Tescos cashier- Atchoo!

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As I started unloading my trolley, saw the boy on the till twice sneeze heavily into a tissue. Moved my stuff off saying sorry I can't afford to be ill right now. He seemed somewhat surprised.

Am I alone in thinking people who handle food shouldn't be allowed to do so with an obvious heavy viral infection?

Do you touch cash? If you do you shouldn't be so fucking precious

Heaven forbid lowly shop workers have the audacity to sneeze. How very unreasonable. Sneeze in your own time, checkout employee.

Well I doubt he actually wants to be there tbh. I bet he'd rather be at home if he's feeling a bit rough.
Go and question the managers why they make their staff work when they have a cold. Believe you me they don't give a shit about their staff.

How disgusting that 'the boy' on the till allowed himself to succumb to an involuntary bodily function...

Plus you do know that you come into contact with tons of people with tons of germs every day? Just touching the poles on the bus for example (though I doubt you lower yourself to take public transport ).

Managers do "give a shit". Maybe this chap was a grown up and made a decision to go to work as he had a sniffle, and not the flu?

My hayfever has flared up. You sound like my friends daughter. She won't touch door handles.

How do you know he had a cold? I randomly sneeze without having a cold. Poor lad, being treated like a leper just because he had the audacity to sneeze!

You'd hate me, I sneezed 6 times in a row up the pub last night and I'm fighting fit right now (I did turn my head away from everyone tho)

I'd wrap yourself in clingfilm basted in disinfectant if I were you, whilst doing an online Tesco order!

He may have been sneezing because the customers were getting up his nose a bit today.

Well Orwell, having worked in retail myself, I can tell you that the managers were about as sympathetic as a rock. But then again a rock wouldn't give you a hard time for being ill.

It may not be a cold, my hayfever has started this year.

Why were you 'in bed for 3 days' if it was just a cold??

Define "just a cold" Ive had cold like viruses and been floored by them. Ive also had "slight" symptoms. The last one I had did actually make me unable to get up for a couple of days and Im a tough old bird.

I used to work for them and staff are subject to disciplinary procedures up to and including dismissal if they exceed a certain absence percentage. A manager actually asked me in a meeting what I could have done differently as if I fell ill deliberately! And at the store where I worked it was common practice for the duty manager to pressure people who rang in sick to come in anyway. I rang in once with a D&V bug and was told to take imodium and get to work, where I would have been handling food! I didn't, I went to the doctor who said that was terrible advice. There is a lot of pressure on supermarket staff and they have a lot of exposure to germs, paper money can reportedly carry more germs than a household toilet and transport a live flu virus for up to 17 days. I can understand you not wanting to get ill but blame the employer not the employee. And you could have made a polite excuse for moving your stuff off the belt like saying you forgot something rather than making him feel worse than he already did.

I think the pressure to work is everywhere.

I work in care and in every nursing home I worked in you'd be made to come in. Even with D&V we're made to go in.

Also, most places don't pay you if you're off.

Yes I know you can pick up viruses anywhere, I know chefs can sneeze over my food in restaurants but if someone has the audacity to sneeze near my food in full vision yes I'll head to another till! I totally understand the money/work issues, if there were enough that felt like me maybe management would listen?

Op don't leave the house. Ever.

i got disciplined for being signed off a month with renal colic that had me being blue lighted to hospital 3 times, 6 days in hospital and 2 weeks of morhpine.

I had to get the union involved to save my job. Apparently i also needed to schedule my asthma attacks for my non working days after i got a verbal warning for having to be blue lighted to the hospital from work during a serious one.

It's nothing to do with individual managers, it's company policy. Most retailers don't pay for the first 3 days and will discipline if you're off sick too often. It sucks.

I'm staying in.

It's probably the same virus you and your family have had anyway.

Totally get that Hermione.

I wonder how many millions of germs are in a Tesco lorry

Ha ha ha if you think someone sneezing in your presence is going to give you a cold you are a) too precious and b) don't have an accurate understanding of virus' and risk.

Tescos employees get 4 weeks paid sick a year (not sure of current qualifying period), they are ruthless with their sickness policy and very unsympathetic. Once you have hit their level of absence they issue verbal warning, written warning then the sack. People can not afford to be off work every time they sneeze ffs