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Ricky Schroder Badgers Costco Employee For Turning Him Away For Not Wearing A Mask
The Mix ^ | 5/17/2021 | Erin Perri

Posted on 05/17/2021 9:27:17 AM PDT by MJacks4

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To: RedStateRocker

Yes, he handled it poorly but much of that is from 1+ years of frustration. Doesn’t excuse his rude behavior but I can understand he let his pent-up frustrations out on the wrong person.

I feel he could have tastefully interrogated the employee about the rules and presented it without getting personal with the employee.


41 posted on 05/17/2021 11:43:02 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: MJacks4
People need to start pushing back, and I’m starting to see the beginnings of it.

I did my shopping in Walmart today in northern Illinois. Haven’t worn a mask the last five times I’ve shopped there and was the only person in the store without a mask on those previous occasions. Today I observed three other people shopping without masks.

After about a half hour I get to the deli for some lunch meat and get waited on by a TrigglyPuff looking monster who asked if I had a mask, I answered no. She then asked me if I got my vaccinations and I told her it’s none of her business, and she was violating HIPAA laws by asking. She then said she wouldn’t wait on me, so I told her she better find someone who can, and she stormed off into the back room. An older woman with her mask down on her chin came out and apologized and got my order.

They can’t be allowed to go on with their stupidity any longer.

42 posted on 05/17/2021 11:44:39 AM PDT by dznutz
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To: jmacusa

Even more reason to not be a dick to the working stiff at the door.


43 posted on 05/17/2021 11:46:11 AM PDT by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: MJacks4

Being a dick to a employee who is only following orders is a bad look. Dude needs to grow up and shop somewhere else. This is like some asshole complaining about a stores no shirt/shoes no service rules.


44 posted on 05/17/2021 11:48:41 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: MJacks4
Schroder believes being forced to wear a mask is ‘medical tyranny.’

There's nothing 'medical' about it. It's just simple tyranny

45 posted on 05/17/2021 11:53:59 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: cuban leaf

LOL....use any word you can to explain away being a rude, annoying, egotistical JERK
Why not take on the management instead of an employee who has nothing to do with store policy? Coward


46 posted on 05/17/2021 11:56:18 AM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: dznutz

So brave of you 🙄


47 posted on 05/17/2021 11:57:46 AM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: MJacks4

Private property…they can make their own rules. Too bad Ricky. Stop acting like a child…and go shop elsewhere.


48 posted on 05/17/2021 12:02:55 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (. )
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To: cuban leaf

Employees enforcing mask rules is not like Nazis. If you really believe that, you either don’t understand what it’s like to be an employee, or you don’t quite grasp what the Nazis were up to.


49 posted on 05/17/2021 12:05:27 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (. )
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To: qwerty1234
Don’t like costco’s rules, don’t shop at costco; pretty simple.

On May 1 our county took off the Mask Mandate. Our local grocery store kept the mandate on, so I started going to our local Walmart for food. Mask were optional. Today our local grocer had removed all signs. I think their business was down. And you don't have to tell me masks are optional. Nobody is going to prevent anyone from going into a store with a mask. In fact I'm thinking about getting one of those Lone Ranger ones.

50 posted on 05/17/2021 12:06:23 PM PDT by Starstruck ( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
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Schroder believes being forced to wear a mask is ‘medical tyranny.’

Then your issue is with the government and not Costco.

51 posted on 05/17/2021 12:08:10 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: cuban leaf

As a customer service professional (I managed all phone customer service for a large bank) I would take joy in telling you that we clearly had let you down. I would give you a week to rearrange all of your direct deposits. Then I would shut your account down.

Your antics cost the company much more than we would make from you.

99 out of 100 times, you would back off.

More companies should do that.


52 posted on 05/17/2021 12:08:32 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (. )
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To: RedStateRocker

Yet, no one is having fits over no shoes, no shirt, no service.


53 posted on 05/17/2021 12:12:36 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Jrabbit

And you’d march right off to the box cars when ordered.🤡


54 posted on 05/17/2021 12:14:33 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: Sans-Culotte

but it also said if local laws require the masks, then Costco does, too.

And that is an important point. CA still requires masks so Costco requires them too...in CA.

Ricky’s beef is with Newsome.

That said, it was so refreshing to excercise at the gym, be in stores and around in general, without a mask. Royboy Cooper finally backed the hell off.


55 posted on 05/17/2021 12:23:56 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
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?

Indeed. I just tell the drone that I am medically exempt. If they persist in their nuttiness, I tell them to refuse me service is an ADA violation, no different from making someone with a seeing eye dog or wheelchair leave.

56 posted on 05/17/2021 12:24:53 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Jrabbit

I’m seeing more irony here.

I should be clear. I’m always respectful. I do not go on a tirade like the guy in the OP did. I never call them stupid though I may say they are working from bad science.

The strongest I ever got with any of them was to explain that I’ve been a costco member since 1988 and I had gotten a sams club membership because they don’t make me wear a mask. I also tell them that I understand they are doing what they are doing because the company requires it. I did call one Karen back about a year ago. He didn’t like that. But I was smiling. :)


57 posted on 05/17/2021 12:46:14 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Employees enforcing mask rules is not like Nazis. If you really believe that, you either don’t understand what it’s like to be an employee, or you don’t quite grasp what the Nazis were up to.


Good news, I don’t think they are like nazis. I’m still breathing. :)


58 posted on 05/17/2021 12:46:57 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Vermont Lt

As a customer service professional (I managed all phone customer service for a large bank) I would take joy in telling you that we clearly had let you down. I would give you a week to rearrange all of your direct deposits. Then I would shut your account down.


I’m not sure what you are talking about here. Were you posting to the right person?


59 posted on 05/17/2021 12:48:11 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: RedStateRocker

it not private property, most if not all big box stores are on land owned by someone else


60 posted on 05/17/2021 12:58:57 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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