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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 16 2019, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the apple-products-have-bugs dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday April 16 2019, @11:34PM (2 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday April 16 2019, @11:34PM (#830709)

    Seriously, what management needs to do...

    You missed this bit:

    "We felt very anxious, used and unimportant, like we were just another number."

    That is because they really are unimportant, and just another number. Why would management care?

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:23AM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:23AM (#830766)

    Well, I said what management needs to do is identify the actual source of the bugs, and that's most likely an underpaid employee's cheap (for the city) apartment. That's not caring about the employees, that's caring about the image of the store.

    On the other hand, what management should do is either A) terminate the source of the problem if they're not much of an asset anyway, or B) in the (rare) instance where the underpaid employee is an actual asset to the store, they should help them through the bedbug problem so they can continue to be an asset in the store.

    Of course, management themselves are underpaid, neglected and abused flunkies of the bigger organization, so why should they care about anything but collecting their paychecks until they find a better gig?

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    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:10AM

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:10AM (#830784)

      That all sounds totally cynical.

      I'm sure you're entirely correct. Unfortunately.