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Apr. 21st, 2020 06:04 pmOkay, so I have a whole rant that I've been mentally composing during the work day. But then I got off work and got a message that shall preempt everything else:
THEY FILLED MY PRESCRIPTION! I HAS DRUGS!
I'm even more glad now that I just stayed with my pharmacy and kept my place in line. It's even a full 30-day supply like normal, no half rations like the other pharmacy was offering. We will return to this in a moment.
And now, your regularly scheduled hulk out--
This morning we received notice that tomorrow, they will be holding our plant-wide monthly meeting. This is normally the last week of the month--don't know why they're doing it a week early--and it involves everyone in all the departments sitting in the big upstairs meeting room. We get told shit like how well the company is doing and any particularly clever improvements we've made. Great, super.
We didn't have one last month, and I sort of assumed we wouldn't be having them for the foreseeable future. It's not, strictly speaking, necessary--attendance isn't even mandatory, they just bribe us with food. I mean, we're not allowed to sit at the same table in the breakroom. They can't possibly plan to put us all in one room.
Oh, no! They would never do that. That would be foolish.
They're only going to put 24 of us in the room at once, selected from across all departments to maximize cross-contamination opportunity. They're going to put tape on the chairs to indicate how to sit six feet apart, though, so that makes it ~all okay~.
So we've all been assigned a time slot for attending. Except certain (*cough* WHITE COLLAR *cough*) employees, who will only be attending virtually. I looked at my time slot and saw people from almost every department assigned to the same one. They've made this whole goddamn fuss about keeping AM and PM shifts time gapped to prevent the possibility of viral spread. Keeping us all apart, limiting how many people can be in what space at the same time.
And now it's like they looked at everything they did to minimize our risk--efforts which I maintain have been insufficient and too late--and thought to themselves, "what could we do to fuck this up all at once and as much as possible, without actually doing anything illegal?"
The message cheerfully told us we could (not should, just could, mind you) show off our newest homemade masks! That was a real sentence I had to read with my own two eye bits. Oh, yippee fucking skippy, won't that be fun?
I just--the mind boggles. The human consciousness cannot encompass the vast expanses of my contempt at this.
We don't know if they've made this mandatory. We don't know if they're planning to talk about something other than the normal (again, completely non-critical) information. A lot of people are saying, to hell with this, we're not going to attend if it's not mandatory. I hope they mean that. I hope these time blocks end up completely empty.
If I find out it's not mandatory, I won't attend. I...can't decide what I'm going to do if they say it IS mandatory. Legally, what can they do if I refuse to attend? Could they try to fire me? I really can't afford to lose this job. But I'm not interested in participating in their rolling virus party hour. Because, you know, I don't want to DIE to enable their MEETING, a concept I should not have to explain.
Anyway!
Hey, hey, guess what? I got my wonderful, wonderful pills. We're going to think about that for a while. Drugs for me!
THEY FILLED MY PRESCRIPTION! I HAS DRUGS!
I'm even more glad now that I just stayed with my pharmacy and kept my place in line. It's even a full 30-day supply like normal, no half rations like the other pharmacy was offering. We will return to this in a moment.
And now, your regularly scheduled hulk out--
This morning we received notice that tomorrow, they will be holding our plant-wide monthly meeting. This is normally the last week of the month--don't know why they're doing it a week early--and it involves everyone in all the departments sitting in the big upstairs meeting room. We get told shit like how well the company is doing and any particularly clever improvements we've made. Great, super.
We didn't have one last month, and I sort of assumed we wouldn't be having them for the foreseeable future. It's not, strictly speaking, necessary--attendance isn't even mandatory, they just bribe us with food. I mean, we're not allowed to sit at the same table in the breakroom. They can't possibly plan to put us all in one room.
Oh, no! They would never do that. That would be foolish.
They're only going to put 24 of us in the room at once, selected from across all departments to maximize cross-contamination opportunity. They're going to put tape on the chairs to indicate how to sit six feet apart, though, so that makes it ~all okay~.
So we've all been assigned a time slot for attending. Except certain (*cough* WHITE COLLAR *cough*) employees, who will only be attending virtually. I looked at my time slot and saw people from almost every department assigned to the same one. They've made this whole goddamn fuss about keeping AM and PM shifts time gapped to prevent the possibility of viral spread. Keeping us all apart, limiting how many people can be in what space at the same time.
And now it's like they looked at everything they did to minimize our risk--efforts which I maintain have been insufficient and too late--and thought to themselves, "what could we do to fuck this up all at once and as much as possible, without actually doing anything illegal?"
The message cheerfully told us we could (not should, just could, mind you) show off our newest homemade masks! That was a real sentence I had to read with my own two eye bits. Oh, yippee fucking skippy, won't that be fun?
I just--the mind boggles. The human consciousness cannot encompass the vast expanses of my contempt at this.
We don't know if they've made this mandatory. We don't know if they're planning to talk about something other than the normal (again, completely non-critical) information. A lot of people are saying, to hell with this, we're not going to attend if it's not mandatory. I hope they mean that. I hope these time blocks end up completely empty.
If I find out it's not mandatory, I won't attend. I...can't decide what I'm going to do if they say it IS mandatory. Legally, what can they do if I refuse to attend? Could they try to fire me? I really can't afford to lose this job. But I'm not interested in participating in their rolling virus party hour. Because, you know, I don't want to DIE to enable their MEETING, a concept I should not have to explain.
Anyway!
Hey, hey, guess what? I got my wonderful, wonderful pills. We're going to think about that for a while. Drugs for me!
