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: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:24PM (1 child)
I will submit for consideration that if a person becomes homeless, feels abandoned, and thereby loses all sense of self-worth that even the sanest can quite easily develop mental health issues.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by pdfernhout on Wednesday April 17 2019, @03:06PM
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34921573-lost-connections [goodreads.com]
"Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told—like his entire generation—that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question—and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.
Across the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes—and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin—all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now.
Just as Chasing the Scream transformed the global debate about addiction, with over twenty million views for his TED talk and the animation based on it, Lost Connections will lead us to a very different debate about depression and anxiety—one that shows how, together, we can end this epidemic."
Although sometimes issues are more complex:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6446928-the-depression-cure [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21413760-the-upward-spiral [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134266.Out_of_the_Nightmare [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8062873-the-globalization-of-addiction [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617702.In_the_Realm_of_Hungry_Ghosts [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34837239-the-whole-foods-diet [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93571.Dark_Nights_of_the_Soul [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6905612-supernormal-stimuli [goodreads.com]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205000.The_Pleasure_Trap [goodreads.com]
https://depressionanxietyseries.com/lifetimeaccess [depressionanxietyseries.com]
etc.
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.