I work at Woolworths and I'm sick of being abused by customers... this is my five-word message for them
A Woolworths worker has detailed the disgraceful abuse they constantly receive from customers as they take out their frustration with the supermarket on staff. The part-time worker and university student, 19, wrote a note detailing the awful behaviour from customers, including being spat on, hit with trolleys and copping a tirade of verbal abuse. Many supermarket workers agreed with the teen, with one saying in-store abuse from customers was 'getting out of control' 'In the last year, the abuse me and my coworkers seem to cop is in comparison to the way we were treated during Covid, if not worse,' the worker told Yahoo. Woolworths recently spent $40 million to help protect their staff, including issuing body worn cameras, as well as headsets and personal duress devices. Woolworths has spent $40 million dollars in security upgrades to keep their team members safe, including body worn cameras 'The majority of our customers do the right thing but we have a number of initiatives that we use, both covert and overt, to help reduce violence and aggression in our stores,' he said.
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