Not that I've been pondering this that much, but... one point of debate is which job at Safeway would be better (meaning not suck as much) as other jobs. For instance, there's Stock Boy. They go around and fill aisles with food or put new items of food in the aisles. It would also (I'm guessing) involve going to the stockroom and meeting up with the delivery trucks to move the food items. The plus to this is that for the most part, you don't have to deal with the public or even maybe seen by the public as working there. On the other hand, you have to do a lot of heavy lifting and who wants to do that? Then there's the cashiers. These positions are probably the most visible of the positions and also the one where you get to engage the public the most. On the other hand, you are basically lifting up one item, waving them over some electronic device, and then putting them elsewhere. For hours. Upon hours. Upon hours.

Could it be any more boring? And unlock stocking where you could occasionally slack off or go slowly or people watch, you don't have a choice to do any of those things lest you get yelled out by some woman shopping while dragging her two precious kids along with her.

Then, of course, there are the baggers who I guess also sometimes work as cashiers. Anyways, they go from cashier to cashier helping out whomever needs help bagging a customers aisle. Now I can imagine this might be actually sorta fun because bagging has some element of thinking involved in that you have to figure out how to get which produce in which bag without destroying something. On the other hand, you have to do it quickly lest you delay somebody and if you slack on bagging items, you can throw the whole register aisle out of whack. That's bad. Plus, while it does take some sort of intellectual thought into putting items into a bag, it does not take that much of it.

So, the lesson in all this? Don't work at Safeway.