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>>>>>>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:13:22 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>"Useful Info" > wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>> Here's an interesting account about working as this sto
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/ws.html
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>It would be nice to know the location. The store here is staffed by
>>>>>>>>friendly, smart and helpful people, including the manager, who I've
>>>>>>>>dealt
>>>>>>>>with numerous times.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a friend who *only* works as a seasonal employee for WS and
>>>>>>> she
>>>>>>> loves it there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This makes one wonder if the OP is just an impossible employee who
>>>>>> looks for trouble. The "can't lift heavy stuff" thing - why even
>>>>>> apply for work at a store that NEEDS employees to lift heavy boxes of
>>>>>> dishes? Half the stuff in the store is made of metal or china! Go
>>>>>> work at a Hallmark store!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No employer NEEDS employees to lift heavy things ... employers NEED to
>>>>> provide safe means to lift heavy things so that employees don't injure
>>>>> themselves. Sacrificing one's health is never needed to be employed.
>>>>
>>>> This is true. But, tell me: What "means" would you devise for lifting a
>>>> 14" x 14" x 14" box containing a dozen heavy dinner plates from a
>>>> waist-high shelf in the stock room to a waist level counter in the
>>>> store? I mean, at some point, the containers can't get any smaller.
>>>> What if a customer wants to buy that box of plates? Is the employee
>>>> supposed to open the box in the back room and bring the plates out two
>>>> at a time?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Unless those plates weight in excess of 4 pounds each I suspect they
>>> aren't all that heavy. And if they do ... then the employer shall do
>>> whatever it takes to prevent the injury of employees and/or customers.
>>> It isn't rocket science.
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>>
>> Are you saying that if the box of a dozen plates weighs more than 48 lbs,
>> we run into rules from OSHA or something?
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> I don't know the exact OSHA limitations without looking them up, but it is
> only common sense that an employer doesn't need the headaches and law
> suits involved with injured employees or customers caused by lifting too
> much. Mostly I am saying ... Who in their right mind (or left one for that
> matter) is going to want to deal with 4 pound dinner plates anyway?
> Obviously the discussion ought to be about what are reasonable
> expectations for a safe working environment.
>

OK - so the number was arbitrary. Just as I thought. The point is that there
is always someone who will say something's too heavy, while another person
has no difficulty with it at all. The OP said "no heavy lifting", which is
also arbitrary.