Keeping Warm in a Cold World

It’s been a while since I’ve been on here, let alone made a personal post, but here I am because I need to vent somewhere without worry of anyone I know seeing it and putting my job in danger. So I just got promoted to assistant manager. This week is my first week in the position. Today I almost lost my job because it took everything in me to not lose it on a customer. We’re only allowing 10 people in my store at a time. And we’re requiring face masks. The company even gave us masks to hand out for FREE to people who don’t have them. So, the store has 10 people in it. I’m standing at the door letting customers who are trying to come in know it will be a few minutes, and they can come in as soon as we clear out. This guy tries coming in. Mind you, it says stop and wait for an employee to tell you it’s ok to come in at multiple place by the enterance. He pays no attention to those signs, or me, and just walks right in. I tell him, we’re at compacity and it’ll just be a few minute wait. He says, “I’m meeting someone....” I say, “ok.....but we’re still at capacity and you have to wait till someone leaves” he throws his back and says “this is fucking bullshit”, but he goes at waits outside. Someone leaves, so he comes up to me and says “NOW can I come in???” In the most overly nice voice I say “yes now you may, but you need to put a mask on” he says, “NO I FUCKING DONT” and storms past me. At this point, I’m fuming and went to go after him, but a co worker stopped me because he knew I was going to cuss him out. My manager was on register and missed the whole interaction, but she told me I should’ve told her and she would’ve kicked him out. I’m not used being this high up in management, but even I had the power to kick him out, which I should’ve done in the first place when he threw a fit about having to wait till the store cleared out. And remember how he said he was meeting a friend? Well the said friend comes in regularly, and always gives us trouble about wearing a mask. He told us he believes god gave him a good immune system and he won’t get sick. He doesn’t understand it’s about being considerate of other people. As a type one diabetic, I’m at high risk. I have family and friends who are also high risk. It blows my mind that people are so stubborn and rude about wearing a fucking mask. All day at work I have to run around handing out masks to people because they don’t bring them with them. It’s so fucking annoying. And this isn’t the first time I’ve gotten into it with customers about wearing one, but for whatever reason today really shook me up and got to me. I so badly want to be able to put these people in their place. So many people simply walk away and are nice when I tell them we’re requiring masks in store and they don’t want to wear one. I’m always nice and kind. So are my co workers. Yet we’re treated like villains by certain ignorant people for following our company’s rules. I can’t wait for all this to go away.