Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Work

Chat with other users about all things related to working life on our Work forum.

Christmas party during self isolation

1 reply

itchaftershaving · 17/12/2020 00:28

A colleague of mine told me our employer's wife has tested positive for covid and employer has been hounding me and another colleague to meet up with him for lunch for face time as we have all been wfh since March. We've never had a virtual meeting, most of our contact is via telephone and email and it's worked out ok for us as we're a small company anyway. Employer seems to be under the impression that we don't chat much with the colleague who knows about his wife and that he should be isolating.

I thought employer was just trying to be funny when he first mentioned meeting up and I didn't tell him our other colleague had told me about his wife having covid. It's beginning to really bother me because he has been hounding me for 3 days straight about meeting up with him. I played dumb and asked if he wanted the other colleague to come as well and he said no need because he may not want to come which I thought was his way of saying don't even ask him. I thought he'd pick up on that I've been informed about his wife's positive test by suggesting the colleague. This colleague was invited to employers house to pick up a computer and asked to come in the house to get it to which he obviously denied to. Is it just me being paranoid or is my employer trying to deliberately expose us to covid.

It makes me wonder if there are any other people out there going out knowing full well they have covid or been in contact with someone positive and should be isolating. I'm actually really angry and will have to out my colleague and tell employer why I refuse to see him due to his wife bring positive

OP posts:
Faultymain5 · 17/12/2020 06:42
  1. Yes there are other people doing that. Mostly for work reasons so they have to. Not for social frivolity.
  1. Do not throw your colleague under the bus. Say you need to quarantine, because you’ve been in contact with someone who is positive; say you are isolating in preparation for Christmas; say anything but, do not throw your colleague under the bus.
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.

Swipe left for the next trending thread