Is there a job which is NOT needed?

[Jux]

I mean, does anyone know of an actual existing post in any firm, company, organisation, where the employers' believe that they don't need to pay someone to do that work, but it's just nice to have someone there and to pay them for the privilege? That they could sack that person, not fill the vacancy adn there would be no effect on anything except their payroll is a bit less?

Oh yes. These stalls selling plastic handbags, plastic keyrings, fridge magnets, pots of plastic goo, cheap plastic kites that don't fly, plastic dustpans and brushes so cheap and thin they break in the carrier bag on the way home, kinder egg toys - I could go on, and on, and on. So pointless, depressing and wasteful. Useless shit should be banned worldwide from production and sale.

Also whoever it is making plastic bags for bunches of bananas sold in Asda - and then actually putting the bananas into them. So extremely wasteful and utterly pointless.

Ironically, Asda's so-called bags-for-life have been made thinner and thinner and are now effectively back to single-use bags - except they charge 30p for them and the old ones used to be 5p/10p (originally free!) before they were outlawed. Yes, we need to re-use bags, but if people do need to buy another one, it's such a retrograde step to be selling them a single-use one again.

Anybody who plans ahead will go in with one or more of those decent massive super-tough Aldi or Lidl bags - do Asda really prefer to drive people to go to (and then advertise) their competitors to get decent bags for a proper full shop, even if they do still sometimes use Asda again?

Also, plastic utter rubbish on the front of kids' comics/magazines. Who likes it? Apparently not the kids; and it's so flimsy and cheap that it invariably breaks instantly and leaves really sharp edges. Not to mention destroying the cover, however slowly you take the mega-tough tape off.

Not just a waste of plastic, but how much more space is needed in transporting and then displaying them with the bulky plastic tat on the front, than there would be if they were just flat and easily-stacked on top of/behind each other like regular magazines? I'm old enough to remember when they gave away sweets on the front of the Dandy and Beano; those Highland Toffee bars really did put Evo-stik to deep shame!!