Hey, the title of your post and the title of the article don’t match. This breaks rule 4, could you maybe change the title?
How do you reconcile rule 4 with blatantly false and disingenuous titles on articles that don’t match their own content?
A comment explaining the actual situation and marking the title with [READ THE COMMENTS]?
Not sure whether we can pin comments here on Lenmy.
This is a clear violation of peoples rights. No one should need a doctors note to wear a mask in a post covid world. Covid is still here and it is not going anywhere.
They obviously want staff to sneeze, drool and drip over the food.
This explains the secret sauce.
How would wearing a mask - especially in a food establishment - ever be considered a BAD thing?!
This is the kind of stupidity we get when we politicized everything. And let’s be clear, when I say we, I am specifically saying conservative nutjobs.
Most people I know are only wearing masks now if they catch colds and flus and don’t want to spread it when going out and in public.
Which seems to me to be when you’d WANT your food service employee (whom you probably forced to work while sick) to wear one, so that they don’t spread it to the rest of your staff. But I guess I’m not a fast food company corporate executive, so what do I know?
Yeah it’s bizarre how they’re acting. As a customer, I’d feel better if the people preparing the food I’m consuming were wearing masks. It’s like they took the total opposite of wanting to appease their customers.
It’s not bizarre at all, it’s typical attitudes of conservative bull-headed contrarian trolls like always.
Exactly. And this is no different than the way they behaved during the entirety of the lockdown anyway, so I don’t know why people are surprised that conservatives are still acting like conservatives have been acting for years.
I guess some of us keep hoping that now that we exist in the future and have objective data, results, facts, etc that we can stipulate truth from lies/propaganda and the right thing.
I know, I know, I’ll see myself out.
Well it is bizarre from gastronomical industry point of view. They probably require wearing hair nets, but a snot on a burger is acceptable.
I guarantee you they wouldn’t require hairnets if they didn’t have to by law. They have to pay for those hairnets.
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I don’t know a single person who wears a mask as a political statement. Even during the pandemic, it wasn’t common to think that way, no matter what the propaganda of the time said. People who wore them did it out of courtesy for those around them. I don’t imagine that has changed.
People who wear masks are usually wearing them because they don’t want to spread illness. Either they’re ill themselves or they have or know someone with an immunodeficiency that puts them at risk.
They’d rather everyone be sick and customers think no one is sick then to have customers think someone is sick because they’re wearing a mask
That’s probably it right there, the good old bury your head in the sand method.
Yeah I was just thinking I’d rather all food workers wear masks regardless of whether or not they’re carrying something.
To be fair, if you are soulless and going to make them work when they’re sick anyway, why would you care if they infected the rest of the staff?
If all your employees get sick, who’s labor are you supposed to exploit?
What about the customers though? Do you really want that traced back to your store? Seems like such a bad idea.
Makes sense. The challenge is the incubation period for most common colds is so long and variable that it’s really hard to pinpoint the source. Assuming they listen to some science.
Personally as a customer, I’d want them at home sick and getting better than in work at all in that condition.
Same, but that’s not realistic for most individuals in these industries that don’t have sick days, medical benefits, and/or a financial cushion to afford a day(s) lost income.
Wearing a mask to help reduce the spread of bacteria/viruses to your customers/fellow employees seems like the most basic human courtesy we should all want/expect.
These corporate overlords that force their personal politics (on either side) at work need to go.
The vast majority of people here do not wear masks. My frickin mom, who has cancer and a heart condition, has even stopped wearing one when she has an issue and has to go to the MFin emergency room. WTF. I had COVID like 2.5 years ago so probably alpha based on the timing and it was a mild case but it WRECKED me. My only symptom was a really bad headache one day then a mild headache for about a week where it just felt like I needed more coffee, any caffeine addicts out there would know what I mean. But after I had the worst cognitive defects that I could barely finish a sentence, couldn’t remember common words, etc. It was awful. It didn’t get better after vaccination, which I got for the first time about 2 months after the infection. I’m much better now but still not how I was. I don’t want to get this again even after having had it and all available vaccines and I can’t fathom why anyone else who has had it wants it again. I can’t understand sick and old people who walk around bare faced. I can’t understand healthy people who want to risk it. Why, people? Even the cancer center no longer requires a mask. It’s nuts.
So human spittle is a vital ingredient at In-N-Out ?
Droolers love drool.
What the fuck
The company that hides bible verses on its soda cups‽ You don’t say!!
I’ll say this, back when the founders were around in the 00’s, even with the Bible verses, they intentionally prioritized pay and food quality over growth. Then the kids took over the business. The kids are probably going kill what made that place special because they’re greedy and selfish.
the kids
Sounds about right. Who was it? Carnegie? Rockefeller? that said it takes 3 generations to squander wealth.
Oh, I’m sure the current young generations can beat that record.
From the outside looking in, that seems like the most American thing ever.
Hold my beer…
That sounds like a colossal waste of money spent on extra ink no one’s going to read.
Their executive team prays before meetings.
Jesus Christ…
yes, that’s the one.
Tasty.
Needs some tangy salt
Not related to the article, but since we don’t have in-n-out burger in Canada, I’m curious.
We do have taco bell though, and I know when it goes in, it’s coming out asap.
Is that what the burger joint means by the name? Or is about how efficient the process for ordering to eating is? Or maybe something else entirely?
Yes
Well thank you for clearing that up for me. I figured it was.
You’re very welcome.
In and Out burger is the only thing I miss for LA… Well that and the weather.
Maybe unpopular opinion but I thought it was really over hyped when it rolled up to AZ. Lines around the block for months for what turned out to be a pretty ok burger and meh fries at the end of the day. It wasn’t bad but people willing to wait in line for over an hour have just lost their whole minds lol
I think it’s phenomenal for what it is. Burgers and fries at an affordable price.
My wife is Californian and I am not. I think in n out is a perfectly good burger at a very reasonable price but the line is so long that I never want to go there but still go far too often because my wife is obsessed
Sometimes I get off of work at 12:30am on Wednesdays and I have just enough time to get into the drive thru before they close at 1am. I love it, but yeah the line is way too long normally, so I only go late at night.
See… this is the point at which the whole conservative covid reaction, to me, goes from just weird and unsettling to full-on bug-eyed insane. AND hypocritical.
Their whole deal with masks and vaccines is that they should have the right to decide for themselves. I think they make dumbass decisions that cause entirely avoidable harm, but okay - I can grant at least some bare semblace of legitimacy to self-determination. I don’t vagree, but at least I can see their underlying logic.
But banning masks? What the actual fuck? What possible difference can it make in their lives that somebody else is wearing a mask? And what happened to their whole self-determination thing? Do they sincerely believe that nobody should be able to tell them whether or not they have to wear a madk and that they should be able to tell other people whether or not they can? How does that even work inside their brains? What possible logic leads to “I don’t have to do what you say but you DO have to do what I say”?
Seriously, are they literally insane? I sincerely can’t think of any other explanation. It’s not just people acting in some way other than my preference, but people acting in a way that’s blitheringly irrational, even by their own principles.
I suspect that when future historians write about this era, they’re going to call it something like The Idiot Age, because to them it will be marked by people inexplicably doing obviously and painfully stupid and irrational things.
Their whole deal with masks and vaccines is that they should have the right to decide for themselves.
Close, that’s what they said they believe. Anyone watching them actually behave during the pandemic knew that anyone wearing a mask was liable to be attacked by these brainless psychos ranting about the “kung flu” or whatever other racist name they had for it merely for wearing a mask in their presence.
I wasn’t directly attacked but my friend and I had the same experience in our 60% Trump area.
We weren’t together when each incident happened, but they’re so similar I’ll describe them together.
We were just at the checkout: me at a convenience store; my friend at a major grocery store chain.
So, we couldn’t reasonably move away. We had to stand there to pay for our purchases.
An old man encroached my space; an old woman encroached my friend’s space. We both politely asked them to step back for social distancing, and they refused.
I wish I had my friend’s ability to think and speak on his feet. After he checked out, he told the old lady “I asked for you to do something, that cost you nothing. All you had to do was take a few steps back. I hope in the future, if you ask someone the same, they treat you like you did to me.”
As for me? Even though I just said my request and didn’t respond further, the guy was a huge jerk who tailgated me for several miles in his huge pickup truck. Like headlights in my mirror tailgating… during the day.
Who tf cares that much? Honestly… just take a few steps back. Doesn’t cost you anything, like my friend said.
I mean, businesses like these want their employees to look the same.
Having some wear masks and some not is jarring for the pearl-clutchers of the world.
To be honest, if any of you put a little bit of thought into this, you’d come up with some pretty rational conclusions.
Whether you agree with the policy or not is up to you. But trying to argue they’re ‘literally insane’ is just hyperbole to cover up your lack of understanding and insight into the situation.
So that is a reasonable take? They don’t want people to wear masks because they’ll look different? That’s a lot of justification for an absurd corporate mandate.
Chains like these care a lot about consistency across their brand.
Being in the workforce for 40 years now I do understand how corporations feel.
Masks help in general. And if an employee who has a cold wants to wear a mask that’s a net benefit for customers and society.
Maybe I have more faith in the American people to NOT FREAK the fuck out if they walk into somewhere that has a masked worker.
Probably unreasonable. Ideas of personal choice - until it comes to something where people disagree. Then personal choice gets removed.
These businesses care a lot about presentation.
While it would be nice if people viewed wearing masks in a restaurant as cleaner and more-inviting, that’s just not the case.
People have evolved to become suspicious of those who cover their faces.
I guess it really says something about those people who view masks as an attack on themselves based on your statements
I don’t think viewing someone as suspicious is the same as them attacking you.
It’s not a new thing, it’s the slave master’s concept of rights: “It is my right to to take away other people’s rights.”
What an idiotic stance to take.
That’s really messed up. It doesn’t affect my experience as a customer and frankly I’d anything, it makes things better, because mask also blocks any droplets. So if employee even gets a cold I’m less likely to catch it too.
It should be treated like wearing a hair net.If employee wants to wear it, it is hard for me do see any downside by letting them.
Just another reason not to go to In-N-Out
You mean besides the shitty burgers and fries?
It’s all alleged at the moment, but if found true, fine their ass
