please wear your masks
Melzombie
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I currently work part time at a well-known, healthy supermarket alongside a day job that has been affected by COVID (my salary has been reduced, but not my job duties). I need this part time job to add to my salary. My store is considered a high volume store in an affluent suburb. These are the situations that have happened at my store since the pandemic. I wish I were making these up:
1) an employee got spit on by an anti-masker after calling him a "Liberal F*G" (without even knowing his political leaning)
2.) a guy was calling up multiple times a day to harass our customer service managers calling them "communists" for having a mask policy
3.) people wear a mask to get past the person at the door, put take it off to taunt other mask-wearers and workers. They even yell it out loud to cause attention
4.) we have women come in and throw around the fact that their husbands are lawyers and they are being discriminated against because they have a "medical condition"
5.) We had a guy come in and say that COVID is fake and refused to wear a mask, even though we provide them
6.) A middle-aged came came in and forced himself in without a mask and when the store manager confronted him, he pulled out his phone to film him while calling him "a communist." His wife later called up screaming at the customer service manager. The police were called...police came and did NOTHING. They let him come in a shop maskless even with the stunt he pulled.
It's a like a battlefield everyday.
You have no idea what essential workers are dealing with. This pandemic has brought out the worst in people and before you say “just quit and find another job.” Believe me, in trying. I wish it were that easy.
Large corporations do NOT care. They are only worried about lawsuits with all this.
Please be kind to grocery store/essential workers and wear your mask even if you think they don't work.
I'm mentally about to break. Thank you for listening.
1) an employee got spit on by an anti-masker after calling him a "Liberal F*G" (without even knowing his political leaning)
2.) a guy was calling up multiple times a day to harass our customer service managers calling them "communists" for having a mask policy
3.) people wear a mask to get past the person at the door, put take it off to taunt other mask-wearers and workers. They even yell it out loud to cause attention
4.) we have women come in and throw around the fact that their husbands are lawyers and they are being discriminated against because they have a "medical condition"
5.) We had a guy come in and say that COVID is fake and refused to wear a mask, even though we provide them
6.) A middle-aged came came in and forced himself in without a mask and when the store manager confronted him, he pulled out his phone to film him while calling him "a communist." His wife later called up screaming at the customer service manager. The police were called...police came and did NOTHING. They let him come in a shop maskless even with the stunt he pulled.
It's a like a battlefield everyday.
You have no idea what essential workers are dealing with. This pandemic has brought out the worst in people and before you say “just quit and find another job.” Believe me, in trying. I wish it were that easy.
Large corporations do NOT care. They are only worried about lawsuits with all this.
Please be kind to grocery store/essential workers and wear your mask even if you think they don't work.
I'm mentally about to break. Thank you for listening.
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Wear your mask. I've heard many people say, "If you are scared just stay home". Well....if you are scared to wear your mask, just stay home. The lack of empathy for others is astounding.
Melz, Nick,
This hugely sucks, guys. I'm very sorry to hear about the creeps you have to deal with. People like that are why I sometimes feel hugely misanthropic. On the other hand, people like you give me much needed reassurance that there are good people in the world. Thank you!
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-EV 8/14/93
I’m sorry you’re dealing with the dregs. Happens here too - semi-affluent area of LA. Some folks can be such dicks - so much for being in this clusterfuck together. People will pull whatever card they can, and fuck anyone who’s in their way.
I don’t blame you at all for venting. You can always scream here if it helps.
I'm sorry you & others have to deal with this bs.
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So very very very sorry to hear you are having to put up with this. What state are you in if you don't mind me asking? Only assuming there is a mask mandate the cops would have done something ( I guess one would wish )
As someone who has to come into an office everyday and deal with the public , I am very lucky I work for a small company that actual cares about its employees and we have zero slack no not wearing a mask.
Also I feel like when I am in a store and see some stupid shit like this I want to say something because I assume the employees are limited to same something. Honestly asking your opinion , do you think that makes it worst or you like it when a customer intervenes.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
-EV 8/14/93
Lately, I'm thinking how is it that some people are born without a brain? Is it a genetic thing or something else? Do they have half a brain maybe? To say that the whole thing in the past year has been mind-boggling is so ironic. Then there's the issue of simply caring about other people who may have health conditions that make them extremely vulnerable. Like I said, it's mind-boggling. Hang in there...sending you and the others good vibes and big, big hugs.
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An Uber passenger refused a mask and coughed on her driver. Then she ripped off his mask.
Subhakar Khadka’s Uber passenger started screaming profanity and racial slurs at him shortly after he picked her and two friends up in San Francisco on Sunday. He had just stopped to let her buy a mask at a gas station, but now she was refusing to wear it.
“F--- the mask,” the woman said.
Then, leaning toward the driver, she ripped off her mask and coughed on him several times.
“And I got corona,” another passenger said, laughing. Then the woman who had coughed grabbed the driver’s phone and tore his mask off his face.
A video of the incident recorded from Khadka’s security camera went viral this week after KPIX reporter Dion Lim tweeted it out, garnering more than 2.3 million views by early Wednesday.
San Francisco police said Tuesday that they are investigating the incident, while both Uber and Lyft said they have banned the rider who stole the driver’s mask, who has yet to be named, from using their apps.
“This behavior is completely unacceptable and goes against our Community Guidelines,” Uber said in a statement Monday.
Violent conflicts over mask policies have become common since governments and companies have mandated face coverings to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. In October, two sisters in Chicago allegedly stabbed a security guard 27 times when he asked them to put on masks before entering a shoe store. Last month, a man in New Orleans fatally shot a police officer who intervened as he fought an employee trying to stop him from entering a basketball game without a mask.
A man refused to mask up at a high school basketball game. Then he killed an officer who intervened, police say.
Khadka, 32, picked up the three passengers seen in the viral video around 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, San Francisco police said. After the women entered his car, he noticed one wasn’t wearing a mask. He asked her to put one on but she said she didn’t have one. Khadka drove to a gas station so her friend, who was wearing a mask, could buy one.
By the time the friend returned, the two other passengers were already taunting Khadka and berating him for picking them up in the first place, according to videos captured by one of the passengers and posted on her Instagram. Fed up with how they were treating him, Khadka told the women that he was ending the ride and asked them to get out of his car.
“You can get out. Please. I don’t want to drive you. Please get out,” he said, according to the passenger’s videos. “I’m confirming it the last time. I’m going home, you are free to get out of my car.”
But the passengers refused to get out and the altercation escalated. The woman sitting behind Khadka reached over him, grabbed his phone out of his hand and ripped off his mask, breaking one of the ear loops.
“You don’t touch my property,” he said, according to his surveillance video.
You were going to kick us out in the middle of nowhere,” she said. “Are you stupid?”
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Police said that when the women finally exited his car, one of them “reached into an open window and sprayed what is believed to be pepper spray into the vehicle and toward the driver.” Then they fled.
Khadka told KPIX that the spray was so suffocating that he had to get out of his car. The spray lingered and left a blue residue in his car. After several pleas for help, Uber gave Khadka $120 to get his car thoroughly cleaned, according to messages posted by KPIX.
Khadka, who immigrated to the United States from Nepal eight years ago and sends money back to his family, said in an interview with KPIX that he didn’t deserve to be treated that way.
“I never said anything bad to them, I never cursed, I was not raised that way. I don’t hit people, I am not raised that way, so they were not getting out of my car,” he said.
He added that he thinks the passengers were harassing him because he’s South Asian.
“If I was another complexion, I would have not gotten that treatment from them,” he said. “The moment I opened my mouth to speak, they realized I’m [not] one of them, so it’s easy for them to intimidate me.”
On Instagram posts apparently made by the passenger who coughed on Khadka, the woman accused him of trying to force them to exit on the freeway. She added that his “plan was to go viral from the beginning instead of just taking us to our destination,” she wrote in her Instagram stories Tuesday.
“It’s always two sides to the story and [there] was a reason why he only cropped the video to 40 seconds and sent it to the news,” she added. “He never wanted to show y’all what he did that [led] up to that.”
In a live stream, which was recorded and posted on Twitter, the woman also admitted to assaulting him.
“All I did was smack — take his mask off and cough a little bit, but I don’t even have corona,” she said, before later conceding that her actions were “disrespectful” and that “I was wrong for that” for taking off his mask. “But it could have been avoided.”
“That’s why I take Lyft!” she added.
Lyft officials responded to a tweet of the live stream saying that even though the incident didn’t involve their company, it was “unacceptable treatment of the driver” so they would “permanently remove the rider from the Lyft community.”
In response to the video and the minimal funding Khadka received from Uber to cover cleaning and lost wages, Cyan Banister, a venture capitalist who was an early Uber investor, started a GoFundMe with a goal of raising $20,000. By Wednesday morning, the page had raised more than $29,000. Banister also pledged to match the $20,000 to assist with legal fees.
“He shared his video simply because he wanted justice. He didn’t expect any of us to step forward, but we did,” Banister wrote after speaking with Khadka. “No person should have to go on the news and raise awareness this way to get justice but sometimes we have to be loud and we have to use our voices and influence to stick up for others around us.”
Uber driver Subhakar Khadka coughed on by a passenger in viral video - The Washington Post
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If that’s the way of thinking, let’s ALL be assholes! We’re all stressed out anyway.
As for saying anything to someone about not wearing a mask? No games from me; I just keep the fuck away from them. I neither need nor want to incur the wrath of the irrational...at least not face-to-face.
-EV 8/14/93
That poor guy.
I don’t like assholes. I generally won’t make excuses for them.
Not too difficult to get, right?
God people like the OP is talking about piss me off. We're just trying to get through (speaking for myself, anyway) to the point where we've all had the opportunity to be vaccinated and these people are endangering us out of displaced anger and spite. And not an ounce of compassion for the people who spend their full days coming in contact with the public. You want to scream that restaurants should be open and those rights supersede trying to combat this, fine. But to openly risk exposure to provide a point and to be so (willfully, in my opinion) ignorant is just fucked up and these are not good people.
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