Costco has a masks required policy. I wore this in to cancel my membership.
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How'd it go you may be wondering...
I had the mask in a shopping cart face down like a concealed MAGA weapon as I walked up to the doors. I wanted to ensure they were really enforcing the policy since my protest / defiance would be unnecessary if not.
As I approached the door entrance there were 2 attendants, one on each side, in Plexiglas booths. I showed them my membership and they informed me about their new policy. I said "So if I wear a mask I can shop but if I don't then I can't?"
"Yes but we can provide you one if you don't have one." He replied
"That's okay, I brought my own." as I reached into the cart and donned the Don.
Their programming broke as they tried to compute what just happened and what to do about it. This is a scenario they were not trained or prepared for, that much was clear. They knew it was wrong but couldn't figure out how or why exactly.
But I didn't stop moving to give them a chance to object, I kept pushing my cart at a brisk pace as I heard one ask the other in a perplexed voice "Is that even allowed?" In a fading reply I heard a bewildered reply of "I don't know man."
I did a quick loop of the store and the reactions were almost all positive. Laughter, pointing, smiling, and a few photos with other customers as well as inquires on where they could get one. Even some employees asked if they could take pictures with me.
I grabbed a couple of items that I needed that are more expensive or hard to find elsewhere and a gift-card for $60 so I can still get gas, checked out, then headed to customer service.
I canceled my executive membership and received a full refund of $120 and tax after explaining that why I was canceling and that I look forward to Costco changing their policy back soon. One they do I may renew my membership but not an executive level again. I plan on doing less shopping with them in the future after this.
Side note: One of my close friends has been working at Costco for 12+ years and used to love it. He said this policy and the others have sucked all the fun out of this job and he feels like crap from wearing a mask every day at work. Headaches, tiredness, dizziness and a general lack of oxygen. He is quitting his job their because of the changes. He was the person that encouraged me to do this when I thought of it.
Edit: The Trump USA jersey for anyone that wants one from amazon.
I spoke to a retail manager I know a few days ago. They said that before they made masks a requirement, most employees refused to wear one and everyone seemed happy. Since they made employees wear masks, he noticed a dramatic change. Employees basically became disinterested in work and only did enough to not get fired and started refusing extra shifts to avoid wearing a mask.
Edit: Many have realized that they worked for at least a 4-8 weeks where the virus was around and they never got sick and never wore a mask, so it is kinda pointless now considering they got one N95 they are supposed to reuse.
Yeah, making masks mandatory at this point is very much a closing the barn door while the horse gallops in the meadow situation.
Good for you, really enjoyed your story! *Favorite part "donned the Don" lol! Wish I saw this in person!
This guy chad's. Nice work!
Did your store already redo their registers? Mine went from 12, perhaps 14 or 16, down to 9...all of them facing the same way (no more back-to back employees), and spread far enough apart to allow for everyone to social distance.
Plenty of TP in stock though!
I have a devil mask leftover from Halloween years ago that I'm planning on wearing in soon. I have a feeling they'll stop me, but I'm not sure on what grounds...
How about a Lone Ranger mask?
Doesn't cover the mouth/nose! At least mine has that covered. No reason it shouldn't pass their criteria!
"Costco, You're Fired!"
lol thanks
I thought I was the only one that noticed. 😁Now I don’t feel special. 😞
Bless you.
Places I've been to don't give a shit, literally would not let me buy food without a mask on.
Walked right the fuck in anyway. Karen, the store manager was about to have a heart attack.
Tried the 'health condition' (allergic to communist faggotry I thought), nope, even said there was legal exceptions.
Beyond clown world.
Barack Hussein* Obama. Really pisses people off when you use his middle name, ALWAYS use it.
I went today just to see what they would say when I said I didn’t have a mask. They gave me a cheap super thin BYD Chinese mask. Talk about a slap in the face. 😂
I walked right past the mandatory mask sign the other day. I already let them stop me on the way out, not going to let them stop me on the way in.
Lol. But what happened? Don't leave us hanging.
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Thanks Great story. Glad to hear you weren't hassled going in and that so many people liked it. Lol. Glad you took a stand on your membership, too.
Looking especially good today Pede!
Thanks!
The Trump jersey for anyone interested
Alright, at this point I think your just pimping unofficial Trump merch. Calling BS on this.
If that was true I would have put the link in the original post and not added it later when someone mentioned it.
I think logically.
In CT some stores are strict and others posted a sign. The ones with the signs only may have someone counting people at peak times and they might enforce it then but during off peak times they haven't.
Love it! I have this same mask but I’d be worried wearing it out would trigger hard and cause an attempted murder
That's what the bulge in the shirt is for winks in 9mm
top kek
Just tell people who try and enforce it that you have a health condition and can't wear one.
Or you can say that I've already had it and recovered so I can't transmit it anymore
Legend-darry
I just didn’t renew
Awesome
Quick trip had a sign on their door for this. Now I wear one because my wife works on the front lines. I have a fuckin' reason to and am choosing to do so because I'm not tarded. But it was hilarious because half of everyone including employees weren't. I laughed a little.
Hey OP, you're free to throw a temper tantrum if you want, but remember - private businesses have as much right to ask you to wear a mask as they do to ask you to wear a shirt, and right now it's in their immediate interest to do both.
You want to get mad at someone, direct your ire at your local and state governments forcing themselves in the middle of every voluntary exchange of goods and services they can.
You do realize that I simply chose not to do a voluntary exchange of goods and services with a company that changed their policy right?
Super simple stuff. Not a tantrum.
You do realize that Costco's hand here is basically forced don't you?
If any major retailer doesn't take every reasonable and prudent precaution to protect their workers from getting sick who do you think will be slapped with the lawsuit when employees contract Covid or die from it?
This isn't an attempt to make you conform to any worldview. It's a policy put in place to help keep workers safe and to limit liability should they fall ill.
But that's just it. Today it's Costco and Sam's. Tomorrow it's every grocery store. Once they're all on board, how are you going to get your groceries? Congratulations, you've arrived at the "new normal".
So what? The virus is a reality right now. Businesses have to take reasonable precautions or they will be found negligent in a court of law if an employee becomes sick from workplace exposure.
And it should also be stated that many companies have a real concern about keeping their employees healthy that comes from an ethical moral desire and not just a risk management assessment.
You think these companies want to do this? Hell no. But there exists at the current time a combination of factors that mean this a prudent step they must take.
Then they have every right to resign. Many jobs carry risks. You assume those risks when you accept the job. The annual sniffles aren't an OSHA compliance issue.
When all is said and done and the studies are in, I agree that the Chinese Virus will likeky be more like the "annual sniffles" than anything remotely near the scenarios painted in March.
It's entirely possible, if not probable at this time, that we will conclude that a nation wide shutdown was not needed and that where we did shutdown, we did not reopen as soon as we could have.
Or you could say fuck those studies and admit the truth.
Covid-1984 isn't going to kill even close to the 2 million we were warned about. The death rate is already at 0.5%.
I've already said that
Costco didn't care when everyone was shoulder to shoulder 2 months ago for TP hoarding. No social distancing. No masks. No disinfectant.
They don't care about people. They care about optics and PR stunts. If they cared, they wouldn't have had stores full to the brim of shoppers during the height of the scare.
As a member, I'm seriously considering not renewing on the fall because of their handling of this. They should've made masks required 2 months ago, not now. It's pointless to do it now that the weather is getting warmer the and virus will naturally have a harder time to spread.
At that time "the height of the scare" two months ago there was basically only one area of the country, near that nursing home in Washington state, that had any appreciable number of confirmed cases.
Granted that based on the new Chinese Virus antibody tests we now know that it is very likely the virus has been in America since December. But nobody knew that then. Confirmed cases were few and far between except for that nursing home in Washington so there was no perceived need for everyone in America to wear masks.
As for not following social distance protocols at that time, that's because there WEREN'T any!
Once the CDC announced distancing protocols companies across America adopted them fairly quickly.
It pointless to apply Monday morning quarterbacking to the decisions that were made at that time. Every major retailer acted as expeditiously as their corporate structure permitted to the rapidly changing and evolving sets of guidelines issued by the CDC, and state and local governments .
To say that companies only care about optics and PR stunts is a facile explanation that doesn't hold water. Yes companies do care about optics, but it is far from the only thing they care about.
What if I told you that I actually know what I'm talking about here since I work in this commercial sector and have been involved in implementing Chinese virus response actions as new guidelines unfolded? Would you still call me a concern troll simply because I have a different opinion than yours?