What would you do in this situation? (details within)

Can you still go to school if you quit the job?

Get tested !

Deal with all the other stuff after !

You may not be positive ! ! !

@stanleybmanly

yes. I can

@Tropical_Willie

I may not be positive my issue is wondering if its even worth the risk.

Which “risk” are you talking about?

Getting kicked out of the house should I test positive. They don’t want me tested at all, and I’d get a phone call + letter with the results. phone call I can hide, Letter probably not, I am not home all the time to get it before they do.

This all sounds very illogical. I know.

My parents are honestly crazy.

I don’t feel that getting tested is a good choice. But I also want my job.

So your biggest issue right now is that you may get kicked out of the house right?

What will your parents do if the test comes out negative?

@Mimishu1995

I have asked. They are very set in the mindset of the fact that tests results are faked. And they are more concerned with the chance of me being positive. I tried to talk, it literally lead to me being screamed at.

Do they support you financially for your college or do you have to work for the money?

If you are positive but don’t get the test ? ?

Everybody else gets to catch COVI-19 in your house. I don’t understand !

Your parents don’t think COVID-19 is real ! You survive and maybe they don’t survive sorry but that is their choice.

My grandfather pays for my schooling, but other things are my responsibility such as a car. I don’t have money for that yet, nor do I have enough to actually move out.

@Tropical_Willie That is very true. But from what she is saying here her parents are clearly irrational and won’t listen to logic. Convincing them won’t lead to anything good right now.

I don’t understand it either. I really truly don’t. They are at risk/around people that are at risk. They just refuse to think this is anything more than a cold.

They think you test positive if you’ve had a cold in the past 2 years. So I don’t know. I’m just really upset. There’s a lot I don’t like about my job but it pays and its close to me. I bike there.

And they are trying to use this as “motivation” for me to get a better job. But they have to drive me to that job. It’s just all embarrassing and it sucks.

I think you can refuse testing.

@si3tech That is totally dependent on my work. It sounded required because they said now that 2 employees are positive, everyone has to get tested.

Well there’s 2 things to consider. The first is that there should be no shortage of nearby jobs. I don’t know about where you live, but everyone here who deals up close with the public is literally desperate for workers. Next, if you refuse to be tested and are fired or if you are tested then forced to quarantine are you eligible for unemployment? Then there’s the 3rd possibility—that enough of your coworkers are forced to quarantine and the outfit shuts down—unemployment again. It’s all guessing. We don’t know enough.

Can you contact your grandfather for a place to live in temporarily? Do your parents care about your job or do they just care that you are working? How about a close friend?

If you really have to keep the job, then try to find a place to temporarily stay away from your parents for a while and take the test. It will also help redirect the phone call and letter somewhere else other than your house, so that you don’t have to deal with their rage. Otherwise, you will just have to give up the job and get something else or live on budget. Maybe you will find another job that is better than the current job, who knows? What I’ve learned over the year that sometimes you need a loss for something better to come into your life. Case in point: my great teacher who helped me with my thesis.

There is also a possibility that you actually have the virus. If it is really the case, how do you think you can manage?

@stanleybmanly Yeah, it is all guessing. I won’t really know for sure until tomorrow.

There are places hiring near me. That wouldn’t be a problem.

I don’t think I would be eligible. I am part time.

@Mimishu1995 thank you. My grandfather lives across the country, and most friends are far away. It would be an option to move in with a friend, I just wouldn’t be able to go to school.

It does seem that finding another job would be my only choice should I be required to get tested. As in, my work says I can’t quarantine instead. So it’s a waiting game for now until I go into work tomorrow and get told whats going on. I just wish my parents were a little more understanding

I might have family I could stay with too, but again, that all impedes on school. My mom takes me to school

I’m also curious about your parents and this “hoax” business. If you test positive, what do they expect the health department to force on your parents? If the disease is a hoax, how can it effect your father?

@stanleybmanly I guess he thinks his work would find out and force him to quarantine/wear a mask which he won’t do. Or that they would then have to get tested.

@SergeantQueen Yes, just wait. Those are some options that you can consider when the “judgement” day finally comes. I don’t want to push anything on you because I don’t have a clear picture of what is going on in your life. While you’re waiting you can think through the best course of action to take. Hope everything will go well.

And fun fact: In my country, your parents would be cancelled all over the Internet for denying the virus :P ~

I just hope I can explain it to my work why I can’t get tested.

@Mimishu1995 I see a lot of posts of people attacking those with mindsets similar to my parents. It’s funny.

I don’t think in COVID-19; your work can/would understand why you can’t be tested !

They control who gets tested because of COVID-19 and it is for real.

I hear you are between “a rock and a hard a place.”

@Tropical_Willie Yeah. Sounds like I’ll just have to give no reasoning and just quit if needed.

I would think HIPAA rules mean that they can only give results to you. Why don’t you see if they will do that and then if so, get tested. Whatever your parents believe, it’s kind of important for you t know if you’re positive but see if you can get tested and get the results without them knowing.

If the health department calls, can I lie and tell them I don’t live with anyone so my parents don’t get contacted at all?

Don’t lie to health department they know who is in the household.

1) Get tested.
2) Stay isolated from your parents.
3) Maintain this for 2 weeks, regardless of your test results.

This is not a hoax. These are scary times.

Get tested in secret, and try to make an arrangement that they hand over the test results in person, at work.
Or: Call your parents’ bluff.

I completely agree with @filmfann.

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Surely you can give your cellphone only for the results.

Also, if you like your boss, talk to him or her about the situation and see if they have a solution. But I think you will have to get tested if you want to keep your job.

And maybe it’s time to think about getting your own place?

Try talking with the other employees in the same situation.

Even if you test or not either way you will have to leave regardless as its considered a threat to the rest of the employees.

Sounds like the employer is trying to offset a clash action suit should more employees get COVID? ( and they can be sued).

Going to your Grandfathers is not a good idea should in fact you have it…you would infect your Grandfather!

Look into what settlement or wages that you get should you have to be laid off because of this incident.

Your health is far more important than getting your parents upset….do they not think about losing you if you contracted it?

Seems to put the whole thing into another perspective, doesn’t it?

Lets see my son could be ill and die vs loss of wages hmmmm what is more important here?

Why would your parents have to know?

If she tests positive the health department COVID-19 contact tracer have to contact all people she has been in contact with and then her father would have to quarantine for 14 days.

Just doesn’t make it easy.