The most useless job ever...

Not only is this job useless, but it's a huge pain in the ass. The job I'm talking about is the grocery bagger who also brings your groceries to your car. I go to the commissary, which is the military supermarket. The baggers' median age is like 87. Seriously, why are little old ladies bringing groceries out to my car? It's always really awkward, and they walk really fucking slow. They work for tips only, so you generally feel like an ass if you don't use their "service". The self checkout lines are always ridiculously crowded, because nobody really wants to use the baggers. It's always fun to be behind the guy with 100+ items at the self checkout. Most often times I will give them a tip for bagging the groceries, and let them know I do not need their help out. Of course, I shop with an infant, and sometimes I get distracted, and it's usually too late, as they'll have the bags being put into their cart. Yes, I went grocery shopping today.

 

the grocery store i go to has this little cute guy who has down syndrome who is a bagger keeps himself busy

 

The supermarkets around my area do the same thing.


They only hire the mentally challenged and I usually walk away wishing I had bagged the items myself because of the mess they make like putting a dozen eggs in the same bag as the canned goods and shit like that


What they should do is hire some autistic kid who pisses and shits in his pants but who’s a genius at itemizing and maximizing the proper number of groceries per bag :2thumbsup:




Hotwater

 

I am glad this extend of politically correct supermarket actions is still absent around here

 

I just laughed coffee out my nose. Thanks!

 

I am guessing these ladies need some thing to do . Some day , if you are lucky you will be 87 . When I read the most useless job , I thought you were talking about the vice prez. Bidden .

 

The mentally challenged kids who do the bagging at the grocery store I shop at are way more competent at it (albeit, sometimes a bit slower) than their coworkers who are not considered mentally challenged. And if you try to take your groceries out on your own, then the poor sackers get bitched at by their supervisors.

 

The grocery stores around here don't allow customers to tip their baggers anymore. They always offer to help me out to the car but I refuse. It is really awkward.

It's usually 17 year old guys that bag groceries here. When I was 16 and worked as a cashier at a grocery store I thought it was so sexist that all the girls were cashiers and the guys were baggers,which meant most of them wasted hours of their shift pretending to gather carts outside while sneaking in cigarettes.

 

I cannot recall a single instance where a bagger helped me take my groceries to the car, or even asked if I wanted them to.

 

I found this post to be quite funny. I was laughing uncontrollably right at the center of this paragraph. I offer no advice to your problem, however and will proceed to take a knee.

 

Well, at least none of you sold advertising for 10 years. Sure, I made a great living at it, but what can I say the job offfered in terms of a contribution to society? I sold... SPACE. By the time I parted ways with my last job in April 2012, I was so mentally burned out from selling that I would have welcomed working as a cashier or a bagger. I loved working with my customers, but if I had to make one more outbound sales call via phone, I swear I'd slit my wrists and write "FUCK!" on the walls in my own blood.

 

most of our stores are self baggersand i have never seen one that works for tips

however i enjoy people and would absolutely pay some old bag to carry my bag...i would also be engaging her in a conversation about how guilty ifeel about letting an old lady help me

old people know they are old and dont mind joking about it

i'm that guy that asks what no one has the nerve to ask...i'm very direct

''sure you can carry my bags lady...but damn..you're like 90 yrs old..i feel like i should be carrying YOU out to the car...are you sure you can handle it''?

 

the cashier person bags the stuff here at most places...if they see youre sick or handicap they will call for a carry-out...but its never an old lady ...they send the young guys for carryout duty

 

They have that here, too. They're calling "Helping Hands."

 

My buddy's dad used to do this in the 80s when unions were strong for about 25 bucks an hour.

That doesn't happen anymore.

 

I never use those self check machines. I figure people need jobs,not machines. Doesn't matter what I do,I guess. Plenty of folks use 'em. Never shopped at a place that offered carry out service.

 

First world housewife problems?

 

We don't have any baggers around here. We have to pay for bags as well, so I bring my own and bag my own.

 

yeah they charge 5 cents a bag here...i just pay because i usually only need one....i shop for a friend though sometimes and theres like a dozen but its not my money so ...

 

I miss the commissary. I seem to remember all the baggers being teenage military brats. I'd always tip when I had the money. I bet the baggers cringe everytime time someone busted out a card to pay. I'd always keep money on me though. You don't have to pay a sales tax at the Commissary. I loved it.