Update to My Boss Has Covid: I Contracted Covid
I took the day off on Monday to see if I would feel better. On Tuesday I felt worse, so I called out again and took an at-home test. It came up positive, I took a picture, then my partner brought me to the nearest clinic. Took like an hour and a half, but I got an official positive, and took a picture of that too. Sent both images to my boss, telling him I'd be out for the week.
We picked up our kid from camp ASAP and they also tested positive. They had to miss their first week of camp after having already experienced their first day. I allowed myself to get good and pissed.
My in-laws let me have a printer that they weren't using. I downloaded a worker's comp Form 18, filled it out, and mailed it along with a copy of my Covid positive test and a cover letter (I still have copies for myself!). There wasn't enough room on the form to detail why I knew my boss is at fault, but I still kept it short. I put that in the mail on Thursday.
On Friday, I e-mailed a scanned copy to my boss, informing him that I'd filed. He didn't talk to me about it, but did express his upset to the receptionists, Mr. We Need To Cut Down On Office Gossip.
"Do you think I did it on purpose?" he cried.
"No," they said.
"Do you think I was negligent?"
"Well, yeah."
(They had gotten Covid from him before I did)
I feel good about filing, but I'll be honest, I'm really dreading going in today. My boss can be vindictive and passive-aggressive af.
Posted Jul 25, 2022, 1:01 PM UTC
I, too, am at home today with Covid and we had to pull my kid out of camp as well.... boss is pissed at me for actually staying home with Covid saying "It's a desk job. You can handle it."
No motherfucker I will not answer 150 phone calls, billing flying out the door, getting payroll done, make a bank deposit (also exposing more of the public to me) while sitting here with a fever and coughing my brains out.
He thinks I'm a wimp and that I should just force myself to work anyway. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
The fatigue was the worst part of it for me! Just getting a drink was exhausting.
Of course they'll call you whatever they have to to guilt you into making them money. 🙄
I've had this shit 4 times now, and 2 of those times I did end up working while still positive because he whined and complained that there was no billing going out the door (surprise! I'm the only one in the entire company who can do my job!) and he ended up with the exact same symptoms as me, but refused to acknowledge he was sick and refused to take a Covid test. He literally will not acknowledge that it affects people greatly and thinks because he "only had the sniffles" that everyone else can just suck it up.
Meanwhile I also have a Covid-positive child at home who now has to isolate for 10 days.
I was told to bring her to work with me anyway and that she could sit in the file room on her tablet all day.... anything to get me physically in that office.
Meanwhile, I am beyond capable of doing my ENTIRE JOB from a laptop at home.
Make it make sense.