Dollar General Store between 7:00 am and 8:00 am.

I understand people's concern & fear, but think about something:
In order to transmit a virus, someone has to have it. Someone blowing their nose & coughing doesn't automatically mean they are "spreading coronavirus," any more than every dog bite transmits rabies.
People do have allergies that cause a runny nose, coughing & sneezing.
I don't have any allergies (that I know of) & I'll be walking around in a store & suddenly my nose will run or I'll sneeze. I probably breathed in something my system didn't like. Also, when I walk down the frozen-food aisle, the sudden change in temperature also makes me sneeze.

This morning, the first thing I did when I got up was sneeze - 4 times. And a lot of nose blowing -enough for 10 Coronatests.
 

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win231 said:
I understand people's concern & fear, but think about something:
In order to transmit a virus, someone has to have it. Someone blowing their nose & coughing doesn't automatically mean they are "spreading coronavirus," any more than every dog bite transmits rabies.
People do have allergies that cause a runny nose, coughing & sneezing.
I don't have any allergies (that I know of) & I'll be walking around in a store & suddenly my nose will run or I'll sneeze. I probably breathed in something my system didn't like.
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And when that happens, everyone around runs away screaming, right? :ROFLMAO:
 
Knowing as adults, we know or should know the safety rules, younger kids most likely don't understand the brunt of all this, if she was a young one, or was she older, teen or young adult. " young girl " is a wide description.
 
MickaC said:
Knowing as adults, we know or should know the safety rules, younger kids most likely don't understand the brunt of all this, if she was a young one, or was she older, teen or young adult. " young girl " is a wide description.
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Well, where I'm from, young girl is/was a commonly-used term for early adolescents. Doesn't necessarily mean it has the same meaning everywhere, though.
 
I don’t think the store managers etc are training their new hires and less experienced or poorly educated help. Was in a Sprouts store this am, where the help has often been kind of out of it but I chalked that up to their practice of hiring some mentally challenged persons. At checkout I saw one clerk pull down her mask in between people at her register to eat and drink some stuff in front of them, and customers were avoiding another register where the clerk had the mask sitting under her nose. And a couple other things happened that made me decide not to go back for a while. It worries me how ignorant and uneducated a number of the young adults seem to be.
 
Geezerette said:
I don’t think the store managers etc are training their new hires and less experienced or poorly educated help. Was in a Sprouts store this am, where the help has often been kind of out of it but I chalked that up to their practice of hiring some mentally challenged persons. At checkout I saw one clerk pull down her mask in between people at her register to eat and drink some stuff in front of them, and customers were avoiding another register where the clerk had the mask sitting under her nose. And a couple other things happened that made me decide not to go back for a while. It worries me how ignorant and uneducated a number of the young adults seem to be.
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I've been shopping at this store for four years now and this cashier has worked there for four years now. She in her early 20's.
 
MickaC said:
Not trying to put young people down, but from what i see, they seem to be less concerned, as compared to the next age group and our age.
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Here's my story on that:

My first full-time job out of high school was working a drug store. I was 18.

The stockroom there had shelves as tall as the store ceilings (20 feet or so.) The room was not air-conditioned. The shelves were disgusting and had 3" of dust on them. There was minimal lighting.

One coworker was about 21 years old. Dave had a chaise lounge, a flashlight, a pile of warm sodas and a stack of magazines way way up on one of the shelves. He would punch in, scale the Mountain of Filth, lay out in the chaise, drink hot sodas and read magazines rather than actually do some work. Don't know how he got away with it.

During the summer we had another guy who was about 25 briefly work for us. Ray came in one Saturday afternoon to work the 1:30PM-10:00PM shift. He walked up to the assistant manager and said "I was at a pool party all morning and don't want to sober up on the job. Can I bring in a pitcher of margaritas?" Ray got fired.

That was 1972. I'm not certain people are worse these days.

I've seen some lazy slobs of all ages throughout my corporate career (I can see their faces as I type this), and I've seen people who work real hard (I remember them, too.) Then there's a bunch in the middle doing their jobs, just earning a living to live their lives. Nothing wrong with that.

If there's a lower degree of motivation these days, I would blame it on a lack of optimism more so than any character flaw (and that's not just in this country.) Maybe it's apathy or discontent with how things are. Maybe something better will come of it. Pendulums swing.
 

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