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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]oh my god, PP.  Have you heard of RETAIL?  Of course there are people that are getting coughed on regularly at work.[/quote]

+1, I've worked in both retail and food service and been coughed and sneezed on, had people touch me with hands they just coughed or sneezed into. Also, in these jobs you are constantly cleaning. I've had to clean the bathroom in restaurant jobs before. Ever scrubbed a toilet that a bunch of random strangers who'd been drinking recently used?

I would take being a preschool teacher over these jobs every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Yes, I'm sure I'd also catch viruses from the kids all the time. But there is no way that a bunch of 4 year olds would treat me worse or that I'd have to deal with as much disgusting behavior as I have had to in the many service industry jobs I've had. At least with kids you go into it knowing they are going to be kind of gross and it's because they don't yet know better.[/quote]

Absolutely I have worked in retail. I worked at a beer serving Chuck E. Cheese during college so yes I have cleaned up after strangers and when the toilet overflows ;)I worked in macys during Christmas and nope you do not get as close to people in retail because they are strangers and we keep a certain amount of social distance from people we don’t know. In retail you are not talking eye to eye with a child comforting them when they cry when they just sneeze in your face. As a caregiver the kids naturally get very close to you.  Strangers in a retail store keep more distance because they don’t know you as well .  Kids are cuter and I clean up their crap snot and pee everyday. Come be a preschool teacher- or at least sub! Besides pee is mostly sterile even when it is in the floor and toilet seat.[/quote]

It's my favorite when teachers argue that it's people who clean up pee are in the privileged position.[/quote]

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