Costco Employee Praised For Calmly Handling Customer Who Refused To Wear Mask

At the beginning of the video, the man behind the camera tells the worker, who's only been identified as Tison, that he's going to be sharing footage of their interaction to his social media.

As he threatens, "I'll just put you on my 3,000-follower Instagram feed, mostly loved ones."

"Hi everyone," he says, giving the camera polite little wave, "I work for Costco and I'm asking this member to put on a mask because that is our company policy."

It's at this point in the video where things really start to heat up, presumably because the man behind the camera wasn't getting the reaction from Tison that he wanted.

"I'm not doing it because I woke up in a free country," he says, before directing the video towards Tison once again.

"Have a great day," the employee says as he grabs the customer's cart, attempting to put a stop to all this utter nonsense.

"Sir, have a great day," Tison says, keeping both his hands firmly on the shopping cart. "You are no longer welcome here in our warehouse. You need to leave. Thank you very much."

The customer tries to tell the woman he's with to finish checking out their items, but it's too late — Tison's already walking away with his groceries.

The man's assumed wife or girlfriend is following Costco policy by wearing a rather large mask, and seems exasperated at the very least over the fact that their groceries were taken away.

She's made no public comment, nor is their exact relationship known, but she didn't interfere in any regard.

After vulgarly insulting Tison, he films him disappearing with his grocery cart and says, "There he is, walking away with all my stuff. There he goes. Because I'm not a f**king sheep."

Watch the full video below.

It has since been re-posted all over the internet, including on Twitter by user @OnlyInLVNV who captioned the clip, "Kevin and Karen get shopping cart taken away at #Costco."

As of writing, the video has more than 9.1 million views and has been retweeted nearly 5,000 times.

"@Costco, please give Tison a raise," this Twitter user implored of the company, while another person added, "I love this employee. I have never been a Costco member but I may have to change. Good for him and good for Costco."

"This is exactly why I stand with Costco," this user wrote. "Your dedication to keeping your customers and your employees safe is incredible. Thank you for standing up to this bully even though he chose to use profanity and show his stupidity as he tried to get a rise out of you."

This Twitter user let everyone know that they're, "sick of your sh*t," and reminded the angry customer and everyone like him how frightening it can be working with the public.

They're following every rule to keep not only themselves, but all their customers safe, a fact which many feel is forgotten by those who are angry about regulations.

"People of Twitter," he wrote, "thank you for all of the support. I was just trying to protect our employees and our members."

He followed up that post with a photo of him with his face mask lowered as he gives the camera, and all his fans, a big thumbs up.

In yet another video posted online, the unnamed customer addresses viewers and introduces himself as "your favorite Reddit public figure and f***ing villain."

"I've got every fking right to not wear a mask anywhere because this isn't about wearing a mask — this is about control," he fumes. "I'm not the fing sheep; y'all are the f***ing sheep."

"[That] means you're protected from me and I'm protected from you," he says. "So if everyone else is wearing a mask, then one person should be able to fly, if anything."

If anyone out there happens to agree with this man's airtight logic, please consider checking out some of the information the CDC has provided regarding the purpose of face masks and how they actually work.

This comment sums it all up rather nicely. When you sign up for a Costco membership, you agree to their rules, and that's the bottom line.

Not to mention these rules were created specifically to protect everyone. If you want to recklessly endanger yourself, go ahead, but leave others out of it.

h/t: Twitter | @OnlyInLVNV