The famed Apple store on 5th Avenue isn't just crawling with thousands of tourists– it's also been crawling with bed bugs for nearly a month, The Post has learned.
This past Friday, after weeks of bed bug sightings, a critter was spotted in the manager's office, sending desperate employees into a frenzy, terrified they'd bring the pest home with them.
"It was just mayhem," an employee told The Post.
"There was a mass exodus... employees were freaking out they felt really unsafe and management kept giving them the runaround."
Staff were ordered to double bag their belongings in plastic while a "bed bug sniffing beagle" came to the store where it was "activated" by two lockers in a staff area.
"I shouldn't have to go to work feeling unsafe and unprotected," one worker told The Post.
"We felt very anxious, used and unimportant, like we were just another number."
One worker said the issue has been going on for "nearly a month" and "Friday was the first day they acknowledged they found something."
The employee said the issue started about three to four weeks ago during the overnight hours at the 24-hour store, which frequently has homeless visitors, when a table on the second floor was "cordoned off" because a bed bug was found, believed to have come from one of the homeless visitors.
The table was left cordoned off while employees and customers were allowed in the store and around the table with no warning of the bed bug threat, an employee said.
"No one could go to that table but it was still on the floor, if a customer leaned on it and they didn't know" a bug could've crawled on them, the worker said.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/15/the-5th-ave-apple-store-has-been-crawling-with-bed-bugs/
(Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Tuesday April 16 2019, @08:38PM (6 children)
Still not as bad as the bugs in the Microsoft store. :P
If this had been in a Linux store, it would have sent everyone in to a kernel panic.
(Score: 4, Funny) by RS3 on Tuesday April 16 2019, @09:27PM (2 children)
I first read "kennel panic".
(Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Tuesday April 16 2019, @09:33PM (1 child)
... because "bed bug sniffing beagle" ...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:33AM
Donde Esta Roscoe? [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:32AM (2 children)
At the same time as this, the Cyclone Idai death toll is now over a thousand, with further hundreds of thousands left homeless. But hey, this one is the real cause for concern, a bedbug has been sighted in New York.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:09PM
I checked the Subs Queue. No story on Cyclone Idai has been submitted by driverless, nor by any other user. If you think it's a story that would be of interest to the readership here, you should submit it instead of complaining that nobody has submitted it instead of some other story. This is a user-driven site.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @03:36PM
https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=&query=idai&author=&sort=1&op=stories [soylentnews.org]
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/20/0413213 [soylentnews.org]
Search fail.