COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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Rell Lauren
Banned
I've argued that they intentionally responded as slow as they did to cripple the West and their economies. Italy has also bought supplies from China since this started.
But then you throw em away after every use?Latex gloves work with touch screens tho...
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Doctor Wily
CapcomSwag
You can resterlilze nitrile or latex gloves with Ethanol (above 63%) or Isopropyl (70/30) alcohol after using it.
Them reusable grocery bags gonna see an increase in use after this. More people gonna be bringing their own instead of relying on plastic bags.So go get itJust don’t touch shyt but what u buy and have hand sanitizer on deck in the car. You should be fine. I don’t use a buggy or basket. I have canvas Nike bags. I stopped using plastic bags months ago. So I put my shyt in my bags then unpack them at the register and hand the cashier the bags to repack.
El_Mero_Mero
All Star
What's your source on this?
saturn7
Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
Urban Outfitters employees are being forced to work during coronavirus shutdowns: ‘There is nothing life-sustaining about it’
by Catherine Dunn, Updated: March 26, 2020- 4:27 AM
The package appeared at the Urban Outfitters warehouse on March 17. It was the standard zip-up case for customers receiving and returning brand-name clothes rented by the month through the company’s Nuuly subscription service.
A note was attached.
“I’d typically take to store, but we have come in contact with virus and are taking zero risks of spreading,” said the note, a copy of which was seen by The Inquirer. “Thank you. Stay well.”
Whoever wrote it underlined “thank you” three times.
A young man who processes returns at the warehouse in Bristol Township was concerned about handling this one, employees said. He was instructed to process it anyway.
This week, a different kind of note arrived at the inboxes of employees at Urban Outfitters’ headquarters in Philadelphia, where some employees have had to report to work during the coronavirus pandemic. “Unfortunately, we have had our first confirmed case of COVID-19 in an employee from the Navy Yard” campus, the email said.
Urban Outfitters Inc. — which also encompasses such brands as Anthropologie, Free People, BHLDN, and Terrain — rang up almost $4 billion in sales in the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2019, its most recent annual report. The company was one of the first retailers to close its stores to the public as social distancing measures took hold, and has now pinned its hopes on e-commerce.
That means dozens of employees have continued producing photo shoots and running food and beverage service at its Navy Yard campus, even as other businesses have shuttered. Hundreds more have kept operations running at warehouses in Bristol Township and in Gap, Pa.
» READ MORE: What the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill could mean for Pa. and N.J.
The company says it’s in compliance with city orders to close “nonessential” businesses and state orders to close business that aren’t “life-sustaining,” noting there are exceptions to those orders. “We are carefully reviewing and following state and local executive orders across the country on an hourly basis,” a spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
But current and former employees are voicing growing concerns about the in-person work requirements amid the global pandemic that has put a halt to huge amounts of economic activity in the United States and around the world. This article is based on audio of internal meetings, company emails, and interviews with multiple employees who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect their jobs.
Some employees have circulated a phone script encouraging friends and family to call Gov. Tom Wolf’s office to report that Urban is “endangering people’s livelihoods, mental health, and physical well-being ... to sell clothes and home furnishing items.”
As one worker at the Nuuly warehouse put it: “There is nothing life-sustaining about it. We are literally renting out clothes to slightly privileged people.”
In a statement emailed Wednesday in response to questions from The Inquirer, Urban did not address specific questions about the incident at the Nuuly warehouse or other claims by employees. The company said employees “are not required to come to work if they don’t feel comfortable" and can use sick, vacation, and unpaid days off to do so.
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Urban Outfitters employees are being forced to work during coronavirus shutdowns
by Catherine Dunn, Updated: March 26, 2020- 4:27 AM
The package appeared at the Urban Outfitters warehouse on March 17. It was the standard zip-up case for customers receiving and returning brand-name clothes rented by the month through the company’s Nuuly subscription service.
A note was attached.
“I’d typically take to store, but we have come in contact with virus and are taking zero risks of spreading,” said the note, a copy of which was seen by The Inquirer. “Thank you. Stay well.”
Whoever wrote it underlined “thank you” three times.
A young man who processes returns at the warehouse in Bristol Township was concerned about handling this one, employees said. He was instructed to process it anyway.
This week, a different kind of note arrived at the inboxes of employees at Urban Outfitters’ headquarters in Philadelphia, where some employees have had to report to work during the coronavirus pandemic. “Unfortunately, we have had our first confirmed case of COVID-19 in an employee from the Navy Yard” campus, the email said.
Urban Outfitters Inc. — which also encompasses such brands as Anthropologie, Free People, BHLDN, and Terrain — rang up almost $4 billion in sales in the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2019, its most recent annual report. The company was one of the first retailers to close its stores to the public as social distancing measures took hold, and has now pinned its hopes on e-commerce.
That means dozens of employees have continued producing photo shoots and running food and beverage service at its Navy Yard campus, even as other businesses have shuttered. Hundreds more have kept operations running at warehouses in Bristol Township and in Gap, Pa.
» READ MORE: What the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill could mean for Pa. and N.J.
The company says it’s in compliance with city orders to close “nonessential” businesses and state orders to close business that aren’t “life-sustaining,” noting there are exceptions to those orders. “We are carefully reviewing and following state and local executive orders across the country on an hourly basis,” a spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
But current and former employees are voicing growing concerns about the in-person work requirements amid the global pandemic that has put a halt to huge amounts of economic activity in the United States and around the world. This article is based on audio of internal meetings, company emails, and interviews with multiple employees who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect their jobs.
Some employees have circulated a phone script encouraging friends and family to call Gov. Tom Wolf’s office to report that Urban is “endangering people’s livelihoods, mental health, and physical well-being ... to sell clothes and home furnishing items.”
As one worker at the Nuuly warehouse put it: “There is nothing life-sustaining about it. We are literally renting out clothes to slightly privileged people.”
In a statement emailed Wednesday in response to questions from The Inquirer, Urban did not address specific questions about the incident at the Nuuly warehouse or other claims by employees. The company said employees “are not required to come to work if they don’t feel comfortable" and can use sick, vacation, and unpaid days off to do so.
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Urban Outfitters employees are being forced to work during coronavirus shutdowns
threattonature
Veteran
Damn one of my best friend's husband is a doc up in NY. One of the workers in his hospital came down sick with the symptoms so now he's quarantined to his basement for 14 days. His coworker can't get tested though due to not showing enough symptoms yet. I wonder how many more doctors and medical workers are going to end up quarantined leaving even less help going forward.
<<TheStandard>>
I Am A God
I have a chick I used to fukk who's a nurse.
Back in March she wasn't taking this shyt seriously at all. She was in Utah in came back with the Flu and would say how the Flu was more serious than the Corona Virus and how people were worried about the wrong thing. I knew to avoid her from then on out. She was going on dates, even as most of the city was scaling back and shutting down.
Now she hits me talking about how she's worried about being on the front lines and having to check people for Covid-19.
Back in March she wasn't taking this shyt seriously at all. She was in Utah in came back with the Flu and would say how the Flu was more serious than the Corona Virus and how people were worried about the wrong thing. I knew to avoid her from then on out. She was going on dates, even as most of the city was scaling back and shutting down.
Now she hits me talking about how she's worried about being on the front lines and having to check people for Covid-19.
Why Cuono on TV coked the fukked up shyt don't blame him.
Red Shield
Global Domination
Bruno is usually big on China too..
Definitely gonna be some changes afterwards when it comes to dealing with China.
Wonder what the party over there thinks about Xi Jinping now.
philmonroe
Superstar
If it ain't that serious fukk you quote me for? You felt the need to quote me but saying it ain't that serious well if that's the case let it go.
BmoreGorilla
Veteran
You right. I shoulda kept scrolling past you