Unless you’re in a position that requires a level of college education and experience, employers consider you expendable. Infamously, Amazon had internal policies that encouraged abusing new hires as much as possible and firing at the first sign of defiance - they bet that there would be a stream of new hires right as they left the door.
When I worked at a pharmacy, I wasn’t given much leeway, even though I was directly interfacing with high-risk populations that I didn’t want to infect (or be infected by). The best I could do was buy a pack of N95s (with my own money), and use our expendable gloves as often as possible. I still got sick and was forced to show (In the middle of fucking 2022).
Unless you’re in a position that requires a level of college education and experience, employers consider you expendable. Infamously, Amazon had internal policies that encouraged abusing new hires as much as possible and firing at the first sign of defiance - they bet that there would be a stream of new hires right as they left the door.
When I worked at a pharmacy, I wasn’t given much leeway, even though I was directly interfacing with high-risk populations that I didn’t want to infect (or be infected by). The best I could do was buy a pack of N95s (with my own money), and use our expendable gloves as often as possible. I still got sick and was forced to show (In the middle of fucking 2022).