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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by talldatethrow on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:48PM (#37397534)
Idk if you've been to a Walmart or an oil change place.. but they get people to work pretty hard and efficiently for low wages. That's basically their secret sauce. My Walmart appears to be staffed by zombies, yet for the most part the store functions pretty well day in a day out, 365 days a year.
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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by micromacrofoot on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:54PM (#37397608)
Yes but they also get people who will just do the bare minimum and make everyone around them pick up the slack until someone takes the effort to fire them. There's essentially an entire category of people who do this.
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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by ahoka on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @05:47PM (#37398214)
They get paid the bare minumum and do the bare minimum in exchange. I don’t see a problem here. What do you do BTW? I would bet that not assembling cabinets.
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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by Qwertious on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @04:43AM (#37402715)
The problem is that they put the whole store behind, then Walmart blames everyone for the store being behind and pressures them accordingly. Which is Walmart's fault, of course, but Walmart might as well be a force of nature as far as its workers are concerned; they can't change Walmart.
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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by micromacrofoot on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:51PM (#37408547)
They're actually dead weight that the entire organization carries around, I honestly think in some cases they'd be better off being paid to not come to work.

What I do isn't really relevant unless you're trying to make some personal slight.

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