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Well you’re not someone in a position of authority or know what their thinking so it does not matter what you think, correct. One thing for certain their not going to tell us the truth.
No one here is an authority at the stores, but we know they closed them.
The truth is avoiding this mandate was an excellent decision by the executive team. I freely admit that.
Doesn't seem prudent to close a profitable store for a temporary pay increase to the hourly workers. Lot of sunk costs turned into a loss by closing. If the stores weren't profitable then they were dishonest by blaming it on the relatively small, temporary payroll increase. Whatever the story, the announcement was political theater by Kroger management.
It's easy. I worked in retail for several months at age 17. Then I moved on. The job required physical labor, but from the standpoint of brainpower, it was a job I could do in my sleep.
Oh I'm sure your brain is so big. Way too big for a job like that.
Sometimes I wondef how people like you survive in the world with such nasty condescending attitudes toward people. You think you're so much better than them.
Oh I'm sure your brain is so big. Way too big for a job like that.
Sometimes I wondef how people like you survive in the world with such nasty condescending attitudes toward people. You think you're so much better than them.
It's easy because we make it very easy to attend college. Massive forms of loans, grants, scholarships, etc. One must simply have the initiative to grasp the opportunities they get.
......... You think you're so much better than them.
And you are convinced that every person is 100% equal to every other person, in their intelligence, drive, common sense, and problem solving ability? Every one is an exact equal clone of every other human and all have exactly the same equal abilities? Nobody is better than another person in any way?
And you are convinced that every person is 100% equal to every other person, in their intelligence, drive, common sense, and problem solving ability? Every one is an exact equal clone of every other human and all have exactly the same equal abilities? Nobody is better than another person in any way?
No but they deserve equal respect as people until or unless they prove or show themselves otherwise undeserving of it. We have no idea who might be working those jobs at any particular time or why. Americans are obsessed with workplace pecking orders and it's damned annoying how we judge each other based on what our profession is or is not. This board is really bad for it; a bunch of vain retired white male engineers who think their brains are so big. The only professions worse than you guys for arrogance are pilots and surgeons.
You know why I didn't major in engineering? Because I never even thought about it. It did it cross my mind because I was not interested. NOT because I'm too stupid. There are smart people in every field, even the arts that you people denigrate so much. Bet none of you could produce something artistic to save your lives. People on here make it seem that people who are not some kind of tech millionaires are stupid losers when that is NOT true. Some of the most brilliant people I know were in the arts and humanities.
Having worked enough of retail jobs in my youth, my observation is that the kind of people who stagnate, do not try to learn any skills, do not stay with ANY job for a very long time. Especially things like retail, sticking with it 2-3 years makes you an old-timer and you move up the ranks though attrition alone unless you willfully refuse promotion. I was at Wal-Mart for 4 years and they would ask me why DIDN'T I want to move into salaried management? (because I wanted to move on)
Retail is not an EASY job because dealing with customers takes patience and tolerance that many people do not possess. Not everyone has those skills.
I don't know what kind of losers you people associate who go through their entire lives drunk or high and want to do nothing more than watch TV until they die. But somehow I do not encounter such people very often, largely because in actual workplaces, even service jobs like retail and restaurants, such people do not HOLD those jobs for long.
Last edited by redguard57; 05-27-2021 at 02:13 PM..
No but they deserve equal respect as people until or unless they prove or show themselves otherwise undeserving of it.
Agreed, and pay rates and working conditions have nothing to do with respect. All jobs have a Fair Market Value, which is truly your replacement cost. The more people available who can perform your job, the lower the barrier to entry in terms of education and training, the less it pays. Inverse is also true.
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