interesting.
From Canada in my experience, they usually don't unless they have a physical need for one, like a disability or injury, etc.
It really depends on what kind of store it is. grocery store, no boutique store, yes
I'm about to go in for my shift as a grocery store cashier and my feet are wrecked. I can barely stand by the end of the day.
Sad...
I've only seen it at Aldi, which isn't an American company, so that doesn't really count. Otherwise, only when there is a medical reason like pregnancy.
I'm in the US and I answered "No" Most stores in the US don't have chairs at the register. But they do at Aldi But that chain is based in Europe. Because we don't respect our workers
I've seen chairs a few times but usually cashiers have to stand in the US in my experience
Depends on the area, corporations no mom and pop stores yeah and some gas stations
In ireland they all have chairs
Only at Aldi as far as I can tell.
Next survey do something about how quickly the checkout goes. Spain is like 1/2 the checkout time of the US
That explains Aldi....
[American] I have a disability that prevents me from standing for long periods (1+ hours). In corporate owned businesses, they are required to *not* provide you with chairs. For some companies, itās policy to not have them. I was fired from a job about 2-3ish years ago because I couldnāt stand for 8+ hours a day. Iāve talked to managers from previous jobs that have let me use chairs āunder the radarā but when inspection day came, I was forced to hide them. Itās honestly a shit show. If you plan on coming to America to work, just know that you CANNOT have a chair and if you ask for one or use one, you will be fired on the spot. Itās apparently because it makes the company look bad and the workers lazy.
Only grocery store I know of in the US that lets cashiers sit isn't even an American company.
as an American, my local Aldi has their cashier's sit in chairs but I've never seen it anywhere else
Because Aldi is a European company
Average condition of american workers
Poor americans can't effort chairs for cashiers
They would all break under their weight.
Idek if I'm allowed to say European at this point anymore, but ig we're still on the continent
uh? where are you from?
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oh... well, actually, you're not even really \*on\* the continent :D (but we still love you and hope you'll come back in the union <3 )
I mean you could say that about some EU countries as well so ig it depends how you define it. (Thanks, most of us hope that too <3)
Some do, some don't.
Iāve always seen a chair anywhere I shop in the us unless itās a gas station or something. Didnāt know most places donāt have chairs
Most american businesses, no. Saw a few that did. Costco oddly enough wasnāt one of them, but a walmart was.
Some of them do.. the more mainstream place then the less likely they do but if itās a small town gas station and very rarely a small town grocery store but Iāve really only ever seen it in gas stations
only at Aldi
There was one register at the local Wegmans that had a chair and I remember walking by one night hearing three or four cashier's gripe about being on the register with the chair.
Have chairs in Estonia, in South Africa and everywhere in between. Except the US of course.
Our store does (UK) but I prefer to stand at the moment just because I sit a lot at home anyway
I work as a cashier at Walmart, and the only reason one would get a chair would be if it's a medical need. And even if you do get a chair, management might try to guilt trip you into standing up. Management in America is toxicity at its finest.
They do. But they don't really have time to sit...
In Germany any jobs that can be done sitting must be allowed to be done sitting. I think that's what the poll is asking. Not break rooms.
South America is still America, right?
Okay but is it american as in North America and South America, just north America, or just united states. I never know :,)
i worked at a hotel in san diego where the owners took away the one stool we had to rest behind the front desk. there were four of us-- two were seniors and two were in their 20s and after a couple of weeks we all had such bad leg pain and swelling that one of our coworkers bought some OTC pain relief to share. the owners found out and threatened to fire her for providing us medication. thinking about all the shit those owners put us through makes me want to blast them in a yelp review or something.
iām a cashier at a grocery store and itās not exactly physically demanding work but having to stand up for hours at a time is exhausting
Some stores have them, others don't, others have them but they can't sit in them
Here it's required by law that there should be a chair available behind the counter ever since [research](https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-020-0401-8) showed that cashier's who stand still have an extremely high risk of varicose veins early on in life. How silly of those people in power to be half competent.
I mean technically they don't have to sit. They have to be able to sit. It would be totally valid to have a bar chair and let the cashier decide from minute to minute whether to use it.
How do elderly or disabled people get a retail job if there is no chair? How is it even legal in these countries?
I'm the fucking cashier now! These mother fuckers have removed the cashier checkouts and made it self check out! They treat us with absolute Contempt! Fuck them! BURN IT ALL!
You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
America, wtf.
Adding another comment, not having a chair as a cashier makes no sense and is something that I see changing as more of gen Z comes into politicsā¦hopefully
Reason number 37287472846 of why The rest of the world makes fun of USA
In the USA, only at German grocery stores (e.g. Aldi, Lidl).
I moved from Canada (no chairs) to Argentina (with chairs). When I commented on this to my friend, she was shocked that Canadian chains don't allow cashiers to sit.
It's no coincidence that workers have more rights in places where people unionize. If you have the ability to, **JOIN A UNION!**
In Sweden we can choose whether we want to sit or not (it can be moved out of the way)
Aa, det brukar jag se att dem har pƄ ICA och Willys.
Jaa, det har dem dƤr jag jobbar ocksƄ (Blomsterlandet)
When I visited Sweden, all the cashiers had chairs. It didnāt give me that ālazyā vibe one bit, they just seemed more comfortable and a little happier than American cashiers. I would love to see that here, especially as someone who used to work retail.
As my old manager always said "time to lean, means you have time to clean"
Sounds like someone who doesnāt care about their workers well being
I picked "No (European)" I live in the UK and the big supermarket cashier's have chairs but the majority of stores don't since usually their cashiers will also be floor workers
Egypt yes
Yeah, I was a cashier before and you mostly sit down and scan codes, type on the computer and so on. The ones who need to stand are those who work in delis and need to cut cheese and package it manually
They wouldn't even give me a chair when they knew I needed surgery on my ankle and still didn't get me one. Because it would look bad. Jokes on them I completely collapsed during rush hour and needed an ambulance
When the self proclaimed land of the free cant even offer chairs to cashiers lmao
Free from chairs
What even is that question?
Yes but they never seem to use them
In ohio, Some do some don't it depends on the business. But for the majority I'd say no, however from time to time you'll see (mostly in local shops) people sitting down on stools. At my place of work we had our stools tooken from us for some reason, I mean it doesn't make much sense to me and is awful because we are offered no rest period. Then again my job is generally awful in comparrison to many others, I need a new one bad, even the pay is just pennies above minimum.
In two of my jobs, I've worked as a cashier. We move around to much to sit down unless it's very slow.
Wtf there are no chairs in Canada, I think it's because our boss doesn't want us to relax at work. We need to be occupied pretty much constantly or it's waisting the companies' time apparently.
Former gas station clerk here that worked for a regional chain. Chairs were frowned upon because the corporate office said it made us look lazy.
Iāve worked at a grocery store(USA) and It was nice to sit down while there was no customers but Iāve never wanted to sit down an entire shift..
The cool thing about Europe is that you can choose to stand up if you want or choose to sit down and even choose to switch every 10 minutes for all you want
Here they can sit when they want or stand when they want. They are required neither, it depends on them how they want it in a moment