How do you feel about going back to the office with no plan from MRO to protect you from covid? Maybe they will wait until the last possible minute to change the date again? People need to plan.
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“we were employed to work in the office...”. What kind of 1950 mentality BS is this. Go ahead and retire. We were employed before the damn China virus was deployed to the world. Hey man here’s a tip, we have a little thing called high speed internet, cell phones, and virtual meeting software. Spare us all on the in person collaboration BS. The real workers know that’s all a pile of donkey c-ap.
FYI - any employee who gets COVID after being forced to onsite work with no essential onsite quality to their job should definitely challenge being out of pocket for ANY thing!
Employee must pay for their own health care. Company pays employees for sick time.
So has the company provided guidance about who pays for COVID exposure at work? Both for those who get sick and those who have to miss work because of exposure at work?
We were not employed to put our lives at risk. I'm sure that most would agree when offered the job if - "Would you be willing to come into the office if you could potentially contract a deadly disease?" - Was an actual question in the interview or requirement of accepting the position we would have turned the position down.
I think the HES Manager of the Permian said it best in today's Operation call..."we were employed to work in the office..." Nice!
If you are uncomfortable being forced into the office, but (sensibly) don’t trust the Ask HR drones, you might try the ethics hot line. Tell them you fear returning but want it handled anonymously as you fear retaliation. Tell them any info regarding pre-existing conditions or high risk factors, but not any personally identifiable information. This will place the company on record that people were legitimately concerned and the company ignored it and pushed ahead anyway.
The ethics hotline will give you a unique code so that your complaint can be accessed if you call again or need proof that you called, but they won’t give HR or your chain of command anything to identify you.
If you give this unique identifier to your next of kin, they can share it with their lawyer so that s/he can do more effective discovery for their wrongful death lawsuit after you are gone.
I was approved for phase 2. I am not comfortable being forced to go in. Also not comfortable telling this to askhr or management for fear of being added in the next round of layoffs. This is trash.
“Butts in Seats” is probably the least intelligent employee management technique that ExComm could impose. But it is easy to do, and doing the easy thing is often preferable to doing the right thing. at least at a surface level. The Execs don’t understand the work necessary to achieve the results necessary to achieve corporate goals. Because of this fundamental deficiency, they resort to imposing the metrics simplest to verify - time and attendance. In the world of knowledge work, a butt in a chair should perform equally well no matter where that chair may be located. The only efficiency to be gained by in person attendance is gained via collaboration and interaction with colleagues, but that will not be allowed under this plan.
If the butt in the chair worries about Covid or their kids all day, any possible efficiency gain will be rapidly dissipated.
Former MRO here. I am currently in 14 day home isolation after possible exposure. It is a real headache to do isolation, can’t imagine if actually sick. My exposure was less than 30 minutes in an office environment in which we all wore masks and stayed more than 6 feet apart from each other. The only good reason to work from the office rather than home is to facilitate interaction and collaboration with fellow employees and external third parties. If social distancing doesn’t allow this, there is no good reason to risk the lives and health of others to keep butts in chairs.
Had MRO said who pays if you get sick at work? Is that on your dime or workman’s comp? How about isolation/quarantine? Does that come out of your vacation/flex/sick days or does it come out of MRO if work related exposure?
Good luck friends!
"Butts in Seats", that's their plan. This is going to be about as effective as the cardboard cutout fans at baseball games.