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You’re a hero. You’re saving us all. We can’t live without you. Your hair looks amazing today, what kind of conditioner do you use? People who are deemed to be essential workers keep hearing compliments like these since the coronavirus pandemic hit and now they’re posting jokes about it online.
To brighten up your day, Bored Panda has collected some of the most hilarious essential worker memes. Enjoy and remember to upvote your faves! And if you’re an Essential Panda, tell us what life is like for you now in the comments.
Essential employees are healthcare professionals, police officers, firefighters, grocery store employees, fast-food workers, truckers, and every single person who keeps civilization functioning during the quarantine. (Oh, and tax collectors are considered to provide essential services in some places, too.) Bored Panda spoke with Dr. Eddy Ng, the James and Elizabeth Freeman Professor of Management at Bucknell University, about essential workers. Scroll down for our interview with him.
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TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
People are paid for how easy they are to replace not how essential the job is. Nurses now though I would think isn’t as easy to replace. I know most super stores are paying a few bucks more an hour. And I know you’ll go they deserve more! Well that’s why unions use to be a thing. Pay us this or we all don’t show up. Instead of not allowing collective bargaining and selling it as well they make you join and you don’t want someone making you do something do you?!
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
And a lot of that is made in China and other low salary -countries. Keep that in mind the next time you accuse them of polluting. Together with the manufacturing, all of us in the west also exported the pollution that goes with it.
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alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
And janitors and custodians! People are forgetting! And doctors and nurses aren't the only ones treating patients, there are nurse's aids, and respiratory therapists, etc...
Alexis Barker 5 years ago
WHAT ABOUT HVAC WORKERS THEY KEEP THE FREEZERS AND THE AIR CONDITIONING RUNNING!
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Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
True. My sister works as a carer, and she called herself cannon fodder. I'm like you're an essential worker - you're so important! I tell her this while working from home....
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
"Some of you may die but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make." -found on the internet
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Wottermehlon Doge 5 years ago
is it too hard to ask for people to basically die to help others? - Goldmember Reference
Christy Smith 5 years ago
The only ppl who should be praised for being 'essential workers' as so are all the health workers, they're the ones in the most danger. Not to mention, we may be seen as 'essential', but let's be real, we go because we need our paycheck, not because we give even the tiniest s**t that ppl need us to be open to get their groceries or wherever you work at. Stop acting like essential workers are heroes, it all boils down to us liking to sleep indoors.
"Although we hear the term 'heroes' being used to describe many essential workers, the term is apt because they perform work that can bring harm to themselves and potentially their families," Dr. Ng said. "Not all heroes are idolized or worshiped, but there is certainly an element of bravery and self sacrifice here. Thus, the term hero is an expression of gratitude by the collective or community who are dependent on these essential workers. Since many of them are not being paid much or don't have a choice but to come to work, the term 'hero' also provides intrinsic motivation and fulfillment for these workers."
The professor added that there's greater recognition of how critically important these workers are now because our health, safety, and survival depends on them. "This gratitude will pass when the pandemic is over and things return to normalcy, thus it is important for us to recognize their contributions now."
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Colin L 5 years ago
Yep. And the businesses need to be the ones doing it, because individual people don't have the resources to offer more than gratitude and occasional gifts.
Matt Valentine 5 years ago
Well, I *want* to compensate essential workers fairly. But I don't have the ability or the power to. So.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
You do. Start by voting for those who support fair wages. Buy at stores that PAY fair wages, support enterprises who pay fairly by choosing their products over the ones that pay c**p. Even if they are a bit more expensive - it's usually worth it. While you're at it - buy fairtrade products that support fair wages in other countries, too. See?
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
This definition of 'Hero' needs to be added to dictionaries all over the world.
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Mark 5 years ago
I know someone who is a nurse, she says while people clapping for you is nice she would rather feel safe at work and have a pay rise, the later not dependant on the current health crisis either!
alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
It's not that nurses aren't making a living wage, it's that they are not compensated for the risk they face at their jobs
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Lory 5 years ago
Nurses work their tails off. It's not only the doctors that do all the work, it's the nurses, CNA's, Techs, respiratory therapist, housekeepers, etc... The doctors do see the patients and give orders, but it's up to the nurses to verify the orders, make sure they are correct, and carry them out correctly. Nurses make a million decisions in a day. (I am not even mentioning the physical part.) People think we make excessive amount of money, but for the amount of work and risks we take, no it's not. Don't think for a second we get raises and bonuses every year, we don't. At time we get a cost a living adjustment. My last one was 80 cents.
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Colin L 5 years ago
Agreed. Money where your mouth is folks: support hazard pay for essential workers.
earringnut 5 years ago
A living wage in the first place would be an improvement here in the states.
Load More Replies... Consequential_mishaps 5 years ago
Exactly. Instead of patronising them how about we force those exploiting them to actually pay them a living wage by law.
Wottermehlon Doge 5 years ago
kinda true. as someone said in a later post. they arent heroes. they are slaves
Kayden Yan 5 years ago
they deserve better pay for putting themselves out there in the middle of a pandemic
"Few employers (e.g., Cargill, Safeway) are providing better compensation but that also reflects a rapidly declining supply of labor (workers are getting sick) and employers enticing others to join the labor market," Dr. Ng explained. "Employers need to do more, such as providing the tools to perform these jobs safely. At the very least, they need to provide a pay premium ('hazard pay') when asking workers to perform work that can expose themselves to harm."
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Colin L 5 years ago
Want to know where the $1200 figure comes from? It's a months wages at minimum wage.
Malakai 5 years ago
Take this salt and cure your bs "GET A REAL JOB LOL" attitude with it. Without people to do menial labor, your facilities wouldn't be cleaned, you couldn't eat out, you wouldn't be able to buy almost anything. Be kind, thank your retail workers and janitors and factory workers and others by being respectful, by fighting for fair wages where you can, and by tipping generously where applicable. I ordered delivery one night because I was sick (just a sinus infection, thankfully) and the delivery guy called to thank me for tipping him because apparently people aren't tipping food service workers at all, at least not in my area in lieu of the pandemic. "Menial" labor is ESSENTIAL, and these industries shouldn't just be lauded as full of heroes--if you're going to call us heroes, then pay us like you actually mean that!
alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
Seriously. People are such hypocritical a******s! A job is a job is a job.
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ispeak catanese 5 years ago (edited)
Being considered "essential" but certainly not getting paid a living wage; having to go to work in a building that is not kept clean, we have no sanitizer, no masks, no tissues or cleansers available. IT couldn't be bothered to get us clerical staff set up to work from home when most clinical staff in our agency were able to make telemedicine contact and finance and administrators were allowed to work from home. Our state governor giving the order to stay at home many weeks after other states did and now wanting to be among the first to lift quarantine. I don't understand why this is happening here. Does no one read the paper, learn about world news? And are we so expendable in my workplace?
Kj Johnson 2 years ago
So true! Hearing people whining about running out of things to watch on streaming platforms. Let me grab you a tissue… that someone at my job just sneezed in.
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Colin L 5 years ago
I would love for the CEOs to be here exposing themselves with their essential workers. I wonder if wages would improve?
danielw 5 years ago
Naw. the CEO would get a fatter bonus for being such a good boss.
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Thundercuss 5 years ago
I sincerely hope one thing that comes out of all this is renewed recognition of the importance of unions. A collective voice is all workers have for fair representation.
Kanga9ine 5 years ago
We are essential workers. Essential because those who pay us a "living wage" thinks it's all relative. They pay themselves a living wage, with extra, you know for stuff that comes up. Like weekends in Paris. And they have to get more money because they live in a much bigger home, and pay the staff that cleans it, and drive luxury vehicles or take the limo, and all that plastic surgery for the wife ain't cheap. But the real reason we're essential is this. Those signing our "living wage" paycheck, would essentially pull an Epstein before they would ever actually think of the huge gap between their check and ours and realize they wouldn't have s**t without us. Cut the b******t with all these threats. get your sorry a*s up out of your chair and visit the stores or business you own and start wiping down grocery belts and gather up carts. You're damn right we're essential. To our families and friends and essentially, you're just the guy who signs a piece of paper. So you're essential too.
We’ve all heard how these hard-working Pandas are being called heroes, but is that term being overused, especially when we look at how little they’re being paid for their efforts?
The fact is, “thank you’s” don’t pay the bills and being an everyday superhero doesn’t pay all that well. So a lot of essential employees have that in common with comic book superheroes!
Some essential employees are sick and tired of being complimented, celebrated, and hailed as heroes. Why? Because they don’t have any choice: they work their low-paying jobs because they need them to survive.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
And Imagine Captain Chaos sitting on the stern tweeting : "If we are sinking why am I 150 feet above the see? Fake media. Not good. Enemy of the people. Immigrants are playing sad music. No one here plays sad music. Only they do. "
Lou Lopez 5 years ago
Mind if I steal that sentiment for a cutting cartoon?
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Anne Flitton 5 years ago
I work in a grocery store and I kid you not, someone yelled at me today for us being out of chicken tenders, like, what? Right now I am sanitizing the children's mini carts, and the car carts so little kids don't get sick and you are yelling at the 5 ft 2, 17 year old girl for something she has no control over, seriously?
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Abby 5 years ago
This is exactly what's happening to my mom! She works in a hospital and they keep changing policies. Somehow a nap policy got added and they recommend doctors and nurses to take a 20 minute nap during their shift. They said you could only have one mask until it got wet or destroyed so people started using homemade masks. Then they said take as many masks as you want. Then they banned cloth (homemade) masks. There have been a bunch of other policy changes too. Some have been good like for units dealing with coronavirus there are pay raises available. There have been so many policy changes and my mom is pretty stressed
Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
The problem with literally making it up as we go along (the whole world I mean). I'm hoping that a lot can be learned during this time so when it happens again we won't be caught with our trousers round our ankles.
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unknown mechanic 5 years ago
Damn i know this. it is now the 3rd time my company changes the working hours. one worse than another ...
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So_Long_And_Thanks_For_All_The_Fish 5 years ago
I upvoted you for saying crisps not chips
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raishea 24 5 years ago
My mother works for a transportation company and does the billing for it. Her boss is keeping his in office workers working because he knows that if he didn't all his workers would be homeless. We thank all the first responders but we don't thank people like my mom's boss for not giving up and letting his employees suffer
Marty BlackEagle-Carl 5 years ago
gas station attendants are essential workers..... say they're not when your car's on E and u have to go somewhere.
BG 5 years ago
Me, going to an office everyday to do a job that I can 100% do from home because I work in an "essential industry" (construction). My office coworkers also bring their school-age children to work with them everyday now because they have nowhere else to go. There are offices set up for "homeschooling" now. UGHHHH!
Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
Um... wut? You drunk on the job or something?
Load More Replies...For instance, Nelson Santiago quit his job at Wendy’s in Waco, Texas, when he felt “disrespected and humiliated.” He and his coworkers received a bag of candy from Wendy’s corporate HQ, but Santiago was making 8.50 dollars an hour: he didn’t want candy—he wanted hazard pay and safe working conditions.
“For them to say a simple thank-you while they sit in the comfort of their homes with their families protected and reaping the benefits of these chains still being open—it is insulting," Santiago told Business Insider.
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Wottermehlon Doge 5 years ago
One of my real good friend's parents are both doctors. Both of them have made wills and other paperwork because they are entirely unsure if they are going to make it through this
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
"There are fifteen cases and in a little while there will be none." "It's like the flu." Please vote for a future worth living, everybody!
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Carrie Roettger 5 years ago
My daughter works the front desk at a hotel in Texas. We closed a lot of things but our hotels and motels are not among them and she is considered an essential worker. I have been so worried about her and her husband and 10 month old daughter since the first reports of possible cases in Texas. In 2014 she donated a kidney to me and there's the baby. I need to see them so badly but she has put her foot down about that.
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Colin L 5 years ago
This is why unions are important. Here in Washington state Kroger (which also owns QFC, Fred Meyer's, and others) has refused to raise wages for essential workers. But the bus union has gotten better wages and requires passengers to wear masks.
Lou Lopez 5 years ago
But...but...trickle-down economics! Free market! Billionaires are job creators! Small gub'ment! American exceptionalism!
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Animal lover❤ 5 years ago
Look drake, it's not up to me whether or not they get a higher salary. But I definitely think they should
Phoenix Haessal 5 years ago
Well at my work place, they have introduced an additional insurance policy if we die of coronavirus & the next meeting date for wage revision has been postponed till further notice.. It's very indecisively bittersweet
Travis Forney 5 years ago
I work at a freight terminal with literally hundreds of other people where social distancing is impossible and guys spitting chew all over the dock and they make us still use a fingerprint scanner to clock in and out and won't pay us hazard and teamsters union is no where to be found. I'm sure I won't be considered essential in that heroes fund or patriot pay. But hey someone did tell me thank you so all is well now and I'll be fine.
Cindy Czocher 5 years ago
Home care workers are in the HOMES of positive covid cases.WE ARE FRONTLINES TOO. But that doesn't ever get mentioned.
Meanwhile, a Taco Bell manager told Business Insider that he was working up to 65 hours per week for no additional pay because some of his coworkers quit due to their hours being cut.
If we call somebody a hero, we should make sure they’re being treated like one, don’t you think? Luckily, some powerful people think so, too. US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is proposing legislation that frontline heroes get up to 25k dollars as part of a financial crisis-rescue package.
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Bob Beltcher 5 years ago
Its not as fun as it seems. I've been working from home for a month now, it sucks and it's frustrating. As an auditor I have to rely on the people I'm auditing to upload stuff, otherwise, I have no work. Then my boss wants to know why I have no work. Then I have to call muktiple times a day asking when they're uploading work. I know it's not as bad as what other are going through but it still sucks.
Danikah 5 years ago
Is it less fun though then going to work with nothing to protect yourself and worrying that you'll bring something home that will kill your family every moment of every day? Trade me.
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Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Fortunately, I can do some things at home. Advantages: No s***ty commute, no need to dress up. Disadvantages: Miss direct interaction with my coworkers, cat crawling all over me.
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Eagle Girl 5 years ago
Remember the truck drivers coming into contact with every store& warehouse
TheKnightOwl 5 years ago
Our truck drivers are not allowed in store, and they have to open the truck and stand back while we unload the delivery. We wear gloves and sanitise everything every 30 minutes as we're unpacking the stock; so while the delivery boxes are likely to have been touched by someone outside the store, the goods inside are handled carefully to ensure the least skin contact possible. It's not failsafe, but it's not as "contaminated" (for lack of a better word) as some may assume.
Load More Replies... Anne Flitton 5 years ago
I work in a grocery store, and I got yelled at by a customer for wearing a mask, because it was DISRESPECTFUL to the customers because they "can't see my face," like "excuse me? I have to be here, you don't!"
Marleen Jensen 5 years ago
And the place that repairs the trucks that brought to groceries ...
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Consequential_mishaps 5 years ago
"Essential". Call them exactly how their employers see them, expendable. You don't pay them enough so they have to risk their lives for minimum wage but hey at least in the uk we all clapped for them at the same time, maybe they can pay their bills with that.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Sorry but I can not stand Stallone, his acting is someone making a lot of noise and nothing else.
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Dilly Millandry 5 years ago
What would people need to go in for in the 'once every two weeks' scenario? Genuinely curious.
Dynein 5 years ago
There's jobs you can do from home. There's jobs you cannot ever do at home. And then there's jobs where a part can be done at home, but sometimes you need to get in to get stuff or use equipment. E.g. a lab scientist could do their data analysis, theoretical experiment design and literature research at home, but would need to get in occasionally to actually run an experiment!
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J 3lack 5 years ago (edited)
This one hit home... Employer already had our crew down to bare bones before this crisis hit. Plus one of our crew got cancer and he's going through chemo currently. So he is off indefinitely and we have 3 workers covering to cover 4 shifts, 12 hour days 5 days a week... Could be worse though at least my company is paying us OT incentive and protecting our health with mandatory temperature checks, hand washing and practicing social distancing.
Arunav Das 5 years ago
this happens with my dad even though he has one of the highest placement s in his job and works 6 days a week and can't work from home
Sean Merchant 5 years ago
What I love, is that the employees at my job who were furloughed, are now making more money than I am drawing unemployment (approx. $800/week). Those of us left got a $2/hr raise but had our hours cut from 40 to 30 hours a week.
Thundercuss 5 years ago
I've seen a lot of this. Don't blame the people, anyone would take that deal unless they might lose health insurance.
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nolan edelhauser 5 years ago
Lol I work for kroger. We got a letter ANDDD 2$ and hour. I'm so much happier now. So much better than getting 600$ and being able to stay at home. ....
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Jack Chandra 5 years ago
They drive a Mercedes. They're getting paid. I've much more sympathy for minimum wage cashiers who have 100+ people standing in front of them every day.
Seabeast 5 years ago
Could be a doctor. Yes, they're getting paid, but that's not much consolation if they get sick and die because a patient infected them.
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earringnut 5 years ago
Why do I have the feeling that this person isn't an essential employee?
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MARY ANN Hannah 5 years ago
I work for the va hospital and we are at work everyday, all day during this covid 19 pandemic - the federal government is not suspended.
Craig Lee 5 years ago
My friend works for the government and still has to go to work every day.
TheKnightOwl 5 years ago
Most government services here are still functioning. In fact, quite a few sectors are swamped and have to pull overtime.
Shelbey Hershman 5 years ago
Me being a high schooler working everyday and being told I’m expendable and then getting fired for being sick :D
Anne Flitton 5 years ago
My classes are suspended AND I have to go to work, and get yelled at by customers EVERY DAY
Marty BlackEagle-Carl 5 years ago
government offices ARENT SUSPENDED. MANY OF US ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS.
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PotterHead 5 years ago
My dad has to go to work everyday at 3am. He works at purity milk and fixes up the trucks. He is pretty much the est at what he does so they often make him come in and he is on call a lot.
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Chris Jones 5 years ago
Many delivery drivers have increased targets for delivery numbers as people are ordering more and the companies attitudes are 'oh well, the roads are empty so you'll get round faster'. Don't think it's been made easier for them at all.
LOttawa 5 years ago
And let's not forget that almost everything is closed to them making eating or going to the restroom almost impossible.
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n i k o 4 years ago
Yes! Work is work, respectable no matter what. Especially during a pandemic.
Load More Replies... Shelbey Hershman 5 years ago
I live in a really small town. One of our employees almost died from COVID. I was fired for being sick so I was considered inconsistent
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Elis Malachov 5 years ago
now, now. There is quite difference between SOCIETY and GOVERNMENT mind you. If it were up to society, wages would be pretty different
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Nuage de Celda 5 years ago
Businesses need countertops. Hospitals need countertops. Nay, society need countertops ! Without countertops, we'd live in a chaotic neutral world.
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Sir Nightmare 5 years ago
I make wood floor samples for a company, we haven't shut down for a single day during the virus outbreak
Willow Bell 5 years ago
I think you are missing the point. To me the artist is saying that making countertops is insignificant compared to the others at this time. He is doing his small part in the fight by NOT working.
Sami 5 years ago
Do you not know how many people are upgrading their houses right now?? Tell them to stop and then the countertop people can isolate. Lol
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Orillion 5 years ago
I have a feeling most people are going to forget about 'essential workers' as soon as quarantine is over.
Matthew Smith 5 years ago
Many people will forget and go back to treating them like s**t.
Load More Replies... Lou Lopez 5 years ago
I get a lot of s**t for being a housekeeper, but guess who's spraying down the public restrooms with bleach? Maybe try using the toilet correctly and not pissing all over the floor? Then I could quarantine at home too and y'all wouldn't have to step in p**s constantly. Also, maybe I could make above starvation wages for this "essential" service of cleaning after some nasty pigs. It also would be great not to get condescending remarks from people who clearly not only need my labor, but need it because they themselves are lazy as f**k and lack even the vestigial remains of common courtesy. Like, I get it Becky... you married rich, that's cool. Chad, you majored in marketing and think you know sooooooo much, yet you won't stop pissing all over the toilet and floor whereas I have potty trained multiple dogs. Maybe stop treating people like me as an afterthought.
Alyssa A 5 years ago
Oh my God thank you for posting this! I work at a hotel doing housekeeping,front desk,and responding to online review (which is annoying to say the least). My coworkers are mostly single parents just trying to support themselves and their families and yet you wouldn't believe the complaints we're receiving recently (not to mention we don't even make hazzard pay). Literally someone left us a comment like "thank you to us for cleaning up after ourselves when your staff wouldn't, we're not leaving a tip instead we're taking that tip and treating ourselves to something nice"(our boss isn't making us clean stay overs anymore, instead we just have to clean their nasty a*s room after they leave). Yesterday I actually cleaned up like 4boxes worth of alcohol and 3 piles of vomit, somehow we have to risk our lives and our families lives for people who are just hooking up and partying, and don't even have the common decency to try and pick up after themselves a little, something kids can do.
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Joe Blowe 5 years ago (edited)
Working in the hospital I very quickly got tired of being called "essential" and having people thank me for what I do. I went into the healthcare field because I love what I do. I have been at my current hospital for over 14 years now. Some of the upsides to this situation (yes, there are upsides), free restaurant food every day. Some of the downsides - the amount of family members still coming to visit. Stay home! We understand you want to visit your family member when they are in the hospital but we do not want more people getting sick. For each person that visits, that means one less mask for an employee due to most people visiting not wearing a mask.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Aren't your hospitals closed for all visitors? What kind of madness is that? "Hey let's round up all people with Corona in hospitals and next invite their family in, so they can spread the virus with a 100% certainty...." Let me guess: "You can't close the hospital for visitors because of some amendment...."
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Miklós Nagy 5 years ago
I like how all those people with "real job" turned out to be "not essential"...
Kelly Murray 5 years ago
Bless all essential employees. I've been there, and it's certainly no fun.
raishea 24 5 years ago
The saddest part is that there are so many more essential workers that people don't even care about or know about.
Uncommon Boston 5 years ago
You can make a difference! If you can afford to, give huge tips. My postman and UPS driver just received my Xmas gift. A nice fat tip, bigger than normal. I also over tip delivery men. Kindness and appreciation of those around us improves the quality of our lives. Be nice
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Yeah, society - especially government and companies - shut the #### about praising "essential workers" and put your money where your big, mealy mouths are. Pay these people decent wages!
Orillion 5 years ago
I have a feeling most people are going to forget about 'essential workers' as soon as quarantine is over.
Matthew Smith 5 years ago
Many people will forget and go back to treating them like s**t.
Load More Replies... Lou Lopez 5 years ago
I get a lot of s**t for being a housekeeper, but guess who's spraying down the public restrooms with bleach? Maybe try using the toilet correctly and not pissing all over the floor? Then I could quarantine at home too and y'all wouldn't have to step in p**s constantly. Also, maybe I could make above starvation wages for this "essential" service of cleaning after some nasty pigs. It also would be great not to get condescending remarks from people who clearly not only need my labor, but need it because they themselves are lazy as f**k and lack even the vestigial remains of common courtesy. Like, I get it Becky... you married rich, that's cool. Chad, you majored in marketing and think you know sooooooo much, yet you won't stop pissing all over the toilet and floor whereas I have potty trained multiple dogs. Maybe stop treating people like me as an afterthought.
Alyssa A 5 years ago
Oh my God thank you for posting this! I work at a hotel doing housekeeping,front desk,and responding to online review (which is annoying to say the least). My coworkers are mostly single parents just trying to support themselves and their families and yet you wouldn't believe the complaints we're receiving recently (not to mention we don't even make hazzard pay). Literally someone left us a comment like "thank you to us for cleaning up after ourselves when your staff wouldn't, we're not leaving a tip instead we're taking that tip and treating ourselves to something nice"(our boss isn't making us clean stay overs anymore, instead we just have to clean their nasty a*s room after they leave). Yesterday I actually cleaned up like 4boxes worth of alcohol and 3 piles of vomit, somehow we have to risk our lives and our families lives for people who are just hooking up and partying, and don't even have the common decency to try and pick up after themselves a little, something kids can do.
Load More Replies... Joe Blowe 5 years ago (edited)
Working in the hospital I very quickly got tired of being called "essential" and having people thank me for what I do. I went into the healthcare field because I love what I do. I have been at my current hospital for over 14 years now. Some of the upsides to this situation (yes, there are upsides), free restaurant food every day. Some of the downsides - the amount of family members still coming to visit. Stay home! We understand you want to visit your family member when they are in the hospital but we do not want more people getting sick. For each person that visits, that means one less mask for an employee due to most people visiting not wearing a mask.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Aren't your hospitals closed for all visitors? What kind of madness is that? "Hey let's round up all people with Corona in hospitals and next invite their family in, so they can spread the virus with a 100% certainty...." Let me guess: "You can't close the hospital for visitors because of some amendment...."
Load More Replies... Miklós Nagy 5 years ago
I like how all those people with "real job" turned out to be "not essential"...
Kelly Murray 5 years ago
Bless all essential employees. I've been there, and it's certainly no fun.
raishea 24 5 years ago
The saddest part is that there are so many more essential workers that people don't even care about or know about.
Uncommon Boston 5 years ago
You can make a difference! If you can afford to, give huge tips. My postman and UPS driver just received my Xmas gift. A nice fat tip, bigger than normal. I also over tip delivery men. Kindness and appreciation of those around us improves the quality of our lives. Be nice
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Yeah, society - especially government and companies - shut the #### about praising "essential workers" and put your money where your big, mealy mouths are. Pay these people decent wages!
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