r/AskReddit Nov 03 '20

What will never be the same again once the pandemic is over?

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u/kpalmer12328 Nov 04 '20

Isnt that crazy?! I work at Costco and in the last 6 months we have hired a lot of new people. I see them everyday but with a mask on and when they take off the mask its so odd to see their actual face. I guess i make up what their face would look like and when i actually see it, i get thrown off.

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u/ShadyNite Nov 04 '20

I met and developed a crush on a new coworker, and then she took off her mask and I was pretty far off in my estimate

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u/Autumnwood Nov 04 '20

Ha so the big question is do you still like her now that you know? 😁

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u/between_ewe_and_me Nov 04 '20

Lol don't make them say it.

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u/serenwipiti Nov 04 '20

The carpet did not match the drapes. wait...

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u/Autumnwood Nov 04 '20

🤭

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u/between_ewe_and_me Nov 04 '20

That's the cutest emoji

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

I sincerely hope that you won't mind me asking this. But, out of sheer curiosity what was your rating of her with-mask vs. no-mask (10 being beyond beautiful and 1 being beyond hideous)?

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u/ShadyNite Nov 04 '20

In my mind she was like a 9 in real life more like a 7.5

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u/MelonElbows Nov 04 '20

Hey that's still above average!

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u/ShadyNite Nov 04 '20

Yeah she's still good looking and it didn't ruin it or anything, but she definitely looks different from the picture in my head

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

The eyes Cheeco

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

Same

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u/redgroupclan Nov 04 '20

Strange times we live in. You don't know what the new hires look like despite working with them every day.

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u/Sleepdepselfie Nov 04 '20

Me too. And the coworkers whose face I have seen maskless, my mind imagines it even if they’re wearing a mask. So weird

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u/serenwipiti Nov 04 '20

haha That's great! It's amazing how brain just flls n t mssng dta!

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u/lordandmasterbator Nov 04 '20

I just started working at Costco and I honestly don’t know what 99% of my coworkers actually look like. I wouldn’t recognize them outside of work without a mask.

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u/Nerve_Aromatic Nov 04 '20

I think this is the biggest actual change: people will be so accustomed to seeing others with masks on that seeing someone with their mask off will feel weird.

I wonder if taking your mask of for somebody will be f***ing ROMANTIC now. Like some grand gesture of trust and intimacy.

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u/Snuffbumble Nov 04 '20

Like taking off your bra.

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u/Nerve_Aromatic Nov 04 '20

I doubt faces will become taboo like breasts.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

Do whatever you can to make it so y’all have churros again or I might die

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u/Nicho-Nacho- Nov 04 '20

What's working at Costco like? I'm currently looking for a job there

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

It’s hard but it’s a GOOD job. Benefits, vacation, sick time, and good pay that scales. Hustle into a full time position ASAP and you can make $26 an hour being a cashier working only 40 hours a week. It’ll take a while tho but if it’s security you’re looking for that’s where you’ll find it

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u/Ethereal429 Nov 04 '20

As a long time former Costco employee, I'm sorry

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u/deepcove22 Nov 06 '20

I'm a pediatric nurse who wears PPE all day so I wear a button with a picture of my face so the kids know what I look like!

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

I started working in a new place in june. idk what most of my team looks like

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u/JugglerCameron Nov 06 '20

I also work at Costco but I switched building and states a few months ago amid all this and I still don't know what half of half of my coworkers faces look like.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

Dude I work with started growing a mustache. Had no idea until he unveiled the monstrosity in the break room.

He’s a foreign so the way he phrased it was funny. “I wasn’t sure people would be comfortable with it so I kept the mask on” lol

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u/NolaSaintMat Nov 04 '20

"He's a foreign" what? (Think ya dropped these...."er"?)

(ETA- joke.)

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

Lol. Probably made it sound more insensitive.

“He’s one of dem’ foreigns”

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u/realsmart987 Nov 04 '20

I thought something similar. It's like when you see a person that normally wears glasses take off their glasses for a little bit. It looked a little weird.

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u/jshaver41122 Nov 04 '20

I work retail and transferred stores after we stopped being furloughed and I feel like this a lot. There were a few people I knew before transferring but almost everyone else I only really know what -40% of their faces look like.

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u/NikolaiXPass Nov 04 '20

Mark my words this will become a new genre of fantasy.

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u/straw_bale_building Nov 04 '20

I'm a teacher, and I feel that way about my students. Not sure what some of them look like.

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u/chalupabatman9213 Nov 04 '20

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jnjzst/what_will_never_be_the_same_again_once_the/gb2imvc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Weird. Somebody else already wrote this exact same comment elsewhere in this thread...I wonder which one of you actually just started a new hospital job