I love being underpaid while the industry wholly refuses to establish any kind of ergonomic standards so that I’m constantly half crouched grabbing boxes without anywhere to grip and wildly different, with carts that break instantly because company can’t be bothered to make sure we have enough so they get abused and damaged. This causes my body to break down and hurt daily because it turns slightly bending your back for hours straight is really fucking bad for it. My knees are shit also because to keep my back straight I bend down and put pressures on my knees. And now my hands ache because of gripping shit that doesn’t have logical grip points has made my tendons ache and I guess I have carpal tunnel? (I don’t even use my computer anymore and haven’t for like 4 years and they have gotten worse and worse).

Also to anyone who thinks the person in the store isn’t work just as fucking hard as a warehouse person. I’d like to push them off a cliff. So the warehouse sends us the pallets of product to put on the shelves… What do they think happens next? Does putting boxes on a pallet require more skill than taking them off? My warehouses don’t even sort the shit. So we need to spend hours every day sorting the new stuff to the correct departments which means I’m basically half a warehouse. Except I also have to do customer service when someone asks for help finding the Tupperware section, and looks at me like I killed a family remember because I said aisle 2 and pointed the direction and said “it’s in the middle of the store… Where all the numbered aisles are”.