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[mistressofmuses]

Sounds like I'm off the hook for Sunday at work, but not totally for Saturday.

All four of the weekend offsite classes cancelled, and they decided to cancel all of the drives, and decided to cancel the one-day classes for Sunday. Buuuut they still want to do the in-person class series for Saturday (and Sunday at other locations; that just doesn't apply to mine.)

My current plan is to go in tomorrow morning, and stay VERY briefly. Most predictions state that things will get bad fast tomorrow, and I don't want to wind up stranded anywhere, or worse. So I plan to go in, do the prep work stuff for Monday, have Alex wait for me, and then get the fuck out, lol. I can help check students in for the class, but I'm not waiting around until 4:30 for the class to be over. (And god I hope we don't wind up with kids stranded or endangered because of this.)

The other sort of complication for tomorrow is that apparently the other online support person is going to be gone, so I would be the only person doing tech support. But... I also refuse to sit in the center just for that. Assuming my power stays on, I can try to do it from home, so I'll send an email out about that today.

Then for Sunday, it sounds like we're cancelling everything, so I'm just taking PTO.

My manager knows all this, so it should all be good.

Alex is still pretty unhappy about me going in at all on Saturday (since he has to drive me), but I do hope this is at least a reasonable compromise between safety and still looking like a good employee doing what I can. So hopefully we get there and home safely without getting stranded/hitting a tree/dying, or maybe the weather will hold off enough to make the morning reasonably safe.

ETA: Well, never fucking mind on all of that. Manager just called me back, because she submitted the weekend coverage plan for the center and it was denied. She was told that I am "expected" to be there the full day for Saturday (unclear about Sunday; she's asking and calling me back) as I did not request the day off 14 days ago. Alex is unwilling to drive in the afternoon, because we do not believe our vehicle would be capable of making the drive, so my manager is going to have to come get me and take me home.

It was extremely difficult not to just say that I fucking quit.

I need this fucking job, without it we can't pay rent, I would rather fucking die than be in the car again, so I have to keep this fucking job.

But this is fucking bullshit. My manager also sounded upset about it, so I appreciate that she's also bothered by it, at least. (And she's willing to give me a ride, which I appreciate.) She agreed that it basically sounds like blackmail, that it's a threat that if we literally do not risk our safety, coming in against official warnings, that we will be fired.
Obviously I don't want anyone to be hurt, but there is that stupid vindictive, petulant, over-dramatic-teenager part of me that hopes that if I die, Alex or my family can get a nice wrongful death settlement because they forced me to go out in dangerous conditions.
I already knew with Covid that we were expendable, but this is fucking stupid.