Posted on 05/17/2021 9:27:17 AM PDT by MJacks4
Sorry, Mr. Schroder, but that was a total jackass move. The employee didn’t deserve that.
I agree as a matter of good-manners in public. But (you knew there would be a ‘But’) we now live in an era were we are endlessly polled by the companies we do business with in near real-time. One way to look at this is that Rick Schroder is giving “instant feedback” to this guy’s employer.
And yeah this situation is creating a lot of frustration out there in the lockdown states. The governors issue proclamations and enforce it on major businesses through licensing. The businesses, in-turn, put their front-line workers in an enforcement position. Nobody signed up for that. I try to be understanding, but I’m running out of patience myself.
I respect your opinion, but I don’t think it’s the right way to go at all.
If you don’t like a store’s policy, don’t shop there. And if you really don’t like a store’s policy, organize a campaign against it. Picket the store from the sidewalk, or from the public right-of-way. Bash them on social media. Etc.
But to harass a low-level employee, that’s just wrong. And it borders on what the far left does. They harass anyone whom they disagree with. They yell and whine and lecture. True, Schroder did not yell. But he did whine and lecture. It’s childish behavior.
My boy went into a Utah Sam's Club without a mask. The state went maskless a few weeks ago, but some stores still mandated it. I think he said that Sam's was "optional".
He spoke to a maskless employee behind the Deli counter and congratulated him, saying he was SO tired of all the B/S. The guy agreed, saying it was nice to see peoples' smiles again.
I used to get a lot of grief for not wearing a mask and I told people, “I’m the only smiling face you’re going to see in here today.” :)
There are two kinds of people: Maskless and faceless.
Rick Schroeder was a huge anti-abortion activist when we were involved in that while living in California. I’m going to support him, especially when it comes to this frickin’ scamdemic and frivolous political (not medical) “laws”. Abortion is “a thing”; Fauci’s ghoul game is not.
Opinions vary on this. I learned over 40 years ago that if you have a complaint, you start by making it uncomfortable for the person serving you until they get their department manager, then you make it uncomfortable for them, etc. That is how you do it.
The customer is always right, right? ;)
I understand some disagree with this methodology, but opinions vary. And this actually works.
I think is was Salamander whose retort is, “I’m not wearing underwear, either.”
The Costco store in Prescott AZ wasn’t enforcing the company mask mandate as of May 15.
If anyone has any issue with someone giving grief to the only person the CEO sent to deliver a message, they can reach out to the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Costco.
Korporations crossed the line when they embraced illegal diktats from politicians. They failed to stand up for their rights, their employees' rights, and their customers' rights and didn't push back against these illegal orders. Would anyone have a problem with a customer calling out a "lowly employee" who told someone to leave because they were in a wheelchair, walking with crutches, or with a seeing eye dog?
I might harass a lowly employee who was shooting at me. This kid is not paid enough to take the harassment. That’s what management pay is intended to compensate.
It might work, but it makes the person doing it an a$$hole in my book.
Ask to speak to the manager, send a letter, buy a share of stock and opine at a stockholder meeting, but IMHO I’d love to see some some jerk doing this get popped in the face. Or sued, or arrested.
Be a jerk to someone who deserves it, that is someone with decision making authority, otherwise go ahead, but don’t pretend to be anything but an entitled b!tch.
It’s hard enough to hold a job dealing with the public without useless bastards making your life harder.
>>Tough call; yes, the employee is just doing his job but that excuse didn’t work for the Nazis and it won’t work here.
Yep, as soon as you drag Nazi’s into the argument you lost any credibility....because a low-level employee who just wants to keep his job and pay his bills, is the EXACT SAME THING as exterminating 6 million innocent people.
Yep
...and how do you think the Nazis got people to commit atrocities, people who truly believed they would never have done so? It starts with an individual telling themselves they were following orders.
Stanley Milgram's experiment showed the world how it was done in 1961, and Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University showed similar results as late as 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
https://www.thoughtco.com/milgram-experiment-4176401
It's very easy to do once you dehumanize your target; let's say, make them faceless and call them stupid, selfish, and uncaring all while you bury the truth.
Sure.....rudeness is soooooo easy to explain away. Jerk
The difference between public and private property.
You and I are the ones who own a courthouse or a park, we have a say- or should.
A private business can damned well require a mask, or clothes, or being armed, or not being armed, your option is to patronize or not.
I think the problem comes from the court cases about Cake Bakers who are not allowed to say that they would prefer not to make a certain cake for a certain customer.
The Left attitude in those cases seems to be: “Hey, Mr. Businessman, you don’t make the rules. I’m the customer — I make the rules.”
Courts tend to agree.
So does a business just “win” if they say “you need a mask”? From a judicial point of view I don’t see it.
True indeed. But here the (local) government is interjecting itself into, as you point out, a private property issue.
Sure.....rudeness is soooooo easy to explain away. Jerk
It’s not about rudeness. It’s about assertiveness.
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