Update about my job: Still no guidance from management on the virus.

[shockey80]

I was a home health aide. I called one of the staff I know and she told me it as business as usually. How scary is that? I am glad I removed myself over two weeks ago, unpaid leave. I called them yesterday and extended it too May 5th. There is a good chance I will never go back. I will probably have to find another job.

Loss of money can be fixed, loss of life cannot be fixed. That's how I look at it.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Good for you. That they can't give you anymore guidance on this serious thing going around?

That they can't reassure their worried workers and perhaps give them more perks for working in these trying times (and potentially scary too, in exposing oneself to the COVAD virus perhaps in an unknown environment)?

Good luck and best wishes to you in these scary and trying times.

[mucifer]

2. Hospice nurse here. We screen with some useless questions before going into homes

1. Anyone in the home have a new or worsening cough
2. Anyone in the home have a sore throat
3. Anyone in the home Short of breath
4. Anyone in the home have a T 99.5 or higher
5. Anyone at home been exposed to someone who tested positive in the past 14 days

We can wear surgical masks gloves and gowns to be reused if answers are yes.

BUT there are so many asymptomatic positive people that we probably all would test positive if someone tests us.

I think my company is doing the best they can with limited resources following CDC guideline. Problem is the current CDC sucks ass!


Shockey so sorry to hear your company is doing nothing. That is absolutely horrible!!!

[Ohiogal]

3. What some businesses are not doing

to protect their employees is reprehensible. I’m sorry you will be out of work soon. This virus is affecting so many people’s livelihoods as well as making us sick.

I had posted yesterday that at my son’s grocery store, they are finally going to put up Plexiglass barriers at the checkouts, and I was happy about it, but this should have been in place months ago!

Mr. O and I just talking this morning about how there needs to be a pandemic plan on the national level. All this patchwork policy isn’t enough, and way too much is happening too late.

Ford and GM promise thousands of ventilators available in 90 days. We need them RIGHT NOW, not three months from now!

And Chump blames Obama, who has been out of office for over 3 years.

Eh, sorry for the rant. Best of luck to you, shockey

[Mopar151]

4. McMurphey said it best "a gyppo outfit"

The "agency" that provides our caregiver has no plan. For ANYTHING.
William Gibson, in "All Tomorrow's Parties), observes that " The more elaborate and ornate that the website is, the less there seems to be behind it.Applying this rule would mean that Selwyn FX Tong, Notary, of Kowloon was operating out of a rolled-up newspaper!"

R. P. Mc Murpheys "gyppo outfit" is similar.If the IRS, the State Forester, Motor Vehicle, Highway Patrol, or the bunco squad shows up - the company evaporates! "North Coast Timber"'s assets turn out to be a battered telephone, a manual typewriter, and a Paymaster! There never was a ledger, the "office" is a mail drop!

I'm procrastinating on typing up their employee manual just now. And working up employee ID's. Visual Workplace has to get real for our aides. It's a very complex thing they do, and they deserve to be backed up and supported as most First Responders are.