CCL
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Post by CCL on Apr 16, 2020 9:43:37 GMT -5
I lied when I said that I would buy the t-shirt and save the rest. It got deposited today. I didn't order the t-shirt.
Instead, I'm fighting the urge to buy a huge amount of groceries. I desperately want to set aside a stash of easy-to-prepare food that will get a household of two through a month of never leaving the house. There's a reason for this. I'm a grocery worker, and we don't get tested when we develop symptoms, we're just told to self-isolate immediately. Nobody checks to see if we have sufficient supplies to get through that period. If we want to do the right thing, we should be prepared to have much more than two weeks of no-fuss food on hand.
On the other hand, I know that this desire to buy massive amounts of Gatorade and canned soup is irrational (the stores will not have the stuff on the list) and that hording is not exactly community-minded.
I've managed to stay out of the store so far, but the fear and boredom is building up. The temptation to drive to another community and buy more stuff than I want my neighbors and coworkers to see me buying is also building up.
I'm not particularly proud of these emotions and impulses.
Our stores are pretty well stocked on everything. Since you have a higher potential than most to be quarantined if I were you I'd go ahead and stock up enough for 2-3 weeks, at least.
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haapai
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Post by haapai on Apr 16, 2020 12:15:55 GMT -5
Don’t be so hard on yourself. You know the risk — you’re living it at work. Making sure you’re well-stocked for a long-stretch makes perfect sense. It likely also helps you to go to work and deal with that stress without worrying how you’ll feed your own household. Thank you for being on the front lines. Actually, I'm not out there on the front lines. Thirty years of smoking has caught up with me. I now have a chronic cough and shortness of breath. With those two symptoms, I fail pre-work medical checks. I'm on a two-week unpaid leave and nicotine patches now. The cough is getting better but I dread going back to work. The changes in procedures and norms are not being communicated very well and catching up with two weeks of changes all at once is going to be difficult.
Mostly it will be difficult because of the Karens, not the customer Karens, the co-worker Karens.
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