• Flying Squid
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    411 months ago

    Keeping demeaning, low-paying jobs for the sake of those jobs existing so someone desperate can take them is peak late-stage capitalism.

    • Possibly linux
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      111 months ago

      Look the average age of those jobs. Its basically all kids who are out of school for the summer or holidays

      • Flying Squid
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        111 months ago

        So no one puts carts away the rest of the time?

    • @wabafee
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      11 months ago

      Maybe? not sure we’re even that stage yet in Philippines. Is it really demeaning? Maybe that is in your view. I think the people manning those probably don’t think so.

      • Flying Squid
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        211 months ago

        The people manning those would probably prefer a less humiliating job for better pay.

        • @finkrat
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          111 months ago

          What’s humiliating about being a cart manager? It’s a need and most folks generally appreciate it. My buddy was one for a while and he was able to maintain his physical fitness while feeling like he was able to genuinely help others, it was really only the poor pay that was a problem.

          • Flying Squid
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            111 months ago

            I just told you what’s humiliating about it- Being forced to work in all kinds of weather doing something only because people are too rude to do it themselves. I’m glad your buddy didn’t find ingratiating himself to people who are richer and more successful than him humiliating, but in general, most people would. Maybe he should look into becoming a butler.

            • @finkrat
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              111 months ago

              Are you too proud to handle customers or something?

              • Flying Squid
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                111 months ago

                “Handle customers” and “clean up after lazy, entitled customers” are two very different things.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    011 months ago

                    Yes always. Handling customers is doing things like helping them with their purchases. Not cleaning up their messes after they’re already gone.

        • @wabafee
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          11 months ago

          Better pay yes everyone prefers that, as for the job itself is humiliating not sure about that. Maybe it’s a cultural thing that I’m not getting. If the job pays you to grab carts and put it in their place and pays fair enough then what is humiliating for that? Let’s imagine taste testers for dog food is that job humiliating if it pays well? What would be humiliating is if the job like putting carts to their right place requires you to be a college graduate and they pay low. Maybe that is what your referring.

          • Flying Squid
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            211 months ago

            Yes. Being out in any weather taking care of something because other people are too lazy to do so is humiliating. I have no idea why you think it isn’t.

            And are they really getting paid fairly? If I looked up the pay of someone who returns carts, would it be a comparable wage to someone sitting in an office all day despite it being a much more physically demanding job?

            Because otherwise, I think you and I have very different definitions of “fairly.”