A rant on being called a hero.
I work for a staffing company called Maxim and am currently under contract with Sacramento Public Health Lab.
Our permanent coworkers were just told they would be getting a two installment payment of $1500 or 40 hours of administrative leave (80 hours total) under the American Rescue Plan Act. These employees getting this payment are sometimes not even working with Covid.
Maxim also offers no vacation, not much sick time and when I had Covid in October I was not offered Covid pay because it had ran out at the end of September. I was basically told I should have been sick a month earlier instead. I lost ten days of pay and came back to work with $13 in my bank account.
During the height of the Omicron and Delta variants we were exposed to and worked with Covid every single day, even working 10 hour days to catch up on an outbreak in our jail.
I'm frustrated and tired and think this isn't fair. Am I crazy?
Thanks for listening.