Kate

Well, it looks like I sat next to a symptomatic person (who got pretty sick) breathing Covid on me for almost an hour and didn’t get it. That’s wild. I guess the frickin’ boosters work.

So one of my teammates decided to call my boss out on Friday in a 1:1. My boss was like, “I wasn’t sick on Monday, and I wore a mask.” And my friend was like, “but you were pretty sick, and you didn’t wear your mask all the time.” She also said she had assured her husband it was safe to go to the office because no one would come in sick. Afterward my boss said someone on the team had attacked her, lmao.

She texted me today to make sure I was still negative. I think her biggest fear is that me or this woman senior to her who she also sat in a room with would test positive and report it via the online tool (required), and then get questioned by Employee Relations and contradict her story.

It seems a little sus that he’s saying he lives at home due to illnesses, but can move out whenever he wants. He can’t be needed badly at home, so what’s he really doing there, you know? What’s keeping him from having an independent life? If he’s living there because he likes company or whatever, okay, but his explanation to you doesn’t seem completely honest. In conjunction with this weird thing about paying the whole lease up front, it makes you wonder what’s up with him.

No, that’s not normal. They might require first and last months’ rent down (2 months), or they might not. I can’t think of any reason to pay all 6 months up front, and it’s better to have the money in your pocket and pay month to month.

Do you think he needs a big chunk of money for something?? Like a debt or to buy something he wants? I know someone who pre-pays his rent because he has a gambling problem and would gamble the money otherwise. That’s probably not it, but trust your gut… he’s not being honest with you. Or do you think he doesn’t trust you for some reason to pay the rent each month? Are you unreliable?

Something’s going on. Tell him you will pay him the rent each month on time but you don’t feel comfortable pre-paying that much.

Thank you. The other thing that absolutely sucks is that it’s school vacation week next week so people have all kinds of trips planned. If they test positive then they can’t go. This just happened to someone else… her kid tested positive from school and they couldn’t go on vacation.

I think I had the most prolonged close contact, and I did get an email from employee relations today, along with several other people. It said if you are boosted, then you don’t have to quarantine, just test after 5 days. Like really, that’s it?

I feel like I did after getting the vaccines but not as bad. Same fatigued feeling behind the eyes, and some aches. I guess I’ll keep testing each day this week.

I think she’s going to be in a lot of trouble. She said she’s going to let HR know, and I said thank you, I’ll wait to hear from them about quarantine. We wear contact tracking devices. She say directly next to me in a small conf room for an hour without a mask. And she was in an auditorium with dozens of people. She told everyone she just flew back from India with a 24-hour layover in London and that she felt sick. People are going to be questioned. If I don’t hear from HR this morning I’m reaching out to employee relations. It is my assigned in-office week and for all they know I could be heading in. This is utter bullshit.

Back in the 90s there was no stretch at all. I used to wear the high-waisted Levi’s, I think 505’s, and damn did that waistband cut in. Anyway, the Levi’s wedgie fit has some stretch and I would say runs true to size. The A&F curve love mom jeans I have, I think run big. Both have 1% elastane. I just checked a stretchy target pair and it’s 2% spandex.