Door monitor sucks @ss

mega-kitteh · Guru

Door monitor sucks @ss

FrontEndSlave · Guru

Screw all that crap. Last week when this policy started at "our" local Kroger, a photo showed up on social media, the line was literally all the way from one end of the store to the other outside. You're talking an entire "big-box" Kroger store, two entrances, pharmacy, Starbucks...god damn, it looked terrible.

Anonymouse1 · Guru

lol.

We have to keep doors locked until 7am because people were trying to get into a store overnight. I guess while the overnight crew was working... I don't know the details.

Well, we have a door buzzer on the front door. It is a really loud buzz similar to giving a wrong answer on Family Fued. From 415am until 7 am, employees are buzzing it to get in. Some people come in 15 minutes early and others 15 minutes late so it is hard setting aside 5 minutes to let everyone in at once.

Produce is closest so they get it most of the time. If I can spare a person, I tell them to stand at the door and let employees in. They will be right in front of the door and people still hit the buzzer.

Did I mention how annoying the buzzer is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUu9ddulu8k

-- Edited by Anonymouse1 on Friday 10th of April 2020 04:50:56 PM

BagBoy · Guru

Because of Kroger's whole insistence on employees talking to people, anytime I go to a store I literally hate it when employees talk to me. Due to this whole "six feet away while in line" thing is going on I've been getting spoken to by bitchier and bitchier people. I'm going to end up punching someone for trying to tell me what to do, especially when I am already that far away.

-- Edited by BagBoy on Friday 10th of April 2020 08:38:57 PM

mega-kitteh · Guru

I got yelled at today by a customer who claimed my mask was useless when I said "I am NOT stopping wearing my mask" I literally got screamed at by the now rage filled customer. I refused to apologize as suggested by the fe manager and as a result got 'sent home early.'

Date: Apr 12, 2020

mega-kitteh wrote:
I got yelled at today by a customer who claimed my mask was useless when I said "I am NOT stopping wearing my mask" I literally got screamed at by the now rage filled customer. I refused to apologize as suggested by the fe manager and as a result got 'sent home early.'

Well shes right that mask wont protect you. But why would you have to apologize to that person? So what if you want to wear one? Thats pretty ****ty sending you home too man. ungrateful people

The Kroger Asylum Patient · Senior Member

mega-kitteh wrote:
I got yelled at today by a customer who claimed my mask was useless when I said "I am NOT stopping wearing my mask" I literally got screamed at by the now rage filled customer. I refused to apologize as suggested by the fe manager and as a result got 'sent home early.'

I would go home, kick my feet up, open a cold one, and call the union. You were following the guidelines. And did that person have others along? I've seen arguments about that happen at my store.

BagBoy · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
mega-kitteh wrote:
I got yelled at today by a customer who claimed my mask was useless when I said "I am NOT stopping wearing my mask" I literally got screamed at by the now rage filled customer. I refused to apologize as suggested by the fe manager and as a result got 'sent home early.'
Well shes right that mask wont protect you. But why would you have to apologize to that person? So what if you want to wear one? Thats pretty ****ty sending you home too man. ungrateful people

The mask can protect in a certain way - it can stop you from directly touching your face; however when I see people wearing the mask they tend to constantly touch and adjust them which can lead to a higher chance the virus, if it's on their skin, can make its way into the body. The mask is a tool and it's really how you use it.

Mostly it comes down to if the person is already infected the mask can help stop them from spreading it.

mega-kitteh · Guru

The mask protects the other people and yourself but it must be worn properly and changed out frequently. I change mine every 2 hours if able to do so. If I cannot, then I use the utmost care in removing it and placing it back on. But I have made my own, so I carry a ton on me when I go out. If I do not have my masks readily available, I also have a face shield that goes over the head and it can be wiped down easily. It's like a portable sneeze guard.

Date: Apr 13, 2020

It's a matter of the mask's filtration ability. It needs to be medical-grade, or it is in fact not filtering small enough particles in the air to keep the virus from passing through, should someone who's infected cough or sneeze within about 3 feet of you and those 'virus droplets' float in your direction. Most people are walking around with useless masks, cheap designer crap they got online or made from home.

Date: Apr 13, 2020

I spray paint fairly often, working on various projects in the garage, and always get those masks like you find in the hardware/paint section of Wal-Mart, but they don't even filter the paint aerosol from the air all that well. I'll take off the mask, and it's discolored on the inside, meaning the paint is passing through as you breathe in. And that's a mask that's designed to filter air, so imagine how poorly your homemade masks are doing. So I'm not bothering with masks at all for this "crisis." To do it properly, I'd need a good supply of medical-grade masks, and doctors need them far more than I do, considering they're working face to face with those confirmed-sick people. This virus doesn't just hang around in the air, and I've yet to happen by someone who's coughed or sneezed.

Date: Apr 13, 2020

mega-kitteh wrote:
The mask protects the other people and yourself but it must be worn properly and changed out frequently. I change mine every 2 hours if able to do so. If I cannot, then I use the utmost care in removing it and placing it back on. But I have made my own, so I carry a ton on me when I go out. If I do not have my masks readily available, I also have a face shield that goes over the head and it can be wiped down easily. It's like a portable sneeze guard.

if its a cheap non filter masks it isnt gonna do much

Date: Apr 13, 2020

The Kroger Asylum Patient wrote:
mega-kitteh wrote:
I got yelled at today by a customer who claimed my mask was useless when I said "I am NOT stopping wearing my mask" I literally got screamed at by the now rage filled customer. I refused to apologize as suggested by the fe manager and as a result got 'sent home early.'
I would go home, kick my feet up, open a cold one, and call the union. You were following the guidelines. And did that person have others along? I've seen arguments about that happen at my store.

Lol the union isnt gonna do anything for that get real

Date: Apr 14, 2020

Anonymous wrote:
mega-kitteh wrote:
The mask protects the other people and yourself but it must be worn properly and changed out frequently. I change mine every 2 hours if able to do so. If I cannot, then I use the utmost care in removing it and placing it back on. But I have made my own, so I carry a ton on me when I go out. If I do not have my masks readily available, I also have a face shield that goes over the head and it can be wiped down easily. It's like a portable sneeze guard.
if its a cheap non filter masks it isnt gonna do much

As was said in the comments above you. High five, Beavis!