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She's not cleaning because the floors dirty, she's just trying to pass the time, when I worked at a small shop that got fuck all customers, I cleaned that floor so much, I think I stripped the top layer off.
Yep. Working clothing retail on a slow day? Time to fold and refold a lot of shirts just to do something other than stand behind the counter looking dumb.
jokes on you I look dumb no matter where I'm standing.
After a couple of hours you start hoping some shithead kid comes in and messes the store up so you have something to actually do.
Is there really nothing else you can do than that Sisyphean task?
Bring a book or something?
Unfortunately, the work culture here is so ass-backwards that would get you in trouble. The whole "if you have time to lean you have time to clean/ I'm not paying you to stand around" exploitative nonsense. You must look busy and act like you are doing work at every possible second for the boss's pleasure, less they feel they aren't getting a return on their "investment".
It comes from an old school "Protestant work ethic" which has been a pervasive sickness in American culture since its foundations.
American exceptionalism in the wild, folks.
How is it American exceptionalism?
How am I trying to say the US is unique or exceptional? I'm not claiming it is the only country with toxic, cultural workplace traditions nor that our traditions have influenced those of other nations. I'm just giving an answer to a publicly asked question from my perspective, which so happens to be American.
You're free and welcome to do the same if you so wish. No one is stopping you.
Try looking up the term, hotshot.
Take your own advice, "hotshot".
You believe exploiting laborers is a thing Americans invented:
It is some of the most obvious American exceptionalism I've seen lately. Read the definition, hot shot. You naively believe that this "work culture" of pushing workers is something American or something new.
Cool story bro, but I never claimed that it did. I said that as an example of what I was talking about plus the cultural history for why it exists as it does in America, not as a claim that Americans invented it.
Learn to fucking read.
"It comes from"
Nice cherry picking.
Yes, "it comes from" as in "the work culture of [America] comes from", because that's what the previous paragraph in my comment was about.
Again, learn to read.
Is it a strict no-phones policy?
And when the store is dead you actually listen to that bullshit and don't just sneak your phone anyway?
So literally toiling? How utterly depressing.