AIBU to feel scared?

[Judascki]

We’ve found out over the WE that colleague tested positive for Covid-19.
We only have 10 in work and there have been no measures aside from us SD as best we can.
We sit less than 2m apart face to face but work have always maintained they followed guidelines which state 1m + is adequate.
Despite colleague testing positive, they’ve told us all to return to work tomorrow as long as we have no symptoms. Shouldn’t we all have to self isolate and work from home as we are all able to, they just don’t want us to?
Gov website makes no sense as one bit says to self isolate if in close contact which we all have been and another bit says we don’t have to self isolate unless we have symptoms.

It's confusing AF but I do think they're right - no symptoms, you go about your day unless you live with the person.

It makes no sense does it

All the ads tell us to self isolate if in contact with Cov positive case so don’t understand why your employers are telling you to go in!
It will just spread!

Are you in the UK?

If so, government advice is to NOT go into work if you can work from home. Why would you put up with a situation that is putting your own health at risk?

Social distancing means 2 metres, not 1.

And if one of your colleagues has now tested positive, you all need to go home and self isolate for 2 weeks.

I would report this to your local environmental Health department. If you sit less than 2m apart you need mitigating factors in place such as screens between you. If these are not in place you are considered as contacts.

If the environment wasn't covid secure you should never have been in the office. 2 relatives have had colleagues test positive and their workplaces have closed with instructions to self isolate. 1 of those companies paid for private testing so they could go back to work sooner. But no, I would not be going back to the office.

The guidance is that you are a close contact if you are less than 2m for at least 15m... it doesn’t sound like your office is safe at all so absolutely you all need to self isolate

Spoke with my boss last week and said I want to WFH as per guidelines and was told no, not poss. It doesn’t work efficiently for our business.
Said I don’t feel safe. Told I can stay at home and isolate but at that point, I will not be paid as refusing to go into work.
We have no HR dept as very small company and I know if I report them they’ll know it’s me.
They’ve already made 3 redundant and as DH has lost his job, can’t afford to lose mine.
I feel really down atm as they don’t agree with anything I say!

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

Are you in the UK?

If so, government advice is to NOT go into work if you can work from home. Why would you put up with a situation that is putting your own health at risk?

Social distancing means 2 metres, not 1.

And if one of your colleagues has now tested positive, you all need to go home and self isolate for 2 weeks.

Yes and they directed me to gov guidelines where we don’t have to wfh if it’s not feasible in our line of work so they are using that being as we are key workers. We can wfh as we did it in March but they don’t want us to now as it meant the bosses had to do more to help as took us all longer to get the job done on a laptop... Anything I say and quote, they disagree with and it’s making me miserable. Definitely looking for a new job once DH has settled in one

You need to be isolating. Ds has no symptoms but has been off school for 2 weeks as instructed as a classmate tested positive.

Do they allow you to have the phone app? I imagine it would have pinged you and told you to self isolate.

If my work was forcing me in in these circumstances, I’d be very tempted to call in sick with a sore throat and a bit of a temperature. Thought the NHS guidelines were to self isolate if you have symptoms but if you’ve actually been in contact with someone who has tested positive you had to self isolate and test. My friend was told by track and trace (who called her up) to self isolate because she ate in a cafe at the same time as someone else, not even at her table, who later tested positive (this was before lockdown).

You need to be isolating. If you only need to isolate when you have symptoms we wouldn't need to be closing entire school bubbles, parents would just keep their kids off school if they showed symptoms. If you have been in close contact with someone who tests positive, you need to self isolate.

You need to isolate.

Yes, follow the example of BoJo who is doing exactly that.

Thanks for all your msgs.
We were all told if we isolated, we’d only get SSP which is a quarter of our weekly salary and nobody can afford to live on. Especially me as DH was made redundant...
We all therefore continued to go to the office as we were told and luckily nobody else was ill.
The lady who’d been tested positive had given our workplace details to test and trace but they never contacted our boss!