To preface this, there are no longer any legal requirements for me to isolate so I could go into work, but I’m accepting the responsible thing to do is to stay home (I don’t feel great, but I’d be able to work).
I emailed my boss asking with his permission to let me work from home, as they don’t want us spreading the virus at work. But I’m not allowed to work from home… so I have to accept statutory sick pay, which I can’t live on. So I’m not allowed to work for my wage. I’m not allowed into my job. I’m not allowed to be paid my wage. I worked all throughout the pandemic. Up until now have never caught the virus, and so I won’t get any financial support, as all the schemes have ended.
Call it bad luck. It’s all within the limits of the rules, it just really sucks. Considering it was our boss that spread it in the first place, and he can work from home. Just needed to vent, as the inequality of it is infuriating.