I thought the deal was that two techs were sitting too close together and leaning in at a computer screen, and they had already been told to keep their distance. And this was the last straw. Seems pretty basic and worthy of a rant if it was a repeated issue
If this is an issue. You sit down and do a rootcause analysis, and figure out how to prevent it across the board. Maybe that results in a disciplinary, even a termination, but shouting is counterproductive.
Fwiw. I work in the energy industry. My company runs power stations. We are best practice on health and safety. As such, this isnt really an opinion, its a restating of that best practice.
We’ll just have to disagree that the objective best practice regarding two people who can’t keep their heads apart during a pandemic after being told multiple times is to sit them down and talk to them for the 5th time. I wish that more people were yelling at dumbfucks during this pandemic. Letting people get away with terrible behavior for the 5th time in a row with no consequence is what has led to 300k+ dead.
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Agreed. Unfortunately they are being forced into risks like many others because we elected an incompetent buffoon, and lacked one iota of collective willpower to do enough to slow this down.
We should have been completely locked down for 2-3 months at the beginning, then kept it under control. We’d be doing great now. Instead, we’re cranking out a 9/11 a day and then some with no end in sight.
Instead we’ve got bars and restaurants and nonsense galore.
I’m sure this is happening everywhere, but locally driving around I’ve noticed some restaurants have completely closed in their porches and are calling it outside dining to basically legally defy the state order closing indoor dining.
Didn’t seem any riskier than thousands of other in person interactions I’ve had at work over the last nine months. Fuck off.
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Not saying you’re doing this but I feel like the “forced into risks” framing should be reserved for people who have to work during this pandemic. The people being risky on this forum weren’t forced into jack shit. Has the last 9 months been shitty for me? Hell yeah it has. But compare it to what others are doing, and other human suffering around the planet, it’s fucking easy. No problem. Sergei in American Jail easy. So I have no sympathy
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Would you still be in favor of a full lockdown if congress was unable to give people money to not work?
A lot of folks don’t have the financial privilege to hide in a bunker for months with no income.
When one pops in and out for takeout, there are people with no-nose masks and people dining completely without masks. Most people here are doing this, this is the same thing except you’re forced to be in at work. Doesn’t seem like something to get worked up about.
Then your mask compliance sucks and you should all wear one.
I hope your burrito gives you the shits. Enjoy your Qdoba!
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That’s who I was talking about. I mean personally I feel forced into working because of the duration of this and the lack of extended stimulus/CARES. I’m lucky it only has to be a little bit, though.
But yeah nobody is being forced to go drinking in bars or vacationing in Costa Rica.
The fuck is wrong with you? You have no idea what you’re talking about. Everyone at our work wears a mask. Why you feel the need to act so aggressively when you have no idea what the circumstances are is beyond me.
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are you blaming Keed for his coworkers not wearing masks
No, but we have the money. We just keep giving it to the wealthy instead. I think we’re approaching a total of $4 trillion in aid so far. That’s over $12,000 per American.
Yeah, these are all people we’ve been in pretty close contact with, unavoidably, for months. We all wear masks but who knows how effective that actually is. Dropping our masks and eating for ten minutes six plus feet apart seems like an acceptable risk, and I’m not about to risk offending the coworkers who put a lot of effort to make it festive and nice by just grabbing my food and leaving.
You’re in a room with people eating fucking burritos, you’re not all wearing goddamn masks. Yet you say:
If you can’t see that this is more dangerous than WEARING MASKS I don’t know what to do with you, you’re an absolute moron. So which is it, if this is no more dangerous than your usual interactions? Are you…
- Generally maskless around each other
Or
- Extremely stupid
You tell me.
#2 it is. This is way way way more risky than your usual behavior and you don’t even admit it or realize it?
The mask data seems decently strong to me. I support the going in and grabbing, eating maskless in that fashion is too much for me. I wouldn’t care too much about them taking offense.
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Herp derp can’t offend the coworkers, gotta eat maskless in the same room, bUt It SeEmS pReTtY sAfE tO mE gUyS!!!
Everyone in my plant wears masks, 30 people out of 120 have gotten covid, and my daily routine involves talking to 10-15 people right next to me, which is necessary because of how noisy it is. Can’t hear them if you’re more than two feet away. So yeah, compared to that, eating for ten minutes without a mask six feet apart seems OK.
I deleted that comment because it wan’t appropriate but when you put it like that I’m glad you saw it.
I’m blaming him for walking into a room with a bunch of people not wearing masks and removing his mask to join them because it’s the festive thing to do, then claiming that’s just as safe as their usual daily behavior.
Either their usual daily behavior is absurdly risky or he’s handwaving away his risky behavior today because he doesn’t like being called on his shit.
A bunch of people in a room eating maskless is not safe. Oh and I’m sure they’re eating in silence and not talking or laughing to protect more virus into the air.