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“It seemed the early days of Covid, reminded me of those days of fear.” Leonor’s Day was not easy: “Lack of amazing civility!”
The general originated a different day for many Portuguese. We have already squeezed a little how the day was in transport, or one involving an INEM van, or even as it was that day.
And how was the day of a repositora of a large supermarket? Leonor, fictitious name, gives us the answer: “It was very complicated, super tiring. That day and the following days.”
Leonor thought that Monday morning would be quiet. She and her colleagues would enjoy the morning (supposedly) calm to recover in the replacements.
It was a morning where they were only three employees In replacement – and that would be a problem right after.
“Suddenly, out of nowhere, we started to see people, more people, and more people… and without understanding. Because we didn’t realize what was going on out there. ”
There was something that caught his attention: “Customers started to take a lot bread And to pass the boxes with a lot water” – In addition to chips, preserves or tuna.
Something was going on.
After conversations with co -workers and clients, he could see: there was no light.
It seemed that the pandemic was back in force: “It became complicated. It seemed those first days of Covid: It made me very much remind me of this, it reminded me of those days of fear, where I I didn’t want people to touch meI didn’t want to be close to people – but people insisted on being around us. They were Malcriadas, arrogant. It really looked like Covid; There were only no masks, and people took water instead of toilet paper. ”
He was cashierwhere the environment had already warmed, but nor was it – Because the corridors had an environment equal or worse: “I ended up answer crooked To some customers who thought we had an obligation to have the shelves full of beans, tuna… We were not able to give vent. ”
“Do you think I have mechanical arms!?” Leonor asked a client.
The morning was not being calm, after all: “The cash lines completely cluttered, employees who had not been to cashier for years returned to the box, then the MBway and then failed to confusion It was generated. ”
Luck: Excessive material in the warehouse.
Problem: Put this material on the shelves.
Solution: “We reached the point of going Seek the pallets and abandon them in the middle of the corridor. Whoever wanted to take. Nor did we give ourselves to the work of putting things on the shelves – because they didn’t even leave us. They took things out of their hands. ”
“I was trying to replace the bread in shape and the people ripped my shape bread. I said to my colleague: leaves the pallets here in the middle of the store and let’s go. Whoever wants, to take from the boxes, that I am not about to take with these Crazy. I was enough for COVID“Reports Leonor.
In the middle, the employee still finds “joke”-no joke-at a moment, in a small conversation with a client: “she asked me”Tomorrow are you going to open? They are saying on television that we will run out of light for 48h ‘ – I mean… if you don’t know, we don’t know. It is unknown. We don’t even know if we’ll be open in an hour. ”
The client insisted, “Oh, because if they are open, I come to shopping tomorrow instead of coming today.”
Leonor replied, “Go upset the radius that leaves it. Because… it can’t. People have an incredible lack of civility. Incredible!”
Later, after 15h, the Prohibited of customers began to be controlled, At a time when there was almost no water inside.
When he came away, another different moment: Leonor went through a shopping center and saw that employees from various stores took the material that was at the entrance of the stores, afraid of piles.
“It’s another story for one day to tell our grandchildren, who knows?”
The next day, Tuesday, some customers appeared to…: “There was a customer who took 100 cans of tuna and came back. They came back water and some canned. We did not accept the return of bread,” he warned.
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, Zap //
