And those same colleagues come in my space all the time, see me in an N95, see me with filters everywhere, and don't even fucking have a pause.
I DON'T WANT TO DO EXTRA WORK
While I really really don't want it to be Covid. I sometimes really wish that my entire department would all catch something that would mean we all were sick enough to be down for like a few days. As it would be a real treat to have a shock to the leadership of our store see how fucked they are without us. The reason I want us to be sick is that it is the only way they couldn't do anything against us legally and I am somehow always like the only person that never calls out and just feel I am punished for never doing so. I never stopped working when the massive shutdowns happened and somehow have not caught Covid even when people around me have. But even though I kept coming in, I always somehow find myself on management's shit list for being late a bunch or seen as somehow not "being a team player."
The only leader that has my back is my direct one and that is because she was in the shit with me since before all of this and wasn't my boss. So I also include her in wanting to be not allowed to come in due to being sick. The GM and other folks always think we don't do enough (even when we are overloaded and they still try to pull us away from our appointments and fulfilling promises that customers were sold). I would absolutely love for them to try and give us any write-ups or anything if we were all verified to be too sick to work.
Just knowing that they wouldn't have anyone that is allowed or trained to do our jobs and have to actually deal with our asshole entitled clients would make me happy. And it would be very easy to use it as an example for what a walk-out could do if needed later on for those that aren't on team "let's do a union" vibe.
The atomization will continue until [redacted]
And seriously though, I'm sorry you're having to put up with that to, comrade. It's frustrating to do all the work to protect yourself (and others) and then somebody else ends up taking risks for themselves (and others).
It feels like gaslighting sometimes when a supervisor says they want the same level of productivity while saying nothing about the workers getting covid.
"a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part
"I've taken to just occasionally calling in sick even though I'm fine. Everyone else is doing it, and nobody questions it. I am luckier than most in that I get a ton of paid sick days every year.
Super sucks.
Also it's management's fault for understaffing and capitalism's fault that they have to understaffing or be outcompeted.
"Lean and mean" staffing has gradually evolved in to "our firm is on the verge of collapse with many employees who hold all of our critical knowledge working 2-12 jobs but we absolutely will not hire"
