I'm sorry to hear that. Recover soon. Out of curiosity, if you don't mind sharing: are you vaccinated? Boosted?
I recently retired with a serious case of work related PTSD. My last position was salaried and management would harass us for not working fifty to sixty hours a week. The pay made up for that somewhat, but didn't make up for the burnout that had been building since that trauma of '03. I quit a year early. My biggest fuck you will always be for the diploma mill for-profit trade school I taught at from '00 to '03. My takeaway from that is to advise everyone I can to avoid educational institutes that advertise heavily on TV. You will wind up with an education that has the best reputation money can buy.
vaccinated. not boosted. -sighs- and here i thought i had like the super gene that was immune to it (jk; there is no super gene) all of my coworkers have at it AT LEAST once. I was the only one at work on staff who had NOT had it yet. my husband has had it. my parents and siblings have never had it. i figured i just had good genes ugh.
I had a job like that. I was chastised by a senior partner for not working 60 hours a week "like everyone else" [except the partners]. I had been at that firm for about six months. I resigned on the spot ... and took my job offer letter (promising me 40-hour weeks with at least one day per week working from home, which never happened) to the state labor commission, which ruled that the firm owed me a couple of hundred hours of overtime -- at time-and-a-half.
A friend told me about these cool lofts for artists. Only problem is they costs more than I make or just about right at what I make in a good month. What, am I the last of the poor starving artists?
All the rest finally starved to death. Fortunately, I hear rats are true survivors. (Not sure how that applies to dead ones though).
So y'know how we've got this forum policy of "If someone is violating the rules or making the place unpleasant, don't confront them, report it and the mod team will handle it"? Yeah, where I work seems to be the exact opposite policy. One of my coworkers announced, more or less to the room during a break between classes, that "If I get sick, I'm not going to take a COVID test or stay home from work. I'll just keep coming in and tell everyone it's just a cold. I don't want the stigma attached to me." Now not only is this a monumentally stupid attitude (and he's a monumentally stupid person, believe me) it's a violation of both university policy (which says basically if you even sniffle take the day off to get tested) and company policy (we're outsourced). My boss wasn't present then, so this morning I just told him what had been said and who else was witness to it. Said coworker hasn't done anything wrong yet (he wasn't coughing or anything), but my boss said "Well, there's nothing I can really do. You heard it, it's something you should take up with him." Me? I? One of the senior employees in a workplace with one supervisor and zero other official or unofficial ranks, titles, or positions? Somebody is sure content to collect his management paycheck and nothing more.
Oh bugger, this isn't even fashionable any more... (to be 100% honest I probably only took the test because I am supposed to be heading up the motorway to look after my dear ol' mum right now - I woke up feeling a bit ropy, but if it was a "business as usual" day I probably would have just got on with it - apart from anything I just feel a bit coldy and can smell my coffee and juice...) Hey ho, I might even get a bit of writing done... or use it as an excuse for some overdue day-time drinking and TV...
taking that metaphor to its conclusion you should deal with it by screaming abuse at him in the break room , inciting your colleagues to hate him too, and eventually starting a fight every time he opens his mouth
I won't go into the other points of disagreement we have, but that's about what it would turn into if I confronted him.
C is control, T is test, and S is where you drop the swab-liquid, so just C is negative, C and T is positive, and just T is a void result
I had a coworker who was shameless in his pursuit of female students. Management favored this guy over me, even though I was far more popular with the students. It's complicated, but can be summed up that he and management had the same lack of ethics. This institute was run for profit, and that was all that mattered. I was truthful with the students which eventually got me fired. The whole experience left me with a bad case of work related PTSD.
Well, crap. Looks like I'm going to need a new laptop. Stupid clumsy fingers dropped an open water bottle right on the keyboard
