Well if your future employer has a sensible pandemic attitude then 'I walked away from previous job because it was a covid-insecure nightmare' would probably wash as a very good excuse.
I think this is really tricky. I suppose if it were me I'd tell myself over and over that the vaccine is highly likely to protect me from serious illness and grit my teeth and endure it, especially if the office thing is temporary while you train up or whatever. Have you told your manager the lack of covid safety is making you uncomfortable? Most employers don't want the expense and hassle of recruitment.I think if I was to walk away quick, it might be even better to pretend this job never existed - although then there would be the need to explain why i left a job without one to go to.
Just wondering if I am being unreasonable?
I wouldn't pretend the job didn't exist - just say that is was a covid-insecure nightmare as per elbows (and that you felt staying might put you at risk).I think if I was to walk away quick, it might be even better to pretend this job never existed - although then there would be the need to explain why i left a job without one to go to.
Just wondering if I am being unreasonable?
I am the king of leaving jobs with no other job to go to. I’ve probably done it 6 times - and 4 times in the last 2 years.
When I do stay at a job I tend to stay for 5 years. I would always be honest and explain the reasoning. Your health is more important than any job.
Not personal, but a youngster at work (early 20s) mentioned he hadn't bothered getting vaxxed on a team call about a month or more ago. Two hour queues at the local centre at the weekend, apparently. I told him, very clearly, that as one of his managers I was authorising him, no instructing him, to block two hours out of his work diary in working time, as a "private appointment" to go and get his effing jab.
He didn't.
He got the covid two weeks ago.
He's fine now, but was surprised that despite being a fit young person (he's a semi pro footballer) he was absolutely flattened by it. Twit. I guess even one jab would have reduced how bad he was hit by it?
I'm in my fifties and I've experienced that, ie the lack of recent experience, also ageism. I'm feeling like I'm on life's scrapheap and despairing of ever getting another job.hmm
snag is i'm 50+ so a lot of employers don't want to know (but of course can't admit that)
i'm in a small specialist niche of a fairly small line of business, and the jobs are pretty damn rare, and i've been out of anything else too long to have 'recent experience' (i was trying to get basic admin jobs 7 years or so ago and was hitting that all the time)
and there's been a family related spanner thrown in the works this evening.
sod it, i'm going to bed.
I'm in my fifties and I've experienced that, ie the lack of recent experience, also ageism. I'm feeling like I'm on life's scrapheap and despairing of ever getting another job.
A member of my local circle of friends has, apparently, got Covid. I last saw him on Tuesday, so am a little windy about the possibilities - I heard about it yesterday, so have been doing lateral flow tests yesterday and today...so far, both negative.
He's an anti-vaxxer, so I imagine he might be having a few panicked thoughts, though he seems to be incommunicado at the moment.
I need to be! It's first day back f2f in college tomorrow... I'm going to be teaching students I've taught for a year, and never met in person.Hope you'll be ok.
A member of my local circle of friends has, apparently, got Covid. I last saw him on Tuesday, so am a little windy about the possibilities - I heard about it yesterday, so have been doing lateral flow tests yesterday and today...so far, both negative.
He's an anti-vaxxer, so I imagine he might be having a few panicked thoughts, though he seems to be incommunicado at the moment.
ETA: aha, he's just been in touch - apparently it's a rumour, and he's fine. I think I'll carry on testing just in case, all the same.
I need to be! It's first day back f2f in college tomorrow... I'm going to be teaching students I've taught for a year, and never met in person.
Nope. Well, not necessarily. But - so I understand - socially distanced. We have to mask up while moving around the building, which is just fine as far as I'm concerned, because I'll be masking up anyway.Are they / you going to be masked?
I've decided that if either kid gets COVID I will ask about who they sit near and either let parents know (for son) or ask oldest to let their friends know because I don't know how much schools are likely to say and I want people to have the option to take risk mitigation, eg 'Let's maybe not see grandma this weekend then'
The requirement to wear face coverings in law has been lifted. However, the government expects and recommends that people wear face coverings in crowded areas such as public transport.
Every time I go to the supermarket they are bleating over the tannoy about masks being a personal choice.Wishy-washy libertarian SHITCUNTS.
Every time I go to the supermarket they are bleating over the tannoy about masks being a personal choice.
Fwiw, turns out Mrs Mrs Numbers didn't have Covid thank fuck.Mrs Numbers Mum has tested positive, she's 80 and has an existing pulmonary condition. She went into hospital last week for an unrelated issue (with her heart) and has now tested positive. Very worrying.
I don't understand this either, I really don't.That said, I cannot for the fucking life of me understand why people are not being compelled to exhibit SOME form of mitigation on public transport, certainly a minibus with a dozen strangers crammed into it for an hour.