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Dec 27, 2021 1:43 AM
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HodleCanuk
I work at a sawmill. They did the same thing. It's everwhere.
onceuponatime1881
Send your positive to HR like a responsible employee.
shanasphone350
Since 4/2020, I have been told work, sick, exposed, we exposed you at least 17 times. I work in health care. Wanted at post regardless
cheeseplate1971
My wife had symptoms but hadn’t gotten our tests back yet. Work said it was ok to come in, I work at a hospital, my whole house tested +
cheeseplate1971
I did not go in and my supervisor is a nurse. Corporate Medicine. What a fabulous idea.
Bilcosby
I got stabbed once the night before a shift I was supposed to be opening, I told my manager and they asked if I was still coming in
warhawk7
This is why we can’t have nice things
xXxSTEVOxXx
This is why most of us don't.
Strangedays2026
Because a group of people value their nice things more than thousands of other people? Anyhow
RenegadeSci
Material things. Have you seen these shitty McMansions and lifted trucks with thin walled tires? It's not nice. Just to snob over others.
hateanyway
they should have let the market handle this and just made companies liable for the risk they put people in. they may not care about lives 1/
MTekKnight
This should be a criminal offense. You're using your power (boss/employee) to coerce someone into doing something absolutely wrong.
JesusStoleMyWeed
Turns out that willingly infecting people in a pandemic is not a crime, but don't you dare try to sell weed, straight to jail
iAlwaysUpvoteMN
That is a criminal act
DonkeyGoat
My coworker's daughter just tested positive. Boss said come in anyway (she isn't). Motherfuckers, don't ask don't tell is NOT the answer
fartingsparrow
Under current CDC guidelines she could go in as long as she wore a mask & then get tested a few days later. Which makes zero sense to me.
duckiesduckiesduckies
Only if she’s fully vax’d tho. Close contact with no vax means a 14 day quarantine usually.
tautaula
DADT was a bad policy for what it was intended for.
GadenKerensky
I've heard it had minor merit for the time, but it really doesn't translate at all to infectious disease.
tautaula
Translate, no - but it might have at least a bit of a brush with GRID/AIDS (depending on when)
duckiesduckiesduckies
WHO has guidelines for exposures. If coworker is fully vax’d, they can skip quarantine and test in 5-7 days if no symptoms start.
DonkeyGoat
They aren't. I'm on of the few that are
BeatsBearsBattlestarGallactica
Can you report to osha?
tobyisagoodboy
Yes
tobyisagoodboy
https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/
tobyisagoodboy
https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OSHA4130.pdf
tobyisagoodboy
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/contact-tracing-nonhealthcare-workplaces.html
tobyisagoodboy
If you contract or spread Covid because your boss is forcing you to work while Covid + please report it!
ronnyhugo
We've fined people over 2000 bucks in Norway for breaking quarantine.
SedatedSl0th
We would solve the United States national debt crisis in like…48 hours.
BlueWater321
There's no national debt crisis.
SedatedSl0th
No? The US gov’t doesn’t owe the entire planet some odd trillions?
MRnBW
Submit the notice you won't be coming in an email, force the boss to tell you to come in anyway in writing.
SedatedSl0th
This right here.
omgzwtfs
They found out this was happening at a nursing home my mom investigated. The 2 people responsible for testing decided not to report + tests-
omgzwtfs
because they were allegedly told by the manager that the place is under-staffed and letting employees go home would lead to patient deaths
omgzwtfs
The reason they were up for investigation is residents were being transferred in covid positive but the home reported 0 cases in staff/res
DukeTO
Also told this when I worked at Nord****m.
SedatedSl0th
I’d like to solve the puzzle, DukeTO.
StewedTomaters
Well the O and the R are already on the board, so I'm stumped.
moldysailor23
This happened in Adelaide, we all found out and well, the whole state boycotted them and now they're out of business
RevolioClockworkJr
Solidarity like this is sadly ultra-rare in the US, and has been for a long time it seems.
ButteryBiscuitBass
I'm gonna guess that this is happening all over the place atm!
acuteavocado7
my boss got mad at me for telling my coworkers i tested positive. "what if took it home to their mother whos on chemo?"
acuteavocado7
she knew i was positive and made me come in anyways. as if that person knowing suddenly makes them more susceptible
Fishkeeper
Well, yeah, that's how diseases work. If you don't know about them, they can't hurt you. That's why nobody got diseases in medieval times.
acuteavocado7
to be serious tho i would want someone to do the same for me. knowing might actually help him stay away from me and NOT catch it
StuckInBetweeen
That's not a NY thing. My company (In Manhattan) had an employee test positive. Week off at home paid for all of us. That's retail mate.
StuckInBetweeen
Get the fuck out while you can.
OdinYggd
Manhattan isn't NY. NYC is not NYS, and needs to be split off and attached to NJ instead.
StuckInBetweeen
Lmao. Yeah cuz when people out of state they think Albany and Buffalo, not NYC. NY is nothing without the city. Just another Rhode Island.
onlyhalfghost
I think of Watertown but only because when I was a kid I could see it from my house in Ontario.
GoldFrieza
Manhattan is NYC & NYS to all of us outsiders. When ppl think of NY, we picture Manhattan
Bmc32FamVillain
Um....that's everywhere. Come work for corrections.They do the same thing.Oh you're positive you say? Well don't tell anyone and get to work
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Public FB post, loud message to HR with CC's, stay the fuck home.
BootsDusty
SedatedSl0th
Ooooooh. The CDC, BBB, OSHA, and I’m sure a plethora of other letter-agencies would love to know the workplace and employees name. :smiley:
DancingButterfly
A coworker at my mom's tested positive. He got sick and had to stay home from work but they didn't tell the other employees who were exposed
DancingButterfly
my mom found out from a coworker who figured it out because she had seen him looking ill.
OdinYggd
HR does that where I work too. We've decided to just not tell them what is going on and quietly keep each other informed for our own safety
DancingButterfly
That's smart. Just sucky they're not being transparent and people could be (+) and unknowingly exposing others. (2)
afatrollofmyown
It really stinks that our safety depends on "personal responsibility" but I guess that's the culture we live under.
autocorrectfailures
Id be coughing in the bosses office... A LOT.
happywalker
think you have to be human to catch it
getadogupya
Exclusively, for the whole shift...
Cats2cats
Due to a new diagnosis I just went from mild high risk to high high risk. So basically I will be in my cave until mid summer.
SedatedSl0th
Yo. Please stay as safe as you can.
xj4low
I'm on the organ transplant list and HR only gave me a 2 month ok to work from home. They want me in the office on 1/3. That's not happening
ATNomad
Bold of you to hope it will be over by summer…
Cats2cats
More like hoping numbers will be lower & I’ll be able to get the booster. Plus treatment successful.
thorinc
Plus in summer you'll be able to go outside away from people (assuming you, like me, live somewhere frigidly cold in winter).
Spice002
That's not NY. That's just retail in general.
ScreamedVoid
That's not just retail. That's literally most employers thanks to the batshit awesomeness of resistance that is the Great Resignation.
Spice002
Hi, retail worker with 9 years of experience. This has always been a thing. Colds and flus weren't adequate excuses to call off.
tomatoboy
I was gonna say…that isn’t NY specific, that’s just retail bullshittery.
HarryDresdenIsMySpiritAnimal
*corporate capitalism
Cheomesh
Yeah I've definitely worked retail sick.
Drakenborn
Corp will back that behavior up with management while condemning it publicly too. NEVER believe it's just some rogue manager.
Drakenborn
They'll happily get hundreds sick and maybe kill a few just for the possibility they'll make $5
W0lfsbl00d
At Home Depot I had one supervisor say the same in march 2020. But Assistant Managers said people better stay home and not get others sick>
W0lfsbl00d
if you tested positive.
Omni21
Husband and I work at Lowe's. He got sick. They told me to come in anyway till his test came back.
kyorsmuckers
Or healthcare. We have new guidelines
itsjustplaid
Can confirm. Years ago, I got yelled at for not wanting to come in sick. I was a food worker. Left that job not long afterward.
MammaMak
Can confirm.
voidmain
I would say that’s USA.. here bosses in retail tell you to report if you are positive ASAP and isolate..
LizLittle
On the record, they're required to tell you to isolate and call in if you're sick. Off the record, they need you to come in anyway
voidmain
Not here in Germany.. they take that seriously because everything has a trace
LizLittle
I really don't like being American
OhNoNotThatGuyQuickEverybodyHide
^this^
notyetadaddy
And also, holidays here are rough. Businesses are so desperate to make up their “losses” from last year that they put our health at risk
ahernandez
Remember that brief period of time where we retail workers would actually get two week paid off when we got sick? That was wild
Spice002
Did they? I didn't. Got quarantined by association and had to use my last three vacation days so I got paid a little atleast. Retail has /1
Spice002
never gotten sick pay. We get fucked over hard.
ahernandez
It was a part of trumps stimulus plan the fed gov paid for 2 weeks sick if you tested positive. Lasted maybe 6 months.
Spice002
Yeah, I'm almost certain there was no obligation for businesses to actually use it for that, because my manager didn't even get paid for it.
ahernandez
You had vacation days?!?!
Spice002
Only for fulltime team members, and I only got that position because they needed me to step in for our ADM for a month one year.
PantheraTigrisKittyKats
Now see it’s been 2 years since pandemic and all our attempts at quarantine has been categorically decredited as ineffective. Vaccinate.
OdinYggd
We owe Hollywood an apology. They called it exactly as it would really be: The quarantines never work, the infected always lie
OdinYggd
And every group has its idiot that tries to drink bleach thinking it would cure them.
ImHereToGetDownvotes
I hope you're not calling the US response in any way, shape or form, ACTUAL quarantining. It's overly polite suggestions at best.
PhailRaptor
While the ship has certainly sailed now, it was entirely possible that quarantining would have worked, and will still help slow the spread
AmandaCANZED
It would have worked had we all been able to quarantine and weren’t told to restart the economy. We couldn’t all stay home.
Armyguy8382
My boss tells me 'just say you aren't feeling well, no details' when I need to use a sick day. Great boss + union shop = sweet job.
RuffleMyFluffles
For me its now all "Paid Time Off". You can just take a day off if you don't want to go to work, or actually being sick.
Tesseract09
If you're sick in some way, it can be a liability in customer interactions, and it's important businesses understand it.
TheIceHorse
I came down with the flu a week after starting new job. It laid me up for two weeks. Job was like 'Eh, that's fine just let us know when 1
TheIceHorse
you're feeling better and come back to work.' -- I switched careers into white-collar work after doing fast food for a decade and was 2
TheIceHorse
completely floored by the response. I thought I'd be fired.
ThePretentiousGentleman
My old manager promoted “if it’s depression or anxiety and you know that you’re coming in angry, please stay home.”
The701
Where I work, we get 24hrs sick time a year. After that, use vacation time, or don't get paid, or make up the time later. So in short, they
The701
are effectively incentivizing people to come to work sick. At least after the pandemic started, we stopped most in-person meetings. Before,
The701
it was not uncommon for a meeting to take place in which one person was definitely sick with something.
The701
(non-union, in the US, how'd you ever guess??)
canadianreserve
I have the same problem. My crew calls in sick and gives me a list of symptoms, unnecessary overshare. Just say sick and it's all good.
Jamesstin
Good for you. Unfortunately for the rest of us; union gigs are that of the unicorn unless you suckle at the teat of nepotism or you worked1/
Jamesstin
As a contractual yet indentured glorified Roustabout/hero with the US Mil for a measly 4 years or simply nepotism or a veteran status in 2/
Jamesstin
Country that supports the troops to such absurd degrees you can easily imagine employers scrapping smegma & sweat off the balls of 3
Jamesstin
Veterans right as they're applying for work, in order to create a perfume just like some insane roman with Colosseum gladiators ...4/
Jamesstin
Instead they hire them on despite regular folks being ahead of them in line, often they're outright opposed to unions & immediately 5/
nero4ty2
You are in a tiny minority, get out while you can
quzar
With an attitude like that, how could any employer pass you up?!
Jamesstin
Imgur:hates hoarding wealth,abhors the corrupt,satires the greedy.Hears similar criticism of unions?!Instant about face back to bootlicking.
quzar
I wasn't admonishing you for your criticism of unions, but that you'd be hostile to some random stranger out of envy.
Jamesstin
Anyhow,ive promised myself three years ago that I would no longer do welding work unless its in support of or supported by a trade union &
Jamesstin
That means I am intentionally relieving myself of a vastly higher paycheck because I believe taking that work lowers us all to a slightly 2/
Jamesstin
Better check but we are still ultimately being slaved out by someone who earns far more off our labor than any of us workers earn.I'm not 3/
Gardaddy
Unions.....thank you previous generation for making them sound terrible even though they would help so much right now...we need unions
MTekKnight
Unions have to be full of good people to work though. Sadly, my union is full of corporate bootlickers.
PizzaStation
One of the most insidious things the wealthy in this country have done is convince working people unions are bad.
SquireRamza
There has never been non-evil representation of unions in any media ever. They're always mob fronts. 100% of the time
SimiKusoni
That said you do *really* need legislation to back up certain employment rights, unions are good but by no means a complete solution.
Heavenissize17socks
There's no national labor law requiring breaks of any kind.
DulothX
Unless you drive a truck. And they are fighting that one.
wobblecopterrrr
“Just don’t tell her and go in raw”
afatrollofmyown
I mean .... that's what they're doing. You're right to make that implication.
lilbrother
wobblecopterrrr
Probably should have put the “” -this guy probably
GoldFrieza
ILikeBlondDudesAndICanNotLieButGingersWillDoJustFine
wow seriously my face haha
ohhrosella
I am behind the "Report it" concept - but to who?
Mithi
whom
xmaneds
New York State department of health: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home ... "Call the Hotline: 1-888-364-3065"
PizzaStation
BOLI? OSHA?
Gaelwyn
OSHA is a good start. Or if your state has a Covid specific team/dept that’d work too.
jwsebFitBeast
Yes.
xmaneds
NYC Dept of Health https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-main.page at "call 212-COVID19 (212-268-4319) to be linked to care."
ohhrosella
I'm down in Myrtle Beach SC, but thanks
xmaneds
you were asking about a question for where this post, this original tweet -- in new york -- would be reported.
ohhrosella
I was waxing hypothetical
EroticZombiePants
New York may actually do something. I imagine that South Carolina would just ignore any complaints you may make.
ohhrosella
It's laughable down here - i work in hospitality & am the only person at my job that wears a mask - out of +20 people
youreathing
The press. It's the only way to get attention on it. The cops won't do shit.
storebrandproductmascot
Like corporate media is gonna give a fuck.
ohhrosella
Yeah I'm in South Carolina
Gaelwyn
What do you think the cops should be doing? What do you think cops are for? Your comment is so confusing.
youreathing
Usually when people think of "reporting" something, it's to the authorities/cops. What's confusing?
Gaelwyn
Unless there is a specific criminal act occurring, the cops would have no involvement. Occupational safety issues are for OSHA.
youreathing
Read my reply, slowly, out loud, to yourself. "USUALLY, when people think of "reporting" something, it's to the authorities/cops."
Gaelwyn
Personally I never think of reporting things to the police. Most people want nothing to do with them, even if a crime does happen.
OrkenMork
The boss should be arrested for attempted murder.
SpookyKing
I don't think the people that are not responsible for creating and spreading in the fist place to liable. We as a country could have halted
venomlash
Reckless endangerment, you baboon. Mens rea matters.
KnifeFight
No, he should be publicly executed.
yelseW
Woah
KnifeFight
I'm just joking
unfamiliarHorse
haha???
Kobol
Just make him liable for any and all medical expenses of everyone who contracted it from his store. What an asshole. Imgur, do your thang!
bonodono1350
Unless they have that in writing along with a crap load of documentation it will be hard to do
OrkenMork
My cellphone is configured to record the last 5 minutes of audio all the time. I can choose to save it at anytime with an audio command
Kobol
Love that. Is that an iPhone thing or an Android thing?
Kobol
*sigh* I know. It just felt good typing that shit out though. ?