Tomorrow several major retailers will be requiring people to wear masks to enter the store. This policy is set by the management of the company, and not the employees of that store.
A Friendly Request
Please do not yell at store employees or treat them badly because you don’t like some retailer’s corporate policy about masks. Doing that doesn’t make you “pro-freedom” it makes you a douchebag.
If you don’t want to shop at a store that requires masks, then don’t shop at a store that requires masks. It really is just that simple.
Boss Says, Employees Do
It’s a simple fact of life in American business that when management sets a policy, employees are required to follow those rules.
Apparently, after gauging reactions of people on social media, this fact is surprising.
Even in my own workplace, I deal with this daily. I’m in a position where I’m the “enforcer” of policies that the bosses have made. I’m in the IT department, and basically I do this through workflow management tools.
I’ll daily get people asking “but why?”, to which my answer is universally “because that is the policy set by the people who own the place, the people who write my paycheck. It’s not for me to say whether that policy is right or wrong, it’s for me to implement.”
The people who write they paychecks run the company. That’s a concept that many people in America really struggle with.
Wally World, For Example
When an employee of Wally World meets customers at the door and enforces the mask policy, they are not doing it to “crush choice” or “violate civil rights”, they are doing it because their bosses assigned them the task to do it.
Here’s a segment Walmart & Sam’s CEO’s official statement (full statement available by clicking HERE):
“In addition to posting clear signage at the front of our stores, Walmart has created the role of Health Ambassador and will station them near the entrance to remind those without a mask of our new requirements.
Our ambassadors will receive special training to help make the process as smooth as possible for customers. The ambassadors, identifiable by their black polo shirts, will work with customers who show up at a store without a face covering to try and find a solution. We are currently considering different solutions for customers when this requirement takes effect on July 20.”
Truth is, those employees who get stuck with the job of being “Health Ambassador” don’t want to stand there and get yelled at by people all day long, which is what’s going to happen tomorrow morning because some customers are just douchebags.
The people who sign their paychecks assigned them the job. It’s not their “fault”.
This Isn’t About Pro-mask / Con-mask
This is about choice. Business have chosen to require masks for entry, as they have every right both legally and ethically.
Consumers have the right to shop at those businesses, or not.
Please do not even begin the mask debate on my page in answer to this.
1) Because I’m asking and
2) Because I will delete your comments when I see them. There’s already plenty of other places to debate it.
A Little Common Courtesy Please
All I’m asking is you treat the people who are there to stock the shelves, help you shop and check you out with courtesy and respect.
I have many friends who work at big-box retailers, and the stories that I am hearing from them about how people are abusing them verbally (and one even physically) are ridiculous.
Again if you disagree with the policy then simply go somewhere else and spend your money with somebody whose policy you agree with.
Choice is good, and there are many places other than big-box stores to shop.
Bottom line? Don’t be a douchebag.
Gee, a call for civility. That’ll probably get you made a target and put on any number of lists kept by the left.
Keep up the good work.
Please leave any/all political comments off of 3BY. This isn’t about politics, left/right stuff, it’s about treating people in a way your grandma would approve of.
If you aren’t living under a a rock, the announcement was made Friday and that day I did shop to get plenty of White Lily flour. I’m not a walmart shopper much.
Forgot the paper shades and mine are so discolored I guess I’ll order online or find elsewhere. DG doesn’t have them here any longer.
Any other stores carry these paper shades–the propane does ruin them quickly.
I will leave it to others to figure out whether wearing masks is effective. I am beginning to have doubts, myself.
What I am really irritated about, however, is the “constitutionalist” who broadly proclaims that he has the right to refuse wearing a mask while shopping and that his constitutional liberties are being infringed upon. He’s a hypocrite.
My reading of the US Constitution causes me to believe that that constitutionalist’s rights are trumped by the business owners property rights. It’s his/her store. If the business owner set a policy requiring all shoppers to wear a top hat, it’s the business owner’s right to do so.
Put simply, it’s the business owner’s right to say, “No shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service.”