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My new workplace is a vector for illness and nobody cares

I am 21 and just started my first job out of college at a small marketing company. My biggest issue is that the workplace is really loose with their illness prevention and doesn’t seem to care if people are at work sick or infecting other people. I have been here a month and have already come into contact with 2 Covid positive employees, both not wearing masks since our building doesn’t require them. My boss made no effort to quarantine people who were exposed. We were all back in the office the next day. I am sick with a wicked flu today and my boss is giving me one day to work from home and says hopefully I’ll be back in the office by Tuesday, I am going to mask up but I’ll almost certainly still be contagious. The week prior to this, I had a stomach bug and I…


I am 21 and just started my first job out of college at a small marketing company. My biggest issue is that the workplace is really loose with their illness prevention and doesn’t seem to care if people are at work sick or infecting other people. I have been here a month and have already come into contact with 2 Covid positive employees, both not wearing masks since our building doesn’t require them. My boss made no effort to quarantine people who were exposed. We were all back in the office the next day. I am sick with a wicked flu today and my boss is giving me one day to work from home and says hopefully I’ll be back in the office by Tuesday, I am going to mask up but I’ll almost certainly still be contagious. The week prior to this, I had a stomach bug and I almost never get sick. Now I’m spending most of my weekends with an illness. I can hear my coworkers going to the bathroom and not washing their hands. Nobody wears masks. It’s a breeding ground for illness. I’m trying to eat more protein and keep my immune system strong but there’s only so much I can do. What should I do?

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