Today, I have a doctor’s note confirming that I'm high risk for Covid and should only work from home. My boss still demands I come to the office, even though the only person I meet there is the guy who sterilizes the door handles. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my boss told me that he is really getting scared of Covid-19. He's too cheap for tests. His solution? He'll work from home for 2 weeks while I meet with all employees 1-1. If I don’t get sick, he'll feel OK coming back. FML
Today, my coworker tested positive for Covid. Here's to working 11 hours shifts for the next 10 days to help cover. FML
Today, I dragged myself to work, suffering from a bad cold. My boss quietly told me to go home and rest, to avoid spreading it around the office. I thought it odd since he dislikes me so much, but I did as he said. He called later in the day to suspend me for leaving work early. FML
Today, I'm the only person in my company with almost zero chance of contracting COVID, because I literally have no social life. I'm also the only employee who has to get a COVID test every single day. Yay logic! FML
Today, my workplace demanded a doctor's note to prove that I can’t stand for long periods, and would benefit from a desk job. I guess my above-the-knee amputation and spinal surgery scars don’t count as evidence, but a piece of paper from a doctor is just fine. FML
Today, everyone has been advised to stay home and self-quarantine due to the COVID19 outbreak. This would've been great and all, especially since I'm pregnant and need the bed rest, but I work as a doctor and we're understaffed. FML
Today, I'm quit my job after finding out that there were multiple confirmed cases of Covid-19. It wouldn't be a big deal, if I didn't find out that people aren't following safe distancing, checking their body heat, walking about without face masks, and leaving the entire site dirty as fuck. FML
Today, my idiot boss, who says he used to be an EMT, thinks that all safety precautions in the company COVID-19 response memo and everything we’ve heard from the WHO and CDC is bull and removed the gloves from everyone’s truck. We’re a plumbing and drain company. FML
Today, I would’ve been allowed to return to work after recovering from an accident two months prior. Yesterday, I had to start self-isolating after having gotten infected with Covid at one of my mandatory store trips. FML
Today, the county I live in is quarantined. My boss announced that, "We keep working until the government says they will shoot us if we leave the house.” We work in a call center. Not essential at all. FML
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mitlaeufer 25
in other words: your workplace is practically as safe as staying at home. I don't see why you should't work there
Grizz8831 14
its weird how stupid people are... a year in and people still don't get it. working from home means you can decide to avoid human interactions you don't trust. you know who touched the work space, and you can mitigate more risks. my own work believes at work is safer because management can punish socializing and sinning at work. (actual reasoning, wish I was exaggerating). it is all about know you are there. show them the doctor's decision in note form, then at least you can sue later if you get it from negligence.
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mitlaeufer 25
in other words: your workplace is practically as safe as staying at home. I don't see why you should't work there
Inkoseh 33
Exactly. OPs doctor probably assumes his physical workplace is filled with others. If there's no one else other than a cleaner and you HAVE to be there. (I'm going to assume accounting or IT) then it's absolutely no different. If you grocery shop or get takeout, that'll have more contamination than washing your hands at an empty building. :)
mekiswrite 21
OP likely works with several other people, but the only one OP sees at the office is guy that sterilizes the door handle. Where is the boss and other coworkers? My guess is, is that OP is saying that, despite being high risk, OP is the only person being forced to attend the office- which is not as safe as working from home, because OP doesn't know where the door guy has been and could potentially cross paths with others on the street that OP wouldn't if they were working from home.
core01 30
Driving to and from requires purchasing gas more frequently, or taking public transit. Exposing OP to far more people than WFH. It's not as if OP teleports to work.
samomaha 17
Absolutely right, core01. OP could also have other health issues that place him in deeper danger than the greater population if he should catch Covid19. I am a Type 1 diabetic and cancer survivor with an impaired immune system. Non-pandemic era normal work environments pose little threat to me. But I have been told by three doctors that if I catch Covid19, I will not survive it. That's a much higher risk than the average person, so working from home and ordering grocery delivery is the only fully safe option for me. The current workplace is absolutely NOT "practically as safe as staying at home".
Grizz8831 14
its weird how stupid people are... a year in and people still don't get it. working from home means you can decide to avoid human interactions you don't trust. you know who touched the work space, and you can mitigate more risks. my own work believes at work is safer because management can punish socializing and sinning at work. (actual reasoning, wish I was exaggerating). it is all about know you are there. show them the doctor's decision in note form, then at least you can sue later if you get it from negligence.
RichardPencil 32
If you're at least as isolated at the office as you are at home, why not require you be there? They pay you -- they own you.
RichardPencil 32
I don't see the OPs location so I don't know what the prevailing laws are. Also, laws being on the books doesn't necessarily mean they have teeth. Workers in the US have virtually no meaningful rights even though a bunch of laws exist on paper.