Well...this is an interesting blog post to write! (the above images are me and my cutie girlfriend quarantined together <3)
Today, I am quarantined. The world is dealing with the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, and I'm home. I have had so many thoughts I just want to get out there and talk about, so here we go. First off, if you aren't aware, COVID-19 is essentially another SARS, H1N1, Ebola...but worse. The cases keep increasing, and it came from something sold in a market in Wuhan, China months ago. California, Nevada, and other states are on lockdown per local government order. Now, what particularly concerns me, is that I left corporate/public accounting to work for a more independent company that I believed would have the best interests of their employees at heart. Except they didn't. They fully intended on having us, hours before the governor announced closure of nonessential businesses, continue to come into our very nonessential business to expose ourselves to the coronavirus. No, that's not what the company said to us, but that's how I fucking heard it. A company who already pays their lower level associates in Arizona a wage higher than mine as a MANAGER. I have already been on edge about these business practices, but I know that I chose to work here and it isn't my place/business to care. But it also is. You should care about employee morale. About their health. As an accountant/former public accountant, I know this company can pay us the leave time, especially since they grossly underpay us as it is (I'm not sure I know ANYONE who can live off of $9 an hour, 40 hours a week, do you?). I love my job, but the politics I notice are no different than corporate accounting. Other businesses and public health officials were begging people to stay home and my job wanted me ready to make sales. Smh. If it hadn't been for state mandate I'd have COVID-19 from my work, I guarantee it. Capitalism does not discriminate between large Fortune 500 and small independent chain. I learned that through all of this. But I will keep trekking since I truly have reached my end with the workforce. The career I want does not lie here, but in singing as an independent contractor when I garner enough attention, so I need to focus on that. I also brought my best friend here to work with me, and I love working with him again. Keeping my eyes on the prize/the fact that I love the job and not so much some of the people/politics that surround it. On another note: people are completely unable to handle this quarantine, and it is driving me nuts. I'm not sure what it is about me and my acquaintances/friends/people in my circle...they seem to think they are entitled to my time any day any week any hour. If you want to hang out with me I'll send for you. Otherwise, the next guilt trip I get for how I spend my time will result in cutting people off. This is not okay, y'all, we are in our mid20s. Adults. Full grown adults. Some of my friends who can't seem to handle me recording and prioritizing my mental health have CHILDREN. I need to focus on the things that make me happy. Maybe if you're a better friend, you'll end up hanging out with me. But don't push it on me. That's not a friendship. Alrighty, this blog post was a whoooooole lotta word vomit. But I needed to get it off of my chest and out into the universe. I hope everyone's quarantine is going well; here's to finding inner peace and taking a break from the busy lifestyle this capitalistic country has forced upon us. I am 100% not bored, and 100% in love with this quarantine. Stay home. <3
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