Antiwork

A co worker is not renewing her contract and has already taken another job. After telling our GM, he asks her why nobody is staying. Her reply is that we are all facing serious burnout, and he just laughs at her saying that we’re too young to be burnt out. She also said that we were all underpaid and he said that the company used to be able to get away with the pay rates because everybody was applying for jobs. After hearing about this I am just completely checked out.

Told my boss Monday morning I had tested positive for Covid and was going to be isolating to which they replied self isolation is now no longer required and they still wanted me to come in. Considering I have a pretty active job driving a truck around the country to multiple different car garages and loading it with 800+ car tyres and interacting with their staff I completely ignored their “request” to come into work and now everyday they have been messaging me asking when I'm returning, am I vaccinated, and that Covid is and I quote “no more than the flu now”. I'm very much looking forward to handing in my notice to a company that clearly values the wellbeing of their staff.

Is this allowed? Am I justified in demanding pay for my time spent?

Posting from a throwaway, second attempt since the first one was picked up by automod because the account was less than three days old (sorry!). Apologies for the rant, but I need to vent and distract myself from my 'job'. I work in the general scope of software. I work for a company that spent three days in a virtual town hall bragging about how ahead of the curve we were during the pandemic, how much we care about people both inside and outside the company, and how we made record profits. Since starting here a little over a year ago, I have taken initiative, learned stuff beyond the original scope of my job, helped write new policies, and have single handedly run a job that usually requires at least two people while my coworker was on paternity. During this time, there were zero complaints about my performance, and plenty…