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My co-workers won't wear face masks and it's stressing me out
Sep 27, 2020
Q: I recently started an entry-level job at a small nonprofit after two months of being unemployed. We work with students, and masks are strictly enforced for them. In my second week, one student tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Soon after I started working, the executive director (my direct supervisor) and another director started taking their masks off. A third director only wears a face shield, which is not recommended by the CDC as an effective alternative. People come into my office without masks. In staff meetings, people pull down their masks to talk. In addition to the health concern, I feel disrespected anytime I see the lower half of someone's face. I feel like they're saying, "I don't care about you or your family." (I live with my parents.)
I spoke with one of the directors and my boss about the lack of masks. They apologized and told me to "call them out on it" if I see them not wearing masks. Things got better for a few days, but unsurprisingly they slipped back into their old habits. There's no HR and no office above my boss. I refuse to be the mask police, but I'm really uncomfortable, and the anxiety is weighing on me.
A: So essentially, your bosses are abdicating their responsibility to maintain a safe work environment, opting instead to nominate a junior staffer to be their shoulder cricket. No matter how politely or persistently you chirp, you cannot hope to pierce that kind of blind, selfish indifference. Not that they're intentionally disrespecting you; it's just that their convenience and comfort outweigh their sense of self-preservation or obligation to the greater good.
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