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Worked as a cashier at kroger for a few months when I was like 16. I remember it being way more stressful than it had any right to be for a job that paid 7 bucks an hour. Their system keeps track of how long each transaction is and divides it by the items scanned to get your speed and if your speed is slow they chew you out. The thing is, those numbers don't tell the whole story.

My shift always happened to line up with the special needs bagger (literally special needs, hired through a special needs program). He bagged VERY slowly, like 1 singular item per 10 seconds) so I'd scan quickly and use up literally all the space and then even start helping bag stuff to free up room to scan the rest of the stuff but I was basically doing the work of 2 people and being judged against people that didn't have that handicap. I actually was quite fast. Anyway, management was always getting on my case and threatening to fire me if I didn't go faster so I quit because fuck that noise for 7 bucks an hour.

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