In response to Catherine’s question, “If teachers, cashiers, and other service oriented careers require hygiene, should the people utilizing the services be obligated to be clean as well?”

To bluntly answer your question, YES people who use these services should practice good hygiene as well as the employees, especially when the customers are the ones who complain when an employee isn’t clean. Just like the customers, the employees don’t want to have to try to hold their breath while dealing with a customer who may have bad body odor or bad breath. Another complaint as an employee I have is when customers have dirty hands and try to hand you money…I don’t want to touch that especially when there is lint and hair and dirty and who knows what else mixed in with it. Even people who have dirty clothes or who haven’t brushed their hair or teeth gross me out. If we as employees have to be clean than customers have to be clean too…double standards don’t fly with me at all…when it comes to hygiene there are no exceptions.

Do you feel there are any exceptions to double standards??