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Corona - what does help you? Your fears, thoughts, everything
CellarDweller:
OH, that sucks, Chrissi!
I hope they rectify that quickly!
Front-Ranger:
I feel for you, having to put your health and safety at risk for reasons that don't seem important enough. I hope at least that children are tested to see if they have symptoms every morning. I also hope that your hours can be reduced with the lower class size. Is it possible to talk with your boss, or your bosses' boss?
Sason:
That sounds like a GDBOAUS, Chrissi!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on January 20, 2021, 11:29:47 am ---The parents lie to our faces, we know it, they know it. And we can't do anything about it. >:(
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That's just awful. :(
Penthesilea:
Thank you all. :-*
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 20, 2021, 12:53:51 pm ---I feel for you, having to put your health and safety at risk for reasons that don't seem important enough.
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Yes. Exactly that's the feeling I have. We have to put our health at risk for parents who are too lazy to look after their children. Not all of them of course; I don't have any trouble about having emergency openings, as long as they're really emergency only. Which in my group is clearly not the case.
--- Quote --- I hope at least that children are tested to see if they have symptoms every morning.
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Ha, ha, as if.
Have a cough? - go to nursery, as long as it's not persistend
Have a head cold/the sniffels? No worries, go to nursery (that one has been taken off the Corona warnings list)
And against fever parents like to give Ibuprofen in the mornings - you realize the child is not well, and after about half a day, when the Ibuprofen wears off, the fever starts to rise.
Have a slight fever? Anything under 38°C (=100.4F) does not count.
I do love my job. I love the little ones. But the longer I work in this job, the more I dislike parents. "Everything's okay, he's fit as a fiddle." I get told in the morning, looking at a child with glassy eyes and a runny nose.
We play this dammit game every winter. They always try to bring their sick children. Corona just makes that kind of game more dangerous.
I am so, so sick of being lied to my face.
One father told us he has to work and the child's mother is very sick, so it's an emergency. He said his wife is immunocompromised. To wich we replied, in that case it's a very bad idea to bring the child to nursery. Suddenly the wife had "a different illness" and was not immunocompromised any longer. :-X
One father told us his child does not have a fever (we had measured beforehand). The child was only "overheated" and it was our fault, because on said day we didn't have outdoors playtime. Sure. :P
I work only 16 hours a week, on two days. So I can't reduce hours, wouldn't make any sense. I asked my boss to be temporarily transferred to a different job as long as the Corona numbers are high, since I'm a higher risk person. My boss was all for it, but the boss's boss said no.
I could officially switch departments, but that would be permanently, I couldn't go back later. And I don't want that, I love my job.
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