Quick story from my retail job! *I am only posting this here so if you see it elsewhere, that is NOT me!!*
I had a customer come in today the tried coming at me (verbally, of course) about one of the policies we have at this time thanks to the current situation.
Specifically the fact that we're not allowed to touch any bags or boxes that come into the store. Her response to my request that she remove the items from the bag (asked politely)- she was quite freakin' sarcastic, might I add- was "Oh, but your allowed to wear /those/ gloves and use them for every customer."
My response? (Yes. With a single eyebrow raise because, bish, do you think i get paid enough for people to rail on me? They already moved me from the department I was scheduled in to the service desk and that /alone/ makes me wish for the sweet release of death.)
"You see this 1 liter container of handsanitizer? And remember the fact that i told you that you had to wait before coming up when you started coming over? Not only do I sanitize my /entire/ station before the next customer, I use the strongest handsanitizer corporate can afford on these gloves between /every/ transaction. That's why I have a liter on my side and you have a 16 ounce container on your side. That [16 oz] bottle will last a week, possibly two, easily. This [1 liter] bottle will be lucky to see Friday. So yeah, we have to wear these gloves... *pauses and switches from polite to confused innocence with an added head tilt* Or would you prefer we kill the planet faster...?"
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What I'm trying to say here is, retail work normally isn't fun; but this pandemic? Holy snickerdoodles, do I not care to hear all of these complaints. Like, it isn't insanely difficult to do something to help keep the numbers down. But that's just my opinion, I suppose!