So would you go into the store and make a mess intentionally? After all, an employee would have to clean it up in addition to their other duties, so they can use the extra pay, right? What a strange validation.
I would use the store to shop and that means rarely but occasionally there will be a mess. I always offer to clean it up but have never been allowed to. Cleaning up an occasional accident is a cost of doing business.
But yes, the store pays people to provide service to customers. If you can somehow convince those customers to provide those same services themselves...
Let's say some portion of us ... like 100% start doing for ourselves all the things that employee is paid to do. We all start ringing up our own groceries, cleaning up our occasional accidents in the aisle, counting our own cans into the sorting machine, returning our carts to the storefront. What store is going to keep paying that employee?
Large stores don't expect 100% of us to do this but the more of us they can convince to do so before the volume of sales suffers, the fewer people they hire to do it. If they pass that savings on to the customer in exchange for that extra work it would be one thing. Instead, they encourage a moral premium paid for this new duty and pass the money they save by reducing staff on to the owners or shareholders.
Then why not do the least you can do?
I almost always do the least I can do... but sometimes I'm just a human being with human failings. Maybe I spent 9 hours hammering metal, my tendinitis is going bonkers (the vibration of pushing the cart can set it off) and the store decided to skimp on corrals and the closest one is 60-70 yards away. That's about what it would take to get me to shirk.
And now technology does a lot of that.
Taking $20 worth of cans back used to take 3 or 4 minutes, now it takes 15. The technology saves the store a man-hour or two of pay each day by shifting the burden of labor onto the customer with a system that takes 5 times as long.
Seriously 4 pages on grocery carts ?!?!! Is this what life has come to?
The first time I saw this guy's videos and read the comments I was surprised by just how 'torches and pitchforks' people got over this.
Cost me $985 to repaint the damage. ($985 = $1,544 in 2020 dollars) I had a $1000 deductible so it was out of my pocket.
Valuable lesson there, I mean in addition to the insight on corralling carts, another dollar or two a month for your comprehensive would have got your deductible down to $500 or less.
It’s the right thing to do
How do you know though? Who decides? How do
they know?
I think it's a nice thing to do, and I try to be nice whenever possible. But I'm leery of the surety that comes with thinking there is one right option. It let's me think that if I'm doing the right thing, people who don't do what I'm doing must be wrong. Besides being very egocentric, this thinking dehumanizes people who believe differently than I do, it makes it easier to tolerate their poor treatment; it's easier to laugh when bully is being cruel to someone who's 'wrong'.
FWIW, the radio person in question doesn't yell or scream or curse. He's actually quite polite, albeit annoying. The worse thing he does is call the offender "lazy bones" which just seems to trigger everyone.
He is not polite. He affects a saccharine tone that is more smarmy than anything. He approaches strangers, sometimes from out of the bushes, and refuses to back off when asked. In at least one video he intentionally moves their cart into the path of the lazybones' car. In one case the woman was practically fleeing from him and didn't see the cart. While he has videos with men as the target, his subjects are disproportionately women and I think he enjoys their shock and fear at this strange man blocking their way a bit too much.
He reminds me of the 'you're welcome' guy. Ever see this guy? The guy who holds a door for someone, but if they don't say "thank you" as they pass through the door he yells, "You're welcome!" The idea being to loudly shame the person by pointing out how rude they were.
There's at least one comedian with this as a bit. I've heard a lot of people brag about doing this or describe wanting to do this. And I saw it happen once in the wild.
