My other half caught the rona last week. He works for a place that delivers packages, so his bosses tried to get him to keep coming to work because they "needed" him, even going so far as to try to say that his rapid test result didn't count because they are always false positives.
So, because he's my other half, I get a lovely 10 day quarantine, which so far I have spent alternating between paranoia that I'll get the rona, catching up on all the sleep I've lost as a person who has to work at 6am, playing the video games I haven't had time for because I work 10 hour shifts, and just in general trying to regain the mental balance that had been slowly slipping for the last few months.
But, today I realized something. My "family"...my fellow managers and crew who care SO much about each other.....none of them have texted to ask how my hubs is doing. Other than a text right at the beginning asking if I'm gonna get tested, none have asked how I'm doing, or if I am sick, or even if I'm ever coming back. It's like I've been forgotten.
I have been at my place of employment for long enough that I had started to fall for the rhetoric. I cared deeply about my crew and fellow management. I don't think I care quite as much anymore.....
I’ve been working through an ongoing health issue with my baby daughter the past month, which has been downright terrifying (she’s had two MRIs and we there’s still a wide range of scary things ahead of us). The difference between the reaction of my colleagues and my wife’s has been staggering. I work for a software company and it has been met with awkwardness and insensitivity. For instance, someone had a meltdown to me about how hard her life was because people wanted to write unit tests the day after my daughter had her first MRI. My wife works at a public school, and her colleagues have been nothing but generous, supportive and kind - buying us dinner, covering for her classes she’s missing due to appointments, checking in on us...just real, actual solidarity. They’re literally helping us work through a hellish situation, as everyone that works at that school has to have each other’s backs to keep it going.
It’s amazing and wonderful to see what an actual, genuine community can do for its members.
Love and thoughts to your daughter and I hope she's all right.
I guess I'm just bummed because I thought I was part of a community. I guess I was wrong. :heart-sickle:
Thank you...I get what you mean, I've fallen for the workplace "family" rhetoric before as well. I'd even expected a little more sympathy from colleagues, despite the fact I should ought to know better by now!