Thread regarding Macy's Inc. layoffs

I am a former Macy's employee at a now closed down store. Masks do not work! My husband and I and another family member just recovered. You cannot stop a virus. If anything, they are spreading not only the virus, but other nasty germs. We barely went anywhere and still got it. Probably at a store. With everybody wearing masks. I know lots of people with it right now. I had it really bad but recovered. Everyone I know is recovering. Some people will get it worse than others. But please don't live your life in fear! I miss working, and if my store was still open I would be there.

The company follows the cdc guidelines. Your store would receive talking points if the associate tested positive if they tested positive but have not been in the building 72 hours from the test or start of symptoms. If they have been then the company blasts a mass text or email and the store gets talking points too. If your stores aren’t doing this then they should be.

To the poster below, just go away you effing troll! You clearly don’t know what your talking about! Sounds like you were furloughed and never brought back because you’re a miserable person

Poster below: LOL now I know for sure you're a toadie! Not only do you have disrespect for people on the bottom of the hierarchy, you don't know how to spell "totem"!

Why don't you address OP's original point that Macy's sticks to the letter of the law to avoid any light being shined on their substandard and dangerous practices? Oh that's right–because you're a butt-licking toadie!

Um, hello poster below. I’m not confused. You’re obviously low on todem pole at your store. Go ask your manager to explain it to you if I wasn’t clear enough.

Poster below, I think you are confused about what the words "arbitrary number" mean. People can be contagious for up to 10 days, which definitely overlaps that time period.

You must be some sort of toadie for an answer like that.

This is in response to the last poster. I’m sorry but you are confused as to how this virus is spread. If you wore your mask around the positive person and haven’t had contact for at least 72 hours you will be fine. I believe you explained your intentions in the last sentence, you said you just hate them! I believe it’s time for you to resign and find a job that better fits someone like you!

Oh, I do my absolute best to distance and sanitize with trainees, but it's nearly impossible to keep 6 feet at all times. Using a computer is difficult from 6 feet away. I pretty much have every "click this click that" memorized so well I could tell it from my office, but realistically let's face it, it is hard to set up everything. All I can do is my best. Store manager doesn't care though. She's all talk publicly, but when I told her my concerns she basically told me too bad, figure it out. I'm trying. But they aren't backing me up or helping with any support or even concern.

I hate the callousness and using the letter of the law to avoid addressing the big picture. Oh, what, you worked with them 72 hrs and 1 minute ago? Too bad.

I believe the number is arbitrary because you could be with that individual every day leading up to that time period. A positive test after 72 hours away from people proves nothing about what happened the 11 days before that. I guess I must be missing something and I'm sorry for being dense.

I think what's really bothering me is that I just don't like using rules so stringently to avoid any bad publicity. Can't scare anyone because they might not come in. Numbers are more important than health and safety. Use the rules to maintain as much secrecy as humanly possible to prevent any inquiry into what's really going on, how they're not doing everything they are supposed to.

I just hate them. Period.

Company doesn’t inform everyone anymore that there is a case in the store. They only contact those who had direct don’t with the person. And yes, all of a sudden this 72 hour thing came into play. Even with training, you should be social distancing. My team and I do and we are in a semi small store too.

Out of 72 hours it doesn’t get reported. Wear a mask you’ll be fine.

Then please explain how that makes any sense. If I worked with you 75 hours before your positive test, are you saying I couldn't have gotten it? That's an arbitrary amount of time.

No if the positive employee didn’t test positive within 72 hours of working closely with someone that are not required to notify employees

YES. Yes no doubt. But Macy's doesn't do anything correctly so don't hold your breath. Call your local health department or file a complaint with your state's governor