Hey this topic is now about strange jobs in the USA.

Next up: What do you call people that fill your gas tanks?

Do you have people that clear your windows in traffic lights?


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in all seriousness though doesnt bagboy and gasfillers as a job show how weak the economy is?

I remember when I was in Africa there would be people doing those jobs (I never went to a grocery store in africa tho so i never encountered the bagboy) and its generally a sign of labour being way too cheap and way too available (correct me if im wrong??).

usa is such a third world country in disguise....!!

THIS IS NOT HOW ECONOMICS WORKS.

the problem isn't that they have to provide jobs its that they want to. the bagboy is a position that gives people the incentive to buy more and increases convenience. conversely, filling up your own gas is more convenient than waiting for an attendant.

if there are jobs for people that can be filled easily, it doesn't make a weak economy. it just means we have jobs for people.

Bagboys will save you a good 10 minutes at checkout, since you don't have to worry about bagging your stuff properly; they sort food into the proper bags so that everything that needs to stay cold stays cold, no raw meat with other things, etc.; and they're almost exclusively high school kids that need a job so that they can pump cash back into the economy buying things like music and DVDs.

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but it also means labour is cheap and there's not a too solid employment rate?

what are you talking about. the existence of a single low level job in american supermarkets/department stores does not prove anything other than that american employers have decided keeping the position is financially beneficial.

it's not like these guys would be doing anything that pays more if they weren't working as bagboys. they'd either be working at mcdonald's or not have a job at all!

do you not understand how labor works or are you just using this as another example to deploy your ceaseless eurocentrism? because you know, europe has low level jobs too (the existence of BAGBOYS is incredibly insignificant in the overall economy and there are plenty of cheap-ass jobs in europe too! if you guys don't have bagboys fine but it is equally likely you have low-level positions that aren't in existence here).

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but it also means labour is cheap and there's not a too solid employment rate?

no?

unskilled labor jobs developed in America because there was an increase in unskilled laborers, but that has nothing to do with the rate of skilled laborers (which fluctuates but is unrelated to the question at hand). the unskilled labor comes from the immigrants and since they also fill unskilled labor jobs that are completely necessary, it's actually beneficial to the economy.

guys, stop fagging up aldi.

well... the equivalent to bagboy stuff here is pretty work inside the stores themselves like cashiers or warehouse. meaning that the high school kids have a bit more critical jobs than there??

we also have the phenomena of people in school working fyi but not working with something as insignificant as bagboying. is what im sayin


all european countries have unskilled labour, and scandinavia has a higher immigration rate per capita than usa so thats not really valid.

im just sayin, bagboy is below unskilled labour/low level job. it's obviously a job that pays way less than a healthy economy would be able to afford to spend on a worker if the salaries were anything close to what they should be.

It doesn't really matter; bagboy positions pay the same as any other low-level position in the store. They usually make the same money as stockboys, warehouse employees, and cashiers - not very much though!

I used to think bagboys was a great american cultural joke or something... then I discovered that it;s real and it's a job that exists.

doesn't rone work as a bag boy

I was a bag boy for around six months before I started working as a cashier (then a bakery and now I'm biding my time til I leave for Basic Training).  Its just basically a low skill job that a lot of high schoolers do, it pays about the same as a high school cashier and such do.

yeah and meat and poultry right?  i was just telling him i preferred save a lot to aldi because SAME CONCEPT but with fruits and vegetables and other shit aldi neglects to stock.  it's good that it's cheap as fuck but honestly i've spent so long shopping at whole foods and trader joe's because i don't really have a budget that i have a difficult time acclimating my tastes to a lot of the shit they sell there.  i think i really only like it for basic stuff like bread and cereal and milk and whatever else.  if i want whatever else people buy at grocery stores like frozen pizza or something, i always feel like i am getting a lesser product when i buy their 79c variant as opposed to whatever $6 option a nicer store would have, but it's really nice that it exists for people living on tight budget constraints!  i'm sure if i was POORSTUDENT and didn't feel like spending six fucking dollars on a frozen pizza i would appreciate a 79c one.

Yeah we have both save-a-lots and pricerites around here. They both have produce and meat and poultry. I use them when I go home for a weekend to visit my parents because I can do cheap grocery shopping for my dorm/apartment (frozen dinners, beef, chicken, milk, ham, cheese, fruit, mac & cheese, etc etc). I know a lot of you complain that places like ALDI don't have much of a selection, which is true, but I can still get weird things and brand-name things like cheese sticks and Hot Pockets and Pizza Rolls and Pop-Tarts along side with their generic counterparts.

The best/cheapest thing I buy is this frozen Banquet (R) Salisbury Steak dinner for 99c (50c if it's on sale!). It is really good! Oh, and cans of Progressive soups (Chicarina is the best!) for 50cents. These are the best ramen alternatives for poor college students.

jesus christ I'm more than a little surprised at how much of GW has such an intimate knowledge of these places. I thought VIDCONS tended to cater to a more wealthy segment of the population!

dude there is no way there's a 79 cent banquet meal. that shit is usually AVERAGE SIZED what the fuck is it really SALISBURY NEWSPAPER.