@Shift_HKS just surveyed 1000s of grocery, food service, retail, and delivery workers. Safety issues were pervasive. In their own words, workers sound the alarm and provide a call to action. Pls read along - one comment every 5 mins for 10 days. THREAD!

"People don't wear mask and we have to get close to them when they need help I actually had one lady spit on me while she was talking"
- Grocery worker, North Carolina

"The corporate leaders do not give us what we need to properly deal with the COVID problem. For example we are not allowed to kick people out for not wearing masks."
- Pharmacy worker, California

"We were opened from day one. All the steps to handle this was not put into place right away."
- Retail worker, Pennsylvania

"No distancing. Some people refuse to wear masks or distance."
- Hardware worker, Washington

"The customers and/or employees often wear their mask incorrectly and/or not at all. If you come in contact with someone who is not wearing a mask and they are coughing, then you have to disinfect the register that person was using."
- Grocery worker, Pennsylvania

"Not made to wear masks."
- Retail worker, New York

"We're not turning away people who refuse to wear mask. Hard to make sure everyone is walking in with a mask; many refuse. Very hard to maintain a clean area when you're constantly working alone with no hours to support double coverage."
- Retail worker, South Carolina

"After guest is seated, they take off their mask. I am inches from people who do not have masks on. Employees have masks available to them if needed & they all wear them when the director of operations comes in."
- Casual Dining worker, Minnesota

"We don't clean everything as much as we should, nobody stays 6 feet apart "
- Casual Dining worker, Pennsylvania

"They aren't as strict about enforcing masks & kicking out people who don't cooperate as they should be. The longer the pandemic goes on the less they seem to take enforcing things seriously. It's a miracle one of us hasn't tested positive yet."
- Retail worker, Pennsylvania