re: At a grocery store, do you expect an employee to be able to read?

Is it wrong that I expect every non handicapped person over the age of 18 in America to be literate?

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Grocery stores employ a lot of special needs folks, and should be commended for doing so.

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That was my first thought as well. I know the Albertsons off airline and old Hammond does this. They have a guy there who is special needs that has been working there forever.

Nice guy and I commend them for doing that and him for working.

It just goes to show you how messed up our welfare system is. We prop people up so they can sit around all day, smoke weed and make babies. Yet, here is a challenged person, who if he wanted, could actually have a damn good reason to get full assistance. However, he works his butt off every day while we let idiots who have no reason to get assistance, have a full ride for their whole life. All they do is produce more welfare babies and drain our system and they don't try to better themselves. But, somehow, they're the victim and the guy with special needs isn't.

Do you expect customers to be able to read?

I expect everyone over the age of 8 to be able to read

I expect every person over six to be able to read. If not someone failed them.

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here is a challenged person, who if he wanted, could actually have a damn good reason to get full assistance. However, he works his butt off every day while we let idiots who have no reason to get assistance, have a full ride for their whole life.

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Hell, one almost beat Alabama last weekend.

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I find it great that he is working and not mooching the system

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This, but I expect all adults with room temperature IQs to be able to read.

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Grocery stores employ a lot of special needs folks,

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Great, long as they pay at same scale as the non-specials (everybody else) get paid.

I like to bring my own reusable bags and use them when checking out. Mostly because I hate all the throw away plastic bags, the clutter at home, the trash on the streets, and the impact on the environment. So I do my one little thing to lessen it by a bit.

Anyway, the store I mostly shop at hires special needs check out baggers and sadly my bags truly confuse and stress many of them. They don’t understand “put the bulky heavy stuff on the bottom and the lighter stuff on top of that” concept, and usually try to revert to the plastic bags during mid-bagging process.

If I stop them and either remind to fill my bags, use no plastic, or try to explain nicely how or why, that often stresses them more and then I feel like a big meanie - because these are hard working, typically sweet people and I don’t want to scare or hurt their feelings.

But I don’t want the darned plastic bags! So I guess I’m a meanie.