When we returned to the office, they didn’t tell me that the person I shared an office had stayed home because he thought he had covid (he eventually tested positive). That night my girlfriend had also been informed that her supervisor had covid and she was having symptoms.
So she had a doctor’s appointment and they said we should both quarantine for 10 days and get tested. I requested 7 days off from work to quarantine and texted “I can work from home, I don’t care.” They never sent any work but a coworker did check up on us intermittently.
The day I returned from quarantine they sent me home immediately, telling me to take another covid test, and when I got home they asked me to do a meeting which was between me, my boss and 2 coworkers for some reason for them to tell me that I didn’t offer hard enough to work from home during quarantine.
See, I offered, but because I said ‘I’ll work from home, I don’t care.’ It meant that I ACTUALLY didn’t care and that by staying home on doctors orders I was ‘just not wanting to work’ and I didn’t HAVE to quarantine for 10 days because it wasn’t MY doctor who gave the order. Oh, and the coworker who called me was just trying to get me to offer to work from home again. The first time I offered wasn’t good enough, I guess?
They told me to ‘come up with a plan to keep my job’ and they told me they wanted me to ‘impress them’ by working 60 hours a week (for no extra pay) and also learn more skills relevant to the job but learn those outside of the 60 hours.
He went on to chastise me again, in front of coworkers, for taking 3 days off to move. He then went on to brag that there were people who worked for him for years that he never gave a raise to because they only worked 40 hours a week, basically punishing people for having families and wanting lives outside of work.
But he had given several raises to other coworkers that year because they would work until they were physically ill or would have a partner be mad at them for working so many hours. He said ‘Listen to me and you’ll make money.’
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