literally just had a "super important", "all-hands" multi hour meeting yesterday where the bosses were very insistent we all come in-person. including the immunocompromised guy. they made accommodations last minute for someone to attend via zoom, because they had been exposed to covid earlier in the day.

in reality, the meeting could have been an email and was full of platitudes. and one of the attendees told us this morning that they had been exposed to covid the last few nights, but attended the meeting anyway because they "felt fine"...but now they have symptoms. this is literally the second in-person meeting this person has "oops, i did a covid" to a shitload of people in maybe 6 months despite people with any exposure being encouraged not to come to meetings.

the nature of our work means that we could literally all be fully remote, but of course the managerial culture here is dominated by the worst sort of careerist and petty psychos. i'm grateful we are allowed to "take steps" when we've been exposed, but of course bad actors don't give a fuck and it's not like anyone can get in trouble for knowingly spreading plague everywhere.

our union hasn't got the numbers yet for certification, because many here are PMC douchebags who think they are special. i updated my resume/CV and started applying for fully remote work in december. would love to walk out on this place and be really fucking noisy about it.