Posted on 07/13/2021 1:27:15 PM PDT by freebird5850
I have been working from home since Feb 2020 in Wa state. In my job role there is no reason for me to be in office since all assembly labor has been transferred out of state. Now they are forcing us to attend in person for a minimum of 3 days a week. The DOH website states that covid is mutating into different variants and the vaccines in some cases less effective. This excerpted directly from DOH Wa, "The detection of these COVID-19 variants in our state reminds us that this pandemic is not over. Now that these variants have been found, it is critical to double down on all the prevention measures to protect Washingtonians against COVID-19. I'm sad and very scared.
I take it you don’t work in retail, where work-from-home opportunities are virtually non-existent.
Do you REALLY think you’re going to die?
It’s time to put on the big kid panties and act like a grown up employee. Or, as others have suggested, seek out employment that will allow you to hide under your bed and quiver all day.
I see you forgot to write “satire” !
What’s the point of this?
I’m glad you can work without fear. This shows you have a strong immune system. I stated that I don’t. It’s been that way all my life.
Not going to hide etc. I just want to continue working virtual as doing so has fulfilled my duties 100%.
That’s funny.
FREEBIRD!!
Stop whining ya big baby. Stop worrying about catching covid, I mean if you catch it you only have a 99.998% chance of survival. Stop being such a weenie and grow up, stop acting like a child and being afraid of your shadow.
How about this, try being an American, if you what that means.
Thanks all, great discussion. I’ve asked mods to close the thread now.
Your last day on earth is already known. If it isn't the Rona that gets you, it could very well be a runaway truck. Have faith. Live your life.
Yaah - doesn’t work for me. My daughters and their families are all back at their respective jobs in their respective offices in the Seattle area. They have been for several months, and each and every one of them remain gloriously healthy.
You sound a little petulant and looking for any excuse because you just like staying home.
But I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that you’ve been out and about for other reasons.
If you have proof that your office has inadequate ventilation then report it so it can be fixed. Have any of your coworkers become ill because of the poor ventilation? Have you even communicated with them?
Refer back to my paragraph 2.
Sad, the many cutting FReepers here.
Had you opened with having low immunity and not trusting the jab, it may have been a kinder thread.
BOO-EFFEN-HOOO.
There’s way too many ready to return fearlessly to work now being confronted with new workplace policies.
Rack yer slide, and go hot for THIS mess:
Since Brown wiped away the reprehensible Doctrine of “Separate but Equal” that was the malodorous legacy of Plessey, and observing the LGBTQ community arguing that they face it in resurrected form as they reject “separate but equal” laws establishing for them Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships in their pursuit of marriage equality — with that as prologue, and with workplace social policies venerating equality, inclusion, and diversity held aloft as shining principles seemingly proclaiming that we have learned the lessons of our history, one might believe that intelligent, and enlightened minds would forevermore assiduously avoid even the faintest whiff of the old demon.
Horrifyingly, not so.
In too many workplaces new COVID Policies have exhumed the apparition from its crypt to invest its infernal malice into “separate but equal” Groups: call them A and B; two separate sets of expectations for two purportedly equal groups of people. One, Group A, will consent to vaccination as their employer prefers, and be accordingly rewarded. The other, Group B, will not consent to do what their employer prefers, and will also be accordingly “rewarded”; the level of actual equality evident in these differing rewards being prudently doubted.
This is simply impermissible.
Such policies promise employees preferential treatment as part of Group A to coerce them into accepting the only truly presented selection: to irreversibly receive experimental medical treatment that bears some known potential for negative health outcomes that could prove life-long, up to and including death. This coercion is Workplace Misconduct of an extraordinary severity as it originates at the highest levels of organizational authority.
Such policies threaten employees with disfavorable treatment as part of Group B to bully them into accepting the only truly presented selection: to irreversibly receive experimental medical treatment that bears some known potential for negative health outcomes that could prove life-long, up to and including death. This bullying is Workplace Misconduct of an extraordinary severity as it originates at the highest levels of organizational authority.
Such policies segregate employees into separate but equal Groups A and B, and institutionalize discrimination against employees in Group B. This is especially odious as it emanates from top tiers of organizational authority.
These employer’s new COVID policies force employees to confront a Hobson’s Choice; a false choice in which the illusion of two selections is offered — Group A and Group B — when, in Reality, there is but ONE affirmative selection offered that is deemed rejected unless accepted. The actual logical choice ISN’T, therefore, OR(A, B), but OR(A, NOT(A)), because B == NOT(A). Put another way, the choice isn’t between apples and oranges; it is between apples and famine.
Presenting employees with the illusion of two affirmative choices, when the Reality is that the false other choice is nothing more than the default condition of NOT choosing the ONLY available affirmative selection, is dishonesty that constitutes Workplace Misconduct, and it is especially egregious in severity as it arises out of the highest levels of organizational authority.
Forcing employees into this false choice is an abuse of authority that — because it is being done in the context of continuing employment, because that context provokes high anxiety about possible wrongful discipline and or discharge, and because that, in turn, evokes many substantive related fears (loss of income, personal economic upheaval, bankruptcy, eviction, foreclosure, unplanned emergency career changes, and more) — creates a hostile work environment, and that hostility is of utmost severity because the abuse emanates from the highest levels of organizational authority.
Such COVID policies direct employees — under threat of discriminatory treatment — to expose themselves to experimental drugs that are of inherently elevated risk owing to their lack of the testing required to grant them full FDA Approval under which drugs are certified safe. Coercing or bullying employees into exposing themselves to conditions in which their actual degree of personal safety cannot be determined, in which their level of personal risk cannot be quantified, and their future health cannot be confidently assured, constitutes an inappropriate or illegal supervisory directive, and this is a grave offense because it originates at the highest levels of organizational authority.
So, just maybe, Sunshine, there are worse things than simply being called back to the office.
Your employer requires you to be present. Good enough, either go in or quit.
My suggestion would be to go see your primary care physician and have them check you over and discuss your immune system problems and ways to mitigate risk if you go back in person. Free Republic is a good place for spirited exchanges but not where I would go for medical advice. I do wish you well as you navigate this situation. Hang in there.
Quit and go make some cupcakes for yourself.
I thought you were a troll.
I have two suggestions.
Get familiar with Dr. Kory’s treatment so you can use it, maybe with the help of somebody, if you get the wuhan coronavirus.
Note that high risk groups for the wuhan coronavirus have more stored iron. If you have excess iron in your body, consider looking into ways to safely remove it until your blood ferritin, a measure of stored iron, is 70 ng/ml.
Well some people shouldn’t return to work.
I see you have been on FR since 2003, so I am a little surprised you feel the way you do.
If returning to work is not something you want to do, you are going to have to reinvent yourself and the work you are willing to do. Start looking into Flexjobs or Remote Jobs. Not all those types of jobs are sitting on the phone listening to people hang-up on you. There’s engineering, technical writing, remote virtual assistants, teaching.
I wish the best of luck in your decision and hope you overcome your fear along the way.
“I’m sad and very scared.”
Grow a pair you freaking cupcake.
Or hide in your mom’s basement until Dr Fraud and Dementia Joe give the all clear.
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