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I have thought about this almost every time I have visited other countries (usually in Asia). Many times there are a number of employees standing around “doing
by janalsncm 3y ago
I have thought about this almost every time I have visited other countries (usually in Asia). Many times there are a number of employees standing around “doing nothing”. In America that would be considered fat to be trimmed. But the number of times I have walked around a big box store in the US trying to find someone who works there makes me feel that the American model actually cheapens the experience and having redundant employees allows the store to adapt to varying traffic flows. Americans seem to be used to this hollowing out but I don’t like it. Stores should not be vending machines.
Anyways, I would really like to see a breakdown of costs between an American restaurant and various foreign ones. I suspect floor space cost is a big part of the difference.
- b112 3y agoThis is a new thing, too. Even 20 years ago, it wasn't so bad.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoI'm convinced that a lot of push to return to office was from rich people who were mad as fk that they took had to wait for stuff due to worker shortages.
- hcks 3y ago[flagged]
- jaipilot747 3y agoDon't think GP equated employees to lower class servants in their comment?
- anigbrowl 3y agoNot sure why you're viewing this as a class issue. If you work at the supermarket and can't find anyone to help with a purchase at the hardware store after work (or vice versa), you're suffering inconvenience despite being in the same class. Meanwhile, the people who are working there stocking/ cleaning/ etc are suffering constant interruptions by frustrated customers who can't find what they're looking for. On paper, their productivity looks poor because it takes them longer to perform any given task while the store is open and this is probably offered as an excuse to limit wage increases or promotions, since one can hardly write up a service ticket for every spontaneous customer inquiry.
- laratied 3y ago"I flipped a coin once in Japan and it landed heads. I can't understand why the coin always lands on heads in Japan. It is those greedy Americans that have to have coins with head and tails".
- janalsncm 3y agoSure, but what am I to make of a coin that lands heads in China, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore (the latter of which has a higher GDP/person than the US)? Maybe we should stop trying to fool ourselves into thinking that tails is a necessary evil and understand that it’s just an evil.