Your Boss Can Be A Real Swine
BOSSES & OWNERS, HEALTH & BODY, KENTUCKY, NURSING HOME, USA | HEALTHY | OCTOBER 25, 2017
(I call in to my job as a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home. It is 2009.)
Me: “Hey, I can’t come in today because I have a fever of 104 and other flu symptoms.”
Nurse
#1 : “I can’t let you call in unless you come here and have a nurse take your temperature.”
Me: “What? I live 15 miles away. My fever is really high and I have really bad cold chills.”
Nurse
#1 : “You’ll probably get fired if you don’t come and let us take your temperature.”
(I drive the 15 miles to let them take my temperature. At this point, I’m almost hallucinating from the fever.)
Nurse
#1 : “Oh, your fever is 105 now.” *to other nurse* “Should she go home? We are kind of short today.”
Nurse
#2 : “I don’t know. She could probably work.”
(I then collapse onto the chair, barely hearing them in a fever haze.)
Nurse
#1 : “Well, maybe she should go home?”
Nurse
#2 : “I guess so.” *to me* “You can go home, I guess. But get a doctor’s note.”
(I then drove home, barely coherent. After going to the doctor I found out that I had SWINE FLU, or H1N1. And they wanted me to come to work, endangering both myself and the elderly residents! I quit a few months later.)