Asked to move back ..aibu to be annoyed?

[simdd]

I went to Morrison's today.
I'm stood in the queue for the deli counter.
She shouts for my turn so I go over
(Obviously I cant see what I want,so before I order I look at the items )
I'm stood back (not right next to the counter)
She shouts .."can you step back "
(Bare in mind she's behind the deli counter and the counter is quite wide outwards)
So I say "I am back,I'm trying to see what I want to get "
Step back further and block the aisle now ..
Then she throws my meat on the counter.
I go to pick it up and she pipes up again
"I did ask you to step back"
So I reply .."how the hell am I meant to pick it up from on top of the counter without moving forward"
Aibu to think people are getting a bit stupid here and not using common sense.

People are becoming hysterical, it's quite embarrassing.

She was in the wrong, I wouldn't worry about it though. Lots of people have turned into quivering wrecks throughout this.
Just be glad you are still sane and rational.

Yeah, I had this in Morrisons. I won't be going back. The assistant who was managing the checkout queue kept telling me to stand back behind a line even though I was trying to unload my trolley onto the conveyor and then she wouldn't let me go forward to pay until the woman scanning called for me. It was ridiculous and I won't be giving them any more of my custom. Even more annoying, she made my elderly mum walk from the top of aisle 8 back around and come up aisle 7 for the 'queue' even though there was no-one waiting and all she had to do was step aside so mum could get to the check-out. Total jobsworth.

Silly you OP

Don’t you know you’re supposed to use your telepathy and hover it towards you?!

She was being very silly

I hope you left it sitting on the counter and walked off.

Yanbu. I'm finding this too. And it's so sad. Lockdown is relaxing, which I was so excited about, but there's rules, rules, rules everywhere. I've been in two shops so far this week and been shouted at twice.

I had a very similar encounter in the co-op. There’s an acrylic guard all along the tills at sort of shoulder/head height and tape on the floor showing where we need to stand.

Went to step forward to put my items on the counter - shrieked at to step back behind the line - which I had anyway, but I can’t actually reach the counter from behind the line

Went to step forward to pay (contactless) and pick up my items, would then move back behind the line while I waited for it to authorise - shrieked at again

I’m not the tallest person in the world and I just can’t reach the counter without stepping over the line

Completely agree with you.
Happened to me in co op like the above poster. People who work in shops are more likely to catch germs touching the packets of things other people have touched than by us standing at the tills.

Some of this behaviour defies common sense OP. You're meant to do the 'Covid dance', they move forward, you move back, they go back, you move forward. Shopping, while not a favourite past-time for many, has become stressful.

I was asked to step back by a man who had wandered into my driveway to look at my pet. I gave him a piece of my mind and he threatened to report me to the police. Dicks are having a dickish field day.

fucking thats hilarious he asked you to step back in your own driveway

people are going way over the top-yes if youre in a line just waitinf fine but you cant use the force to pick things up

It's so frustrating and to top it off.
I'm stood in queue waiting to be directed to a checkout.
She sends me to self serve.
First item flags up assistance.
She comes over and is practically up my arse ..
Yet I can't even reach the counter to pick my quarter of corned beef up.

I was made to traverse a whole one way system, on crutches, in an empty shop to pay for something a few weeks back. I felt like a naughty school child, then angry at the inflexibility of some people.

I’ll not be going back to that particular shop.

You have to remember, that the assistant will have probably dealt with 101 people before you on that shift, who don't stick to the rules. It's possible she was just at the end of her tether and unfortunately you got the brunt of it.

When I went to give blood at a new place the woman directing me who then come up and took my blood after anyway, shouted 'step back please' I was well behind the two metre distance, she seemed very aggressive and rude and then when directing me how to sanitise my hands properly like I didn't know, it was really patronising, I know people are worried but it just made me feel an inch tall, I almost walked out.

Best thing to do is do an online shop, less hassle, no 2 metre police. Other than Ocado there seem to be more slots coming up now.

I usually do an online shop, but the dog and cat food were out of stock on our last delivery so I was buying some to tide us over until I could get to the supermarket

I had the same in A&E a few weeks ago - I had to take DD in as she badly burned herself. I was booking her in, the receptionist was wearing a mask, there was an acrylic screen between us, DD in horrible pain and in tears, in a noisy area and I just couldn’t hear a single thing she was saying. I asked her to repeat herself several times and still couldn’t hear her so leaned forward slightly and got shouted at. I can’t imagine what it’s like for someone with a hearing impairment

Make a complaint. There’s no excuse for speaking to a customer like that.

I had the same experience in Asda last night, I needed some dishwasher salt which was one step away from me at the end of the empty aisle (apart from the assistant filling the shelves half way up the aisle) the assistant told me I needed to follow the arrows. I went down the next aisle walked past the assistant filling the shelf and stood 1 step away from my previous position. Some people just seem to enjoy bossing everyone around atm and have lost all common sense, surely it better to maintain distance!

Its awful I don't want to go anywhere because of the hysteria and the rules. In fact I don't. Isn't much fun atm

It’s confusing especially if you go in a different shop for the first time. I got told off in M&S before lockdown on the day they were literally painting the spots on the floor. I didn’t have a clue what to do or where to go.

The Covid Police (self appointed) are doing my head in. And they never seem to shout at people who genuinely are ignoring common sense.

It's why when the clothes shops reopen next week, despite needing new clothes and the kids having had growth spurts I'm giving them a wide berth.

Our local community centre asked for people to come and socially distance to help tidy up the outside area so they can reopen hopefully soon for support. There was 6 of us, the back area is huge, none of us went indoors and we all kept to little designated areas nowhere near each other.

Some twat curtain twitching Stasi wannabe reported the community center manager to the Police would you believe, as well as the local council (who had cleared us to do so).
What enjoyment do they get from that? And in what world is that their bloody business?

I would have walked the hell out OP.

I bought a top in Sainsbury's last week but took it back as it was a bit snug (obviously couldn't try it on in the store). The woman on customer services was wearing gloves but recoiled when I put it on the counter (after being instructed to do so). She made me feel like a leper.

Well i also got told off in the pound shop outside queue for standing too far apart (even tho there was no pointers to stand )
I used to love shopping ...I hate it now

I do wonder what will happen when this threat of Covid deteriorates to such an extent that even the Government can't justify trying to control us all in this way. I don't mind the perspex barriers at checkouts - it might protect the staff from all sorts of cold and flu bugs not just Covid. But will they just take the tape up? Or will we all just gradually stop social distancing? Will social distancing be advised for ever more to protect us from these 'killer' diseases like flu, norovirus, the common cold? After all, the vulnerable aren't going to stop being vulnerable are they?

And no @simdd you are not being unreasonable to feel annoyed

It's ridiculous.

I was getting some bits in Tescos, I don't normally shop in there so wasn't 100% sure where the burgers were, I was in an empty meat aisle, having gone the correct way following the arrows, when I realised I'd probably passed them, so I started to go back and an employee shouted that I was going the wrong way. I asked where the burgers were and he pointed at the beginning of the EMPTY aisle but told me I had to go down the next aisle to get back to them. I then had to walk passed 3 people in the next aisle to get to the burgers. Utter bonkers.