[ARC5] AB5S Kung Flu Update, 13 June - source?

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Hue,

It's not just Safeway and not just cornonavirus. There are always a few 
customers who are absolute perfect a**#0**s. The poor cashier has to 
just "take it". However, the customer further back in the queue does NOT 
have to keep quiet about it:) One incident got so bad I hunted down the 
store manager and took him to the cashier and told him he owes her a 
salute and a medal. If I had been the cashier he would now have to fire 
*me*. I have never taken that kind of crap in my life. I really do feel 
for them.

bark less - wag more

On 6/15/20 6:26 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> The checker at Safeway said, "The customers can't see me smile".
> I said, "Yes, but they also can't see if you frown".
> I'm sure they are not cheerful with a certain number of creeps or incompetents.
> I'm sure I have been one at some point. I salute the store staffs now too, among front-line workers.
> 
> Ah so. A kind of oriental reserve, now. Ambiguous veiled expressions, no more handshakes or hugs.
> 
> As long as I'm wasting bandwidth here with an OT post, a short story. When I was living in WA state
> around 1990 something, Safeway employees got an instruction to amp up their "friendliness" by
> some large magnitude. A lot of male customers interpreted that sudden feigned friendliness and
> interest as the female checkers "coming on to them". I confess, single at the time, I kind of took
> it that way too. Well, it didn't last long: the checkers rebelled about the unintended implications of
> the new policy, and Safeway canned it and returned to normal business behavior policy.
> -Hue
> 
>> Masks, what masks, we don't need no filthy stinking masks...
>        I got a nice supply of masks from Amazon and I think I will continue to wear them. Also gloves.
>        I am getting used to faceless people. Maybe, when this is over, if it ever gets over, we will discover that they have atrophied from lack of use and  we don't have faces any more.
> What ever will we do with all those mug shot cameras.
>       Since you are dead I am glad you managed to work up enough ectoplasm to write.
>