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I'm having an "is it me?" moment.
Pea1
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I called in the supermarket on the way home from work today to pick up some bread etc. I was standing in line at the checkout waiting my turn when the lady on the checkout obviously needed to sneeze, so she turned away from the person she was serving, sneezed into her hand, then turned back and carried on serving. It obviously wasn't a big sneeze but big enough. I thought eeeeewwwww! I suppose she wasn't actually touching the food as it was already packaged but even so......... Should I have said something??? Shouldn't she have had a tissue handy for this type of situation?
Or perhaps it's me???
Or perhaps it's me???
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I suppose the GBP in the queue said nothing?:D
As long as no mucous was discharged. It's a sneeze. We all do them.
Yet if you had asked the management about it, they would have changed their tune and said that they take hygiene very importantly and that she should have washed her hands,
So typical work place where the management only think about the firm and not the people.
And soon you will have to pay them 5p for this the privilege of giving us one of these puss-ridden sacks.
If the latter and she was packing my food, I probably wouldn't have been best pleased if she'd just carried on as normal!
maybe they should supply hand gel to all their staff working behind the tills, for circumstances such as these. I keep some on my desk at work, as I deal with documents belonging to other people, and don't think they'd appreciate my sneeze germs all over them.
I guess that makes me weird as well? so not just you, it's me too!
Omg. I wish I could unread this.
I'm not sure that mucus was discharged but it sounded like a fairly wet sneeze to me. (I apologise to those of a sensitive disposition) which ultimately landed on her hands.
Sometimes we need little etiquette reminders. One non-confrontational way to resolve this issue is with a tissue.
Simply 'mention' an offer of tissues and hand sanitizer, even if you don't have any. Sorta like this: "Oh, bless you... I might have some hand sanitizer or tissues, if you don't..." Then dig around in your handbag.
Hopefully they get the hint to stop and clean their hands.
You should have your Internet access blocked for that post. Eeeeewwwww!!!
I mean, that's why we all carry two.
Isn't it!
:DJust telling it how it is!
You will be looking at that spotty youth differently next time you shop!
Vile. I don't know what I would have done if I was faced with this vile situation. Vile. It doesn't bear thinking about.
I was about to post something very similar. Of course she couldn't have left her post to wash her hands ................If that were permitted it'd be chaos as sneezing is quite a commonplace event (or even pretentdng to in order to get a couple of minutes breather) .
I do think perhaps it might be an idea for every checkout to have hand sanitiser on hand though - it's common sense really.
Germs and bacteria are everywhere. Best not to think about it sometimes.
That's why we have immune systems.