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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA dilemma ahead for too many people
Your boss calls you and says, we're back in business. Show up for work .
You live in a state that was not particularly efficient about setting boundaries or speedy at sending people into lockdown.
What do you do?
Schools are not going to reopen. Your daycare options may be limited.
If you are no show, and it's legal for the business to operate, you may be fired. If you are fired for cause (refusing to show up for work), you are not entitled to unemployment payments.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)morillon
(1,185 posts)...I'd provide medical excuses to anyone who asked for them.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Figure safety circumstances would be similar, & even more stringent, than before we shut
Pillow talk
(265 posts)that's when you know your country has been broken by the right and a media that will always give them ink.
jimfields33
(15,763 posts)Those 289 trump judges are standing by. Ugh.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Then stay up all night drinking and stroll into work looking lovely, w vomit on your shirt, and start projectile wet coughing.
He'll beg you to go home.
You've bought yourself enough time until the next nationwide shutdown in three weeks.
matt819
(10,749 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)You stay home and protect your children and yourself. Its a no brained.
Everyone who returns to work is very likely to die, including your boss. And they will all go home and infect their families too.
Many times doing the right thing is really tough, yet if you make the right choice its an easy choice.
Boomer
(4,168 posts)This isn't the bubonic plague, not everyone is "likely to die."
lunatica
(53,410 posts)but no one knew if they would get it. With this pandemic we at least know that social isolation helps.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)police, undocumented workers who won't get any unemployment or stimulus check, drug stores, restaurants, farmers, researchers, plumbers, and a bunch more.
It's a tough decision and I hope businesses that do "reopen" do everything feasible to protect people who come to work. More importantly, I hope they don't pressure workers to return who really don't want to (although, there will always be subtle pressure).
thesquanderer
(11,982 posts)...that can be enough to stop you from receiving unemployment benefits.
The Mouth
(3,148 posts)I've worked more than one place where we out-macho'd each other with who could come to work the sickest. I've shown to work so incredibly fucked up from the flu before ... Wife has already been exposed and had what was probably a mild case, at least we both assume we are asymptomatic carriers and isolate accordingly. I've been 104, throwing up, and driving a forklift before.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)either have to stay home for child care purposes of if you have a legitimate fear that you could get covid-19 if you report for work. Of course this is not a perfect solution since most people will take a big pay cut if they have to go on unemployment. But it's a start and this should be the policy in all states.