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Taki

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Recently backpacked across several countries in Europe. It's been an amazing time. Started buying groceries instead of eating at restaurants to save $. I noticed that all your cashiers are allowed to sit in a chair!

In Europe:


In America:


I was primarily in Central Europe. Is this practice common across the continent?
 
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Buzzman

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OH MY GOD DUDE HOW MANY THREADS ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE ABOUT THIS
 

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They're exactly on the same place during most of their work. Why would anyone on that circumstance not be allowed to use a chair?
 
Rafavert

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Can we get notifications when a specific person creates a thread? These are amusing me.

Portugal here, they usually have chairs.
 
MicH

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They definitely sit here in Denmark. The only exceptions are like gas station and small kiosk clerks/cashiers. They always stand up
 
RC.

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Taki, how many more of these “What’s the deal with Europe” threads do you have left?

But having said that, chairs for cashiers is a great idea.
 
shotopunx

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I worked in many retail jobs and never had a chair when I was on the register. However, all supermarkets here have sitting registers, so I think I was the exception.
 
Sensei

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when i worked retail we were absolutely not allowed to sit in chairs at the cash register. it really sucked standing in that damn jail for 8 hours
 
Keuja

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What's the rationale of not allowing cashier to sit? It sounds like a dumb policy.
 
Daffy Duck

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When I worked in a supermarket and had to do til duty we had chairs to sit on, what a backwards country it must be to make cashiers stand all day.
 
SilentRob

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Man Taki, just write a "TOP 10 INCREDIBLE DIFFERENCES IN EUROPE AND THE US" blog post or make one unifying thread, at this point this just seems like attention seeking.
 
Rand a. Thor

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Of course they are. Even in the equivalent of a deli the cashier is usually sitting down waiting for customers to come in and out.
 
NekoFever

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It's the law here that if most of your duties can be performed sitting down, the employer has to provide a seat. You don't have to use it, but they have to give you the option if practical.

The Workplace (Health and Safety) Regulations 1992 refer to standing. The law says that employers must supply suitable seats if workers are able to perform their duties, or a substantial part of them, sitting down.

No prosecution of an employer under this law has taken place. There have been five improvement notices served on employers. These notices have insisted upon seats for workers. All the employers complied.
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Dan

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No. They're hung upside down from chains and lowered into a vat of acid if they do not process purchases quickly enough.
 
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I'm more interested to learn what's the rational behind forcing your cashiers to stand. Is it some kind of corporate American pseudoscience bullshit like making the room too cold to motivate the workforce? Are they just greedy and want to save a few pennies for chairs? Or are they just sadistically evil and enjoy torturing the working class?
 
SilentRob

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Dan said:
No. They're hung upside down from chains and lowered into a vat of acid if they do not process purchases quickly enough.
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As a European, it seems incredibly inefficient to me to hang people upside down and expect them to work quickly. Thinking about starting a Thread.

"Americans: Are people working upside down with Acid Baths being placed under them everywhere?"
 
Shroki

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The only place I've seen in the US where cashiers can sit down is Aldi.
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I've seen special cases where the cashier is elderly and has a chair put in for them, but yeah, for the most part, it's not common in Canada for cashiers to have a chair either.

I've noticed this bullshit ever since my first job at 17. It was 9 hour days and whether or not it was allowed, we were allotted no breaks. If the owner caught me sitting at any point I'd catch shit (and he'd do shit like spy on you through the holes in the milk freezer). It's one thing for a 17 year old pumping people's gas, but the 70+ year old cashier was working full time without breaks and no chair either. There wasn't even actually a chair in the joint, outside of the managers office. You'd have to be on the curb or a milk crate or something.
 
bane833

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Store owners who treat their employees with respect always let them sit. Sadly that's not the case in every store.
 
Triggerhappytel

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Sitting is standard across the board here in the UK as far as I'm aware. They're often in the same spot for hours at a time so it seems cruel to make them stand.
 
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This is kind of pathetic at this point. Can people have thread making privileges removed here? This is a very good case for it.
 
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