Wal-Mart - spreading coronavirus at a location near you!
Posted Mar 26, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC
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This will probably get downvoted but honestly what do you expect the store to do? They have to provide a space for employees to eat and take breaks. It's up to the individual to decide whether or not they want to go in there. You have to wash your hands and you can always wipe the table you sit at yourself.
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2 employees to a table and no running back and forth would go a long way to remedying this. Clean hands and tables are only part of the equation.
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Or you could also just sit in your car or outside no one is forcing you to go to the breakroom. Like I said the company has to provide a space for workers to sit but you're the one who decides to go in there, in this case it's not the company's fault. Ultimately you're more likely to get sick out on the floor than you are in the breakroom.
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I was in there working on network equipment. Have to go where the equipment is.
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Should each person sit at their own table? Doesn’t seem like there are enough tables.
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Looks like they had maybe 2 or 3 chairs total at each table and people pulled them over since that table in the middle is empty.
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This is everystore. We simply do not have enough space to evenly distribute people and honestly it doesn't matter. Customers interact with multiple employees in the stores anyways. The store is at this point the most likely place you'd get covid and is why everyone should only shop when needed.
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Location?
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Oh no! People sitting at tables!
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You should try reading the paper. There’s news in it. Also:
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As someone who works at a Walmart, we're 3 feet away from each other all night. They still have us all gather together for meetings, and more importantly we all touch literally everything in the store. Might as well sit with your buddy at lunch time
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You should see the customers in most gas stations. Right ontop of eachother. Some standing for multiple hours playing lotto. disgusting.
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At this point I just pay at the pump and leave. People are not getting this.
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Doesn't matter how many times the surfaces in the break room are wiped down if your employees are in close contact like this. I am livid right now.
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If everyone practices the safe hygienic tactics like washing their hands before handling their food, and coughing/sneezing into their shirt/elbow and washing their hands. It’s not much worse than normal.
I get the frustration though, it is definitely added risk because humans are gross and dirty and it’s 2020 people are just learning how to wash their damn dick beaters. At this point rather than shaming them online where they don’t know and can’t react to the shaming, self police. Be the dick reminding people to go wash their hands and cough or sneeze intelligently. Hopefully it sinks in.
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Safe handling would mitigate the risk, but they were more than close enough for airborne transmission to be a factor.
I'm a contractor, so I try not to be a dick when on-site. I wasn't looking to shame anyone in particular which is why I covered their faces. Just needed to vent a bit.
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Then quit.
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That’s dumb.
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Gatherings less than 5; looks solid to me. Maybe next time don't take unauthorized photos of your co-workers?
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They're not my co-workers, I don't work for Wal-Mart directly. They were all well within the recommended six foot spacing to avoid airborne transmission and they were running back and forth between tables socialising. It's like they think this is all a Democrat hoax, or something.
Oh, so you snapped a photo of strangers in a private break area? Even better.