• @wowwoweowza
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    -73 days ago

    Oh… I am going to destroy my lemmy credibility by chiming in on what I think is the absolutely most stupid conversation in the entire universe!

    I know you all to be people of deep conscience and this is what I love about coming here. Lemmy is filled with people obsessed with meaningful issues… except for this one.

    Maybe the leftists will join me? I don’t know, I think my perspective is simply boomer: who efffing cares.

    On a beautiful Spring day, I will sometimes march my cart to the farthest end of the farthest parking lot knowing that I am giving the cart retriever a lovely stroll in the sun.

    Cart retrievers are paid to do a job. I allow them to do it.

    Oh, I have seen that obscenely smug little essay about how the easiest test of a person’s character is what they do with carts.

    I have watched that Cart Narc guy and I always hope he gets caught and beaten by the person he has antagonized.

    Oh… whatever. Judge me. Don’t judge me. It doesn’t matter.

    The carts don’t matter. I probably should have read the comments here before commenting this but I was surprised to see it — because generally speaking, only topics that matter make it here and this one just doesn’t.

    • @redhorsejacket
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      103 days ago

      cart retrievers are paid to do a job. I allow them to do it.

      You intentionally make that job more difficult under some presumption that you’re ACTUALLY doing them a favor?

      Cool.

      • @wowwoweowza
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        33 days ago

        Try talking to one before you judge me.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 days ago

        Dude it’s not making it more difficult. Most people in customer jobs absolutely love to get away from your bullshit for 5 minutes

    • @[email protected]
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      43 days ago

      I think I get where you’re coming from: if the cart wrangler is paid by the hour, what do they care? I’ll offer a counter point.

      Have you worked in retail? You’re assuming the person collecting your wayward cart doesn’t have an a-hole middle manager breathing down their neck asking them why it’s taking so long to bring in the carts. That lovely stroll in the sun could be a write up for someone who is just trying to get by.

      I don’t think you’re off base with your intentions. I’m all for sticking it to faceless corporations, but I wouldn’t want to do that at the potential expense of someone’s livelihood.

      • @wowwoweowza
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        13 days ago

        I personally know two of these cart gatherers and they assure me that these extra steps under the blue sky are the best parts of their day.