Photo: Getty Images As the country continues its patchwork reopening and New York City barrels ahead into phase two, many people who have spent the past few months working from home are being told that it’s time to return to the office. Of course, countless “essential” workers — from health-care professionals to nannies and delivery workers — have never had the luxury of working from home and have continued to go to work throughout the pandemic at great risk to themselves.
After that, I was like: I can’t afford to take off more time, and they’re not going to pay me. So I got my hands on some masks, because my mother is a nurse. And I came back to the office two weeks later. I now wear a mask the entire time I’m there. No one else in my office wears masks, no one. I’m constantly having to readjust the mask and make sure everything’s sealed, and I wear glasses, which fog up constantly. One day, my supervisor came over to my desk, walked into my cubicle, and coughed.
I have asthma and chronic bronchitis, and I’ve had a carotid artery dissection. And I have two kids with asthma, and I have a husband with high blood pressure. So I came back to work and just decided: I’m gonna follow protocols. I’m just gonna come in and mask up, even though it wasn’t mandatory. But then it became clear that my boss wanted me to begin to interact and handle things the way we always had. I know she very much wants it all to be the way it used to be.
“They have used the pandemic as an excuse for bad behavior.” — Sara, 45, North Carolina I work for a live-event production company. I’ve had Crohn’s disease my whole adult life, and I finally lost my colon back in January. My boss was very well aware of the situation with my immune system and that I was at a very high risk.
“We’re all freaked out about retaliation.” — Jen, 29, New York My team and I composed a letter and sent it to our CEO, expressing extreme concern and distress at the idea of coming in. We said we would love to be back in the office with each other, but not not at the risk of our physical and mental health. Our CEO refused to respond to us; he just said: well, the office is open. The fact that he didn’t even feel the need to respond to us was just like a huge slap in the face.
legallybae Oh....people with jobs....
This is so damn true. Until everyone knows someone who has been sick or died from COVID, in Montana I am largely seeing noone cares!
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