I sent him a congratulatory email and let my coordinator know about his appointment to the task force (though I assume the AMA already knows, but maybe not, so I figured I'd help).

I *guess* that excuse is acceptable, Tep.

Test~ma for everyone needing it.

Tep, that is SO COOL!

Tep that's cool!

I had a horrid customer the other day, Thursday, (I was out straightening on the sales floor and trying to help people). He talked over me, wouldn't let me say anything , then got mad when I tried to say something. Got mad that he couldn't try on pants and I did my usual "our dressing rooms have been closed since we reopened in May, it's part of our pandemic policies" and he snapped back with "Covid isn't real!"

I had this moment of "oh dude you are just pissed Biden won".

Very cool, Tep! Way better than the usual author excuses you mention

Had my Outlet Sale training this morning. Our POS has switched from whatever computerized cash registers we used to have iPads, which will probably be much easier once we get used to them. Plexiglass shields between the register and the customer, nobody signs anything, our aisles might be 15 feet wide, we have a LOT of room. We did end up putting out displays which will probably only get sanitized once a day but that's just the best we can do. I guess I have the option of a face shield if I want it, I doubt I will but who knows? Masks required for everyone, limiting the number of people in the store to 125 (which is a wild ass guess as to what it should be, we can adjust on the fly, though). No one can begin to guess if we will be wildly busy or completely dead or if people will use the curbside pickup or anything. First day of the sale is day after tomorrow, I work on Thursday.

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I had a horrid customer the other day, Thursday, (I was out straightening on the sales floor and trying to help people). He talked over me, wouldn't let me say anything , then got mad when I tried to say something. Got mad that he couldn't try on pants and I did my usual "our dressing rooms have been closed since we reopened in May, it's part of our pandemic policies" and he snapped back with "Covid isn't real!"

This reminds me, did you all see the clip of the news guy where the Trump support comes up behind him and asks if he's "the real news or the fake news" and the reporter just says "Fuck off!" and goes back to camera? If no, I can try to find it again.

That made me so happy

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Also I would like one of everything, please!

The last few days the news media seemed to have decided to go with Team Reality. Reality (the real reality, not the fake "reality tv" reality) may be depressing, but at least it doesn't change several times a day.

Just got my first contact-tracing call, wheeeee. Someone who was swimming laps in my timeslot has tested positive for Covid, so now I'm banned from swimming for 14 days (and need to get a Covid test myself). I wish they were allowed to tell me the gender of the person who had tested positive, because I'm much more worried about the locker room than the pool itself. (Rules state that masks have to be worn unless folks are in the water, but in practice people leave them with their clothes and don't put them back on until after drying off, so there's always a few minutes where everyone is naked and maskless at the end of a session.)