The look on the cashier's face says it all.
Tough times in Columbus
What??? Did they run out of toilet paper AND coolers???
Speaking of grocery store cashiers, I think we should be tipping them now. They're risking their lives to feed us, and doing it for crap pay and with little or no PPE.
Would it be weird for me to slip the cashier a $20 the next time I'm in a store?
Not if they were a basketball recruit, and you lived in Kentucky
Do what you think is right Hatter.
Respect
Not weird unless you have that creepy look in your eye while doing it
*takes notes*
"Wink and lick your lips as you slide them a $20"
...at the self checkout lane
I worked at Little Caesars in college and this guy came in late one Friday, pays, tips me a couple bucks. I say thanks. And he says, slightly creepily, "You like that, don't you?" Uhhh...
Thinking about paying my stimulus check forward whenever it arrives to someone in an essential role who is risking their life for this. Or someone who has been laid off. While I’ve had to take a pay cut I’m still lucky enough to be employed and WFH. I don’t think there’s any reason not to offer people tips or help out in other ways if you have the means
I'm still working, so I'm going to donate my stimulus check when it comes to those who need it more than I do
Myself as well. Hope more are willing to think about this.
Nice that you’re thinking about it. Let us know if you actually do it.
It would be adding to the risk, even if the gesture is nice. Money is some of the dirtiest germ carriers out there.
My cash has been in my wallet for 3 weeks now. Every germ on it is dead.
Tell that to the 3 month old chinese in my fridge.
You store foreign babies in your fridge? You got a permit for that?
I want to do something for the Trader Joe's workers where I live in the Bay Area. It has always been a fun experience shopping there, but during the virus it really stands out. Friendly staff, clean and well-stocked stores (the only place I've seen toilet paper in three weeks!).
The best tip you can give them is to be an overnight stocker instead of a cashier.
I don’t think they get to schedule themselves wherever they want to...
No, but then again the just-world hypothesis is a fallacy.
Instead of tipping them, you could advocate for raising the minimum wage.
or both
The food service minimum wage needs to go. It's unconscionable that there's a much much lower minimum wage than minimum wage.
The problem is that it is the jobs that will go. Have you visited a McDonalds lately?
I tried to early on in this pandemic and they both declined it
so we put it in the charity bucket
Most stores have a policy that employees aren’t allowed to take tips.
I don't know what that most companies have policies against this, and you would be putting an employee's job in jeopardy.
In Colorado they are not suppose to accept tips
Unknown Comic, Jr. So obvious.
America: exceeding expectations since 1776.
Honestly not sure if they're not taking it seriously or if they're just stupid. They might be trying to take it seriously which is even worse lol
Influenza Oct1 to March 28
39,000,000 – 55,000,000
flu illnesses
24,000 – 63,000
flu deaths
Corona virus US through Apr 5
- Total cases: 304,826
- Total deaths: 7,616
You know that many states like Florida (and all of China for that matter) aren't counting deaths as Coronavirus caused unless the dead person tested positive, even if their symptoms are exactly aligned with the virus.
Also, please go lick a toilet.
Not just Florida, Michigan too. Many people have died of pneumonia the last month or so that were never tested. And they're not testing the dead.
Whitmer addressed this in an EO the other day requiring medical examiners to report confirmed or suspected rona deaths asap.
Most states are probably over-counting. The official@CDCgov guidance for coding COVID-related deaths is as follows: any death where the disease “caused or is *assumed* to have caused or *contributed to* death.” Confirmed lab tests are not required.
We don't really know how many infections or deaths there are right now, in the US or the world.
I’m really confused as to why this comment got negged so hard.
Fuck you too.
Intelligent counter-argument. Get into bed and pull the covers over your head, even though there’s very little chance you’ll die of the virus. Meanwhile, many jobs and businesses are on the brink of going away, forever. What’ll happen then? Things will be bright and shiny and government will pay everyone’s bills? If it isn’t already, the cure for this overstated problem will very soon be worse than the disease.
Are people really still arguing this? The best science we have available says that somewhere near 100,000 people in the US will die from this. That's WITH strong social distancing. Without social distancing, it could be 2,000,000. That's 2,000,000 PEOPLE who could be going away forever.
The jobs, on the other hand, will come back. Many people will lose a lot of money. Nobody really knows how much. But once we have vaccines and treatments and herd immunity, we will once again need the things we needed before, and there will be jobs involved in providing them.
Even in strictly economic terms the loss of that many people is a tough shock to absorb. In ethical and moral terms, trading them for a few months of economic security is unthinkable.
We lose 3.3mm every year on average. 2,000,000 mostly elderly and infirm would not be a shock to the system.
might actually help as crazy as it sounds to say that....
Most states are probably over-counting.
No, it's definitely an undercount. Most states are short on tests and they're not going to be performing post-mortem tests. The count we have is based on people who tested positive and then died in the hospital, which is definitely not everyone.
The NYT appears to agree with you:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/coronavirus-deaths-undercount.
As I posted before, I have a family member who had/has it (finally going away after over 2 weeks) and they would only test him if he went to the hospital. Fortunately it didn't come to that, but it was close.
I saw a statement by a Chinese doctor who said officials where he was were underreporting by a factor of 50. China was hit very hard, but having a totalitarian gov't makes it much easier to cover that up. Shut-up or die.
I count that as a point in my favor.
"a point in my favor"? Fuck off already. This isn't a game.
I’m happy to have a different view than the New York Times. I have to admit though, your “fuck off already” was a brilliant bit of reasoning.
It's symptomatic of arrogance vs intelligence. Arrogant fucks think they have every answer and zero sight of any probability in difference ... intelligence allows confidence in your own perspective yet understanding other perspectives have some value and may even reshape your own perspective...the 90% here really show what they are all about
Can't fix stupid.
It's very hard to die without somebody knowing about it. Almost everybody sick enough to die is going to get tested. The number of people who are presumed positive and then die of an unrelated issue likely offsets the number of people who die without getting tested.