I which we revisit the supermarket theme
Employment in Namibia is at approximately 30%. This is very low, despite the fact that most supermarkets employ a bunch of people just to weigh your vegetables and stick price labels on them. They stand there, by the weighing machine, staring into space as the seconds of their precious lives dribble from emptiness into oblivion. They only seem to come alive when someone hands them a bag of oranges or an avocado. It must be a soul sucking job.
In the UK, it is not customary to weigh and price your vegetables before going to the checkout, so taking my veggies to the vegetable drone took a little getting used to. I am on a roll with it now though, and I can even punch the vegetable code in by myself if they are unavailable for whatever reason, e.g. busy sneezing wetly all over the tomatoes, trying to hit people with plastic signs etc. Generally, though, if you try and weigh your own vegetables, you will be treated by the vegetable drone as if you are deliberately trying to get them fired, so I tend not to.
However, Woerman Brock have come up with a novel idea - they have dispensed with the vegetable drone, displaying, instead, a nice colourful board with pretty pictures of vegetables on it, so that you can weight them yourself. I like this.
Some people, surprisingly, are unable to grasp this simple concept. Take the sour-faced woman who was weighing her potatoes while I stood patiently waiting to stick a price sticker on my apple. She walked to the machine with potatoes in hand, and put them on the weighing thing. Then she huffed and puffed and looked around for the vegetable drone to come and punch the numbers in, because my god what else are peons for? I expect she’d just had a manicure or something. Or didn’t want to pick up any nasty germs from the clicky buttons.
While waiting impatiently, she inspected the potatoes in the bag and took one out because it had a scratch on it. She then left the potatoes on the machine and went to select a scratch-free potato. Then she got upset with me because I took the bloody potatoes off the machine while she was meandering around, and priced my apple. Myself.
July 27th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
I just about lost it at the “busy sneezing wetly all over the tomatoes.” LOL.
So strange how different places have different menial jobs…in Cuba, there was a statue of John Lenon sitting on a park bench and if you wanted to take a picture with it, you had to wait while the park employee appeared from behind the bushes (seriously, out of NOWHERE!) and then ceremoniously put the wire-rimmed glasses on John. And then, of course, you had to tip him.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Oh dear. This reminds me of the first time I had to put petrol in my car. Myself. And being quite disappointed that it was so ridiculously easy to do (before leaving the petrol cap on the roof and driving off…)
July 28th, 2007 at 3:54 am
Just surfing through blogsphere and found your interesting site. Here in NZ we have people doing the same thing but not in fruit and vege - in the coffee grinding space with the rest of bulk foods…
Take care - would be cool to see your bike…
Pete
July 30th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
LCG - you have no idea. I’ve not felt quite the same about the fruit in Chequers after that little incident, I can tell you. I like the sound of the cuban guy with John Lennon’s glasses. Brilliant.
The Good Woman - I know. I know I’m going to end up being embarassed in some way when it comes to that. But having it all done for you while you sit in the drivers’ seat is just so convenient…
Peter - welcome! You have people to grind your coffee for you? How civilised! I will try and post another pic of my bike.
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:09 am
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