Shop manager sacked for taking cash instead of card

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When you think of all the bugs, hands and intestines that circulating money has gone through it seems a bit OTT to imagine coronavirus presents any great risk.
 
My mobile hairdresser said she had a customer who had sanitised the money and had it all hung up on a string to pay her with. I just paid her what was in my purse and had been there since March.
 
That is one very badly managed company. Not because they sacked the individual, but because they got themselves into a position where they have had to fire somebody for breaching company rules.
 
Terrible handling by the company. No staff member should have cards or cash at the till obviously but to run a bakery where many purchases are small and expect everyone to have a card is absurdity. As the article says many elderly people don’t have cards and there are lots of people who have been struggling through lockdown who may not have had money in the bank but still had some in their purses and pockets. Preferring cards is absolutely the right thing at the time but to ban cash is ridiculous. If the company were so hell bent on sticking to that they should have given instructions to staff to give away bread for those who could only pay cash.
 
What did sacking the manager change? Did it undo any risk caused? Did it reverse the situation? Did it put back the money into the hands of the elderly customers?
No, it's a punishment nothing less (or perhaps a cheap redundancy). They could of just spoken to her and put a stop to it.

This leaves the question, how do the elderly pay for their food?

In 2020 it's no card no food,

No mask no food,

soon it will be no goggles no food.

Where is all this going?

You could keep adding to this list, no internet no prescriptions, no internet no doctors appointment....
 
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Thebearcametoo said:
"they should have given instructions to staff to give away bread for those who could only pay cash".
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Wouldn't that of made a better headline for the company "bakery give free loaf of bread to 94yr old man who didn't have a card"

Shown a bit of kindness, they may of ended up with more customers rather than losing them.
 
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Amity Island said:
This leaves the question, how do the elderly pay for their food?
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There are younger people who can't make use of a bank accounts even. Let alone have a card.
 
I understand their rules and the reasons for them, I also understand what she did and what her motives were, if I'd been standing behind anyone so obviously elderly then I'd have paid for their bread - because none of the businesses local to me - large or small - have been totally refusing cash anyway so they are being ridiculous - the staff just have to take it in turns to do a few hours ONLY on the till, wearing gloves and not handling any goods.

Birds have introduced an unmanageable system and I sincerely trust the lady concerned will bring an unfair dismissal claim against them.
 
I remember when I was in Russia back in the old Soviet days (don't know if it's the same now) all food establishments had a separate place where money was handled, so the person handling the food never handled money 🙂 I've got £15 in my pocket that's been there since March (like @grovesy ) and it would be perfectly safe since neither me not it have been anywhere near the virus 🙂
 
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