I work at a fast food restaurant where 2 cashiers and 1 cook have recently tested positive for COVID. Keep in mind that these people are making and giving out food to people. While we all try our best to maintain hygiene with sanitizer and hand washing, we may forget here and there, or there may be a rush and we aren’t thinking about anything other than that.
Now, I’m a supervisor at this restaurant. I found out that I was working with a (new, barely trained) cook during my close tomorrow night. Now this was a problem from the getgo because cooks at my restaurant need to go through 2 training closes before closing by themselves because we have a lot to do. Now I’m the one training him on our extremely short staffed super bowl night. Great.
I was already dreading the shift, and then I found out yesterday that this cook is COVID positive too. I’m high risk, and my dad is high risk. The policy in my area is 5 days of isolation and then back to work with COVID measures. In our kitchen there is no room for distancing, etc. I also don’t know what day he was positive because they won’t answer me. All they said is he has no symptoms and no fever so I’ll be fine.
I told my boss I’m not coming in if he’s there to protect my health and the health of my dad. No response. I’m so done at this point.