Should I let them live or should I put them in the bag?!
Answers: The customers want me to put the lobsters in the bag and staple it shut so they can take them home and eat them?
If you don't feel comfortable doing that, then you're better off looking for another job. I know that it can be hurtful to contribute to something that you are against, and if you stay there then you will be forced to forget about that, at least while you are working, but there is nothing you can do if you are paid to sell them for food.
If you are ethically opposed, then don't do it. Just realize that it may cost you your job.
boo hoo.
you should do the job you agreed to do.
Listen - if you oppose selling animals that will be eaten for food, find a new gig.
you dig?
jeez.
put them in the bag if that's what your customers want.
find another job if it hurts your little feelings sniff snifff
You're in the wrong line of work if you oppose killing animals for food.
Life feeds on Life.
Do what you feel you must, but your decision will only harm or help yourself.
As fast as you say no you will not, there is someone else entirely willing to pack those suckers up and get them out of there.
If I were in your situation, I'd apply for a transfer to a different department in the store so that there wouldn't be a serious conflict between my ethics and the requirements of the job. If this weren't possible, I'd look for a new job opportunity. That is just me though.
So.... decide what is most important to you in this situation and then follow your heart.
Do your job or find a new one.
well, its part of your job. if you cant do the job then maybe you should find a new one :) i work in a fast food restraunt, and i have to touch meat all day long. i portion beef and chicken, i also make ham sandwiches, even though i am vegetarian. but it is part of my job, so untill i find a new one, i do it correctly. :)
Yuk, change your job, I couldnt do anything like that.
How can you if youre a veggie?
I don't think you have a choice if you wish to remain employed there.
Find a new job if you are really against it. Maybe a place where lobsters arent going to be boiled alive?
boil em alive!
If you want the money then put them in the bag!!!!
If you can have someone else do it, they call them over and let them handle it. Otherwise there might come a time when you are the only one on the floor and will have to suck it up and bare performing the feat.
They bought the lobsters so they own them, not you. Why don't you keep buying all the lobsters everyday so customers cannot buy and eat them? Then you can keep them and do what you want to.
PS Keep them alive? How? Do you even know what to do? Salinity and temp of water and all that? Do you know what they eat?