I work at a thrift store and people don't listen on the good days let alone if we try to get them to donate one person at a time without allowing anyone else in until they are done.
I know transferring of the virus from surfaces like packages is unlikely, but my job would involve picking up bags and boxes that have been traveling in a car potentially covered in coughs and what not with no good way to decontaminate the things, especially if we try to return to business as normal as this time of year is normally garage sale season which means multiple customers with SUVs full of stuff dumping off at once while 3-5 of us scramble to pack and load it.
With my state likely throwing out our stay at home order this week thanks to GOP shinnanagins, I will have to decide soon if my job is worth risking my health and my mental stress. On the plus side my SO is allowed to work from home right now and makes enough that we will survive even if I quit my job, and when they return to work they have their own office, but I really don't want to quit like that.
I will likely hear them out for what they are planning on doing once we reopen, and if I don't think it's enough I will likely ask for a leave of absence, or tell them that I'm temp quitting, but once we have proper treatments for covid-19 I would be interested in coming back. I'm one of the best workers at my work, so they would likely have me back, but we will have to see.
But it all sucks because I don't hate my job. It's decent pay, with some nice perks, and gets me up and moving. I really need to get myself in a work out routine again (my main work out is via beat saber in VR, and I've been dealing with an ear problem for like 10 days now :/)
Exactly. They had the nerve to release a order that management are required to wear masks. But not the workers doing the labor. They quickly changed this to everyone wear masks when people got upset. They dont give a fuck and wont until people start staying at home.
And people wont stay at home because of bills and some arent taking this serious. No hazard pay, and not even full PTO if you get sick. If you get sick you are sent home for 2 weeks with only one week of pay.
Its all kind of fucked up
My store manage is alright, but the people above her are who I'm worried about. They mocked our store for requesting sanitation supplies and protective gear two weeks before we were shut down.
My boss' boss told us we were being stupid because it was just a media hoax.
and my boss' boss' boss told us that it doesn't matter if it's a little unsafe, we would lose too many profits if we closed, so we aren't going to close.
And I work at a non profit charity :/
Ideally both of them are taking it a bit more seriously now, but we will have to see. That being said I can't complain about how they have treated me in general since the shut down though, as they have continued to pay me based on my average hours in the last quarter the entire shut down and have committed to do so through the current shut down end date of may 24th (which will likely be forcefully removed by the GOP in the next few days)
