COVID-19 - On the Ground

[JKLivin]

you’re so cool

Well, I don't have anywhere near the same level of expertise that you do with socks, but I'll accept the compliment.

liar

psych, jklivin, redleg

I was Psych, then I switched to JKLivin after a long hiatus. I've never gone back to it. Not sure that qualifies as a sock. Also have no idea who redleg is.

[ousdahl]

Just wait til the teachers walk out too.

I haven't missed a day of work throughout the pandemic. Neither has my wife, nor has the guy whose office is next to mine. There are some of us who still take pride in doing our jobs.

Good for you.

I’d say we need to balance the interest of “pride in doing our jobs” with the interest of health precautions during a pandemic, but I’m afraid that may be lost on you.

(Not to mention the whole pride thing sounds like more capitalist propaganda…what could possibly be more Merican than dying a preventable death for the sake of a job?)

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Kids who don't want to go to school and will do anything to get out of it? Unprecedented.

Fast forward forty-five minutes to them hanging out at the local Starbucks, not social distancing and with masks down below their chins.

You know these kids personally? My cousin's kid is one of them. He 100% wants to "go to school" - and he does. He does NOT hang out at the local Starbucks and he respects the mask mandate/s.
His mother (my cousin) has MS. I know, you feel he should shut the fuck up and be cool with going to school in an "unsafe" environment and if he brings the virus home to her - who cares - it's just a cold. He disagrees. Good for him.

[JKLivin]

Just wait til the teachers walk out too.

I haven't missed a day of work throughout the pandemic. Neither has my wife, nor has the guy whose office is next to mine. There are some of us who still take pride in doing our jobs.

Good for you.

I’d say we need to balance the interest of “pride in doing our jobs” with the interest of health precautions during a pandemic, but I’m afraid that may be lost on you.

(Not to mention the whole pride thing sounds like more capitalist propaganda…what could possibly be more Merican than dying a preventable death for the sake of a job?)

People don't want balance. They want to be paid for sitting at home on their rear ends.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

a villianous teachers union is your major dilemma.

Expecting people to do the jobs they are paid for. Weird.

Workers Unite!

What percentage of teachers would you estimate are saying they don't want to do their job - safely?
You teach at a college/university. Have you ever taught in an inner-city school in a poor neighborhood?
I ask because I like to believe you are smart enough to understand that there are different working conditions in different schools.
Hey, I am 100% in support of kids being IN school right now - in a SAFE environment. Problem is, many of these schools aren't safe.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Just wait til the teachers walk out too.

I haven't missed a day of work throughout the pandemic. Neither has my wife, nor has the guy whose office is next to mine. There are some of us who still take pride in doing our jobs.

Good for you!
Now instead of being a jag off on here, go boast about it to the families of those who have contracted Covid at their places of employment - and died.

[KUTradition]

psych has become a caricature of himself

[JKLivin]

Just wait til the teachers walk out too.

I haven't missed a day of work throughout the pandemic. Neither has my wife, nor has the guy whose office is next to mine. There are some of us who still take pride in doing our jobs.

Good for you!
Now instead of being a jag off on here, go boast about it to the families of those who have contracted Covid at their places of employment - and died.

Lulz. You should stick to lying to your boss to get paid time off to go to ballgames and concerts.

[Cascadia]

psych has become a caricature of himself

He's out psycho'ing the resident psycho.

That's fucking impressive. Never thought I'd see the day.

[ousdahl]

I haven't missed a day of work throughout the pandemic. Neither has my wife, nor has the guy whose office is next to mine. There are some of us who still take pride in doing our jobs.

Good for you.

I’d say we need to balance the interest of “pride in doing our jobs” with the interest of health precautions during a pandemic, but I’m afraid that may be lost on you.

(Not to mention the whole pride thing sounds like more capitalist propaganda…what could possibly be more Merican than dying a preventable death for the sake of a job?)

People don't want balance. They want to be paid for sitting at home on their rear ends.

Paid for sitting at home on their rear ends…what are they, shareholders or sumptin?

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

I haven't missed a day of work throughout the pandemic. Neither has my wife, nor has the guy whose office is next to mine. There are some of us who still take pride in doing our jobs.

Good for you!
Now instead of being a jag off on here, go boast about it to the families of those who have contracted Covid at their places of employment - and died.

Lulz. You should stick to lying to your boss to get paid time off to go to ballgames and concerts.

"Lulz"? Is it funny to you that you have been healthy and other people have died?

As far as your insistent need to continuously commit libel against me, it is getting stale and you are really doing nothing more than proving your ignorance.

1. I have never lied to my boss. I openly welcome you to prove to me that I have.
2. The only times I have had "paid time off" "to go to ballgames and concerts" - it was cleared through my boss and HR after my requesting it. Do you have an issue with that? My employer doesn't.

[twocoach]

Good for you!
Now instead of being a jag off on here, go boast about it to the families of those who have contracted Covid at their places of employment - and died.

Lulz. You should stick to lying to your boss to get paid time off to go to ballgames and concerts.

"Lulz"? Is it funny to you that you have been healthy and other people have died?

As far as your insistent need to continuously commit libel against me, it is getting stale and you are really doing nothing more than proving your ignorance.

1. I have never lied to my boss. I openly welcome you to prove to me that I have.
2. The only times I have had "paid time off" "to go to ballgames and concerts" - it was cleared through my boss and HR after my requesting it. Do you have an issue with that? My employer doesn't.

Do employers care what you use your PTO to do? If I take a day off, I can do whatever I want with it. I always use PTO to take a half day to go to KU games when they have those dumb Friday night games early in the season.

[twocoach]

Just wait til the teachers walk out too.

I haven't missed a day of work throughout the pandemic. Neither has my wife, nor has the guy whose office is next to mine. There are some of us who still take pride in doing our jobs.

Does your employer not encourage their employees to utilize the PTO that they earn?

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Lulz. You should stick to lying to your boss to get paid time off to go to ballgames and concerts.

"Lulz"? Is it funny to you that you have been healthy and other people have died?

As far as your insistent need to continuously commit libel against me, it is getting stale and you are really doing nothing more than proving your ignorance.

1. I have never lied to my boss. I openly welcome you to prove to me that I have.
2. The only times I have had "paid time off" "to go to ballgames and concerts" - it was cleared through my boss and HR after my requesting it. Do you have an issue with that? My employer doesn't.

Do employers care what you use your PTO to do? If I take a day off, I can do whatever I want with it. I always use PTO to take a half day to go to KU games when they have those dumb Friday night games early in the season.

I can only speak for myself. As long as I am not doing any illegal activities and/or embarrassing myself or my company while representing the company, no - they don't care what I do with my paid time off.

[ousdahl]

Not embarrassing yourself?

Bro then I wouldn’t use PTO to go to the Dead and Co show with me after all.

[ousdahl]

Just wait til the teachers walk out too.

I haven't missed a day of work throughout the pandemic. Neither has my wife, nor has the guy whose office is next to mine. There are some of us who still take pride in doing our jobs.

Does your employer not encourage their employees to utilize the PTO that they earn?

Lol

[japhy]

Not to get off track on the rants about what a bunch of lazy fucks you kids is these days, but an ambulance and fire truck drove by my house yesterday afternoon while I was working for home and stopped at the neighbor's house. They came again last night during the middle of the KU game and took her to St Luke's with covid pneumonia.

One of my employees is working remotely from Australia right now. When we talked on Monday she said she felt safer over there than in KC. My partners have their panties in a twist about my "letting" her work remotely for the next 2 months. Truth be told I can't afford to have her quit so I am making the best of her circumstances. All I care about is, does she keep the work moving forward, and is she generating profitable revenue? Since both of those are positive, I don't know what the problem is.

Actually I do, they can't "see" what she is doing every day.

Then again they can't really "see" what their employees are doing everyday while they are in the office sitting behind their computer screens.

My wife reads stuff from a reddit that is all about workers who are part of the great resignation. There are a lot of idiots out there in management positions. It's no wonder so many people are walking away while the going is good.

[JKLivin]

Good for you!
Now instead of being a jag off on here, go boast about it to the families of those who have contracted Covid at their places of employment - and died.

Lulz. You should stick to lying to your boss to get paid time off to go to ballgames and concerts.

"Lulz"? Is it funny to you that you have been healthy and other people have died?

As far as your insistent need to continuously commit libel against me, it is getting stale and you are really doing nothing more than proving your ignorance.

1. I have never lied to my boss. I openly welcome you to prove to me that I have.
2. The only times I have had "paid time off" "to go to ballgames and concerts" - it was cleared through my boss and HR after my requesting it. Do you have an issue with that? My employer doesn't.

By your own account, he asked you to come to work and you refused, claiming that you didn’t feel safe at work. You then turned around and exposed yourself to COVID exponentially more with your leisure activities. I would have fired you.

[ousdahl]

My wife reads stuff from a reddit that is all about workers who are part of the great resignation. There are a lot of idiots out there in management positions. It's no wonder so many people are walking away while the going is good.

Is it that anti-work sub?

I’ve been meaning to check out Reddit more.

I do think, generally and hypothetically, that if our economic slates could be wiped clean, that if we had no prior understanding or indoctrination of career workloads, and all of a sudden one day somebody approached us all and said, “you’re now expected to commit no fewer than 8 hours a day, no fewer than 5 days a week, for no fewer than the next 50 years,” we’d collectively tell that asshole to fuck right off.

And (to try and keep in the context of this thread) if that same asshole said that same expectation and then added, “we also want you to shrug off any perceived risk to health and life and shoulder that same workload regardless of a pandemic,” well…

[japhy]

My wife reads stuff from a reddit that is all about workers who are part of the great resignation. There are a lot of idiots out there in management positions. It's no wonder so many people are walking away while the going is good.

Is it that anti-work sub?

That's the one. It is a good read on how managers and business owners can fuck things up while trying to wield power. If your actions are being governed by ego, you can get in trouble real fast.