The last sentence should be a wake up call for American management: “it helps their cashiering metrics”. Yes! People whose feet aren’t killing them because they’ve been forced to stand for hours on end actually do better work. What a f*****g amazing concept. Heads up, American business schools, you sociopathic m***********s! Time to add a class in Humane and Ethical Employee Management.

So they´re supposed to just stand in the same place for the entire shift??? Seriously? That would be torture for me... I´m able to walk for a long while but to just stand on my feet in the same place for hours is the recipe for getting severe lower back pain.

To put things into perspective, a form of torture adopted by the Nazis in their concentration camps was to force people to stand in one spot for hours at a time.

The picture is from Norway, and yes, of course they're allowed to sit. They can also stand up whenever they feel like it, as it is beneficial for your body to change positions every now and then.

See in America you live to work and not work to live I hear people bragging about working 50-90 hours a week or people bragging cause they go to work sick real conversation dude: man I had a bad cold or the flu last week Me: so you went to the hospital or you stayed home and self medicate Dude: no I went to work I'm not no b**ch I'm a man Me: no you stupid cause you put others at risk to make a man who cares so less about you he let you stay a work

I agree that this is horrible. I've also worked places in America where you were not allowed to read while you were on the clock. I got written up for reading a newspaper article while waiting for a delivery. And some cashiering jobs do not allow an actual lunch break; you just have to grab a bite when you can (but you can't sit down to eat). It's horrible!

A few years ago Aldi got into a bit of negative media coverage in Germany, for treating their workers poorly. As far as I am informed they are still not very popular as an employer. By german standards of course

This is terrible... poor people. It's not about laziness, it's about health.

I dont see it as lazy I see it as the manager treating his workers like humans

all cashiers sit down here, that's ridiculus (greece)

I would go back to work as a cashier if I could sit. I can't stand for long periods of time the way I could when I was younger.

Also having retail workers take all sorts of abuse. Make a mess of the store, let your demon child break stuff or yell at the cashier in Europe and you're out before you can blink twice. With a ban to boot

I worked, in the US, in retail several years ago when I fractured one foot and severely sprained the other. I was in a situation where I couldn't afford to take off work for 12 weeks while they healed. My boss would not allow me a stool to sit on until most of the people I worked with weighed in with their dissatisfaction with management and in support of me. I got a stool after standing for nearly 2 weeks on two bum feet. That was about 5 years ago and the employees who are still there, not me, still talk about it as a sore spot with the management.

It makes the work a 100 times more exhausting!!! Horrible and pointless!

Tell me it's not true they have to stand....

i had to quit my job as a cashier because i'm hypermobile and standing in one place for four hours was leaving me with crippling pain in my legs the next day. it was a bad job anyway, we weren't allowed to have water at the register, we always had to "look busy" if we weren't helping someone (idk about you but if i see a cashier wiping down the belt, i assume they're closing and don't want to deal with me).

Aldi or Lidl is German based company

They don't sit???

Lazy? You're telling groceries. Why the hell do you have to stand to do that? All cashiers sit in the UK unless you're in a small shop and your job is till and other things m

For sure the flaggers on road construction need to have a stool they can perch on. It's just terrible to be out there in the Sun and rain and not even be able to perch. Sitting would not impair their flag work at all and it would certainly be easier on their bodies.

I work at a mall in the US, and one day my coworker and I looked across the food court and saw a cashier at another food place sitting down as he worked. We spent a solid minute looking at this guy and thinking how lucky he was that he didn't have to stay on his feet all day... and then he came around to the other side of the counter. He was in a WHEELCHAIR. We were complaining to each other being jealous of someone in a wheelchair.

I can't imagine standing in ONE SPOT for an 8 hour day. I can't stand in one spot for 20 minutes!

Aldi is european, german ist not lady it's healthier

I don't know if it's changed since but, when I was working in a casino, we had a 15 minute break every hour. If there was an important punter who wanted us to stay, we were asked if we minded doing a bit longer at the table and the punter was told that we could only stay a certain amount of time. Shop workers also had the right to sit for 15 minutes per hour. A chair would be behind the counter and we would take turns sitting down. Of course, if it was very busy, we didn't have time to sit.