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My husband works for an ivy league university as a teledata installer. What that means is it is not an IT job even though his department is OIT, he pulls cable and sets wifi packs during renovations and building changes. He is classified as a non-essential employee. When it snows and the university closes he does not have to go in. Since all this coronavirus stuff started to snow ball he has still been going to work. Around here its been nuts. The panic and people have been so selfish and frankly scary. Even when the Governer (NJ) declared that schools close and a state of emergency he has been going in, and been more and more uncomfortable doing so.
His university has had positive covid19 people but the the university wont say who these people interacted with or what buildings they were in. The university has been shut down and mostly everyone is working from home. He isnt necessarily in construction and he cant work from home. NJ has had covid cases double and triple in the last 10 days. He had previously taken off this past thurs and friday for us to do something but obviously we stayed home. He has had to work even though the governer first said all business had to close and also even though there was a curfew and the university shut down the school and sent all the students home. So yesterday we were all on edge because he got an email Friday saying the school was awaiting the governer's possible shutdown and we were concerned they were going to find a way to make his crew come in. Yesterday afternoon his crew leader emailed and said his crew did not have to come in and told them how to bill for their time. We were so relieved. Then last night a dean said they were closing all lab experiments down. This school is the number 1 school in the nation and their experiments have lead to nobel peace prizes. Then he got an email from the big wigs that highlighted a paragraph in the Governers order that seemed to be a way they were trying to work around the order and make them come in. Here is a snippet of the order: Quote:
My daughter has an autoimmune disorder, I have an autoimmune disorder and my son had mono which means he is immunocomprimised. And frankly we are a close family unit and want to stay home and protect each other. I really dont know what is going on and am having trouble understanding the order. They said they were going to enforce the order using police but didnt not say how. What do you all think? __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
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I’d say if he is deemed as non essential employee, he can stay home. Especially with “shelter in place”
If they insist he comes in, he can use an excuse that he has family members with health issues and pregnant daughter and he can’t get them sick and stay home. But I can’t imagine they’ll make him to come in. |
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