Things Grocery Employees Wish You’d Never Find Out

3. I worked at a grocery store that couldn’t find any autistic people to hire.

It sounds weird, but the manager was actively looking for autistic people to bag the groceries because of how common it is. He was worried about the optics of not having any disabled grocery baggers and he even had me “spy” on our rival store to see if they also couldn’t find autistic grocery baggers.

When I went to the rival store I saw that every single one of the grocery baggers was autistic. I asked one of the grocery baggers what made him choose this store and he told me how much they pay him. It was way higher than our store could afford, and the rival store owners knew that. They were building a monopoly on autistic people in order to ruin our reputation. Our manager couldn’t compete because his store was much smaller, so instead he decided to pay some of us (including me) extra to pretend to be autistic grocery baggers. Also, I masturbated into a head of lettuce one time and put it back.

4. We touch everything. Everything.

All the cans, bottles, jugs, jars, snacks – everything you see stocked on the shelves has had at least 5 people touch it already. And we don’t wash them. That’s your job. Literally had a dude complain that I picked up his soda to bag it by the neck. Like, this is how I pick up every soda bottle? What do you think happens? They just float up to the shelf magically?