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Disempowered low wage healthcare workers don't really have much of a choice. Line managers push them to cover shifts. These facilities are chronically understaf

Disempowered low wage healthcare workers don't really have much of a choice. Line managers push them to cover shifts. These facilities are chronically understaffed because labor intensive work is inherently expensive. Another level up often the funding source is Medicaid which is also low rent. The result is problems such as no paid sick leave, no sick leave period, and workers being capped at part time schedules so they have to string together two jobs and become infection vectors between facilities.

ck2 4y ago
Yes, everyone has taken the "no choice but to murder you" option past few years. Everyone has their excuses because there's no penalty for killing someone like that. Your coworkers are doing it do, they won't tell you they tested positive last night or this morning, frack it they are going into work, your problem, not theirs "no choice". Every hourly wage person is doing it to you, every delivery, restaurant, cashier, pharmacist, everyone. Their comfort is their priority, not yours. When the SUV rolls over a pedestrian or cyclist, or punts a car down the road like a soccer ball, that's exactly what they are saying "Sorry, no choice". At least the behavior is predictable now, was hidden before 2020, now obvious. The thing is, people don't just die quick from covid. They die slow and painful. Then there is the millions who will have long-covid maybe for the rest of their lives until they kill themselves from the chronic suffering. So many excuses, so many murderers. Society is just bizarre. Doesn't have to be this way but it's what everyone keeps doing.
- supertrope 4y ago
  I totally understand your point. Have you ever worked a bad job? And relied on it for yourself or even your entire household? Quitting a job when you can click on one of multiple recruiter emails and start next week, or because it's a casual job you picked up for spending money is entirely different from being one paycheck away from being late on rent. >delivery, restaurant, cashier, pharmacist, everyone One of these is not like the others. Pharmacists did the majority of COVID-19 shots.

ck2 4y ago

Yes, everyone has taken the "no choice but to murder you" option past few years. Everyone has their excuses because there's no penalty for killing someone like that. Your coworkers are doing it do, they won't tell you they tested positive last night or this morning, frack it they are going into work, your problem, not theirs "no choice". Every hourly wage person is doing it to you, every delivery, restaurant, cashier, pharmacist, everyone. Their comfort is their priority, not yours. When the SUV rolls over a pedestrian or cyclist, or punts a car down the road like a soccer ball, that's exactly what they are saying "Sorry, no choice". At least the behavior is predictable now, was hidden before 2020, now obvious. The thing is, people don't just die quick from covid. They die slow and painful. Then there is the millions who will have long-covid maybe for the rest of their lives until they kill themselves from the chronic suffering. So many excuses, so many murderers. Society is just bizarre. Doesn't have to be this way but it's what everyone keeps doing.

supertrope 4y ago
I totally understand your point. Have you ever worked a bad job? And relied on it for yourself or even your entire household? Quitting a job when you can click on one of multiple recruiter emails and start next week, or because it's a casual job you picked up for spending money is entirely different from being one paycheck away from being late on rent. >delivery, restaurant, cashier, pharmacist, everyone One of these is not like the others. Pharmacists did the majority of COVID-19 shots.