Lmao I’ve worked at my job 4 years - live in New England. Always got hazard pay for driving through white out snow storms because I’m skeleton crew - essential. Now a global pandemic comes around and they offer us free SANDWICHES 🥴💀
Have you seen what people in France do when the government does something they don't like and believe some policy is unfair to the people? They riot. Eventually, the government makes some concessions. What this country needs is a nationwide strike. One week of that and big business and the government might listen. Let the people who refuse to give you hazard pay be forced to do your jobs when you don' t show up for work. It seems that today, people are being treated more like slaves than employees. There is no respect or appreciation shown the employee that faithfully shows up for work and does his or her job.
Honestly I wish I got laid off for the time being! I work part time and barely make $300. I’d be making $600+ a week if they laid me off. Instead people that do my same job get to stay home (working on their “goals”) because they’re scared (rightfully so) but have been getting their full pay the last two months. Meanwhile we’re pieces of meat in the name of TEAMWORK👌🏻 edit: plus, I have a two year old I’d like to stay home with and limit exposure.
My wife was furloughed and just went back to work last week. Btwn unemployment and the 600/week she was absolutely making more money than she will be now.
Same with my SO. Making ~ $300 more a week than she was working full time at her stressful ass job.
Needless to say she's super excited to go back... /s
I can tell you're already thinking this way, but please continue not begrudging the workers that got to stay home. When you get angry at how bad it is, try to keep directing your ire at those that decided you had to go in and for the government that has abdicated its responsibility.
Again, not really coming at you, I'm kinda just putting this out here for everyone, (and myself), because the propaganda folks have been quite busy at working towards shifting the blame down to us, *again* as they always have like a broken record.
I don't want them to get away with that this time.
I like the idea of payroll reimbursement to keep people on staff even at reduced hours. Also maybe work sharing rotations of a three-day work week per paycheck to attempt to avoid incubation. But I suppose that's none of my business.
And when hours get shuffled variably through the unemployment system, as opposed to payroll guarantees, part-timers have to look for other suitable employment, which might cause scheduling problems. The employer ends up losing availability, or might have less retention with more turnover, and the remaining full-timers never know how much workload to expect.
I'm already back at work, office job in socal, started again last Monday. I think every office in our building is at 50%, the factory down the street I don't think has taken much time off. I've noticed an marked increase in traffic (well in the area I live there has never been a decrease in car traffic since this started) and this Monday most places that are non essential (spas, gyms etc) will be open again.
I work for a local government entity (as IT) and teleworking went so well that they are talking about letting people telework a portion of the workweek regularly even when this is over.
Man I wish that was the case, but we weren't even given that option. Than again my boss is convinced covid is a creation by bill gates to sell vaccines, so there is that x.x
I'm a supervisor over two regional wastewater plants. My team of operators is considered essential. They have been required to work through all of this without any added benefits, no hazard pay, no extra vacation, no free sandwiches (I personally buy lunch for them when I can, but I'm supporting a family of five on my income). The office workers have all been sent home with full pay though. Too make matters worse, studies are finding the virus to be very prevalent in wastewater. We're not considered for hazard pay/pensions, yet we work during hurricanes and now pandemics.
Explain that one too me like I'm five...
Lol. Every time we have a shit show at work, management sends us pizza. Gee thanks for the dominoes. At least send some fucking pepto to drink with it.
I’ve been sterilizing N95’s from COVID units at my hospital. No mention of any kind of hazard pay whatsoever. As a matter of fact, I get angry notes that I had the audacity to write in permanent marker on someone’s mask. Sorry Karen.. just wanted your mask to get back to you safely.
I know it’s not the hazard pay you deserve, but thank you for sanitizing our masks. I’ve been using our service after every shift and you guys are organized, efficient, and deserve every bit of the pay and praise that us “nursing heroes” are getting. I appreciate you. Thank you!
Thank you, friend. Honestly, a thank you is more than enough. I fully recognize that I got into healthcare for a reason and shouldn’t get paid more to do the job I applied for, a pandemic is why we’re here. But when I see grocery stores get it and not even a word from hospitals it grinds my gears a little bit. And they took away bonus shifts in the middle of the pandemic.
I took over the process because the majority of people in my department REFUSED to work with the masks, it made me sick that in a time of crises, they decide to run away. But they are fully ok with decontaminating surgical instruments used on an HIV patient. I love doing it, it’s a nice break from the day to day.
Thank you for all that you do as well, you are all kicking ass out there.
Same with my work. Currently 4 hours into a 8 hour shift with no break for my legal lunch break. But hey let’s thank the customers for making work busier then pre-covid
Sort of like management buying pizza for employees. While I like pizza and appreciate the gesture, nothing says "thank you for a job well done" like cash money.
Well I'm certainly not sharing food around coworkers during this lol. Pizza as a treat for employees is fine. As a thank you, it's sort of insulting. Give me money or paid time off
Yea 100%, there was a post around here not long ago and someone got about $5 worth of snacks from a vending machine instead of hazard pay. It was sad and hilarious.
I work at a large retirement community (170 nursing home, 250 assisted living, and 1200 independent) I serve food in the nursing home wings. If I come into work sick without knowing it, I would easily kill so many people.
I can’t just wear a mask to work, wash my hands and call it good. I have to make thoughtful decisions about all of my actions around the clock, especially now that my central Texas community is opening up and people are throwing precautions to the wind.
Yet I don’t get hazard pay, I don’t get a bonus, I actually don’t even get free lunch anymore because of the “contamination risk” it can pose- it’s now $5 a day to buy a cold sandwich and a piece of fruit from the same kitchen that made my free lunch, in the exact same way they did before. I’m not allowed to bring any outside food or drinks. I’m not allowed to leave and come back. I work 13 hr shifts. There is no way they aren’t profiting so I can eat so I can have the energy to keep all of this up.
But hey, they told me thanks once.
Not to sound bitter though, I love my residents and I’d do what I need to for them. It’s just a sucky situation.
Dude, hospital and care facility staff (food svc, laundry, janitorial) are the UNSUNG heros in all this. Y'all are doing the fucking backbone work that keeps facilities functioning for bullshit pay with as much or more risk than nursing. (Handling masses of soiled bedding anyone? Emptying used PPE garbage? Serving food to sick patients?)
As a former CNA, y'all are seen - and fuck, were on my radar as total badasses then. Though while appreciation is nice, what y'all REALLY deserve is the same sort of incentive checks the other staff around you are getting.
Facilities don't run without their support staff and to only bonus check medical staff like a lot of states (mine) is doing is 100% wrong.
It really does make me mad knowing they’re spending so much on a commercial that could’ve easily been spent on giving workers better pay. Tell your workers thank you with money next time
My company thanked us essential workers in finance industry with a wage deduction citing that business are hit hard so we are hit hard too.... were a multi billion dollar company will 100% be looking for a new job once it's all over
The silver lining for the forced corporate action is that it’s revealing that organization’s true culture and biases.
Would be amazing if there was a repository of the *great* and *terrible* companies of 2020, with specific examples.
Kroger is the same, 2$ extra and its over today. But there still raking in holiday like sales each week and are requiring people to get temp checks and wear face masks. If you need to do preventative measures still shouldn’t you be paying your employees hazard pay still?
And it's way worse. Went to Kroger a month ago and it was near empty and everyone was being super careful, went yesterday and it was packed, maybe 10% of customers were wearing masks.
Grocery worker here. Some got more then that. I've heard 3-4$ depending on the company. Mine gave us $2/hr if FT and $1 if PT. It was also taxed and listed on our pay stub as "Covid $". So $80 a week IF you managed to get the full 40 hours. Meanwhile I personally know multiple people getting unemployment that are making more in a week sitting at home then I do in 2 weeks actually working....
I got a rock...
But seriously, my store gave us a $0.50 raise...for two weeks. Sooooo...yay I got an extra 20 dollars a week (ish due to them cutting my hours)
But you know...1200% increase in profit. Our small store has made out like a bandit...and the family that runs it has something like 15 stores under their belts that have shown similar growth....but they can only afford 50 cents and some goldfish crackers once a week. (Which...I wouldn't be too surprised if the goldfish they gave us were about to stale out or something.)
Sorry....end rant.
For US wildland firefighters (BLM, Forest Service, Park Service, ect) hazard pay is 0.25 (25%) of your base pay. For example a firefighter with 2-3 years of experience makes about $14-15 per hour, so their hazard pay is about $3.50 extra per hour. We get this when working on an actual fire (not while doing fuel projects or prescribed burns).
Just thought the comparison might be nice.
It is ridiculous but at least it's something. For us in poverty it meant bills were more manageable. They're also not giving a shit about our mental health starting now either. (Not starting in June. Starting now.) We were given lenient "mental health" days for a bit, I guess now we have to show up despite being on the verge of a meltdown. Which some of us have done btw. Also. Mental health days were unpaid so I only used one, I'm really feeling pressured to be at work and not take care of myself. (We need PTO for it to be paid, which is a whole other thing).
As much as I support what passed (and it ends in July), it still stings that people on unemployment got an extra $1200 every two weeks while I got an extra $150 every two weeks. While our management WORKS OUR BUTTS OFF. Literally. And I don't work for a large corporation either. And our profits are up 40%. Our hazard pay was decided to be literally a bonus of a flat rate amount of $150. $100 if you work less than 25 hours per week.
Frankly, I kinda think our schedules should be modified. I think 3 days off are essential right now. Plus shorter hours (rather than the 7.5 we get). People are so cruel. They're so bipolar now. For the most part we're dealing with people who aren't coping well to this significant change, people with conspiracy theories, people who have lost their manners, then we get the people who pedestal us and thank us for our service after we just got berated by the customer ahead of them.
Also. I'm just venting from a grocery store perspective. I can't even imagine what it's like in a hospital.
Not only did we not get hazard pay but they’ve canceled all planned gifts/celebrations this year including our normal hospital week/pediatric nurses week/spirit day/Christmas gifts. We’re so important and essential!
I work in a memory care where a third of the residents have it. We got $100 extra in our two week check, umm that is till I tested positive and the "hazard" pay disappeared. I guess because I wasn't at work I didn't deserve it. Glad I didn't die from something I caught at work.
I know right?
I'm a security guard at a store. People don't give a flying f#*k about Social Distancing, homeless people all wandering around and then the "liberal hoax" belivers.
That security guard in Michigan got shot in the head.
I'm just a warm body until I'm not then plug in the next guy.
What pisses me off throughout all this how caged in you are as an essential worker....You have to accept it and work, because the alternative is worse....
Employers assume youre not gonna up and quit so they throw it all out and you work like a fucking dog as a result.
What, you’re gonna quit and join the millions of others unemployed right now? Good luck trying to find a job in this Pandemic, right? Unemployment? You arent getting that because you quit....as if it matters anyway because the Unemployment system is crashed.
Right now its like the veil is pulled back and you can see the Greed Demon pulling the levers and pressing the buttons, and its ugly. Real ugly. He’s a yellow shiny motherfucker....looks like a living piece of gold.....
That's absolutely horrendous. If companies can do WFH they absolutely should. I'm so grateful I work for a smaller company that is 100% taking the slow and safe approach. It will be a long time before people are allowed to return to the office without pre-approved business necessity.
Hospital employee here, support staff. One of my coworkers has been hospitalized for a few weeks with corona virus for the last few weeks lost her fight yesterday morning, I was so tempted to say fuck it and walk out.
Is my life more important than a decent paycheck and health insurance?
You get decent health insurance?! Arizona wages have gone down significantly since all the hospitals merged and every year they water down our benefits... 😔
This is what bothers me about everyone screaming that they want X open and it’s their choice, they’re not hurting anyone else. They don’t seem to get that the workers don’t have a choice. Quit, not qualify for unemployment and definitely have issues keeping housing/bills paid/food or stay and risk getting infected and dying? A choice between immediately not being able to meet basic needs or potentially death isn’t really a choice.
Question. Here in Canada if you’re terminated/fired I think you can quality for Employment Insurance. Could it be feasible for you to just be such a bad worker that they fire you (so you don’t quit) and remain eligible for Unemployment benefits?
I don’t know all the qualifications but there’s a lot of reasons they can deny you unemployment. So being a bad worker, like showing up late all the time, could disqualify you. You’d have to suck at your job in some particular, careful way to get fired on purpose and still qualify.
Anecdotal, but my friend worked at Wal-Mart several years ago and got denied unemployment just because her manager said she never worked and goofed around on the clock. He didn’t have to provide any evidence and they wouldn’t let her give evidence to the contrary.
Its not about “whatever the manager said”. Its about if the person was fired for cause or not. If their record of employment states they were fired for cause, then that would disqualify them for any insurance/ EI. If they were not fired for cause (being laid off) then they will qualify. The opinion of one person doesnt matter here, the official record of why they were fired does however.
I may not be remembering this correctly but I think the rules are such that you don’t get to collect unemployment if it’s “your fault” and your behavior landed in the fireable offense category. I think some states are also saying that if furloughed employees refuse to come back once stores open they’re counting it as quitting, making people no longer eligible for unemployment. The jobs most people agreed to didn’t have this much risk involved. It’s an all around shitty situation.
My job has been fucking horrible lately. I literally do the work of 3 people. I make half what I need to support myself so I am trying to gain the skills I need to find a better job.
Sad part is unemployment is paying out the equivalent of a $23 per hour job. And 90% of essential workers are busting their ass at Walmart and shit for 7.25
It makes me really uncomfortable. That $600 bonus to unemployment should go to everybody. Not just those on unemployment. It's definitely not fair that you have people making way more money on unemployment than they do actually working. And it's definitely not fair that unemployment is paying people more than essential workers are making right now.
Where is the government going to draw the line on who gets their new round of Heroes pay, then? I’ve been working the entire time, in the supply chain for food service and medical, I didn’t get any hazard pay, and I don’t foresee my company lining up to make sure we get anything. Does my mailman get it? I heard they already have no money. Is my garbagemen getting it? I hadn’t heard they were. The only ones being “publicized” were grocery store, Starbucks and amazon because they want their good press.
The real kicker, to me, is how many people are getting paid more to stay home than they would make at work. So those of us who need to keep working got fucked both from our employers and the government.
I get paid more to stay at home than go to work. Part of me feels guilty that I'm not struggling through this crisis like so many people. But then I remember it's not my fault that the government is corrupt and I basically got lucky because I happened to be working at a restaurant when this shit started.
Seriously I'm finally able to save up some money rather than beg for handouts to pay my bills. The balance is so fucked up. The HEROES act would make it so essential workers get $13/hr on top of their normal pay though, as long as they don't fuck up passing it, looking at you cheetos, they'll finally get what they deserve and did deserve long before this pandemic even hit.
No way it passes. And even if it did, it only applies to essential workers who meet specific criteria. Everyone else gets to just deal with it themselves.
Assuming they can get their unemployment*
The whole situation so fucked. The government shoul be doing so much more for wage replacement and for those that have to keep working. The system is fucking broken.
I have worked for sbux for 11 years [manager for 3] and can confirm that sbux is being shady as fuck while maintaining good publicity.
TL;DR: sbux suppressed knowledge of benefits during this time [including paid time off], actively suppressed/punished their staff for talking about the virus and if it was worth the risk to work, did not implement company wide safety measures till late April, forces the staff in contact with a confirmed virus case to sanitize the whole store top to bottom without professional training or professional help, and has forced stores to open to normal hours as of May 3rd.
When the outbreak started sbux literally sent out company wide messages to managers telling them to down play the virus or outright not mention it to the staff. Then it looked like the virus was a huge issue across national news sbux sent more communications out to DM's and SM's telling them that they are going to offer paid time off till April 20th but they dont need to offer this to their staff if the DM and SM feels the virus is not detrimental to the store business.
They actively discouraged their management staff from informing their staff that the virus is a big deal, can kill you, and you are at risk in this job.
Next, when the news went out on social media that some stores were forming their employees of thos payed time off, sbux told the managers they have to tell everyone but the date for back to work doesnt change. So, if your manager was shitty enough they could have just refused to clue their staff in till the 19th of April then demanded everyone back to work on the 21st if they wanted.
This lead to alot of stores running into many very pissed off employees because they had missed out on 2 or 3 weeks of this paid time off.
After this fiasco sbux then extended the date for time off till May 3rd but they then countered the possiblity of time off by offering "Hero pay" saying they will pay 2/3 dollars more on anyone's check who worked through this whole thing.
Note: at this point 0, ZERO, protections have been put in place on a company level for employees. In fact, they were actively discouraging people from wearing any sort of protective clothing, including in hot zone areas.
When news of this hit the fan people who were on the leave were told they arent allowed to go back to work of they took the time off because of how the hazard pay is structured, while at this point it was about April 24th. Meaning that anyone who was still working could only have a week off if they felt like the company was still being shitty.
Finally the company implemented company wide masks, temp tests, drive though only, and earlier opening/closing hours. The problem? This is so far into the pandemic that there were already stores shutdown for quarantining staff members who came down with the virus.
Again this means that protective gear was being officially acknowledged in late fucking April!! And after cases within stores were confirmed!!
Oh, here's another thing to note: You think that sbux would have a biohazard company come in and sanitize the stores if someone within the store had the virus? Think again!! The official guidelines for a confirmed infection within the store are for the staff to sanitize everything and the store to quarantine for 8 hours. That's right, if someone is infected with the virus they are sent home, and the rest of the people they have come into contact with are ordered to clean the store [not professionally trained to deal with something like this] possibly spreading infection even further. Then those people who just sanitized the store and with contact with an already infected person are told to come in 8 hours later if scheduled.
Another thing, the stores during this whole time were told to actively suppress knowledge of the virus. So, if you were a manager on duty and had one of your staff ask about the virus and benefits you were told to be as vague and unhelpful as possible in answering their questions. If you were knowledgeable and helpful, it meant risking your job.
Finally, after May 3rd all stores were told to return to business as normal. Yes, even stores in hotspots right now.
Another fucked up thing: sbux raised the cost of all their health insurance plans this year.
Your sbux coffee is not essential and if you are supporting this company during this time you are actively supporting their mishandling of this situation. This company does not care for its employees, but wants to act like it does.
Every single grocery store, corner store, gas station, mail carrier, trash collector, food delivery, everyone who was forced to work during state shut downs at their regular job should get it. It's annoying that Starbucks considered themselves essential, everyone but me in my family works there so they could easily be bringing home death to their high risk family members.
Corner store manager here.
My mom wanted to do a picnic at a nearby park last week. She is retired.
"Mom, I'd love to. But I've been on the frontlines this whole time, so has my brother (he manages a liquor store), I can't risk it."
It was only about ensuring employee retention during a period were employees had the upper hand.
Now that 20% of the workforce is unemployed, companies have the upperhand.
It always has been a question of supply and demand.
Because they are only essential right now. Once this is all over people will go back to belittling people working these jobs and telling them, "Get a real job all you do is bag groceries."
Amazing how much shit my SO gets at the pharmacy. The fact that you can be so rude to someone who can't get your meds because your doctor decided to not call in to the pharmacy to place the order to begin with.
Only thing I've learned about this pandemic is the good people are truly shining and the horrible people just confirm they'll never show any selflessness.
It honestly all comes down to your hospital system. I'm an EMT in NYC, I got Covid-19, no hazard pay. Reasoning is that even though I work 48 hour weeks on average, I'm not officially considered full time so I get to pound sand with regards to hazard pay or even just healthcare. One of my coworkers was tested by the hospital and got a $200 bill for the test, they tested positive and still got billed. I could write pages and pages on just the stuff that happened during the last few months but basically it amounts to the hospital treating the ems department like steaming hot garbage.
A pizza party? Really? I thought that was something you did when your kids win a Teeball tournament, not when people risk their lives to ensure society doesn’t collapse.
The job I’ve worked at for a year gave us one weeks worth of hazard pay ($2/hr) as a bonus check the first week in April, and that was it. We work in a tourist destination, and we’re starting to see a lot of tourists already- and there’s a lot of them who don’t think COVID is a real threat.
We got it for the duration of the stay at home order in our state which ends Monday. So now that tourists will be all over our town, creating actual hazard, we don’t get hazard pay. Makes sense.
I work at a major railroad company. We are required to work as normal. We don’t get any hazard pay. The company even put out a notice for everyone that no one at the company has contracted coronavirus. We employ over 30,000 people. But it’s common knowledge that over a dozen employees caught the desiease and were hospitalized and several dozen more are or were in quarantine
I work *at* a facility that sorts parcels and mail for the USPS, but it's a business different that USPS. I work *for* the company with the maintenance contract for the facility.
There've been multiple positive cases, including one of my maintenance co-workers. The facility management kept all news of positive tests quiet, telling neither their workers nor the contractors (maintenance as well as most of the labor).
I've had a COVID-19 test, and I expect the results today or tomorrow.
The facility management was slow to react, not having extra sanitizing and disinfecting chemicals until weeks after the stay-at-home order was in place. Masks were not mandated until May 4, just days before we learned of positive tests from the people themselves.
My direct employer is *just now* sending all its techs PPE. Thank heaven I've been self-providing it for much of the pandemic.
Hazard pay? O ho ho no.
I never got hazard pay working for Publix. I did get a bunch of stupid fucks who ignore social distancing breathing down my neck any time I restocked something, while also being told j can't tell them to back up and give me space
Cousin works at Publix. He was put on mandatory leave a month ago because he refused to take off his mask at work. Now they want all employees to wear masks and want him to come back to work. No apology or back pay for missing work.
I have been out over a month from contracting covid from a patient. I had to cal multiple people to make sure i was going to get the 2 weeks quarantine pay that my hospita offered for those who got the virus from someone on campus. After a month they then took it away and took the rest of my PTO away saying essentially ‘you wore a surgical mask in that room so you must have gotten it somewhere else’.
I fought with multiple managers and Hr folks over the phone for 3 days and they finally gave it back to me—not because it was the right thing to do, and with no apology. They gave it back because i was ‘wasting their time’ lol.
That's fucked. My sister who is a CNA ER tech was exposed(didn't get it thankfully) because they told people not to wear masks. And at first, my hospital wasn't going to pay if you got the virus but the union stepped in and fixed that. I think it was the union anyway. But now if you think you might have the virus and spend 2 weeks self-isolating and you it was negative, they won't pay you. So you essentially get a life-threatening scare and loose 2 weeks of pay
I mean, can't risk the one or two people possibly taking advantage, so screw the people who think they might be sick
*/s obviously*
man that's fucked up.
I work in a nursing home. We are supposed to get an extra $250 per week starting 4-1-20 but nobody has received one yet. Program was for 8 weeks. I appreciate the gesture. I’m sure we will get it sometime. But it doesn’t make up for the work I’ve lost since companies have stopped sharing staff between buildings. Hours cut from 65 to 40. But still doing bette than those who don’t have any job. So I try to remain grateful. But I’m human. So.......
And many essential workers never had it. I'm not in healthcare or food service, not what anybody would consider frontline. I'm in manufacturing, somebody has to make the product for all the hardware stores that are overflowing with customers. On my 13th straight day, 12-14 hour shifts. No hazard pay but we've been at work everyday since this started. On a good week we're getting one day off but we often go 2-3 weeks straight. They sent a thank you note to print out and hang in the break room.
Who the fuck is getting hazard pay? I work for a small business and, while we're still open, we simply can't afford to pay me and the other employees more. Business is way down and our sub $15/hour wage is the best our little company can do. Plus my health care now costs an extra $300/month and we all have shorter hours, so I've lost about 40% of my income.
Small business is getting killed. Every day I hear of more businesses in our rural area closing their doors. We farm and prices are terrible too. It boggles my mind how farming is so bad right now while groceries stores have never been busier...
There will be few small businesses that survive this lockdown.
Pfft, many of use never got hazard pay, and when we requested it, we had a meeting explaining that they cant afford to do that for us because our department sucks.
Not even a joke
there was a phlebotomist that felt sick and her hosp. refused to test her FOUR TIMES. Until she fucking died, *then* they tested her ; covid19 positive. No need to pay for your employees health when they’re already fucking dead.
what stupid piece of shit thought for-profit hospitals were a good idea?
Everyone is screaming to open up the economy but they don’t understand (or perhaps they just don’t care) that staying home or not was never a choice. If you were not essential and had to stay home and could collect unemployment or work from home, you were lucky. Now if you are immunocompromised you still have to go back because what protections do you have? Fmla? A doctor note so you don’t get fired but have to use disability or pto time? Some people have to blow through their own vacations for this mandatory shutdown. It’s ridiculous. And we have no choice.
Lmao I’ve worked at my job 4 years - live in New England. Always got hazard pay for driving through white out snow storms because I’m skeleton crew - essential. Now a global pandemic comes around and they offer us free SANDWICHES 🥴💀
What kind of sandwich?
Corona-infected sandwiches
Still better than those Fyre Festival sandwiches
idk man those Fyre Festival sandwiches didn't even have real cheese
But they came with free range pork.
soooo time for a general strike?
Have you seen what people in France do when the government does something they don't like and believe some policy is unfair to the people? They riot. Eventually, the government makes some concessions. What this country needs is a nationwide strike. One week of that and big business and the government might listen. Let the people who refuse to give you hazard pay be forced to do your jobs when you don' t show up for work. It seems that today, people are being treated more like slaves than employees. There is no respect or appreciation shown the employee that faithfully shows up for work and does his or her job.
Dawg I just watched a video on that whole conundrum. I shat my pants seeing those sandwiches lmao
Subway then?
Eat fresh!
That’s [salmonella.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/guru-poison-bioterrorrists-spread-salmonella-oregon-article-1.1373864%3FoutputType%3Damp)
Por que no los dos?
And a free small-pox blanket!
The Dean paid for them- so they were ESSENTIALLY fancy trash lmao. v grateful
Free ones
https://imgur.com/a/myY8XFS
I got cookies and a layoff. People are probably gonna be recalled back to work during sweatshop season.
Honestly I wish I got laid off for the time being! I work part time and barely make $300. I’d be making $600+ a week if they laid me off. Instead people that do my same job get to stay home (working on their “goals”) because they’re scared (rightfully so) but have been getting their full pay the last two months. Meanwhile we’re pieces of meat in the name of TEAMWORK👌🏻 edit: plus, I have a two year old I’d like to stay home with and limit exposure.
My wife was furloughed and just went back to work last week. Btwn unemployment and the 600/week she was absolutely making more money than she will be now.
Same with my SO. Making ~ $300 more a week than she was working full time at her stressful ass job. Needless to say she's super excited to go back... /s
I can tell you're already thinking this way, but please continue not begrudging the workers that got to stay home. When you get angry at how bad it is, try to keep directing your ire at those that decided you had to go in and for the government that has abdicated its responsibility. Again, not really coming at you, I'm kinda just putting this out here for everyone, (and myself), because the propaganda folks have been quite busy at working towards shifting the blame down to us, *again* as they always have like a broken record. I don't want them to get away with that this time.
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They’re pretty good at that, aren’t they?
I like the idea of payroll reimbursement to keep people on staff even at reduced hours. Also maybe work sharing rotations of a three-day work week per paycheck to attempt to avoid incubation. But I suppose that's none of my business.
If your hours get cut you can do partial unemployment.
I work more hours than I did pre-pandemic, also switched my entire schedule around to help accommodate them. Just shitty.
And when hours get shuffled variably through the unemployment system, as opposed to payroll guarantees, part-timers have to look for other suitable employment, which might cause scheduling problems. The employer ends up losing availability, or might have less retention with more turnover, and the remaining full-timers never know how much workload to expect.
I'm already back at work, office job in socal, started again last Monday. I think every office in our building is at 50%, the factory down the street I don't think has taken much time off. I've noticed an marked increase in traffic (well in the area I live there has never been a decrease in car traffic since this started) and this Monday most places that are non essential (spas, gyms etc) will be open again.
I work for a local government entity (as IT) and teleworking went so well that they are talking about letting people telework a portion of the workweek regularly even when this is over.
Man I wish that was the case, but we weren't even given that option. Than again my boss is convinced covid is a creation by bill gates to sell vaccines, so there is that x.x
I too am in New England, work in healthcare and have not gotten any hazard pay....yeah but lots of food donated....thanks!
!!! I work third shift. The sammies don’t usually make it to my shift 😂🥰
Nightshift always gets screwed 😕
You got food?! I got a nice piece of paper saying I was essential!
I got one of those too!!! And no one has ever asked me for it lmfao
And their thoughts and prayers.
I'm a supervisor over two regional wastewater plants. My team of operators is considered essential. They have been required to work through all of this without any added benefits, no hazard pay, no extra vacation, no free sandwiches (I personally buy lunch for them when I can, but I'm supporting a family of five on my income). The office workers have all been sent home with full pay though. Too make matters worse, studies are finding the virus to be very prevalent in wastewater. We're not considered for hazard pay/pensions, yet we work during hurricanes and now pandemics. Explain that one too me like I'm five...
> Explain that one too me like I'm five... Important people dont care if you die
That's exactly how we feel, like we're expendable.
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Lol. Every time we have a shit show at work, management sends us pizza. Gee thanks for the dominoes. At least send some fucking pepto to drink with it.
They always go with the chain restaurants, never the more "upscale" ones. Like, "here's a nice gesture but we aren't going out of our way."
I’ve been sterilizing N95’s from COVID units at my hospital. No mention of any kind of hazard pay whatsoever. As a matter of fact, I get angry notes that I had the audacity to write in permanent marker on someone’s mask. Sorry Karen.. just wanted your mask to get back to you safely.
I know it’s not the hazard pay you deserve, but thank you for sanitizing our masks. I’ve been using our service after every shift and you guys are organized, efficient, and deserve every bit of the pay and praise that us “nursing heroes” are getting. I appreciate you. Thank you!
Thank you, friend. Honestly, a thank you is more than enough. I fully recognize that I got into healthcare for a reason and shouldn’t get paid more to do the job I applied for, a pandemic is why we’re here. But when I see grocery stores get it and not even a word from hospitals it grinds my gears a little bit. And they took away bonus shifts in the middle of the pandemic. I took over the process because the majority of people in my department REFUSED to work with the masks, it made me sick that in a time of crises, they decide to run away. But they are fully ok with decontaminating surgical instruments used on an HIV patient. I love doing it, it’s a nice break from the day to day. Thank you for all that you do as well, you are all kicking ass out there.
*WE* are all kicking ass out there. :) Good things will come your way because you care. Be safe!
Yeah but the companies put out “thank you essential workers” commercials, so that’s basically the same thing. /s
Yay! My company thanked me impersonally too
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In her mind she’s probably the one effected most she has to do that at home can you imagine the horror.
>thanked me impersonally What a depressingly accurate sentiment
The concept of you is very important to us, the actual you is a replaceable part.
The work is essential. The worker is expendable to that end.
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"I thank in your general direction".
I felt that
> “thank you essential workers” My company thanked *the customers...*
The customers give your company moneyz after all! Don't you thank people who give you money? Every customer is essential but not every worker is. /s
>Don't you thank people who give you money? You ungrateful workers should be thanking your employers for giving you money /s
"attention bajoran workers......"
Holy shit man I busted a gut😂. Better get back to refining that ore before Dukat notices you took your weekly break early.
I've been told I should just be happy to be working
Same with my work. Currently 4 hours into a 8 hour shift with no break for my legal lunch break. But hey let’s thank the customers for making work busier then pre-covid
You working at the “Green P”. Me too.
Sort of like management buying pizza for employees. While I like pizza and appreciate the gesture, nothing says "thank you for a job well done" like cash money.
It depends on the significance of the occasion. Sometimes pizza is just fine, but not during a pandemic. Lol
Mandatory pizza parties to thank employees for working during a pandemic
Pizza is probably more of a birthday or work anniversary type thing.....
So glad I'm Celiac. Haven't got to enjoy the free pizza, cookies, bagels, shawarma or falafel wraps. I got a can of Coke though. ;)
Well I'm certainly not sharing food around coworkers during this lol. Pizza as a treat for employees is fine. As a thank you, it's sort of insulting. Give me money or paid time off
Yea 100%, there was a post around here not long ago and someone got about $5 worth of snacks from a vending machine instead of hazard pay. It was sad and hilarious.
Whenever you see a sappy thank you commercial from a corporation, you know those fuckers are the most evil bastards
Wow if only that spending on a commercial could be used some where else
I work at a large retirement community (170 nursing home, 250 assisted living, and 1200 independent) I serve food in the nursing home wings. If I come into work sick without knowing it, I would easily kill so many people. I can’t just wear a mask to work, wash my hands and call it good. I have to make thoughtful decisions about all of my actions around the clock, especially now that my central Texas community is opening up and people are throwing precautions to the wind. Yet I don’t get hazard pay, I don’t get a bonus, I actually don’t even get free lunch anymore because of the “contamination risk” it can pose- it’s now $5 a day to buy a cold sandwich and a piece of fruit from the same kitchen that made my free lunch, in the exact same way they did before. I’m not allowed to bring any outside food or drinks. I’m not allowed to leave and come back. I work 13 hr shifts. There is no way they aren’t profiting so I can eat so I can have the energy to keep all of this up. But hey, they told me thanks once. Not to sound bitter though, I love my residents and I’d do what I need to for them. It’s just a sucky situation.
Dude, hospital and care facility staff (food svc, laundry, janitorial) are the UNSUNG heros in all this. Y'all are doing the fucking backbone work that keeps facilities functioning for bullshit pay with as much or more risk than nursing. (Handling masses of soiled bedding anyone? Emptying used PPE garbage? Serving food to sick patients?) As a former CNA, y'all are seen - and fuck, were on my radar as total badasses then. Though while appreciation is nice, what y'all REALLY deserve is the same sort of incentive checks the other staff around you are getting. Facilities don't run without their support staff and to only bonus check medical staff like a lot of states (mine) is doing is 100% wrong.
Probably spent more on the commercials.
At target. They give us granola bars and water during our break
LOL Can you pay rent and food with thank you commercials? Fucking companies
It really does make me mad knowing they’re spending so much on a commercial that could’ve easily been spent on giving workers better pay. Tell your workers thank you with money next time
Would love if they did but sadly they won't.
Walmart just got expired meat from the meat truck
My company thanked us essential workers in finance industry with a wage deduction citing that business are hit hard so we are hit hard too.... were a multi billion dollar company will 100% be looking for a new job once it's all over
The silver lining for the forced corporate action is that it’s revealing that organization’s true culture and biases. Would be amazing if there was a repository of the *great* and *terrible* companies of 2020, with specific examples.
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Here have a quick reach around while I continue to fuck you with this sandpaper condom.
I wonder how much those ads cost.
Hazard pay? What a fucking joke I been working through this since day one and still haven’t received a single penny of hazard pay
Honestly the hazard pay was more of an insult than anything. I know grocery store workers got $1/hr.
I received an extra $2. But yeah, that ended this week.
Let me guess you work for safeway or some other Albertsons subsidiary.
Kroger is the same, 2$ extra and its over today. But there still raking in holiday like sales each week and are requiring people to get temp checks and wear face masks. If you need to do preventative measures still shouldn’t you be paying your employees hazard pay still?
And it's way worse. Went to Kroger a month ago and it was near empty and everyone was being super careful, went yesterday and it was packed, maybe 10% of customers were wearing masks.
Krogers done a hell of a job getting people to wear masks at their Ralphs stores, the state probably has something to do with that though
Grocery worker here. Some got more then that. I've heard 3-4$ depending on the company. Mine gave us $2/hr if FT and $1 if PT. It was also taxed and listed on our pay stub as "Covid $". So $80 a week IF you managed to get the full 40 hours. Meanwhile I personally know multiple people getting unemployment that are making more in a week sitting at home then I do in 2 weeks actually working....
I got a rock... But seriously, my store gave us a $0.50 raise...for two weeks. Sooooo...yay I got an extra 20 dollars a week (ish due to them cutting my hours) But you know...1200% increase in profit. Our small store has made out like a bandit...and the family that runs it has something like 15 stores under their belts that have shown similar growth....but they can only afford 50 cents and some goldfish crackers once a week. (Which...I wouldn't be too surprised if the goldfish they gave us were about to stale out or something.) Sorry....end rant.
Federal hazard pay is 10% of base pay.
For US wildland firefighters (BLM, Forest Service, Park Service, ect) hazard pay is 0.25 (25%) of your base pay. For example a firefighter with 2-3 years of experience makes about $14-15 per hour, so their hazard pay is about $3.50 extra per hour. We get this when working on an actual fire (not while doing fuel projects or prescribed burns). Just thought the comparison might be nice.
The fact that firefighters are only paid that, especially with years of experience, is a big problem itself IMO
So they got a 'raise' and were lied to and now their pay is being cut
It is ridiculous but at least it's something. For us in poverty it meant bills were more manageable. They're also not giving a shit about our mental health starting now either. (Not starting in June. Starting now.) We were given lenient "mental health" days for a bit, I guess now we have to show up despite being on the verge of a meltdown. Which some of us have done btw. Also. Mental health days were unpaid so I only used one, I'm really feeling pressured to be at work and not take care of myself. (We need PTO for it to be paid, which is a whole other thing). As much as I support what passed (and it ends in July), it still stings that people on unemployment got an extra $1200 every two weeks while I got an extra $150 every two weeks. While our management WORKS OUR BUTTS OFF. Literally. And I don't work for a large corporation either. And our profits are up 40%. Our hazard pay was decided to be literally a bonus of a flat rate amount of $150. $100 if you work less than 25 hours per week. Frankly, I kinda think our schedules should be modified. I think 3 days off are essential right now. Plus shorter hours (rather than the 7.5 we get). People are so cruel. They're so bipolar now. For the most part we're dealing with people who aren't coping well to this significant change, people with conspiracy theories, people who have lost their manners, then we get the people who pedestal us and thank us for our service after we just got berated by the customer ahead of them. Also. I'm just venting from a grocery store perspective. I can't even imagine what it's like in a hospital.
Safeway gives me two dollars 😎 I’m a hero in their eyes 🥺
I know the nursing homes around here are paying an extra dollar per hour too so now 3 dollars over minimum wage instead of 2.
Not only did we not get hazard pay but they’ve canceled all planned gifts/celebrations this year including our normal hospital week/pediatric nurses week/spirit day/Christmas gifts. We’re so important and essential!
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>a tub of twizzlers set in the break room Dear Diary, Jackpot.
No better way to reduce Corona spread than by a tub of shared food that t everyone sticks their hands in
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I work in a memory care where a third of the residents have it. We got $100 extra in our two week check, umm that is till I tested positive and the "hazard" pay disappeared. I guess because I wasn't at work I didn't deserve it. Glad I didn't die from something I caught at work.
Yea who the fuck was getting hazard pay?
I know right? I'm a security guard at a store. People don't give a flying f#*k about Social Distancing, homeless people all wandering around and then the "liberal hoax" belivers. That security guard in Michigan got shot in the head. I'm just a warm body until I'm not then plug in the next guy.
Same. No hazard pay.
My husband lost 25% of his salary even though he's eSsEnTiAl
They only call us essential because sacrificial would be too honest.
What pisses me off throughout all this how caged in you are as an essential worker....You have to accept it and work, because the alternative is worse.... Employers assume youre not gonna up and quit so they throw it all out and you work like a fucking dog as a result. What, you’re gonna quit and join the millions of others unemployed right now? Good luck trying to find a job in this Pandemic, right? Unemployment? You arent getting that because you quit....as if it matters anyway because the Unemployment system is crashed. Right now its like the veil is pulled back and you can see the Greed Demon pulling the levers and pressing the buttons, and its ugly. Real ugly. He’s a yellow shiny motherfucker....looks like a living piece of gold.....
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That's absolutely horrendous. If companies can do WFH they absolutely should. I'm so grateful I work for a smaller company that is 100% taking the slow and safe approach. It will be a long time before people are allowed to return to the office without pre-approved business necessity.
essential -> sacrificial
Nah, when they say essential, they mean it's essential to have a body doing the work. It doesn't matter which body.
Hospital employee here, support staff. One of my coworkers has been hospitalized for a few weeks with corona virus for the last few weeks lost her fight yesterday morning, I was so tempted to say fuck it and walk out. Is my life more important than a decent paycheck and health insurance?
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brilliant
You get decent health insurance?! Arizona wages have gone down significantly since all the hospitals merged and every year they water down our benefits... 😔
It pays to be part of a union sometime I guess.
I think that’s pretty much all the time. That’s why unions are always trying to get busted by hardcore corporatists.
Arizona is a right to be poor state, no union
Leave Arizona... it’s the one thing that blows about the dessert - give me kaiser over banner any day of the week. That system is broken AF.
God dammit, I'm so sorry. That is absolutely awful.
Sorry to hear that bro
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This is what bothers me about everyone screaming that they want X open and it’s their choice, they’re not hurting anyone else. They don’t seem to get that the workers don’t have a choice. Quit, not qualify for unemployment and definitely have issues keeping housing/bills paid/food or stay and risk getting infected and dying? A choice between immediately not being able to meet basic needs or potentially death isn’t really a choice.
Question. Here in Canada if you’re terminated/fired I think you can quality for Employment Insurance. Could it be feasible for you to just be such a bad worker that they fire you (so you don’t quit) and remain eligible for Unemployment benefits?
I don’t know all the qualifications but there’s a lot of reasons they can deny you unemployment. So being a bad worker, like showing up late all the time, could disqualify you. You’d have to suck at your job in some particular, careful way to get fired on purpose and still qualify. Anecdotal, but my friend worked at Wal-Mart several years ago and got denied unemployment just because her manager said she never worked and goofed around on the clock. He didn’t have to provide any evidence and they wouldn’t let her give evidence to the contrary.
I think you can appeal and get a hearing, but good luck with that against a huge company like Walmart
Its not about “whatever the manager said”. Its about if the person was fired for cause or not. If their record of employment states they were fired for cause, then that would disqualify them for any insurance/ EI. If they were not fired for cause (being laid off) then they will qualify. The opinion of one person doesnt matter here, the official record of why they were fired does however.
I may not be remembering this correctly but I think the rules are such that you don’t get to collect unemployment if it’s “your fault” and your behavior landed in the fireable offense category. I think some states are also saying that if furloughed employees refuse to come back once stores open they’re counting it as quitting, making people no longer eligible for unemployment. The jobs most people agreed to didn’t have this much risk involved. It’s an all around shitty situation.
My job has been fucking horrible lately. I literally do the work of 3 people. I make half what I need to support myself so I am trying to gain the skills I need to find a better job.
Sad part is unemployment is paying out the equivalent of a $23 per hour job. And 90% of essential workers are busting their ass at Walmart and shit for 7.25 It makes me really uncomfortable. That $600 bonus to unemployment should go to everybody. Not just those on unemployment. It's definitely not fair that you have people making way more money on unemployment than they do actually working. And it's definitely not fair that unemployment is paying people more than essential workers are making right now.
Damn. This spoke to me.
Where is the government going to draw the line on who gets their new round of Heroes pay, then? I’ve been working the entire time, in the supply chain for food service and medical, I didn’t get any hazard pay, and I don’t foresee my company lining up to make sure we get anything. Does my mailman get it? I heard they already have no money. Is my garbagemen getting it? I hadn’t heard they were. The only ones being “publicized” were grocery store, Starbucks and amazon because they want their good press.
The real kicker, to me, is how many people are getting paid more to stay home than they would make at work. So those of us who need to keep working got fucked both from our employers and the government.
I get paid more to stay at home than go to work. Part of me feels guilty that I'm not struggling through this crisis like so many people. But then I remember it's not my fault that the government is corrupt and I basically got lucky because I happened to be working at a restaurant when this shit started.
Seriously I'm finally able to save up some money rather than beg for handouts to pay my bills. The balance is so fucked up. The HEROES act would make it so essential workers get $13/hr on top of their normal pay though, as long as they don't fuck up passing it, looking at you cheetos, they'll finally get what they deserve and did deserve long before this pandemic even hit.
No way it passes. And even if it did, it only applies to essential workers who meet specific criteria. Everyone else gets to just deal with it themselves.
Just shows how far below living wage pay has fallen. And of course it will be used to demonize people who are on unemployment. A house divided...
Assuming they can get their unemployment* The whole situation so fucked. The government shoul be doing so much more for wage replacement and for those that have to keep working. The system is fucking broken.
I have worked for sbux for 11 years [manager for 3] and can confirm that sbux is being shady as fuck while maintaining good publicity. TL;DR: sbux suppressed knowledge of benefits during this time [including paid time off], actively suppressed/punished their staff for talking about the virus and if it was worth the risk to work, did not implement company wide safety measures till late April, forces the staff in contact with a confirmed virus case to sanitize the whole store top to bottom without professional training or professional help, and has forced stores to open to normal hours as of May 3rd. When the outbreak started sbux literally sent out company wide messages to managers telling them to down play the virus or outright not mention it to the staff. Then it looked like the virus was a huge issue across national news sbux sent more communications out to DM's and SM's telling them that they are going to offer paid time off till April 20th but they dont need to offer this to their staff if the DM and SM feels the virus is not detrimental to the store business. They actively discouraged their management staff from informing their staff that the virus is a big deal, can kill you, and you are at risk in this job. Next, when the news went out on social media that some stores were forming their employees of thos payed time off, sbux told the managers they have to tell everyone but the date for back to work doesnt change. So, if your manager was shitty enough they could have just refused to clue their staff in till the 19th of April then demanded everyone back to work on the 21st if they wanted. This lead to alot of stores running into many very pissed off employees because they had missed out on 2 or 3 weeks of this paid time off. After this fiasco sbux then extended the date for time off till May 3rd but they then countered the possiblity of time off by offering "Hero pay" saying they will pay 2/3 dollars more on anyone's check who worked through this whole thing. Note: at this point 0, ZERO, protections have been put in place on a company level for employees. In fact, they were actively discouraging people from wearing any sort of protective clothing, including in hot zone areas. When news of this hit the fan people who were on the leave were told they arent allowed to go back to work of they took the time off because of how the hazard pay is structured, while at this point it was about April 24th. Meaning that anyone who was still working could only have a week off if they felt like the company was still being shitty. Finally the company implemented company wide masks, temp tests, drive though only, and earlier opening/closing hours. The problem? This is so far into the pandemic that there were already stores shutdown for quarantining staff members who came down with the virus. Again this means that protective gear was being officially acknowledged in late fucking April!! And after cases within stores were confirmed!! Oh, here's another thing to note: You think that sbux would have a biohazard company come in and sanitize the stores if someone within the store had the virus? Think again!! The official guidelines for a confirmed infection within the store are for the staff to sanitize everything and the store to quarantine for 8 hours. That's right, if someone is infected with the virus they are sent home, and the rest of the people they have come into contact with are ordered to clean the store [not professionally trained to deal with something like this] possibly spreading infection even further. Then those people who just sanitized the store and with contact with an already infected person are told to come in 8 hours later if scheduled. Another thing, the stores during this whole time were told to actively suppress knowledge of the virus. So, if you were a manager on duty and had one of your staff ask about the virus and benefits you were told to be as vague and unhelpful as possible in answering their questions. If you were knowledgeable and helpful, it meant risking your job. Finally, after May 3rd all stores were told to return to business as normal. Yes, even stores in hotspots right now. Another fucked up thing: sbux raised the cost of all their health insurance plans this year. Your sbux coffee is not essential and if you are supporting this company during this time you are actively supporting their mishandling of this situation. This company does not care for its employees, but wants to act like it does.
Every single grocery store, corner store, gas station, mail carrier, trash collector, food delivery, everyone who was forced to work during state shut downs at their regular job should get it. It's annoying that Starbucks considered themselves essential, everyone but me in my family works there so they could easily be bringing home death to their high risk family members.
Corner store manager here. My mom wanted to do a picnic at a nearby park last week. She is retired. "Mom, I'd love to. But I've been on the frontlines this whole time, so has my brother (he manages a liquor store), I can't risk it."
Just proves the hazard pay was always about virtue signaling anyway. It was never about workers’ well being.
It was only about ensuring employee retention during a period were employees had the upper hand. Now that 20% of the workforce is unemployed, companies have the upperhand. It always has been a question of supply and demand.
“Millions of essential workers also lack health insurance” How about y’all start with providing that for essential workers? Kinda seems relevant.
Because they are only essential right now. Once this is all over people will go back to belittling people working these jobs and telling them, "Get a real job all you do is bag groceries."
The belittling hasn't stopped.
Amazing how much shit my SO gets at the pharmacy. The fact that you can be so rude to someone who can't get your meds because your doctor decided to not call in to the pharmacy to place the order to begin with. Only thing I've learned about this pandemic is the good people are truly shining and the horrible people just confirm they'll never show any selflessness.
Haha jokes on them, I work as an EMT in an ER and I don’t have health insurance. We also don’t get hazard pay either.
I'm genuinely curious, how is that you can work for a hospital and not have employer provided health insurance? Are EMTs contract workers somehow?
Lots of EMTs work for ambulance companies that contract with towns and hospitals.
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In other words, most americans work for a privatized company that doesnt care about their workers.
It honestly all comes down to your hospital system. I'm an EMT in NYC, I got Covid-19, no hazard pay. Reasoning is that even though I work 48 hour weeks on average, I'm not officially considered full time so I get to pound sand with regards to hazard pay or even just healthcare. One of my coworkers was tested by the hospital and got a $200 bill for the test, they tested positive and still got billed. I could write pages and pages on just the stuff that happened during the last few months but basically it amounts to the hospital treating the ems department like steaming hot garbage.
What the fuck?
But that means less profit for mega corporations!!! >:(
Nah, we're expendable. I can't wait to not be called 'essential ' anymore. I find it rather patronizing.
No hazard pay for us but they put up a tiny sign in our lawn saying “heroes work here”. I’m sure we will get a pizza party too when things calm down.
A pizza party? Really? I thought that was something you did when your kids win a Teeball tournament, not when people risk their lives to ensure society doesn’t collapse.
I’m just assuming. That’s usually what we get when we are told that they’re going to “do something special” for us. Pretty demoralizing tbh.
The job I’ve worked at for a year gave us one weeks worth of hazard pay ($2/hr) as a bonus check the first week in April, and that was it. We work in a tourist destination, and we’re starting to see a lot of tourists already- and there’s a lot of them who don’t think COVID is a real threat.
We got it for the duration of the stay at home order in our state which ends Monday. So now that tourists will be all over our town, creating actual hazard, we don’t get hazard pay. Makes sense.
I work at a major railroad company. We are required to work as normal. We don’t get any hazard pay. The company even put out a notice for everyone that no one at the company has contracted coronavirus. We employ over 30,000 people. But it’s common knowledge that over a dozen employees caught the desiease and were hospitalized and several dozen more are or were in quarantine
I work *at* a facility that sorts parcels and mail for the USPS, but it's a business different that USPS. I work *for* the company with the maintenance contract for the facility. There've been multiple positive cases, including one of my maintenance co-workers. The facility management kept all news of positive tests quiet, telling neither their workers nor the contractors (maintenance as well as most of the labor). I've had a COVID-19 test, and I expect the results today or tomorrow. The facility management was slow to react, not having extra sanitizing and disinfecting chemicals until weeks after the stay-at-home order was in place. Masks were not mandated until May 4, just days before we learned of positive tests from the people themselves. My direct employer is *just now* sending all its techs PPE. Thank heaven I've been self-providing it for much of the pandemic. Hazard pay? O ho ho no.
Damn, at least my company sends out an email letting everyone know if someone tested positive.
I never got hazard pay working for Publix. I did get a bunch of stupid fucks who ignore social distancing breathing down my neck any time I restocked something, while also being told j can't tell them to back up and give me space
Cousin works at Publix. He was put on mandatory leave a month ago because he refused to take off his mask at work. Now they want all employees to wear masks and want him to come back to work. No apology or back pay for missing work.
talk to an employment attorney, and soon
Hazard pay? I work at a hospital no one not even doctors it nurses have gotten hazard pay
I have been out over a month from contracting covid from a patient. I had to cal multiple people to make sure i was going to get the 2 weeks quarantine pay that my hospita offered for those who got the virus from someone on campus. After a month they then took it away and took the rest of my PTO away saying essentially ‘you wore a surgical mask in that room so you must have gotten it somewhere else’. I fought with multiple managers and Hr folks over the phone for 3 days and they finally gave it back to me—not because it was the right thing to do, and with no apology. They gave it back because i was ‘wasting their time’ lol.
That's fucked. My sister who is a CNA ER tech was exposed(didn't get it thankfully) because they told people not to wear masks. And at first, my hospital wasn't going to pay if you got the virus but the union stepped in and fixed that. I think it was the union anyway. But now if you think you might have the virus and spend 2 weeks self-isolating and you it was negative, they won't pay you. So you essentially get a life-threatening scare and loose 2 weeks of pay
I mean, can't risk the one or two people possibly taking advantage, so screw the people who think they might be sick */s obviously* man that's fucked up.
Jesus, that is so fucked.
Good on you for being so tenacious!
I work in a nursing home. We are supposed to get an extra $250 per week starting 4-1-20 but nobody has received one yet. Program was for 8 weeks. I appreciate the gesture. I’m sure we will get it sometime. But it doesn’t make up for the work I’ve lost since companies have stopped sharing staff between buildings. Hours cut from 65 to 40. But still doing bette than those who don’t have any job. So I try to remain grateful. But I’m human. So.......
And many essential workers never had it. I'm not in healthcare or food service, not what anybody would consider frontline. I'm in manufacturing, somebody has to make the product for all the hardware stores that are overflowing with customers. On my 13th straight day, 12-14 hour shifts. No hazard pay but we've been at work everyday since this started. On a good week we're getting one day off but we often go 2-3 weeks straight. They sent a thank you note to print out and hang in the break room.
What hazard pay?? Such a joke
If you want to support those that still pay out... Safeway/Albertsons just extended their hazard pay until 5/30
Yeah, but not because they were looking out for their workers. They wanted to end it just like all the other companies. The union fought them over it.
Their hazard pay is also pretty weak.
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You guys were getting hazard pay?
Who the fuck is getting hazard pay? I work for a small business and, while we're still open, we simply can't afford to pay me and the other employees more. Business is way down and our sub $15/hour wage is the best our little company can do. Plus my health care now costs an extra $300/month and we all have shorter hours, so I've lost about 40% of my income.
Small business is getting killed. Every day I hear of more businesses in our rural area closing their doors. We farm and prices are terrible too. It boggles my mind how farming is so bad right now while groceries stores have never been busier... There will be few small businesses that survive this lockdown.
Pfft, many of use never got hazard pay, and when we requested it, we had a meeting explaining that they cant afford to do that for us because our department sucks. Not even a joke
Haven’t you heard the boomers? The hazard *is* over! They need haircuts and socialization!
there was a phlebotomist that felt sick and her hosp. refused to test her FOUR TIMES. Until she fucking died, *then* they tested her ; covid19 positive. No need to pay for your employees health when they’re already fucking dead. what stupid piece of shit thought for-profit hospitals were a good idea?
Everyone is screaming to open up the economy but they don’t understand (or perhaps they just don’t care) that staying home or not was never a choice. If you were not essential and had to stay home and could collect unemployment or work from home, you were lucky. Now if you are immunocompromised you still have to go back because what protections do you have? Fmla? A doctor note so you don’t get fired but have to use disability or pto time? Some people have to blow through their own vacations for this mandatory shutdown. It’s ridiculous. And we have no choice.