AIBU to expect staff on delicatessen counters to wear masks, not lanyards?

[Anitarest]

Exactly that. If you can’t wear a mask, you should stack shelves or work in the till behind a screen, not on a delicatessen or sandwich counter. Your aerosols are just as potentially dangerous as mine and they’re falling on my cooked meat or cheese etc. Don’t complain if I ask for a masked server.

D you expect them to wear masks pre covid during flu season? No well get a grip then. Covid is now a part of life and will be for a long time. The shop can only put certain staff on counters due to the training they must have to be on them. Just maybe the other staff ate off sick or on annual leave. This may be the only person with the correct training available to work that shift. Of you don't like mask less staff I suggest you look at the pre-packed meats and cheeses.

Surprisingly no mask zealots here tonight agreeing with OP. What’s going on?

They aren’t sneezing. It’s a tiny risk. Just by pre-packed.

I’m in Scotland. It’s made naff all differenc

YABU.

They can’t necessarily get other staff, deli staff have food hygiene training, training on the machinery and different uniform including safety shoes.
You can’t just get Barbara off the tills to cover because you don’t like them not wearing masks, don’t be daft, it doesn’t work like that.

@Waxonwaxoff0

YABU. Get a grip.

Completely agree. Just because someone is wearing a mask doesn't mean they're following health and safety guidelines. Have you seen how often people fiddle with their masks? They'd be then touching your food.

If good products being sold, without being covered, does anyone know the hygiene risks vs a person being masked and non masked ?

*food

@Brieandcamembert

I don't understand the narrative of the poor people that don't want to wear masks should still be allowed hear the food. Shall we give surgeons special dispensation not to wear them too if they find them a bit uncomfortable?

Bit different…

@Yubaba

They can’t necessarily get other staff, deli staff have food hygiene training, training on the machinery and different uniform including safety shoes. You can’t just get Barbara off the tills to cover because you don’t like them not wearing masks, don’t be daft, it doesn’t work like that.

exactly!

Lmfao! Don’t be ridiculous. Imagine the employment tribunal for discrimination. If they’re exempt mind your own

Have you sought help for your anxiety? It’s not healthy.

Their right to earn a living as they wish trumps your right to buy a deli sandwich. Make your own bloody sandwiches with prepackaged meat or shop elsewhere. You have choices. Don’t act like you don’t.

some nutters on here, @2chevrons , why shop there if you RARELY see mask wearing where you shop. Mask exempt is mask exempt- my DM makes herself ill wearing a mask when exempt because of idiot logic

@Brieandcamembert

I don't understand the narrative of the poor people that don't want to wear masks should still be allowed hear the food. Shall we give surgeons special dispensation not to wear them too if they find them a bit uncomfortable?

Except you don't know that they "don't want" to wear masks. They could well be exempt.

YABVU and sound like an absolute twat

YABU - I would actually prefer all staff working with uncovered foods to wear masks, regardless of covid (I’ve seen some things to put me off for life!)
However you do not have to go to these counters where there are people not wearing masks.

If food products being sold, without being covered, does anyone know the hygiene risks vs a person being masked and non masked

For COVID, no risk in either scenario. It’s a respiratory disease. You get it from breathing in contaminated air, not from eating food.

We’re all so used to thinking about food hygiene for other illnesses, we find it hard to accept it’s irrelevant for COVID.

Umm you do know that masks aren’t sealed units and your average cloth/paper mask isn’t really doing to do much?

You know its a respiratory disease?

You don't get covid from eating ham... its not like salmonella.

I hope they told you to jog on, OP.

And much worse happens to your food that you don’t know about anyway.

Oh your aerosols, I thought you said you’re an arsehole. I’m sure DS who has spent the last few weeks working all hours in a supermarket so there is food for you to buy wouldn’t be that bothered if you got your shopping delivered if you are that concerned.

I agree. Just look at that ad on the tv showing breathing droplets out

Personally they should wear them anyway regardless of covid, not just them but anyone who deals with fresh food

Await my beating from MNetters

Isn't it annoying that people like me who work in a supermarket have annoying illness likw blood clots on their lungs and can't wear a mask?
Well guess what, I wish I didn't have blood clots and could wear a mask but that's life. You have no fucking idea how hard it is working in retail at the best of times let alone with customers judging you for not wearing a mask.
If you don't like it shop somewhere else or get your shopping delivered. You have options, unfortunately us staff don't.

Oh for goodness sake, get a bloody grip of yourself!

Lolling away at all the posters outraged at the thought of making deli/fresh food workers wear a mask. Got to wonder if they'd be quite so lackadaisical if said workers had tb, measles, mumps, or the flu. I'd wager my mortgage they'd be the first to have a hissy fit if they were hospitalised from contracting tb cause a deli worker coughed all over their sliced ham.