At my local Woolworth’s supermarket, they don’t have a hiring policy which includes an aptitude test. Basically, their test is “are you alive?” and if there’s no answer, they hire them. It’s the only way I can explain it.
We take our own recyclable canvas bags to the supermarket and have 7 of them, 6 neatly folded inside one so they’re all easy to grab out and quickly use.
The checkout kid tonight started off by noting there were 7 bags and we had ~20 items – then put as much into the first bag as he could. We had to stop him and then repack, as he stuffed 8kgs of groceries into a single bag. We then re-explained we had many bags and he should use as many as he wanted because we wanted only a few things in each bag.
Less than a minute later, after stuffing 2kgs of potatoes, plus oranges, apples, carrots, capsicum, etc into a bag – he looked at the bread and then asked “do you want that in another bag?”
Um. He’s still got four bags available, yet he was considering stuffing the bread in with heavy fruit and vegetables.
Dear Woolworths management – please include some sort of aptitude testing immediately…*sigh*
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