So to give some background, I have a roommate who works in the same department as me. We both requested off a week for a vacation we had planned. My company accepted my request off but not his. They said they can’t allow two people from the same department to be off at the same time so we canceled the trip.
Well fast forward to today, he tests positive for COVID. I tested negative and was required to come in. Started to feel a bit shitty towards lunch and went home and took another test. I was positive. Now we are both quarantined for a week and will both be missing the exact same amount of time we would have been missing for that trip. They are requiring us to use PTO, the same PTO that would have been used for the trip lol. So now we get to see how bad it truly is if two people from the same department are out at the same time. Spoiler alert, the company and upper management will live.
Needless to say we are searching for new jobs.