Corona @ Work 2020

           

Things truly are tense these days at work. With this Covid19 pendemic at its thickest now that it's winter, more and more of my colleagues keeps on getting sick.

Our boss the owner of the shop we work at is not determined to close down his shop because he claims that more staff members keeps on getting sick because they do not follow the health rules and regulations of always wearing a face mask, washing their hands regularly and maintaining social distance as they should.

He says that he won't ever close down his business because of people who are careless and do not follow instructions.

But I on the other hand believe that our boss is being utterly selfish and inconsiderate of us his staff members, the heart and soul of his so_called_business. How can he gamble with our lives like this? I like many of my colleagues keep asking myself without getting any answer whatsoever.

True he'd been vigilant, overprotective and proactive in making sure that all his staff members don't ever get sick when all this thing started. He bought us all the face masks, ensured that our hands and that of his customers were properly sanitized before entering the shop. He even had those fancy looking stickers on the floor that ensured that the customers maintain a safe following distance as they cueud to pay for their groceries.

However prepared he was though, we as his staff members were bound to get infected someway or the other because first of all when the government announced the national lockdown we were exempt from it. Unlike other professional workers that were under lockdown, we were expected to go to work as usual as the president had certified us as one of the essential service providers. We traveled from home to work in taxis full of people who had no masks on. We met and dealt with customers who came from all over. We packed up the stock that was already touched by other people somewhere. We handled money that had already passed from many other hands. We worked in the cold environment.

But now that we have seen some of our colleagues getting sick and have a few confirmed cases in our workplace our employer doesn't want to do the right thing and close down his business like all other business owners do when their staff members are found infected with this vicious deadly virus.

One of our colleagues approached our boss with the suggestion that he considers closing down the business but as expected our boss refused to heed the advice in spite of having more than four people from different departments sitting at home sick with the virus.

With other departments understaffed and some workers overworked there seems to be no rest for many of us as we are all expected to do the work of other staff members who are absent from work without even being compensated accordingly for our efforts.

Looking at this situation, I've come to  believe there is a thin line between being a pationate business man and a greedy slavedriver whose only interest is making more money in expense of people's lives.

If this is the way people who have money treat those who do not have any, then I am content with not having any. I now believe that the poor man is closest to God because he appreciates the little things unlike the rich man who worships silver and gold and does everything he can to get his hands on it.