Subj : Re: disability was: Posts To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Mar 30 2020 23:26:12 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 20-Mar-2020 08:31 <=- BM>> Yes, probably more 'overheards' than collusion: restaurant staff BM>> overhears something at a meeting, "hey Mildred! better redeem your BM>> coupons now!" Mildred's mentions it at her sister's, brother-in-law BM>> works for competition..... (Why Mildred's sister shops at her BM>> husband's competition.... ) NB>> Might be as simple as one store announcing it as starting next NB>> week, and within 24 hours the other stores follow suit.... ;) BM> That could be. With the COVID-19 (coronavirus) events unfolding so BM> rapidly now Hy-Vee is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., with 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. BM> hours for senior citizens and others with health issues and other BM> special requirements. Wegmans is 8am (maybe 6) to 10pm, and doesn't have any particular senior hours.... It wouldn't do us any good, anyway, as we aren't up that early anyhow if they followed the current thing of doing it before regular hours.... they did cut back a bit more... BM> Was chatting and found out there was a huge line BM> and for some reason a police officer had been stationed at the entry to BM> help maintain order. I didn't ask details like if there was a problem BM> or on-duty vs. off-duty: partially because I didn't think to and mainly BM> because who I was talking to didn't get there until after the fact. So it was all hearsay anyway... Our store has had a police presence from before the current crisis, instead of or including the normal security... I've never been there when there was a problem, but it seems that there had been a troublemaker there a few times... BM> Most of the other stores and shops locally have curtailed hours to BM> clean and restock. -- Oh yeah: Hy-Vee was out-out of toilet paper: not BM> a single roll! Most of the tissues (Kleenex) was gone too. Not sure BM> about paper towels. That sounds about normal... ;0 We finally got a pile of TP back in the store, some off-brand with a fancy name... fortunately we aren't in any need of paper products at the moment.... ;) NB>>> Oh, and Richard said that even though they aren't open for business, NB>>> the bulk of the stocking still gets done overnight at Wegmans.... BM>> Which makes sense as no customers to "run over"! NB>> Yup, no customers does make the possibility of efficiency more NB>> likely.. ;) BM> Just a bit! Can get sloppy while moving the old stock to put the BM> new stock behind, plus no interruptions: some of the floor personnel BM> will get paged to help ring registers or bag groceries. Or be called into service by some customer looking in vain for something... at Wegmans, their first priority is still to be customer service.... ;) If no customers there, that distraction is also removed... ;) BM>>>> I've never shopped at two in the morning but could see people working BM>>>> second shift shopping then. NB>>>> I've done it a time or two, but not a general practice to be sure.. :) NB>>>> I think it was after midnight one evening I stopped into the Wegmans NB>>>> to grab some food on my way home from the hospital when Richard was in NB>>>> there for his bypass... BM>>> There are always some reasons to be shopping late at night/early BM>>> morning even if not usually awake at that hour. NB>>> Exactly... so it's good that there are still some stores open 24 NB>>> hours... BM>> Agree. People do get sick in the middle of the night, work second and BM>> third shifts, closed the bar and need a bag of pretzels.... NB>> Lots of decent reasons.... of course, now all the stores are going NB>> on shorter hours and blaming it on the coronavirus scare.... BM> I have been wondering of some of the businesses will BM> take this issue as an opportunity to go back to more reasonable hours. Guess we'll have to wait and find out.... BM> Before I retired my store had essentially no customers after 7:30 or 8 BM> p.m. -- they did finally start shutting at 8. ...Not saying all BM> stores should shut at 8: should be up to local considerations. BM> Chicago, Atlanta, Boston probably do the 24-hour thing. ...And to me BM> the 'Mall hours' of opening at 10 didn't really make sense: opening at BM> 9 seemed more logical. Oh well, will be interesting to see how the new BM> normal turns out. Lots of things probably go into that sort of decision.... BM>>>> Sort of along similar lines I did fairly well at tutoring but I'd BM>>>> probably not do well at teaching ==> individual or a small group where BM>>>> can interact one-on-one vs. big group and generally loose BM>>>> individuality. NB>>>> You'd never know until you tried, though.... I had thought similarly, NB>>>> until I ended up having to actually teach a few classes at our NB>>>> genealogy meetings... and discovered I could still hold attention NB>>>> after all... checking reactions from certain key audience members can NB>>>> give the feedback that one generally gets from the one-on-one or NB>>>> small group... I still prefer the smaller settings, though... :) BM>>> Yes, years back I had done some small groups and there were some BM>>> people to watch for feedback while others were, well, not good for BM>>> feedback. Not to be ignored, but not all that good for general BM>>> guidance. NB>>> Right. :) Keep eye contact, but look to others for signs of 'you NB>>> just lost me there'.... BM>> Right: loose one or two and comment to see me for individual study. BM>> Or maybe a quick 'lab' to practice what we just learned and give the BM>> lost ones the hands-on lesson. NB>> Or just go over it again, slightly differently, possibly more clearly, NB>> and see if comprehension dawns.... ;) BM> That was essentially my 'tutoring': started off as helping a friend. BM> All I was doing was regurgitating what was said in class a couple BM> hours earlier. Maybe the second time around, or saying it a different BM> way, or the more casual environment (outside of the classroom)... BM> Back to the actual teaching, yes, look for those glazed eyeballs which BM> either mean the material is being presented too slowly (booooored!) or BM> something isn't being understood and so need to go back. Probably best to have a couple of people in the audience that are good indicators of how one is doing, and just gauge their response... ;) BM>>> Umm, light jacket that's easy to wash over the regular clothes? NB>>> Just so long as you don't need gloves that would hamper your work... BM>> For some of the sorting it's easier to pick out the parts with BM>> tweezers or needle-nosed pliers! (I'm thinking #4 nuts and bolts, BM>> which are about the diameter of the lead in a pencil.) NB>> Yup, those are tiny, all right... tools (and small ones at that) NB>> would be quite helpful in handling them.... :) BM> I remember looking at some of the mechanics tool kits being sold at BM> the store where I worked: to whole #4 bolt I was used to working with BM> would fit in the socket of the tool kit! Quite the difference in scale... ttyl neb .... "Th-th-that's easy t-t-to f-f-fix." "That's easy for you to say." --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .