Today, I tested positive for COVID. This wouldn’t be a big deal, except my entire family has now fallen like a stack of dominos, and despite being asymptomatic, I now have to quarantine. My work stopped doing COVID leave in November. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, on the first day of the first week off together with my family in six months, we’re all quarantined with positive COVID tests. By the time we’re off quarantine, I’ll be back at work. FML
Today, I tested positive for COVID-19. I just spent 5 weeks at a job training and was supposed to go on holiday on Monday, the first since 2019. Now I can’t even go home and hug my son. FML
Today, I tested positive for Covid. Not only do I feel absolutely miserable, but I was at work all day yesterday, interacting with the public. Also, the day before that, I hung out at a friend's house with a 3-month-old infant. If any one of them get Covid, it's my fault. FML
Today, I'm in quarantine after testing positive for Covid. Two weeks after starting a new job. Two months after receiving the vaccine. FML
Today, my 20-day summer break started. It was also the day my entire family, including me, tested positive for Covid. I'm typing this in an isolation ward. There goes my summer break. 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 woke up to a text from my girlfriend telling me to call when I wake up. Turns out she had one of her friends over who tested positive for Covid and I was just at her house, so now I’m forced to quarantine. FML
Today, I woke up with a dry cough, which is a red flag for COVID. I took a home test, came up positive; went to a doctor, same result. I get home, mask up, and tell my roommates to test. I'm still in the process of telling the family I can't make it for Thanksgiving when my roomies test positive, too. FML
Today, my girlfriend broke up with me. Then my COVID test came back as positive. FML
Today, I jokingly said to my coworker, "God, what I wouldn't do for a week off work." I was then tested positive for COVID fifteen minutes later. FML
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wrenavery90 12
Your business can't stop COVID leave.
RichardPencil 32
Bullshit. Your work did not cancel Covid leave while the Delta and Omicron variants were raging. They should have a work-at-home policy for your situation. Otherwise, get a new job. They are easy to get now.
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RichardPencil 32
Bullshit. Your work did not cancel Covid leave while the Delta and Omicron variants were raging. They should have a work-at-home policy for your situation. Otherwise, get a new job. They are easy to get now.
wrenavery90 12
Your business can't stop COVID leave.
Nazmazh 18
COVID's been more deadly this year (through the same time period) than in either previous year. In fact, 2021 was deadlier than 2020 too, IIRC. Any business that has revoked COVID leave as a legitimate absence is the real a-hole here. They're just begging to infect coworkers and clientele. In fact the whole "Everything is fine. Go back to normal. It's totally endemic now" movement is full of crap and getting people killed, hospitalized, or plagued with long-COVID chronic conditions - For no damn good reason!