In-N-Out employees in five US states will no longer be allowed to wear masks as part of new company guidelines that “emphasize the importance of customer service,” notably showing their smiles, according to a new policy issued by the fast food chain.
I love In-N-Out. I could even ignore the bible verses on their packaging since it was pretty hidden. But I haven’t been there since they refused to enforce the mask mandates during the pandemic - if they ignore one health regulation they don’t like, who’s to say they’re not ignoring others? I won’t go there again until there’s some sign that sanity is taking over.
I love how religion means not helping anyone and you don’t owe your neighbor shit.
They have Bible verses on their packaging.
Didn’t know that. Never been but will definitely never try.
I have been once, all I remember is what they sort of look like?
They had a reputation as a good company before the pandemic, and they let it go to the crapper during. Now they’re sprinting in the other direction. Bunch of reality-denying dipshits.
They really didn’t though…anti vax and anti lbgqt rights. Printing bible shit on their packaging. They were well known to be assholes
I have started wearing a mask if I have a cold so I don’t give it to everyone else. I am not going to a doctor for a cold. This is a terrible policy.
With all due respect if you have a cold and work in food service you shouldn’t go to work.
Which is why In-N-Out is replacing masks with paid sick days, right…right…right?
I’d be in favor of that. Paid sick leave should be mandatory in all of America. Some states already have policies for that.
Even better yet employees could unionize.
Yeah, but my point is obviously that In-N-Out doesn’t have paid leave and is eliminating one of the few effective protections employees have to prevent the spread of disease.
And it’s ultimately an issue not even worth getting worked up over because I’d be willing to bet about 99% of In-N-Out employees never wear masks even when they’re knowingly sick.
This story is outrage media. Don’t take the bait.
What’s your basis for saying that they don’t have paid leave?
If respect were involved, the workers would get adequate sick time for this to be a possibility.
How much you wanna bet that’s not the case here?
I’d rather not see their smiles and not get whatever illness they may have. There’s a reason food prep people wear hair nets, gloves, blue band-aids, and all that other stuff. We’re just getting done with a global pandemic, can we let people wear masks if they want to for a while please?
If they’re so worried about customer service, they should be focused on changing their shit fries.
They shouldn’t have to smother them with cheese or sauce to make them palatable
I like their fries and animal style is disgusting
Isn’t it a requirement in some countries that food handlers wear some sort of mask anyway?
unless they have a doctor’s note
Edit: I’m only providing some pertinent information that the headline left out. Not trying to stir shit up, y’all.
Why did adding this little bit of context get downvoted? Yes it’s still a ridiculous requirement to require a doctors note if someone wants to wear a mask to protect themselves from illness but OP wasn’t commenting on that, just adding context. If we want this place to be better than Reddit we really should only use the downvote button against posts and comments that are off-topic, inflammatory, or trolling
Yeah! Get some damn upvotes over here!
I agree. That commenter may have been trolling but as a personal rule I only downvote people being rude or people I KNOW are disingenuous from other interactions. If I disagree I just move on.
Definitely not trolling. I saw the news elsewhere and this post was missing what I considered an important piece of information in the title. But yeah I guess brevity failed me.
I dislike this move by my favorite burger joint, but I also dislike headlines that are crafted for more outrage than is deserved. Even if it’s just a teaspoon more.
I don’t have a problem with this. I was an “essential” employee in the before-times and I muddled through and never had an incident of sickness…I think my masking and sanitation saved me from hazard. I’m not downplaying the whole pandemic - I lost a few very good people because of it (I miss you, Russ).
The before-times are past…we need to work through the now times and that requires that we are together as people and a part of being present in the now-times is not hiding behind fear. We need to connect and see each others visage to gauge our connections.
Wear a mask if you have the sniffles (cold/flu), wear a mask if you want to avoid allergens or smoke in the air. Wear a mask if you, like me, are just plain ugly and it makes others more comfortable but do not wear a mask because of covid anymore. That threat is behind us as a people just as the Spanish Flu is behind us as a people, despite it’s presence in the world at large.
The policy says only with a doctor’s letter. So if you’re sick, no mask is allowed, sniffles or not. Unless you go see a provider.
Do they offer insurance? It should be illegal to require doctors notes if you don’t offer insurance. Fuck, insurance should be illegal and visiting doctors should be free.
It’s a fast food restaurant. I can’t even begin to think they provide insurance.
I’m wearing a mask tomorrow just for you
I’m sure this won’t backfire
wow, people still wear masks? didnt Biden say “mission accomplished” or whatever?
I’ve had to wear a mask for allergies since WAY BEFORE the whole mask thing became identity politics. There’s plenty of flavors of grass, that no amount of Flonase or whatever that gets the straight up burning of the inside of my neck to stop. So. I’ve had to wear masks since as long as I can remember for pretty much every summer.
Then COVID happened and now what used to be something literally nobody cared about, suddenly everyone has fucking opinions about masks. So here’s my thing. How about we all just go back to everyone leaving me and everyone else who have been wearing masks most their lives the fuck alone about their mask? Can we do that?
Y’all can fight about COVID or whatever fucking shit, I don’t care. I didn’t really want to have a dog in this race. But yes, some people still wear masks. And the reasons they wear masks can vary for all kinds of reasons. And believe it or not, before 2020, nobody gave two shits about people wearing masks. I know, I was there.
I worked at an Arby’s in the late 1980s wearing a mask during the summer, nobody cared. I’ve worked in warehousing while doing college, nobody cared at the warehouse nor the college. I swear, and I have lived in middle of nowhere Tennessee most of my life and people I went to high school with (way back in dinosaur days) knew me and knew I wore a mask. And even still, today, they might run into me and be like “Oh I thought COVID was over… (snicker, snicker)” And yeah it gets fucking old having to remind them about my allergies and them going “OOOOOHH YEAH!” Like I know we’re getting old, but we ain’t that old.
So I get it, some of y’all just want a fight and apparently “masks” are one of the things on the field. Whatever. But, some of us out here wear masks because the grass is the devil. And gosh, it’s weird thinking that wearing a mask between 1970 and 2020 was the glory days, but fuck, here we are.
All I’m asking is the whole:
wow, people still wear masks?
If you want to bitch, can you at least add “for COVID” at the end? And let us that have shitty immune systems the fuck alone? Can you at least not yank us allergy sufferers in this bullshit? I would greatly appreciate that.
I don’t know why there was a mandate, I don’t know why the mandates made people angry. No one consulted me about any of it and even if they did, I’m not smart enough to have opinions on it anyway. But I don’t know why me putting a piece of cloth over my mouth so that evil grass seed doesn’t get inside my throat has anything to do with that bullshit. Here’s the US House and the US Senate I guess go get them or something. I don’t know, but everyone wearing a mask isn’t some evil liberal employed by Soros, or at least I’m not getting my fucking check.
TL;DR — Some of us wear masks for a lot of other reasons and no one used to give a shit about us wearing masks.
quite the diatribe there
Ahhhh a good ol’ mask fight. It’s been ~~too long ~~not nearly looking enough
