Got covid, told I need to quarantine and report back in a week. Cool, no problem. Except I also now need to use all of my sick days for the year.
When I asked the question of “wtf?” got told, it's a personal sickness, so you need to spend your sick days. So I said, “okay, I'll come in and work then because if it's using my PTO then I will have to literally be dying before I choose to stay out”
Now all of a sudden, I can't come in because it's mandated by the CDC and company policy that I need to quarantine. So I asked which is it? Is it my choice to stay home and use my PTO or your choice to keep me here and pay me like normal? The company wants to keep the cake and eat it too.
Ended up getting a big round about answer on its company policy and blah blah blah. So I am down all my PTO for the year.
In other news, I am now completely immune to any and all diseases! That coughing I've been doing all day. Just a tickle in my throat. I look pale and sweating and I'm literally throwing up? Must just be a bad case of the Mondays . I'm literally showing all the signs of COVID? Never heard of it!
Unless HR says my workday is explicitly at home, I am never using up another sick day for the rest of the time I am employed here, I no longer care about preventing the spread of anything, pandemic be damned.