AIBU to not put my trolley away?

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AIBU to not put my trolley away?

In my local, large, Tesco they employee people to do this. They generally have at least one person a day on this in the busy hours. I know this, I visit daily, have knowledge etc. This is fact.

It is a low wage job I expect, but it keeps those who will or can do it for what ever reasons in a job with a wage.

So AIBU to never put my trolley back thinking I'm helping keep them in work.

NB. I never leave it a car park space, just on the path.

Cuntish behaviour of the highest form.

Wow. Ok. Should have chosen chat.

Everyone makes a nice little line of of them on the path for them. I just gave mine to one of collectors just now and he thanked me really nicely. It made me think.

I'm not rude or nasty and I don't drop litter. Nor do I expect everyone to run around after me or would I watch a trolley run into another car (I actually ran after someone's who did that the other the day and pulled it back to safety before it hit some poor persons car).

Are you serious, OP?

How patronising that you think you are doing something so noble by leaving them a trolley to put away . Let's hope someone else doesn't leave a trolley in the wrong place and it rolls into your car and damages it.

Really?

Really??

Really???

Don't be so snobby and lazy. If everyone left their trolley willy nilly in the car park, the employee wouldn't be able to round them all up, resulting in hunt the trolley. Our Aldis have the £1coin trollies, bet you'd soon take it back if you thought you'd lose a quid

He thanked you for giving it to him today, as he's noticed you're normally a lazy cunt-sack who leaves it in the path.

YABU DS3 has two scars from being hit by a left trolley that rolled and knocked him over when he was 18 months.

Abandoned trolleys are a serious pet peeve of mine. I have always wondered why someone would leave them on a path (often 10 bloody steps away from a trolley shelter). Now I know....you are providing a service to human kind.

Jesus wept.

OK. The person who was collecting the trollies walked past you, so you gave your trolly to him to add to his existing 'train' of trollies? That's OK. Leaving it all by itself on a path is not.

You would still have been unreasonable in Chat.

Glad you aren't a litter bug though.

I had this conversation in the pub yesterday. Dh was going up for the next round and I suggested he took our empties back with him (I always do, just seems polite/friendly) but he said he doesn't because of keeping people in work. I'm still not sure about that one TBH, but the trolleys are dangerous so need to be returned safely.

Even in chat I'd still think you are being lazy and snobbish

you may not watch it if if happens in front of you, but you have no control over what happens with your trolley after you have left, do you?

So that trolley that you leave on a path may be blown into a car, causing damage. Or it may make someone struggle to get past.

But you'll be gone. so you won't know.

For the minute it takes to put it back properly, it's not worth it.

No he thanked me because I talk to him often. As I said I go in every day, if not once, twice for various reasons.

But I'm impressed with the vitriol. No not a troll, check it out.

But you all seem to have missed the point.

If I didn't do that, would there be a job for those people doing that?

And don't compare it to if I didn't litter would we need rubbish collectors, that's ridiculous.

I'm considerate and polite and generally a lovely person.

I would never leave one where it had a chance to bang into something, roll or impeded a space.

I don't think fetching the trolleys in is a job in it's own right. I think the trolley person has a bajillion other jobs to do as well.

You do sound lovely though OP, it has to be said.

Sorry, I'm in rant mode now.

Older people use the paths you are dumping trolleys on, they really don't need or want an obstacle course on their way to & from the supermarket. Add to that parents with a pram, maybe with a toddler in tow.

Gusty weather renders a stray trolley mobile, bashing into people that may not be able to swiftly move out of the way. Also damaging cars.

The trolley parks are there for a reason, why, why why would you not use them?

Yes, there would be a job. They would be collecting the trolleys from the trolley points.

They would also continue to collect them from around the car park because you will never get everyone to take a moment to see what can happen to a trolley left in the middle of a path/parking spot and what damage can be caused.

The people who collect the trolleys at my local supermarket also do cleaning. and stacking.

So they'd just get on with that.

Yes, YABU, you're leaving it where it's still causing an obstruction. Put it away and stop making up excuses for being lazy.

Really?

How can you guarantee that a trolley left on a path won't be blown by a massive gust of wind? Or block a wheelchair?

It's part of their job, they also stock shelves, clean etc.

As already mentioned, the "job" is to take them from outlying trolley refuges back the place just by the shop door, so it would still exist without your laziness. You aren't providing any more employment, nor would you cruelly cast someone onto the scrapheap by putting the trolley in a trolley bay, as you well know.

I have a cleaner but I still don't make a mess knowing that someone else is going to clean it up.

If you take your trolley back to the trolley park of course they are going to still have a job.

Luckily it's not a job in it's own right as most people put them away unlike the OP.