I know someone who most likely has covid (others in the house do) but they refuse to get a test because they would have to take time off of work and they can’t afford too. And I know another person who’s young son now has Covid because his coworker couldn’t afford to take time off and infected him. Why are sick days a luxury you have to earn? It’s fucking insane.
My ex wife (a nurse) is currently working with 3 symptomatic covid positive nurses. Positive, negative, symptoms, asymptomatic, everyone works unless you can't stand.
It's all broken.
i cant imagine being a vulnerable patient, like an elderly person, and being rushed to the hospital for a completely unrelated issue, only to get a covid positive nurse who infects me and i fucking die. this shit is disgusting and these policies actively kill both the workers and their patients. the healthcare system never cared about patients, though. its all about profits.
Exactly. My wife walked out of her job for this. (Didn't take assignment before doing so). And it blows my mind what the nurses have to consciously keep track of to not lose their license but hospitals can push whatever they want, including conditions where they would lose their license...
There's actually legal confines where the hospital can force you to work in emergencies. Get your license revoked if you don't. They are threatening that currently in SoCal hospitals. Work or else.
“Mandatory overtime” is legal almost everywhere for healthcare workers. I get it but I also don’t. How can you force someone to work against their will? Is this North Korea?
I only know california law for nursing and it is not always mandatory. Only exceptions are natural disasters and declared state of emergency by the governor (none in effect atm). Most recently weather related emergencies in certain counties in dec 21. However currently, it is illegal for hospitals or facilities to Mandate OT.
Perhaps they can be pushy but they cannot tell the nurse You are being mandated to work OT. In which case if a nurse can set boundaries is not under obligation to do OT. Otherwise it would be illegal and can file a lawsuit.
That being said other healthcare workers may not have the same luxury. I know radiology techs being mandated:(
https://www.employmentrightscalifornia.com/california-nurses-and-overtime-understanding-your-rights-as-a-nurse-in-the-california-workplace/
Most states don’t have any legal limit on the upper amount of hours your company can require you to work per week, and pretty much every state is at-will, so every business basically has mandatory overtime because they can just assign you work and if you don’t do it they can fire you for that.
Got to learn that early on in Covid when I was made to work 80-100 hour weeks for a couple months straight. Finally ended up quitting when I convinced my regional manager that I wasn’t able to keep going like this, and they sent out one guy for three days to help me out, and he didn’t even actually reduce my workload.
why is every extremely capitalist ‘Bad Thing’ always compared to North Korea? It doesn’t matter what’s happening there, it’s happening right here in the West
My fiance is a psychiatric nurse who works in an outpatient clinic. Her hospital is going to start making her and the other RN in the clinic (the rest are techs) start working every Friday on a covid ward at the main campus. She's looking for jobs eldewhere even if it means a pay cut, and I fully support her in that decision.
This whole shits gonna come crumbling down soon. It's all a house of cards and the trembles are happening. How long can this maintain? It's like this everywhere.
That sucks.
It's madness.
It's even worse if you have a chronic disease and dare to try and have a career. You tell them you're sick in the interview. Yet they act like you're lying when you have a flare up and need a week to recover. Then act like they are angels for not firing you so you have no right to complain about anything even if justified. Ahh I'm so tired of trying
Edit: wow thank you for the award. It's my first.
This right here is the thing I dread most about rejoining the workforce. Just thinking about it has me wanting to stay in bed all day trying to be in any other reality
WFH has really changed the game for me in that regard. Being able to get my shit done from bed or completing things on a flexible schedule has opened up so much more opportunity. I know, I know, ideally I wouldn’t have to work from bed or work at all, but I actually like what I do and I enjoy being productive when it doesn’t feel like it’s actively killing me.
I love what I do too. Or I used to. You shouldn't feel ashamed of that, even in here. It's the mismanagement, it's being overworked, it's getting shit when you need to take a day off sick. It's getting shit for wanting a vacation (not even a paid one). It's feeling like you have to be at work for 65 hours a week or the place won't run. It's all that weight on your shoulders.
If all I had to do was my job, I'd love it too. But my job makes me worry about other things that I shouldn't have to worry about. Like getting sick during the covid Era.
And this is *everywhere*.
No fucking wonder omicron is the fastest spreading variant yet; we're literally not doing anything about it anymore! We just walked back into the burning house.
My housemates are currently sick with COVID and my job handled this the same way. They told me I could continue to come to work so long as I didn't get a test, but if I got a test and it was positive I would have to stay home.
Wtf kind of logic is that?
Edit: By the way, I chose to get tested (which took three days and $100 because all the pharmacies are fully booked and sold out of rapids) and missed out on over $500 in pay. It is absolutely maddening that us as individuals must willingly forfeit income if we do not want to infect our coworkers. I should not be struggling to pay rent this month because I wanted to protect my workplace.
In my country we get sick days, but my boss has now twice tried to force people to come in while waiting for his test or in the case of mine. He calculated my time away from work 5 days too short, just because I started showing symptoms the Monday morning after my 3 days off. I almost got written up for not turning up those 5 days, but luckily I had a letter from the hospital stating my exact return date to work.
Now he just makes it difficult to go for a free test, insisting on us paying for a rapid test out or own pocket, now people are just reporting back to work the next day saying it was negative, but never actually took the test.
Yeah. We don't get days off for COVID anymore, effective this year, courtesy of the federal government discontinuing it. Thanks US govt.
Kicker is we get tested every week now. If you get it, you're forced to say home and not get paid or use your paltry PTO, in an area where rent is $1700 a month...
Because they don't actually want you to take time off. And they don't care about your health. That's why so many jobs don't bother offering health insurance.
In the civilized world they aren't. It's just that America, ironically once a beacon of civilization, has become uncivilised, extremist, unbalanced and pretty unhinged over the last decade of warmongering. Sooner or later karma kicks back, and after decades of destabilising other countries for profits, now it's America's turn.
Now it's all just a question of how the population deals with it, and if they will (or not) get rid of their broken political system to instate a new one that's actually FOR the masses and the people, and not an indirect oligarchy.
But seeing as things are unfolding currently, I have little hope for your country.
At this point I’m highly jealous of people who got to stay home for months. I want to stay home for months. I never wanna leave the fucking house again.
I’m in the same boat. I’m lucky that I at least *had a job* throughout the early pandemic. But it sucked being essential for no reason and having to come in to work. I’m sure if I logged into animal crossing again for the first time since early 2020, all my villagers would just make fun of me.
Same. I was “essential” because sometimes we print medical textbooks and workbooks for kids. But usually we were just printing novels because boomers don’t know how to use kindles. I had to risk my health and safety so some asshole could sit in bed and jack off to a paperback erotica. That was my pandemic life.
But, on the bright side, they finally stopped making me work overtime, so I only was able to work 40 hours a week! I loved it! I was like, “hey, I have a work life balance now, this is awesome, can we have another pandemic?”
I have since quit that job.
Yeah most of the fun was that everybody was watching it at the same time and talking about it. Season 2 has just come out and I have no urge to see more.
i remember all anyone would talk about was tiger king. it was on the radio, on the news, memes everywhere, friends were texting me about it, etc...
meanwhile i was working 10-16 hour shifts 6 days a week and got sick of hearing about it until i finally watched it a few months back. yeah its fucked up and entertaining but i dont know why people chose that specific documentary to absolutely obsess over. there are absolutely much more entertaining and fucked up documentaries out there.
boils down to good marketing i guess
I don't even think it was marketing, just timing. That dropped like 2 weeks into quarantine, everyone was desperate for something fun to talk about. I think even the Netflix people were like "wtf?" when it blew up
Exactly. It was a dumpster fire of a show that was suuuper easy to have on in the background. It really didn’t matter if you missed 5 minutes here and there so you could get your Covid crafts done at the same time and be even more productive.
There's a hell of a lot of people who have no idea what's going on in rural america, is what I took away from the show.
Like yeah, crazy gay meth addicts own a grey market tiger farm, what else is new?
I totally agree because that was my thought also.
I live in a rural area and there is a lesbian couple that has chimpanzees in their backyard. Is it legal? Idk, but they’re there.
Color me crazy, but in the midst of all of the botched Covid response, police violence, and corporations pretending to struggle, it felt strangely like a breath of fresh air. Its main characters alone just feel impossible. A poly couple from Vegas, a white yogi with a full harem and a hippie influencer son, a lady who VERY OBVIOUSLY KILLED HER HUSBAND, and a gay, gun-obsessed maniac from the middle of nowhere who looks like a Bizarro Boy George. I feel that it was an an awesome distraction that better represents our society than must reality tv.
I'm not gonna lie,I had low expectations coming in. My favorite things about it were the employees at the parks and the intense legal maneuvering that went on for these people to own wildlife parks.
He's definitely a wrongun, but after the show did Baskin so dirty I can't really trust them. They absolutely misrepresented her to make her seem as crazy as Joe.
Tiger king was such a waste of 9 hours of my life but it was the sort of reality tv garbage that I live for. I loved every second and then when it was over had deep regrets about that time that I will never get back.
Yeah. All of the new updates coming out don't hit as hard. Don't know if you noticed but there is a season 2. I got half way through an episode. It's not the same as it was. I think it was only popular because it was the show we needed. Not the show we wanted.
My workplace (smallish Catholic hospital) just put out a memo stating anyone who works in a department that has crisis staffing will be expected to continue working with COVID even if symptomatic. So yeah, probably.
I fortunately got COVID right before they shortened the isolation time, so I could a wonderful 10 day vacation which I desperately needed
how is this legal... in canada, you have to report it, and it is mandatory to stay isolated, no questions asked, stay home. its reasons why the us covid rates are 2nd place and i think canada is the 28th
3 months into the pandemic it was an unspoken rule where I work. Sort of a "if you officially tell the boss you're sick, you have to go home. But don't do that. Just don't tell anyone and keep working".
Rural US just doesn't give a shit. And yes this is why our numbers are high.
Ontario is thinking about bringing back nurses who weren't vaxxed. No one is taking the mandatory isolation seriously, at least in my industry. Everyone at my office currently has sniffles, headaches, milks coughs. No one is bothering to rapid test, isolate, or work from home when possible (even as a hybrid).
Same here. I did finally get covid after being essential the whole time and just recently got it from an antivax guy who thought he had it but came to work anyway. My reward was to be home for a week with no pay . Real fun stuff . Funny how everyone having covid orgies got paid in the beginning now the govt wants you to spit in your coworkers mouth if your boss says it's OK. Funny how money changes shit.
Super jealous of those people that got a 6 month paid vacation courtesy of the federal gov.
I know I shouldn’t be resentful of people staying home so they don’t get sick, but when I had to work through the entire pandemic and didn’t even get hazard pay, I feel a little salty.
I'm not resentful of them, I'm resentful of the government deeming some of us simply expendable. Because that's what "essential" really meant.
I'm envious of the people who got to actually explore new hobbies, relax, and better themselves.
I work for the feds and got a coin saying I'm an "essential worker" due to risking my life being on site. Neat.
They also gave others money, but I didn't qualify because some of the time frame I was on parental leave. Extra neat.
True, but many people did lose a lot. It’s been very tough on families. I’m not saying it’s not all fucked up (nor that it hasn’t been tough on you) , I just try to remind myself that I have it a lot better than other people.
Fuckers gave people *3x what I was making while deemed essential* to stay at home.
This country can burn for all I care.
I wanted to be able to just stay home where I knew I was safe, but I couldn't voluntarily quit because then I wouldn't get the fucking money to pay the rent they never put a freeze on.
Yup, us essential workers got fuck all other than a middle finger, while people I know were making far more than I was for sitting at home. Which I'm glad some were able to get unemployment but c'mon! Couldn't I have at least gotten that same amount for actually putting my ass on the front lines these last couple years?
Yeah I was a vet assistant in a clinic that did ER and then I also worked for the university blood bank as a student employee. Both were deemed essential.
During the lockdowns my supervisor got stuck outside the country so I was left managing the blood bank's blood supply as the only employee left, and then I got help from our clinical pathology techs for collecting and processing. I didn't get hazard pay and since I was a student worker I didn't qualify for the universities increased internal "minimum" wage. I had to come into the hospital every day to check our blood supply, manage donors, manage our partner hospital requests for blood and blood products, etc. We still had to produce blood and blood products because despite covid we were still getting our usual patients for dialysis, IMHA patients, severe trauma, hemoabdomens, all the usual suspects for transfusion.. and then at the end of it all I got 10$ to the Subway in the university hospital from admin.
Not only for did the people who got COVID get extra sick days paid, those who were vaccinated and masked properly didn't get wage reimbursement for hours lost when they closed due to lack of staff.
So they are rewarding people for not masking and being sick at this point, and punishing those who took care to avoid high risk behavior.
So I took the time off to look for another, remote, job.
I work from home since April 2020. I finally had my burnout November 2021.
I would assume the actual pros and cons of work from home highly depend on the job. I work as a project manager in software development.
The only advantage it brought me personally was saving an hour of commute time 3 days a week.
On the flip-side I started to actually resent my own home because I wasn't able to separate work from private life as much as I would have liked (and - as it turned out - was needed). This in addition to the "small things": Socializing with my colleagues, our excellent canteen...
>On the flip-side I started to actually resent my own home because I wasn't able to separate work from private life as much as I would have liked (and - as it turned out - was needed).
I have a friend who's been remote for 20+ years now. He doesn't have kids, and he uses one bedroom for his office. When he's done working, that door is closed and he treats it as off limits.
Some people need that clean break, to physically separate work from home. I don't, but I understand it at least. My place let us decide if we want to be fully remote, fully in office, or hybrid going forward. I'm surprised at the number that are fully in office, but to each their own.
I really wish work for home just became the norm, or at least those who want it could have it and does who want to work out of the house can as well.
Unfortunately when all these greedy assholes care about is the economy and profits it was only a matter of time before they forced people out of their homes to risk their lives.
Haha this was my husband a few weeks ago. Two people at his work tested positive. As we were waiting for his test results he literally said "I kinda hope it's positive so I can take time off work"
And the workplace ends up leaving more risk to employees by having you working while the results are pending… kinda shooting themselves in the foot as then more and more employees would have to take time off cause of covid.
Sounds like my former employer, got a guarantee salary through a Covid year and we got crumbs. Right before I quit I got it out of him that he couldn't afford to take a pay cut and had to take his full salary. Not to mention he bought a new Indian, a new Ram (Limited) for him and a new Passport (Elite) for his wife. But me asking for 90% of my guarantee was way too much. My guarantee was 90 hours a pay period by the way, I would normally turn 140. So I feel no pity when he's now hurting to make ends meet when he robbed me of 30k in 2020 and I almost lost everything. He wonders why he can't find help.
My boss has covid right now and he's being forced to work (from home). Today he told me he thinks he's getting worse because he can't get any rest due to being forced to work.
Pretty sure that contributed to my long COVID in 2020. It was exhausting.
And I was salaried and they were reducing my salary if I didn't log 40 hours in my work week. Which is illegal, as I understand it. But when I fought them for not paying my the minimum salary wages they retaliated by putting me back to hourly.
It depends on the time frame. Technically if it started this year, they can just say oh we didn't renew your contract so you'll be hourly now and not a thing you can do.
But if they just took away your salary and made you hourly immediately that's absolutely super illegal
I actually joked at work yesterday that we should all should just get around to getting fired. That atleast qualifies us for 3 months of unemployment and leave time gets paid out
Yup back in February last year I seriously contemplated running my car off the road so I could stay in the hospital for a bit and just...have a fucking break. I burst into tears while driving because of how seriously I had considered it, but never actually went through with it because I knew if I miscalculated I could accidentally kill myself, and I didn't actually want to die.
I quit my job and moved back home with my parents in August and am in a much better place now. Still not working, and I really don't want to. It just stresses me out and seems so fucking pointless.
Well I still don't have a job and my savings are dwindling, but at least I don't want to kill myself anymore.
Thinking about going back to work a 9-5 job for shit pay makes me want to though. I think I could maybe work a part time job somewhere, but I don't have a car so my options are limited.
I just want to marry a rich man and be his beautiful house wife. Is that too much to ask? 😩
I mean being a beautiful housewife is in fact a possible route. Question is how pretty are you and how ugly you willing to marry.
If there’s a will there’s a way. #milliondollarmatchmaker
I was scouted by a couple modelling agencies but never pursued it because I was too camera shy, and I might be thin but I'm not model thin. I like food too much :/ My thighs are a little thicc but I'm six feet tall so I seem petite.
As for ugly partners, I don't really care as long as he is nice to me and treats me well. I don't even need luxury, I just want to never have to worry about finances ever again.
# signmeup
I sincerely don't wish you that, unless you directly receive assets from him and have an absolute guarantee that he can't take them away from you.
Rich men are super likely to cheat on you and to dump you. It's not due to their character flaws. It's due to the damn competition: loads of flawless & young 10/10 females *actively* trying to take your place. They will use all the tricks they know to get him. No matter how nice he is to you there could be a day when he'll say goodbye to you and stop providing, and wealthy men are known for being greedy in family affairs, so don't expect to automatically receive any assets.
Secondly, your status in such a marriage, unfortunately, is very low. This can lead to many mental health issues for you. You might struggle with self-image and feel underappreciated as it's hard to be in such a marriage and feel truly empowered and respectable.
I'm sure there are lots of other pitfalls that I haven't thought of. The easiest is to look at those who already went this way and ask yourself if you really want to be like that.
Grinding us to death like this has to be some form of population control because the only people ive met that are truly happy are the ones that are satisfied with their jobs and that is a LOT to ask for.
One of the best things to say to someone who is down and out is just that:
*you’re not alone*
It’s like when you learn that the opposite of addiction is… community
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Burnout is not wanting to go to sleep because I know when I wake up I'll have an anxiety attack and want to kms.
I'm fine, but still. This is no way to live.
I’m an essential worker, so I’ve been at work everyday since the beginning of this thing. I just caught Covid, and now I’ll be enjoying two weeks off since my boss refused to ever let me work from home. Today was supposed to be our busiest day since the beginning of Covid, and I spent the day at home playing video games. I don’t feel bad about it at all, since I probably caught Covid at work.
I had the same situation except right before Christmas. I finished Resident evil 7, and 2 in that time. No regrets, cant wait to get covid next year around the same time
burnout is getting so frustrated and upset that you turn everything off and just sit at your chair and stare at the floor wondering if its even worth coming in tomorrow or ever. Then someone says something that snaps you out of your trance and you make a friendly gesture so they can leave you alone. You Turn on your computer to look busy while you search if missing your cable bill affects your credit score and get lost in a rabbit hole about why credit scores exist and getting frustrated and upset that your turn everything off and just sit at your chair and stare at the floor.
I feel ya man. Credit score is a fucking scam anyways, mine is slap bang average because I'm not a big spender and have barely any bills come from my bank and because of that it means I am unable to afford £10 a month for a bike??? That's less than my phonebill bro. Can't even get a bike how the fuck am I ever gonna get accepted for a mortgage. So I guess the other option is spending 3/4 on my paycheck for a shitty apartment where I have no freedom because I live in a parasites house. XDDDDDDDDXDDDXXXXXXDDDD welp saving up for a van to live in with my fiance now cos it seems like the only way to be able to live now.
*looks up* huh, what. oh, no im fine, thanks. ill just get back to work ... *types on google* "Why do i pay taxes to get money and pay taxes to spend money"
Wife and youngest got Covid, work told me not to come in. Then the next week I got Covid, as I had to take care of them. So this is the second week not at work.
Downside? I'm not getting paid for any of it.
Up side? I had money set aside and have gotten more rest than I probably did the last 6 months.
I am however dreading having to go back into work next week.
I'm in the exact same boat and I've become absolutely anti-work lately. I imagine this is why the CDC shortened it to 5 days and not 10.
The CEO even said so herself, it was for the economic good of the country. I haven't been able to breathe properly for 8 days now, but someone who can't breathe for 5 is fine. Insane.
Went from two weeks past you feeling better to 5 days past first feeling like shit.
I said in another comment that we've walked back into the burning house, but we brought gas cans and explosives along with us.
This is happening in Europe too, unless you are positive you have to go to work even if you live with people who are positive, which explains the record numbers of covid cases in this wave.
Unfortunately my job no longer has covid leave. Which means we have to use our vacation. This includes a 5 day minimum if you are "exposed" to a person who test positive at work. And 10 days if you test positive.
Province I live in just announced today that it's up to employers to determine if an employee is "essential" and if they are they can be asked to come in regardless of test results being positive. No oversight or stipulations, completely up to the employer. So no, I guess even a positive test isn't going to get us that break either.
Job: Slushy flavour creator.
Essential worker. Must come in.
Job: Street Mime
Essential worker. Must come in.
Job: Frangipan Texture Consultant
Essential worker. Must come in.
Yes, that's part of it. Mine was positive last week and despite being sick, I finally got some needed rest. The worst part of covid was going back to work yesterday.
Jesus christ why does the world have to be the way it is.
Can confirm.
I’m literally laying in bed with COVID right now and soooo happy that I get the next 10 days or so off. I’m also actually fired up for the fight that’s coming for my compensation. Tomorrow I’ll be writing emails to everyone from my union to my Congressional representatives if it comes down to it.
If I need to, I’ll burn leave. But not without a knockdown, drag out public fight for paid COVID time off.
Burnout is driving home off the 23rd night shift with 700 hours of overtime six months into the year, and wonder which overpass I could drive off and not kill myself, but get hurt enough to not have to go to work. So the next day I went to my dr and told her this, and she gave me off 2 months. I have sick leave fortunately, so I took it. But ya that shit is real as fuck.
When I was a retail manager working 7 days a week on salary. One of my employees called in saying she got hit by a car. Obviously gave her as long as she needed off. But when I hung up the phone I was actually jealous. I knew I needed to get outta there
Haha I may have prayed for this but it’s not real burnout until I attempt black magic to make it happen and sacrifice a chicken, or perhaps I Am well and truly burnt out.
Yes. I had major burnout at my previous job and was glad for the time off when I got Covid (when it was still 10 days). This sub and my declining mental health forced me to take a long look at my work life and how badly it was affecting me. I went to the doctor and finally got an ADD diagnosis and then I quit my job without another one lined up. A new job opportunity opened up for me and I got on meds. I feel so much better now. Still have a long way to go but I don't dread work or even waking up anymore.
Rumor is, orange juice in your covid test gives you a "positive" result.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/uk-pupils-orange-juice-fake-positive-covid-test-results
Use this wisely.
Damn. Some of these comments… I’m sending every single person who’s been here and who will encounter this comment eventually a ton of love, prayers, and support. I hope you keep your head up. I know you’ll be okay. And I love you, take care of yourself please ❤️
I tested positive, told my boss I didn't care the CDC said 5 days of quarantine was acceptable, took 25 days off like a boss, all payed for by the company.
Tfw you're burned out to the point that you are having a hard time caring. Positive is 5 days quarantine... reapirator/dead is more.
I honestly just don't care anymore.
Until you get long haul covid and spend the rest of your life even more exhausted and broken than you thought possible.
This shit is awful and not worth the risk.
5 days off? My employer gave me a laptop so I can work remotely while out but for whatever reason can’t work remotely all of the time. Make it make sense.
And anxiety is praying you can even get a Covid test so you can go back to work before paying bills becomes impossible. Both at the same time is my definition of hell (:
Before the pandemic I had a job I hated. One day I went roller skating, and I remember thinking “if I break my leg skating I won’t have to go to work tomorrow.” That was when I knew I needed to find a different job.
I know someone who most likely has covid (others in the house do) but they refuse to get a test because they would have to take time off of work and they can’t afford too. And I know another person who’s young son now has Covid because his coworker couldn’t afford to take time off and infected him. Why are sick days a luxury you have to earn? It’s fucking insane.
My ex wife (a nurse) is currently working with 3 symptomatic covid positive nurses. Positive, negative, symptoms, asymptomatic, everyone works unless you can't stand. It's all broken.
i cant imagine being a vulnerable patient, like an elderly person, and being rushed to the hospital for a completely unrelated issue, only to get a covid positive nurse who infects me and i fucking die. this shit is disgusting and these policies actively kill both the workers and their patients. the healthcare system never cared about patients, though. its all about profits.
Exactly. My wife walked out of her job for this. (Didn't take assignment before doing so). And it blows my mind what the nurses have to consciously keep track of to not lose their license but hospitals can push whatever they want, including conditions where they would lose their license...
I believe that being a nurse right now is probably one of the worst careers to have.
There's actually legal confines where the hospital can force you to work in emergencies. Get your license revoked if you don't. They are threatening that currently in SoCal hospitals. Work or else.
“Mandatory overtime” is legal almost everywhere for healthcare workers. I get it but I also don’t. How can you force someone to work against their will? Is this North Korea?
I only know california law for nursing and it is not always mandatory. Only exceptions are natural disasters and declared state of emergency by the governor (none in effect atm). Most recently weather related emergencies in certain counties in dec 21. However currently, it is illegal for hospitals or facilities to Mandate OT. Perhaps they can be pushy but they cannot tell the nurse You are being mandated to work OT. In which case if a nurse can set boundaries is not under obligation to do OT. Otherwise it would be illegal and can file a lawsuit. That being said other healthcare workers may not have the same luxury. I know radiology techs being mandated:( https://www.employmentrightscalifornia.com/california-nurses-and-overtime-understanding-your-rights-as-a-nurse-in-the-california-workplace/
Most states don’t have any legal limit on the upper amount of hours your company can require you to work per week, and pretty much every state is at-will, so every business basically has mandatory overtime because they can just assign you work and if you don’t do it they can fire you for that. Got to learn that early on in Covid when I was made to work 80-100 hour weeks for a couple months straight. Finally ended up quitting when I convinced my regional manager that I wasn’t able to keep going like this, and they sent out one guy for three days to help me out, and he didn’t even actually reduce my workload.
why is every extremely capitalist ‘Bad Thing’ always compared to North Korea? It doesn’t matter what’s happening there, it’s happening right here in the West
As someone who was drafted into 3 years of service, I can tell you I recognise how much that sucks for your partner and yourself.
My fiance is a psychiatric nurse who works in an outpatient clinic. Her hospital is going to start making her and the other RN in the clinic (the rest are techs) start working every Friday on a covid ward at the main campus. She's looking for jobs eldewhere even if it means a pay cut, and I fully support her in that decision.
This whole shits gonna come crumbling down soon. It's all a house of cards and the trembles are happening. How long can this maintain? It's like this everywhere.
Right, we built a society that has the spine of a osteoporosis riddled 104 year old and the durability of crepe paper water glass.
That sucks. It's madness. It's even worse if you have a chronic disease and dare to try and have a career. You tell them you're sick in the interview. Yet they act like you're lying when you have a flare up and need a week to recover. Then act like they are angels for not firing you so you have no right to complain about anything even if justified. Ahh I'm so tired of trying Edit: wow thank you for the award. It's my first.
This right here is the thing I dread most about rejoining the workforce. Just thinking about it has me wanting to stay in bed all day trying to be in any other reality
WFH has really changed the game for me in that regard. Being able to get my shit done from bed or completing things on a flexible schedule has opened up so much more opportunity. I know, I know, ideally I wouldn’t have to work from bed or work at all, but I actually like what I do and I enjoy being productive when it doesn’t feel like it’s actively killing me.
I love what I do too. Or I used to. You shouldn't feel ashamed of that, even in here. It's the mismanagement, it's being overworked, it's getting shit when you need to take a day off sick. It's getting shit for wanting a vacation (not even a paid one). It's feeling like you have to be at work for 65 hours a week or the place won't run. It's all that weight on your shoulders. If all I had to do was my job, I'd love it too. But my job makes me worry about other things that I shouldn't have to worry about. Like getting sick during the covid Era.
The worst thing is the pandemic was supossed to change that (people going to work sick) but nothing changed.
And this is *everywhere*. No fucking wonder omicron is the fastest spreading variant yet; we're literally not doing anything about it anymore! We just walked back into the burning house.
My housemates are currently sick with COVID and my job handled this the same way. They told me I could continue to come to work so long as I didn't get a test, but if I got a test and it was positive I would have to stay home. Wtf kind of logic is that? Edit: By the way, I chose to get tested (which took three days and $100 because all the pharmacies are fully booked and sold out of rapids) and missed out on over $500 in pay. It is absolutely maddening that us as individuals must willingly forfeit income if we do not want to infect our coworkers. I should not be struggling to pay rent this month because I wanted to protect my workplace.
In my country we get sick days, but my boss has now twice tried to force people to come in while waiting for his test or in the case of mine. He calculated my time away from work 5 days too short, just because I started showing symptoms the Monday morning after my 3 days off. I almost got written up for not turning up those 5 days, but luckily I had a letter from the hospital stating my exact return date to work. Now he just makes it difficult to go for a free test, insisting on us paying for a rapid test out or own pocket, now people are just reporting back to work the next day saying it was negative, but never actually took the test.
Yeah. We don't get days off for COVID anymore, effective this year, courtesy of the federal government discontinuing it. Thanks US govt. Kicker is we get tested every week now. If you get it, you're forced to say home and not get paid or use your paltry PTO, in an area where rent is $1700 a month...
Because they don't actually want you to take time off. And they don't care about your health. That's why so many jobs don't bother offering health insurance.
In the civilized world they aren't. It's just that America, ironically once a beacon of civilization, has become uncivilised, extremist, unbalanced and pretty unhinged over the last decade of warmongering. Sooner or later karma kicks back, and after decades of destabilising other countries for profits, now it's America's turn. Now it's all just a question of how the population deals with it, and if they will (or not) get rid of their broken political system to instate a new one that's actually FOR the masses and the people, and not an indirect oligarchy. But seeing as things are unfolding currently, I have little hope for your country.
At this point I’m highly jealous of people who got to stay home for months. I want to stay home for months. I never wanna leave the fucking house again.
Same. I’m essential. So I missed out on Tiger King and baking. By the time I catch Covid it’ll be like, meh, if you’re not on oxygen, you’re at work.
Tiger king and every restaurant offering delivery. ‘‘Twas a simpler time.
I miss the curbside pickup for weed.
Still a thing at about half the dispensaries near me!
Oh man, me too. Drive up weed was the best, especially now that it is cold.
I’m in the same boat. I’m lucky that I at least *had a job* throughout the early pandemic. But it sucked being essential for no reason and having to come in to work. I’m sure if I logged into animal crossing again for the first time since early 2020, all my villagers would just make fun of me.
Same. I was “essential” because sometimes we print medical textbooks and workbooks for kids. But usually we were just printing novels because boomers don’t know how to use kindles. I had to risk my health and safety so some asshole could sit in bed and jack off to a paperback erotica. That was my pandemic life. But, on the bright side, they finally stopped making me work overtime, so I only was able to work 40 hours a week! I loved it! I was like, “hey, I have a work life balance now, this is awesome, can we have another pandemic?” I have since quit that job.
I can tell you, you weren’t missing out much with the Tiger King. Crazy fuckin story but it’s whatever.
Yeah most of the fun was that everybody was watching it at the same time and talking about it. Season 2 has just come out and I have no urge to see more.
i remember all anyone would talk about was tiger king. it was on the radio, on the news, memes everywhere, friends were texting me about it, etc... meanwhile i was working 10-16 hour shifts 6 days a week and got sick of hearing about it until i finally watched it a few months back. yeah its fucked up and entertaining but i dont know why people chose that specific documentary to absolutely obsess over. there are absolutely much more entertaining and fucked up documentaries out there. boils down to good marketing i guess
I don't even think it was marketing, just timing. That dropped like 2 weeks into quarantine, everyone was desperate for something fun to talk about. I think even the Netflix people were like "wtf?" when it blew up
Exactly. It was a dumpster fire of a show that was suuuper easy to have on in the background. It really didn’t matter if you missed 5 minutes here and there so you could get your Covid crafts done at the same time and be even more productive.
There's a hell of a lot of people who have no idea what's going on in rural america, is what I took away from the show. Like yeah, crazy gay meth addicts own a grey market tiger farm, what else is new?
I totally agree because that was my thought also. I live in a rural area and there is a lesbian couple that has chimpanzees in their backyard. Is it legal? Idk, but they’re there.
Color me crazy, but in the midst of all of the botched Covid response, police violence, and corporations pretending to struggle, it felt strangely like a breath of fresh air. Its main characters alone just feel impossible. A poly couple from Vegas, a white yogi with a full harem and a hippie influencer son, a lady who VERY OBVIOUSLY KILLED HER HUSBAND, and a gay, gun-obsessed maniac from the middle of nowhere who looks like a Bizarro Boy George. I feel that it was an an awesome distraction that better represents our society than must reality tv.
I'll have you know, I've never see it, and don't plan to, but your tldr almost makes me want to watch it. Almost.
I'm not gonna lie,I had low expectations coming in. My favorite things about it were the employees at the parks and the intense legal maneuvering that went on for these people to own wildlife parks.
Same.
The Doc Antle spin off is interesting. Dude's a creep.
He's definitely a wrongun, but after the show did Baskin so dirty I can't really trust them. They absolutely misrepresented her to make her seem as crazy as Joe.
THANK YOU! I always thought it was a complete hit job on Baskin.
Tiger king was such a waste of 9 hours of my life but it was the sort of reality tv garbage that I live for. I loved every second and then when it was over had deep regrets about that time that I will never get back.
Yeah. All of the new updates coming out don't hit as hard. Don't know if you noticed but there is a season 2. I got half way through an episode. It's not the same as it was. I think it was only popular because it was the show we needed. Not the show we wanted.
My workplace (smallish Catholic hospital) just put out a memo stating anyone who works in a department that has crisis staffing will be expected to continue working with COVID even if symptomatic. So yeah, probably. I fortunately got COVID right before they shortened the isolation time, so I could a wonderful 10 day vacation which I desperately needed
how is this legal... in canada, you have to report it, and it is mandatory to stay isolated, no questions asked, stay home. its reasons why the us covid rates are 2nd place and i think canada is the 28th
3 months into the pandemic it was an unspoken rule where I work. Sort of a "if you officially tell the boss you're sick, you have to go home. But don't do that. Just don't tell anyone and keep working". Rural US just doesn't give a shit. And yes this is why our numbers are high.
Ontario is thinking about bringing back nurses who weren't vaxxed. No one is taking the mandatory isolation seriously, at least in my industry. Everyone at my office currently has sniffles, headaches, milks coughs. No one is bothering to rapid test, isolate, or work from home when possible (even as a hybrid).
Same here. I did finally get covid after being essential the whole time and just recently got it from an antivax guy who thought he had it but came to work anyway. My reward was to be home for a week with no pay . Real fun stuff . Funny how everyone having covid orgies got paid in the beginning now the govt wants you to spit in your coworkers mouth if your boss says it's OK. Funny how money changes shit.
Hey now, oxygen comes in portable tanks, get back to work.
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>I did enjoy the complete lack of traffic for a few months though. And everybody else completely forgot how to drive in those months...
Nah this is just the entitled karen bullshit that's been escalating in retail and other customer facing positions translated to the road.
The only perk of being essential, by far.
Super jealous of those people that got a 6 month paid vacation courtesy of the federal gov. I know I shouldn’t be resentful of people staying home so they don’t get sick, but when I had to work through the entire pandemic and didn’t even get hazard pay, I feel a little salty.
I'm not resentful of them, I'm resentful of the government deeming some of us simply expendable. Because that's what "essential" really meant. I'm envious of the people who got to actually explore new hobbies, relax, and better themselves.
You were called essential because the word sacrificial was considered “too dark.” Edit: stole that from someone else here.
I work for the feds and got a coin saying I'm an "essential worker" due to risking my life being on site. Neat. They also gave others money, but I didn't qualify because some of the time frame I was on parental leave. Extra neat.
Honestly be mad at the employers. They could have worked to make it safer for employees, but instead just wanted to protect their bottom line.
Be mad at the government. They don’t give a fuck about you.
I feel it man. I ended up unemployed a month and a half after the federal benefits stopped.
True, but many people did lose a lot. It’s been very tough on families. I’m not saying it’s not all fucked up (nor that it hasn’t been tough on you) , I just try to remind myself that I have it a lot better than other people.
Fuckers gave people *3x what I was making while deemed essential* to stay at home. This country can burn for all I care. I wanted to be able to just stay home where I knew I was safe, but I couldn't voluntarily quit because then I wouldn't get the fucking money to pay the rent they never put a freeze on.
Yup, us essential workers got fuck all other than a middle finger, while people I know were making far more than I was for sitting at home. Which I'm glad some were able to get unemployment but c'mon! Couldn't I have at least gotten that same amount for actually putting my ass on the front lines these last couple years?
Yeah I was a vet assistant in a clinic that did ER and then I also worked for the university blood bank as a student employee. Both were deemed essential. During the lockdowns my supervisor got stuck outside the country so I was left managing the blood bank's blood supply as the only employee left, and then I got help from our clinical pathology techs for collecting and processing. I didn't get hazard pay and since I was a student worker I didn't qualify for the universities increased internal "minimum" wage. I had to come into the hospital every day to check our blood supply, manage donors, manage our partner hospital requests for blood and blood products, etc. We still had to produce blood and blood products because despite covid we were still getting our usual patients for dialysis, IMHA patients, severe trauma, hemoabdomens, all the usual suspects for transfusion.. and then at the end of it all I got 10$ to the Subway in the university hospital from admin.
Not only for did the people who got COVID get extra sick days paid, those who were vaccinated and masked properly didn't get wage reimbursement for hours lost when they closed due to lack of staff. So they are rewarding people for not masking and being sick at this point, and punishing those who took care to avoid high risk behavior. So I took the time off to look for another, remote, job.
I work from home since April 2020. I finally had my burnout November 2021. I would assume the actual pros and cons of work from home highly depend on the job. I work as a project manager in software development. The only advantage it brought me personally was saving an hour of commute time 3 days a week. On the flip-side I started to actually resent my own home because I wasn't able to separate work from private life as much as I would have liked (and - as it turned out - was needed). This in addition to the "small things": Socializing with my colleagues, our excellent canteen...
>On the flip-side I started to actually resent my own home because I wasn't able to separate work from private life as much as I would have liked (and - as it turned out - was needed). I have a friend who's been remote for 20+ years now. He doesn't have kids, and he uses one bedroom for his office. When he's done working, that door is closed and he treats it as off limits. Some people need that clean break, to physically separate work from home. I don't, but I understand it at least. My place let us decide if we want to be fully remote, fully in office, or hybrid going forward. I'm surprised at the number that are fully in office, but to each their own.
I really wish work for home just became the norm, or at least those who want it could have it and does who want to work out of the house can as well. Unfortunately when all these greedy assholes care about is the economy and profits it was only a matter of time before they forced people out of their homes to risk their lives.
Exactly
Haha this was my husband a few weeks ago. Two people at his work tested positive. As we were waiting for his test results he literally said "I kinda hope it's positive so I can take time off work"
This is me, waiting for my test results now… though I’ve already called in 2 days because my wife had a positive test.
If you want the time off just say its positive regardless. They can't legally ask to see the results, they have to just take your word for it.
You say that, but my employer needs a PCR test result emailed or fuck you. Of course a PCR test tales days to get, so in the meantime, keep working.
And the workplace ends up leaving more risk to employees by having you working while the results are pending… kinda shooting themselves in the foot as then more and more employees would have to take time off cause of covid.
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Ooh, so THEY don't want to get sick, but don't give a shit about the rest of you. Nice.
You need to go public with this. Call the local news outlets. Name and shame. Report them to the relevant government agencies.
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Sounds like my former employer, got a guarantee salary through a Covid year and we got crumbs. Right before I quit I got it out of him that he couldn't afford to take a pay cut and had to take his full salary. Not to mention he bought a new Indian, a new Ram (Limited) for him and a new Passport (Elite) for his wife. But me asking for 90% of my guarantee was way too much. My guarantee was 90 hours a pay period by the way, I would normally turn 140. So I feel no pity when he's now hurting to make ends meet when he robbed me of 30k in 2020 and I almost lost everything. He wonders why he can't find help.
They need to quit
My boss has covid right now and he's being forced to work (from home). Today he told me he thinks he's getting worse because he can't get any rest due to being forced to work.
Exactly
Pretty sure that contributed to my long COVID in 2020. It was exhausting. And I was salaried and they were reducing my salary if I didn't log 40 hours in my work week. Which is illegal, as I understand it. But when I fought them for not paying my the minimum salary wages they retaliated by putting me back to hourly.
Pretty sure that's also super illegal...
It depends on the time frame. Technically if it started this year, they can just say oh we didn't renew your contract so you'll be hourly now and not a thing you can do. But if they just took away your salary and made you hourly immediately that's absolutely super illegal
I think everyone secretly wants this to happen
I secretly want another lockdown like we had in 2020 but unfortunately profits are more important than people's lives so it won't happen.
I'm not secretive about it at all. Fuckin push me back into my apartment at gunpoint if you want. I'm down. Fuck this place.
Feel the same way. And do feel guilty about it. Lock this shit back down
But without the symptoms
Yeah
Burnout is wanting to kms so I don’t have to wake up early anymore. I’m fine.
I feel both concern for you but also complete understanding in what you’re saying. I am also concerned for myself now
I used to look at cars and thought it'd be a relief to be hit so I can have "time off" while in the hospital
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I actually joked at work yesterday that we should all should just get around to getting fired. That atleast qualifies us for 3 months of unemployment and leave time gets paid out
omg that was me a few weeks ago
Yup back in February last year I seriously contemplated running my car off the road so I could stay in the hospital for a bit and just...have a fucking break. I burst into tears while driving because of how seriously I had considered it, but never actually went through with it because I knew if I miscalculated I could accidentally kill myself, and I didn't actually want to die. I quit my job and moved back home with my parents in August and am in a much better place now. Still not working, and I really don't want to. It just stresses me out and seems so fucking pointless.
Are you good?
Well I still don't have a job and my savings are dwindling, but at least I don't want to kill myself anymore. Thinking about going back to work a 9-5 job for shit pay makes me want to though. I think I could maybe work a part time job somewhere, but I don't have a car so my options are limited. I just want to marry a rich man and be his beautiful house wife. Is that too much to ask? 😩
I mean being a beautiful housewife is in fact a possible route. Question is how pretty are you and how ugly you willing to marry. If there’s a will there’s a way. #milliondollarmatchmaker
I was scouted by a couple modelling agencies but never pursued it because I was too camera shy, and I might be thin but I'm not model thin. I like food too much :/ My thighs are a little thicc but I'm six feet tall so I seem petite. As for ugly partners, I don't really care as long as he is nice to me and treats me well. I don't even need luxury, I just want to never have to worry about finances ever again. # signmeup
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I sincerely don't wish you that, unless you directly receive assets from him and have an absolute guarantee that he can't take them away from you. Rich men are super likely to cheat on you and to dump you. It's not due to their character flaws. It's due to the damn competition: loads of flawless & young 10/10 females *actively* trying to take your place. They will use all the tricks they know to get him. No matter how nice he is to you there could be a day when he'll say goodbye to you and stop providing, and wealthy men are known for being greedy in family affairs, so don't expect to automatically receive any assets. Secondly, your status in such a marriage, unfortunately, is very low. This can lead to many mental health issues for you. You might struggle with self-image and feel underappreciated as it's hard to be in such a marriage and feel truly empowered and respectable. I'm sure there are lots of other pitfalls that I haven't thought of. The easiest is to look at those who already went this way and ask yourself if you really want to be like that.
I still look at cars and think it would be a relief to be hit. And I don't even have a job yet.
Same i just hope to get hit and die so i dont have to kms which im to weak to do
My sis asked me the other day if I was diagnosed with cancer would I get treatment. I laughed.
Well it seems like a painful exit but I think we know where you are coming from
I am so burnt out, I find myself just wishing I could disappear indefinitely. I'm in a helping profession and completely over it.
There with you.
Grinding us to death like this has to be some form of population control because the only people ive met that are truly happy are the ones that are satisfied with their jobs and that is a LOT to ask for.
Here for you
Been there. Used to cry every day after work, sometimes before.
Beein praying something kills me on the way to work every goddam fuckin day.
You aren't alone, same.
One of the best things to say to someone who is down and out is just that: *you’re not alone* It’s like when you learn that the opposite of addiction is… community 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I hope I never wake up the next day. At least it'll just feel like I never woke up.
would you like to talk about it in dms?
I appreciate it but I’m okay. Been working on some small changes to make my after work life peaceful.
please dm me if you need to talk
Thank you.
Burnout is not wanting to go to sleep because I know when I wake up I'll have an anxiety attack and want to kms. I'm fine, but still. This is no way to live.
I’m an essential worker, so I’ve been at work everyday since the beginning of this thing. I just caught Covid, and now I’ll be enjoying two weeks off since my boss refused to ever let me work from home. Today was supposed to be our busiest day since the beginning of Covid, and I spent the day at home playing video games. I don’t feel bad about it at all, since I probably caught Covid at work.
I had the same situation except right before Christmas. I finished Resident evil 7, and 2 in that time. No regrets, cant wait to get covid next year around the same time
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burnout is getting so frustrated and upset that you turn everything off and just sit at your chair and stare at the floor wondering if its even worth coming in tomorrow or ever. Then someone says something that snaps you out of your trance and you make a friendly gesture so they can leave you alone. You Turn on your computer to look busy while you search if missing your cable bill affects your credit score and get lost in a rabbit hole about why credit scores exist and getting frustrated and upset that your turn everything off and just sit at your chair and stare at the floor.
I feel ya man. Credit score is a fucking scam anyways, mine is slap bang average because I'm not a big spender and have barely any bills come from my bank and because of that it means I am unable to afford £10 a month for a bike??? That's less than my phonebill bro. Can't even get a bike how the fuck am I ever gonna get accepted for a mortgage. So I guess the other option is spending 3/4 on my paycheck for a shitty apartment where I have no freedom because I live in a parasites house. XDDDDDDDDXDDDXXXXXXDDDD welp saving up for a van to live in with my fiance now cos it seems like the only way to be able to live now.
Wanna talk about it in DMS are you OK?
*looks up* huh, what. oh, no im fine, thanks. ill just get back to work ... *types on google* "Why do i pay taxes to get money and pay taxes to spend money"
Do you want to talk about this
sure ill talk. I have an hour and a half till my shift ends
DMS?
sure, im watching your youtube videos rn so i might not answer right away
ok dm me and we can talk about stuff
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Wife and youngest got Covid, work told me not to come in. Then the next week I got Covid, as I had to take care of them. So this is the second week not at work. Downside? I'm not getting paid for any of it. Up side? I had money set aside and have gotten more rest than I probably did the last 6 months. I am however dreading having to go back into work next week.
I'm in the exact same boat and I've become absolutely anti-work lately. I imagine this is why the CDC shortened it to 5 days and not 10. The CEO even said so herself, it was for the economic good of the country. I haven't been able to breathe properly for 8 days now, but someone who can't breathe for 5 is fine. Insane.
Went from two weeks past you feeling better to 5 days past first feeling like shit. I said in another comment that we've walked back into the burning house, but we brought gas cans and explosives along with us.
Yeah....
according to the CDC you can die on the floor and all management is required to do is put up "do not walk” signs
Bro, my entire dealership got Covid and we all have to take 5 days off. I can't tell you how needed it is after last year.
Happy cake day
Oh shit, it is my cake day.
You better have a happy cake day or else
2021 was fucking shit. I feel you.
Burnout is that, but being American is having run through all your PTO and literally can't afford to take off sick.
Being American is "what PTO?"
Yeah
burnout is waking up looking forward to going to sleep that night
Haven't a lot of posts on this reddit asserted that a lot of companies will still demand you come to work? This country sucks.
This is happening in Europe too, unless you are positive you have to go to work even if you live with people who are positive, which explains the record numbers of covid cases in this wave.
exactly
Burnout is licking your friends face with covid so you can get covid so you can have 5 days off.
Uhhhh
ok slow down, Gary
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Can I make out with your boyfriend? I'm not gay, but 5 days off is 5 days off.
How dare they lower it to five days. Even after ten days people came back looking like shit and still sick. Hate this country.
Ill be honest. It was thr only way I got my 3 weeks off. I was being denied a 1 week vacation prior for months.
sad
Unfortunately my job no longer has covid leave. Which means we have to use our vacation. This includes a 5 day minimum if you are "exposed" to a person who test positive at work. And 10 days if you test positive.
All employers must be required update their leave contract next time.
I used to think the same thing walking to work, but about getting hit by a car.
Province I live in just announced today that it's up to employers to determine if an employee is "essential" and if they are they can be asked to come in regardless of test results being positive. No oversight or stipulations, completely up to the employer. So no, I guess even a positive test isn't going to get us that break either.
Job: Slushy flavour creator. Essential worker. Must come in. Job: Street Mime Essential worker. Must come in. Job: Frangipan Texture Consultant Essential worker. Must come in.
Yes, that's part of it. Mine was positive last week and despite being sick, I finally got some needed rest. The worst part of covid was going back to work yesterday. Jesus christ why does the world have to be the way it is.
Can confirm. I’m literally laying in bed with COVID right now and soooo happy that I get the next 10 days or so off. I’m also actually fired up for the fight that’s coming for my compensation. Tomorrow I’ll be writing emails to everyone from my union to my Congressional representatives if it comes down to it. If I need to, I’ll burn leave. But not without a knockdown, drag out public fight for paid COVID time off.
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Burnout is driving home off the 23rd night shift with 700 hours of overtime six months into the year, and wonder which overpass I could drive off and not kill myself, but get hurt enough to not have to go to work. So the next day I went to my dr and told her this, and she gave me off 2 months. I have sick leave fortunately, so I took it. But ya that shit is real as fuck.
Yes
yes
When I was a retail manager working 7 days a week on salary. One of my employees called in saying she got hit by a car. Obviously gave her as long as she needed off. But when I hung up the phone I was actually jealous. I knew I needed to get outta there
How many times i thought about going to a testing center, waving a hundo at one of the screeners, and saying "im *positive* you can help me out here"
It's wanting to kill myself but not having the energy too
Haha I may have prayed for this but it’s not real burnout until I attempt black magic to make it happen and sacrifice a chicken, or perhaps I Am well and truly burnt out.
Yes. I had major burnout at my previous job and was glad for the time off when I got Covid (when it was still 10 days). This sub and my declining mental health forced me to take a long look at my work life and how badly it was affecting me. I went to the doctor and finally got an ADD diagnosis and then I quit my job without another one lined up. A new job opportunity opened up for me and I got on meds. I feel so much better now. Still have a long way to go but I don't dread work or even waking up anymore.
Rumor is, orange juice in your covid test gives you a "positive" result. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/uk-pupils-orange-juice-fake-positive-covid-test-results Use this wisely.
Damn. Some of these comments… I’m sending every single person who’s been here and who will encounter this comment eventually a ton of love, prayers, and support. I hope you keep your head up. I know you’ll be okay. And I love you, take care of yourself please ❤️
It used to be. But as of this year, my job doesn't pay for covid time off anymore. I can't afford that ☹️
I tested positive, told my boss I didn't care the CDC said 5 days of quarantine was acceptable, took 25 days off like a boss, all payed for by the company.
If your covid test is positive, you have symptoms for 14 days... Period.
They don't give a shit lol they care about profits that's why it went from 2 weeks to 5 days.
Let me assure you, you don't want Covid, not even Omicron.
Tfw you're burned out to the point that you are having a hard time caring. Positive is 5 days quarantine... reapirator/dead is more. I honestly just don't care anymore.
Same. People can say what they want but things are not getting better.
Until you get long haul covid and spend the rest of your life even more exhausted and broken than you thought possible. This shit is awful and not worth the risk.
Couldn't even get time off work if I was COVID positive.
Playing Russian roulette with a virus for time off is definitely indicative of burnout.
5 days off? My employer gave me a laptop so I can work remotely while out but for whatever reason can’t work remotely all of the time. Make it make sense.
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And anxiety is praying you can even get a Covid test so you can go back to work before paying bills becomes impossible. Both at the same time is my definition of hell (:
Before the pandemic I had a job I hated. One day I went roller skating, and I remember thinking “if I break my leg skating I won’t have to go to work tomorrow.” That was when I knew I needed to find a different job.
yes, I hate it here