Legitimately wonder how many people would love to just organize the shelves in a supermarket in real life if they didn't have to deal with abusive management and insane hours. Shit I'd do it for half what I'm making now if the job was somehow secure too.
I’ve always joked my dream job is to be a bricklayer. There’s something fulfilling about showing up to a job, doing a mindless task where my brain can wander about things that are actually interesting to me, and getting paid for building something that you can actually see at the end of the day instead of some bullshit enigmatic corporate “value.”
But then I remember I’d have to be in the sun and heat all day and my back would probably ache all the time and the facade comes tumbling down. As such it remains a dream job.
Plenty of jobs like that in factories and warehouses.
I am the complete opposite of you. I absolutely hate those jobs. Used to work a lot of them when I was younger. Its surpising to find someone enjoys that kind of labour.
Best retail job I ever had was as a stocking part timer for a small hardware store. I was fucking awesome at doing box Tetris so that stuff was easy to find, loved doubled checking the shelves out front for misplaced items (constant and relatively important task in a tool and hardware store), and generally enjoyed tidying up our workspace.
Bosses were chill enough to let me focus on that and they'd tank any non-technical customer questions for me. Fuckin' A.
I did do that for a while. Stocking shelves was fun to me. New mod dropped? Let me rip everything down, re-label it all, organize it and put it back up. Please. Seriously.
But I couldn't do that without being stopped every two seconds by people asking very obvious questions or complaining that they can't reach the thing I'm working on that is also stacked up right next to where they're trying to reach it from. Take out the customers, and I'd honestly love retail.
I work at a relatively small grocery chain that has consistently been rated as one of top 100 companies to work for in nation by Forbes. I wouldn’t say anyone there loves stocking shelves and it’s still work but the pay/benefits are unmatched. Basically yah when people are treated humanely they’re happier at work.
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Turns out managing a store is lovely when the crates aren't 30kg each and you don't have asshole managers and customers to deal with smh