Current Events > Restaurant workers face increased sexual harassment amid pandemic

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https://gothamist.com/food/report-being-restaurant-worker-during-pandemic-even-worse-you-think

Customers have demanded that female food service workers remove their own masks so they could see their faces and implicitly determine their tips on that basis, according to the report titled Service Workers Experience of Health & Harassment During COVID-19. More than 250 of the survey respondents shared representative comments from customers: Pull that mask down so I can see if I want to take you home later, and Take off your mask so I can stick my tongue down your throat. Other workers said they experienced sexually-explicit hostility from customers. One man actually said: 'I dont wear a condom; I sure as hell arent going to wear a mask!'" Another customer reportedly said, Oh, social distancing, so I cant touch you anymore, huh?

Food service workers are also in the awkward position of endangering their tips if they annoy or anger the customer while enforcing mask and social distancing policies, the report said, with 78% of the surveyed workers reporting hostile behavior from customers when staff try to enforce COVID-19 safety rules. A majority of the surveyed workers67%said they received smaller tips after enforcing such protocols on customers. Most workers who responded to the survey report that their tips have declined significantly with the pandemic, and that this decline in tips is exacerbated when they attempt to enforce COVID-19 safety protocols on customers. As a result, these workers report that they are reluctant to enforce safety protocols for fear of losing more tips, the report states. Other risks the report found include repeated exposure to people flouting safety rules, with 84% of surveyed workers reporting being within six feet of at least one person who is not wearing a mask in every shift, and 33% report being within six feet of 30 or more maskless people on every shift. Nearly all respondents, 89%, said their employer is not consistently following COVID safety protocols. The One Fair Wage advocates say the report highlights the challenges facing food service workers, who already have to deal with increased exposure to the coronavirus, economic insecurity, and high rates of job loss during the pandemic. They call for paying all food service workers a full minimum wage with fair and non-discriminatory tips, so that they're not vulnerable to harassment for their livelihood.

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The customer is never right.

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Lebronwon posted...

Pull that mask down so I can see if I want to take you home later, and Take off your mask so I can stick my tongue down your throat. Other workers said they experienced sexually-explicit hostility from customers. One man actually said: 'I dont wear a condom; I sure as hell arent going to wear a mask!'" Another customer reportedly said, Oh, social distancing, so I cant touch you anymore, huh?

who talks like this jfc

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PatrickMahomes posted...

who talks like this jfc

This wtf.

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PatrickMahomes posted...

who talks like this jfc

Human shitstains.

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PatrickMahomes posted...

who talks like this jfc

This one dude told my coworker he was gonna anally rape her. She got upset and started say "what! What! What did you jsut say to me!? Get out of here!" He said "why?" She said "because you said you were gonna sexually assault me" he said " I didnt say I was gonna sexually assault you, just bend you over the counter and rape you in the ass".

People can she sick fuckin creatures.

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People suck.

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I fucking hate customers

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PatrickMahomes posted...

who talks like this jfc

People whose parents failed them
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