How about a sale manager - big ticket - that lives with an adult daughter who became sick with covid, and the sales manager only took 3 days off, and then returned to work double masked, without quarantining. We only found out about it after the fact. Someone tell me why management thinks that I would be okay with working with someone that lives with someone with an active, symptomatic case of coronavirus. Obviously the store manager was aware and chose to ignore the requirements to quarantine. So much for wellness checks. I think that I have an HR case...
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Agreed HR doesnt help. Not sure who to make a complaint to.
Well clearly reporting to HR is not an option as they are the ones not telling these people to quarantine!!
I keep reporting them to the health dept but nothing happens/changes
Working in a hospital anyone exposed must quartine and upon returning to work must be tested and supply paperwork with negative results. My God just use your brain. Report any of these problems to your HR or CDC. Stop the spread!
Same here, i work in long island city studio and people were asked to be tested after exposure...then was approved to return to work the NEXT day because they had masks on and claimed they werent with the infected person more than 15min. Ok, but if they requested the test then hoe could they feel they could back track & so...come back in. Also contact trace department didnt call until a day/two afyer, comed up spam on the cell phone. Im very disgusted at the entire thing
I’m in Florida and I’m the one with the colleagues who were told they could work while living with family members who all had it except my colleague. HR told him he could work. Mind you o don’t know what they asked the colleague and if the answers were truthful. I was mortified at no quarantine even though the colleague tested negative 3 times in a week. I was like that’s too close in time so what if next week they have it.
Others I work with have just self quarantined on their own. Another colleague had it and was also told they could return even though they still tested positive but they were not comfortable potentially exposing others but again, HR said it was ok to return. This is another colleague I forgot about in my initial post. I am just besides myself with concerns as what other colleagues are working and living with someone who has it but HR says, sure, go on in to work. Sigh
Holy Cr-p!!! I just read the posts on this thread and I am beyond appalled. Jesus!!! What the h-ll!!! I know employees post anonymously, and for obvious reasons should continue to do so, but for crying-out-loud, please, PLEASE alert the authorities in your area. Covid 19 is a k–ler. We are not even sure of all of the long-term, possibly permanent, effects of this virus on the human body. Not only is the disease more rampant now than when we were all furloughed last spring, but now there are variants of the virus sweeping the nation that are even more contagious. MACY'S NEEDS TO DO MORE TO PROTECT US. If management is unwilling to do so, then furlough us all again with pay in addition to paying our medical coverage and see if this company is still around in May.
Contract tracing is non existent in my New Jersey Store. They figure as long as we told the store and didn’t identify the colleagues involved, all is good. We should be ashamed how we treat our staff in this trying time.
I think it depends on the store. Ours is pretty scrupulous (which surprised me). The store manager even sent me home one day because of my scary cough (It's chronic but was sounding worse) until I got a covid test.
I can't imagine anyone, customers or employees, being ok with working with someone that lives with someone that has an active coronavirus infection. If anyone thinks that's a good idea, I'd love to hear about it. And negative test be damned, that's obviously a snapshot in time looking backwards. Manager gets swabbed on one day, goes home, potentially gets infected, then gets her negative result three days after that. I understand that four employees in our area have already died. The agreement when we came back was that the company would do everything that it could to keep us safe. Clearly not the case.
NJ/NY requires a 14 day quarantine no matter what. The sales people only found out about it by accident when said manager told one of us that her daughter had coronavirus. If HR gave her the ok to work while living with someone sick with covid, that's not compliant with local regs and CDC guidelines. How dare they usurp my rights to know what I'm working with. There is no way that I would consent to work with someone living, in close quarters no less in an apt., with someone with an active infection. Macy's may think that they are within there rights to unknowingly expose us to a known risk, but I don't, and I'm inclined to go ahead and found which one of us is right. She could have k–led us all. Furthermore, one of our sales people got sick and left work mid-shift - became very sick with covid ( Dec) and is still out on medical. We worked that day with him, but because his test results came back more than 72 hours after he went out, we were not contact traced. That's BS. He left because he was sick, and subsequently was confirmed to have covid.
Get out!!!
Weird, at my store managers seem to be trace contacting each other very often. One will get covid and then the rest are out for no less than 2 weeks. Then a different one will supposedly get covid and contact trace the others so again we have no leadership for another 2 weeks and it just goes on and on week after week.
Don’t assume they ignored it. I had a colleague who’s family got it but for some odd reason, my colleague didn’t test positive or get it. hR said he could still work So I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what HR told this manager too. They also say to people returning from being sick with Covid that it is alright to return if they still test positive, as long as they don’t have any symptoms.