Subj : Re: disability was: Posts To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Wed Apr 08 2020 22:54:10 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 31-Mar-2020 10:29 <=- 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. NB>> Wegmans is 8am (maybe 6) to 10pm, and doesn't have any particular NB>> senior hours.... It wouldn't do us any good, anyway, as we aren't NB>> up that early anyhow if they followed the current thing of doing NB>> it before regular hours.... they did cut back a bit more... BM> I don't have any desire to get up earlier just to go shopping either. BM> Not saying it's wrong, just not for me. If I had greater concerns I'd BM> probably have a different opinion. Wegmans decided against the special hours for a number of reasons, mostly because they felt that it would tend to concentrate those at highest risk together, and therefore be less safe, not more safe.... BM> And speaking on concerns, there was an segment on the local news about BM> the walkout of some Amazon warehouse employees in New York. Most of BM> the ones picketing outside are wearing masks (protective, not to hide BM> face). One that ws interviewed had the nack over the mouth but just BM> under her nose: could clearly see her nostrils! One generally breathes BM> through their nose more than their mouth! So the mask was doing little BM> good. I did't see (or hear about) that... but I'm not surprised... a lot of people aren't wearing it properly to begin with, and it isn't as protective as they think it is.... in many ways it's more of a talisman... Richard says he might as well be pinning a rabbit's foot to his shirt pocket... 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. NB>> So it was all hearsay anyway... Our store has had a police presence NB>> from before the current crisis, instead of or including the normal NB>> security... I've never been there when there was a problem, but it NB>> seems that there had been a troublemaker there a few times... BM> If someone was potentially going to make a sufficient problem it would BM> be a good idea to have at least some additional protection. May cost BM> but in the long term could save money. I think the town supplies the police officer as part of the town services, no extra cost to the store.... BM> I think the police deal at HyVee was just to maintain order: maybe BM> keep those not in the special categories from entering (the same who go BM> through the ten-items-or-less lane with an overflowing cart). Could be.... sometimes the mere presence is enough to keep people in line... :) 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. NB>> That sounds about normal... ;0 We finally got a pile of TP back in the NB>> store, some off-brand with a fancy name... fortunately we aren't in any NB>> need of paper products at the moment.... ;) BM> Anything would be better than nothing! I might have picked up a BM> roll/package to have as a spare: not stockpiling but 'reasonable BM> spares', and if someone I knew was running out here's a present! Before all this had started, we'd already had a stockpile, only because we'd bought large packs of toilet paper and paper towels when they were on sale, as we always do.... so we had a 36 roll package of TP from BJ's (which we still haven't opened, since we were finishing up the last one still, but $3 off on the TP and an additional 10 cents per gallon off on gas at BJ's gas was just too much to pass up), and a 12 roll package of Wegmans paper towels that we'd bought maybe 6 months ago and have taken 2 rolls out of... Those should well last us well beyond the crisis... :) 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. NB>> Or be called into service by some customer looking in vain for NB>> something... at Wegmans, their first priority is still to be customer NB>> service.... ;) If no customers there, that distraction is also NB>> removed... ;) BM> True! And my store has the added distraction/complication of BM> undergoing remodeling -- it's getting there! I'm sort of hoping some BM> of the current placement is still temporary. Do I detect a bit of dislike for some of the current placement...? ;) 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. NB>> Guess we'll have to wait and find out.... BM> Yup. "It will be interesting" - a lot of businesses have found their BM> people can do some/all of their work at home and so possibly will take BM> as an opportunity to scale back the on-site offices, which means less BM> lighting, heating/cooling, and parking (!). Of course those cutbacks BM> can create other issues: power company sells less commercial-priced BM> gas and electricity, cities have less commercial land to tax. ...Might BM> make a difference the immediate future but I'm thinking more than BM> likely the space will not be wasted rather to be converted for a BM> different commercial use. How it actually works out indeed might be interesting... I'd guess that having people have to work from home may also point up some aspects where being at the worksite actually is more beneficial after all... :) 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. NB>> Probably best to have a couple of people in the audience that are good NB>> indicators of how one is doing, and just gauge their response... ;) BM> Right - "play by ear", or eyeballs, though if one hears yawns..... True... yawns might be a bad sign.... ttyl neb .... My reality check just bounced. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .