That is an armed assault. And on a very vulnerable place of a person. This woman needs to be charged and jailed. What’s placer in jail with lots of people may be infected what’s the coronavirus
What’s placer should be let’s place her!
Those store employees are - along with truckers - the heroes of this crisis. Without them, we’d be under martial law. Or maybe under the law of the jungle.
Ah yes, another tolerant yankee ...
Only seen polite behavior here in the well-armed society of rural N Ga.
;-)
Same thing happened to my granddaughter at her workplace about 3 weeks ago. White female, appx 28-30 yrs old, walked in and sprayed her in the face with Lysol, then ran out. They never caught her....yet.
There’s been discussion here about how places like South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore dealt with the virus without having to close workplaces and other public venues, basically having life continue on but with certainly some common sense ideas in place. A story like this shows how, unfortunately, those three countries have social mores that are that likely stronger and cohesive among everyone than here in North America.
There’s just gotta be a special place in heaven for these minimum wage workers who are showing up each day during all this.
You know, I don’t even need to see pictures anymore. At some point, us crackers might wake up and fix the problem.
Posting the picture was not necessary. The description is inherent in the headline.
While this is criminal behavior, what I’m most surprised about is that they had any Lysol spray available.
Here in Pittsburgh last week, a guy crawled under a plexiglass partition to spit on the face of a grocery store worker.
Some people are out of control.
There are all types out there. COVID19 hasn’t change that.
Food shopping last week, fellow shoppers seemed extra courteous. Got to the front of the store to check out and the manager was straight up yelling at customers who weren’t following her preferred method of queuing up for checkout. No signage, no tape on the floor, just her standing there yelling at customers to do what she said.
The cashier, on the other hand, was sweet as a rose, and wore a nice smile.
“Police say the woman completed her purchase after spraying the employee and then left in an Uber.”
How was she able to complete her purchase? Didn’t the cashier scream or get assistance from anyone?
After about 6 months I was promoted to fulltime assistant manager and other 6 months or so, was promoted to manager of another store. I worked for the company for 6 years. I worked a lot of hours but made some decent money – a base salary + a % of sales after payroll and fortunately I managed one of the top 10 stores and at 19 years old, their youngest ever store manager. And I probably learned more about business management in those years than I would have sitting in a college classroom.
I had a lot of regular customers who I got to know on a first name basis and had an excellent rapport with, and many other customers were great, but sometimes there were real jerks.
I had one older man who used to come in everyday to buy a newspaper and every time he’d literally throw the money across the counter at me, forcing me to pick it up off the floor and he never said a word to me or even made eye contact with me. I also had some guys make some rather creepy sexual advances, not harmless flirting or even asking me out for a date mind you, but some really sick stuff.
I had a customer complain about the price of TastyKakes. When I tried to politely and respectfully explain that 1) we sold them at the same price as the grocery store and 2) I didn’t set the price, he went into full rage mode and started cursing at me, calling me some rather foul things (use your imagination). When I asked to curb his language or leave, he told me that “You only make minimum wage (not true BTW) because unlike me, you are stupid and uneducated, therefore I can talk to you anyway I want.”
I had some other similar encounters, customers complaining about things out of my control, which I understood and sometimes agreed with, but took the brunt of their anger and abuse.
I had a customer come in one Monday morning to tell me he and his kids had been there Sunday afternoon and were not happy with the size of their ice cream cones and that the person who waited on them was rude, demanding that I immediately fire her – he actually wanted me to call her on the phone and fire her while he stood there. I explained that while I took his complaint seriously and would look into it, I couldn’t do that without hearing her side of the story and also while everyone has a bad day, the woman he was complaining about had worked for me for over 3 years (and BTW worked as a bank teller in her full time job) and was one of my best and most reliable employees about whom I’d never had a previous complaint.
He went into a rage and wanted the phone number of my supervisor, threatened to get me fired too, etc. etc. etc. I gave him the phone number of my district manager and of the HQ and he left in a huff. When I talked to the worker, she told me the real story – he and his three kids asked for a sample of just about every flavor before deciding, were holding up the line but more importantly, in between his kids were running amok in the store, pulling magazines and comics off the rack and tossing them on the floor, picking up candy off the rack and throwing them on the floor when the dad said they couldn’t have it, etc. When he complained that the scoops were too small, she put an extra scoop on each one at no charge just to get them to leave, but then one of his kids decided he’d changed his mind on what flavor he wanted and smashed the cone on the counter in a temper tantrum, at which point, she told him to leave. I believed her as did our district manager after talking with both of us and the customer, he told him, “perhaps you might find the service at another store more to your liking and I suggest you do so”.
Then there was the time a young well-dressed yuppie looking woman who came in early one morning for coffee just after I opened. When she put the cream in (one of those individual creamer pods) it curdled (for some reason, even though in date and kept cold, every once and a while an individual creamer would do that). I apologized profusely, handed her a brand new coffee cup, told her that her coffee would be at no charge and asked her to wait a minute while I went to the walk in cooler to get a new box of creamers.
When I got back, literally seconds later, she had poured hot coffee into the new cup but then started cursing at me and said I was responsible for making her late for work and then took the scalding hot cup of coffee and threw it at my head, then stormed out, got into her BMW and peeled away like a crazy person. I was so shocked that I didn’t get her license plate otherwise I would have called the police and back then we didn’t have security cameras. Fortunately, my reflexes were quick back then and rather than the hot coffee hitting my face it hit my shoulder and upper arm – but still hurt like hell and had to work my 10+ hour shift with coffee stains on my clothes.
FWIW, all the above customers were white.
Years later I worked at a grocery store fulltime, then after embarking on a career in PR and HR & benefits and general accounting, part time seasonal gigs at Target and Toys R Us and most recently at Panera Bread as a delivery driver. Most people are nice or neutral but some are unbelievably rude and or unhinged.
Oh and as working as a cashier, I can’t tell you how many times someone sneezed or coughed into their hands before pulling money out of a sweaty pocket or bra and handing it to me.
As a result, it takes extremely rude or incompetent service for me to complain. Most of the time I put myself in their shoes and try to keep in mind that perhaps they had a really rude customer(s) before me or even in the case of what I might think of as incompetence, might be due to a lack of training. I also know how hard it was if you had several really rude customers in a row to keep smiling and maintain a cheerful demeanor. And unless I get very bad or incompetent service in a restaurant, coffee shop, hairdressers, etc., I’m a pretty generous tipper.
Please be kind to these people who are working under a lot of stress for little pay right now. And if you get food or carry out deliveries, please be sure to tip them.
“Walmart patron sprays cashier in the eyes with Lysol over coronavirus limit, police say”
There was a limit on the amount of coronavirus the customer could buy?
And here I thought there was more than enough to go around...
CNN - stunning and brave woman of color shares her Lysol with stranger