What is it with this 'divide and rule' stuff?
The government should be supporting as many workers to work from home as possible.
There should be payments to support workers regularly testing and isolating before test results.
The figures are shocking, we're still in lockdown, because this hasn't happened.
The answer is to take feelings of anger and direct them to where they should be - a government terrified of the ERG/Coronavirus Recovery Group/Libertarian Neo-capitalists and unable/unwilling to act in a way that supports the U.K., it's industry, it's economy and its people.
We shouldn't be dreaming up wholly imaginary scenarios in order to create a scapegoat group that we can project our fears and direct our anger at.
'I want everyone to imagine a wholly imaginary scenario where someone gets to choose what risk they face and call that 'shirking'.'
Firstly, teachers in schools don't get to do this. They have managers, just like everyone else.
The situation OP imagines is a fantasy. If OP's colleague is wfh, it will have been discussed with the manager.
OP has no right to know why.
if this is true, OP is your standard-issue nosy-arse - the sort of person everyone scrambles over themselves not to work with.
You all know her, you've all worked with her: she spreads rumours and speculation about everyone, she has a malicious mind-set, everyone feels dirtier after a 'conversation' with her, everyone dreads to think what she's saying behind their back.
Everyone is praying she fucks up something badly enough that she can be managed out. She's like woodworm in an organisation - undermining morale and teamwork.
Secondly - This kind of bollocks is just crap. What's it supposed to do?
Is it supposed to make you trot off to work - perhaps your own work, in unsafe conditions, and - instead of complaining or organising to change those unsafe conditions - make you comply but seethe instead st 'those teachers' who 'are taking the piss?'
You know, like some sort of sentient turnip?
Or are you supposed to turn against teachers - not the government - because teachers really did have the temerity to point out working conditions weren't safe - indeed, we're a public health issue?
I mean, how are we to take a post like this?
If you stop for five minutes and think, it's evidently preposterous.
So which is it?
The postings of a bitter noseyparker, temporarily thwarted in her desire to nose into everyone's private business in her workplace, reduced to spreading malice on MN because there aren't enough adults in school to have a good whisper-campaign with?
Or is it someone trying to turn us all into biddable turnips: kept in the dark and awaiting our inevitable harvesting - like good little vegetables.
I guess you get to choose. 🤷♀️
Neither's pretty.