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AIBU to not put my trolley away?

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CheeseandPickledOnion · 10/08/2015 19:01

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.

OP posts:
AliceInUnderpants · 10/08/2015 20:35

Ah well, if he's got special needs, why he should be grateful you keep him in a job, eh OP?

Hmm
Sparklingbrook · 10/08/2015 20:35

Pushing that long line of trollies is really difficult and hard work out there in all weathers too. I hope he's OK if he has health problems. They should find him something else to do.

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CheeseandPickledOnion · 10/08/2015 20:36

So? AS me?

I clearly posted a dickhead opinion worded badly.

I've taken on board what everyone said.

Don't troll me though. I'm not that.

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sleeponeday · 10/08/2015 20:38

They don't employ people just to collect trolleys, according to a friend who works in Tesco. It is instead a much-hated adhoc chore all cashiers have to do now and then. In all weathers, too. Snow or rain or freezing cold, out they have to go.

They don't employ more people. They just make the existing do it when the shop isn't busy, or the trolleys are running low. So you are actually lengthening queues in the shop, or ruining an otherwise quiet moment for a cashier.

And even if it did create work... keen to bump up the cost of everyone's shop, then? By creating a minimum wage role like that, you aren't exactly developing the economy.

I always look down on people who leave trolleys lying around. It's like any other form of rudeness to those in the service industry, to my mind. Lacking class. Though I appreciate your thinking in this instance was actually not intended that way, in fact quite the opposite, I'm afraid a lot of other people are just lazy, selfish arses.

HemanOrSheRa · 10/08/2015 20:38

Good grief! I came onto this thread to say it won't end well. I see it's half way to hell in a handbasket already! Grin

Anyway, I rarely lose my rag these days. I can't be arsed. But one thing that will get my dander up is driving around a car park looking for a space, thinking you've found a space, only to find a stray trolley parked in it instead.

sleeponeday · 10/08/2015 20:39

Sorry you're getting so hammered, though. AIBU can be as classless as some trolley-leavers, I know. Ironic, hey.

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CheeseandPickledOnion · 10/08/2015 20:40

Where did I say he was SN? Or should be grateful?

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SylvanianCaracal · 10/08/2015 20:42

I put it away if I'm on my own. If I have small kids with me and it's a total faff, I do leave it (in as sensible place as I can manage) as I think if you are dealing with that (or having a disability, sore back, or any other reason why it's difficult to take it back) then it's reasonable for someone working there to help you.

At Asda the man often comes up to me while I'm unpacking into the car and helpfully takes the trolley once I've finished. He seems to think it's his job and has no problem with it so I'm happy to accept that help.

Sparklingbrook · 10/08/2015 20:43

I feel a bit sorry for him now.

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CheeseandPickledOnion · 10/08/2015 20:44

Thank Sleep. I really can say in this case, it his role.

I was really intending this to go in another direction.

But admit I appear to be a selfish arse.

Lucky I'm not a 1D fan.

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ArendelleQueen · 10/08/2015 20:45

Nobody "is" special needs. Some people have special needs.

usualsuspect333 · 10/08/2015 20:45

My DD has had to go on trolley collecting duties, believe me she isn't grateful about collecting abandoned trolleys.

BuggersMuddle · 10/08/2015 20:46

Of course YABU FFS. Trolleys roll. Although I'm not hugely surprised, given I've seen an exit (at my parents' local supermarket) blocked by people who continued to add to the line at their nearest trolley bay, rather than realise it's y'know, full (this was at Xmas, so while the store should've been on top of it, a bit of give and take is probably in order).

As for the trolley thing being an actual role, of course it is. Large supermarkets have big carparks and multiple trolley bays. It's quite understandable that they need people to empty those. I don't know for sure, but presumably that would also be an opportunity to deal with any obviously broken trolleys.

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CheeseandPickledOnion · 10/08/2015 20:49

How I should have started the thread:

There is a eldery man employeed at my local Tesco who cannot manage much more than trolleys and bags, but he loves it. He loves the interaction with people, loves to stop and chat.

The other day I saw the Manager come out in the baking heat and check he had enough water and didn't need a break.

It really touched me.

But I'm still a cunt for not putting my trolley back in the shelter though I did not imped anyone else's day or space, or path or...

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ArendelleQueen · 10/08/2015 20:49

All my local supermarkets lock their trolleys, so you need a pound or a trolley coin to get one. This seems to drastically reduce the lazy arses leaving them rolling around.

ArendelleQueen · 10/08/2015 20:50

I don't think you're a cunt but I do think you're being unreasonable.

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CheeseandPickledOnion · 10/08/2015 20:50

*elderly

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EygptianSnow · 10/08/2015 20:52

No op you are wrong, your trolley can roll into someone's car or take a parking spot. What's the big deal putting it back? This is why they make you put a pound in to get one which is annoying as fuck when you don't have one

BuggerLumpsAnnoyed · 10/08/2015 20:53

I can't think of a single place you could leave a trolley in a supermarket car park, other than the bay, that's not in someone else's way.

gamerchick · 10/08/2015 20:53

You think that's their only job? Hmm trust me it isn't!

Take it back to a bay instead of being a lazy git.

Sparklingbrook · 10/08/2015 20:54

Elderly man with health problems out in the baking heat recovering abandoned trolleys.Sad
And yet he loves it?

Andrewofgg · 10/08/2015 20:57

I always look down on people who leave trolleys lying around.

Really? You look round the car-park at the super-market for trolleys in the wrong place so you can look down on those who left them there?

Speaking for myself, I park my car, go to the front of the shop, get a trolley, do my shopping, load it in the car, put the trolley back, reclaim my pound coin, and then if I feel like it and have no frozen food I indulge in a capuccino at Costa - but I don't indulge in a look-down at the other customers. Life's too short.

Andrewofgg · 10/08/2015 20:58

Egyptiansnow Keep a pound coin in the car. Put it back afterwards.

ThisIsClemFandango · 10/08/2015 21:01

Arendelle
I was in sainsburys and needed a quid for the trolley so I asked the customer services desk if they could change some money for me and they gave me a keyring (free) with a pound size coin on it, so I've always got one now as its on my keys Smile don't know if they still do them but you could ask

ThisIsClemFandango · 10/08/2015 21:01

Sorry that was supposed to be to egyptian!