Complaints About Staff In Supermarket

[MynameisLuca]

Went to a well-known supermarket today, Q's outside to reduce the amount of people going in, when I got in the staff were stacking shelves together, one of stacker walked off and was whistling while he passed me. .. No PPE.. Am I being a snowflake?

[Spicerack]

Yes.

[douglas9401]

Yes

[jno]

possibly. Very few supermarket employees I've seen lately have been wearing masks, and not many shoppers either. If they're doing their jobs stacking shelves you can't expect them to run and hide every time a customer wants to walk past them. Better if the customers try to avoid them, if they really want to.

[Mamyalynne]

You made your decision to go to a place where you knew other people would be.

[brainiac]

At my nearest Tesco yesterday none of the checkout staff were wearing gloves or masks - sitting ducks. I felt really sorry for the friendly young woman who served me, and she just smiled when I was explaining I was shopping for four people hence my fiddling with money.

[Buenchico]

Masks are utterly pointless and can even do more harm than good.

[Spicerack]

Come to think of it, it might have been a robber who stopped me entering the bank this morning.
She had a mask on.

[MynameisLuca]

Is whistling not as contagious as a cough or sneeze?

[Sam1960]

Now if he was whistling this I might have joined in ; ))

[jno]

only if you've got a very slobbery whistle. Coughs and sneezes are more or less uncontrollable, whistling is very tightly controlled.

[piggynose]

Spain being the at the forefront of the virus, have insisted that all supermarket workers wear masks+ gloves. Also all shoppers in most places are sanatized before entering and told to put on disposable gloves.

[Buenchico]

>>> Is whistling not as contagious as a cough or sneeze?

Absolutely not!

A sneeze projects moisture droplets into the air at up to 100 mph.

A cough projects moisture/mucus into the air at up to 50 mph.

Whistling is little different to speaking normally in terms of the speed of the gas expelled and the moisture content within it.

[mushroom25]

how about this, Sam?

[Bobbisox1]

Luca,NOW is NOT the time to be picking holes in supermarket staff, whistling?? Really??

[Ken4155]

Yes, you are being a snowflake. How do you know that the two stackers who were working together were not related and live in the same house? It is possible, you know.

[pixie374]

We had a delivery last night, the first time I have seen someone wearing a mask and gloves. Most are just knocking and running. If you are worried, keep a distance from everyone else, whistling or not.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I will never set foot in Tesco again.
Aldi are providing their check out operatives with protective gloves and screens. Aldi are keeping their shelves stocked therefore discouraging panic buying
The big supermarkets are falling well below these standards.