I just need to get this off my chest somewhere public.
I’m an auditor who tested positive for COVID last month after my VTL trip back from my graudation. Well, to be exact, I was tested positive on Christmas eve. If you didn’t know, for VTL travellers, we have to do 7 days of ART, 2nd and 7th day are to be supervised. And I was just so lucky to be tested positive on my 7th day. As I was tested negative for all 6 days, I dismissed my symptoms as a flu. It was no big deal, I thought to myself, as I just came back from somewhere with the weather hot in the day, freezing cold at night. So a positive result on the 7th day was really a shock to me.
I felt really bad as I was with a colleague at a client’s place who has a very young son. And not just that, the boss of the company I’m auditing is a really old and nice guy, and he even offered to drive me to the MRT when it was raining on the eve itself. So imagine how guilty I was when I found out I was positive.
Well, things got worse. On the first weekday of my self-isolation of 10 days after receiving a PCR positive result, my other colleague called with the request of my boss, only to be asked if I can WFH. My colleague was really angry for me, to which I commented “I was disappointed, but not surprised.” I rejected it anyway.
And all was fine, no one really bothered me as I rested. Until I came back from my self-isolation after the New’s Year. The client requested for a negative ART result every time I visit their office. I don’t know if they even know that we’re paying for our own ART test kit. My company doesn’t even care. And fine, that’s fine if they have trust issues with me. And when one of the staffs from the client’s office came to ask me about everything as one of their customers? Basically, someone they know was tested positive today too, she asked how was everything like, if I had symptoms and all. I mentioned that I had negative results the whole time before the one positive, and yes I had flu. And she just simply asked “why didn’t you wait till you’ve recovered from my flu?”
If it wasn’t because this client is urgently in need of their audited report for XBRL filing and we literally have not enough staff in our firm right now, SURE, I would’ve definitely rest till my blocked nose was gone.
Falling sick is a luxury now with our firm turning from bad to shit. And it’s as if it’s my fault I caught the virus. It’s my fault it even existed. Everyone’s talking about sympathy and understanding but where are they when people really face positive cases?
I’m so sick and tired of this virus and everything relating to it.