https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/s/5qJP1TY1Lo
This is my last post, where I shared my boss getting uppidy with me about not wanting to come into work sick and infect my coworkers. I forgot that I didn't update it with the sickness I was diagnosed with once it didn't get better after a couple of weeks.
Mono! It was mono 🙂 Mononucleosis, which lasted me over a month before all the symptoms went away, and made me incredibly fatigued the whole time. I could've given that to my coworkers and spreaded it around the whole school, since I had to go into work every day after the first several days I took off. It's been a year since then, though, so I don't remember how many days I got off (I think it was 5), but after that I just sat in the classroom being sick and trying to survive while not existing near anyone else. To my knowledge, no one else caught it, but I was written up for being “disrespectful” in the email chain, despite only trying to keep my coworkers healthy and also keep my apartment since I was the only one paying rent between my partner and I at the time.
So yeah, don't work for CityYear and take off when you're sick! It shouldn't matter that it turned out to be Mono; I should've been able to stay home and get better without worrying about losing my paycheck. America is fucked up. Americorps needs unions cuz they prey on young adults fresh out of high school and college, then pay them shit and monopolize their time by making them work 50+ hours a week for no extra pay and barely accessible benefits. Fuck em