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Remember when workers were 'essential'?
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When COVID hit I was working part time at a UPS warehouse in Tennessee, we were classified as essential because we shipped medical supplies, among other things. One day, I remember it vividly, we got a new manager, and so everyone, from all over the warehouse, had to gather together in the break area, nobody more than a foot apart, COVID safety on the TV screens, not a single mask, and what does the new manager talk about? Safety. Gives a whole speech about how much he cares about our safety!
That same day, my supervisor comes up to me and says, "We've had too many people calling out sick and faking it so we're doing a new policy where if you're sick, you still have to come into work and we'll decide if you're sick enough to send you home." My only regret was not getting that shit in writing because that shit was straight up illegal. But I just quit on the spot.
In case anybody was curious about how I became a fucking communist.