• Zement@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    I feel like below a certain wage threshold, jobs are made shitty on purpose.

    There is no need for a cashier to stand all the time, a small and high chair would suffice. There are boards used by mechanics to slide around on the shop floor when working beneath cars, but there are no carts for workers filling up lower shelves. Etc.

    I worked in engineering and now process management and I could exit most B2C shops screaming of frustration for their inefficiency and spiteful brutalism.

    Ergonomics is one of the main factors for worker health, happiness and productivity, but if you have literal wage slaves, you can even save the peanuts. True Greed.

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          And that’s probably because they exported a lot of their German ethic and if you’d take away German cashiers‘ chairs, you’d be in trouble more quickly than you can spell aldi

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      The cross section of companies willing to pay poverty wages and companies ok with/happy to make your life suck all day is depressing but not surprising.