End of March: "We're switching to a new schedule and new location assignments to accomodate social distancing requirements while you essential employees continue to work to provide 90% of our tribe's profits. Management will be working from home."

Early April: "You all are doing so well. We're going to be providing additional compensation for your essential work during this dangerous and uncertain period. Please remember to keep following all social distancing guidelines."

April-today: "We're still working on the details for the additional compensation."

Last week: "Submit your questions for the cluster all hands" *everyone asks about additional compensation.

Today: "2.5 hours of blathering about success stories, safety updates, and just how awesome AWS is. Our morale has never been higher, even through the pandemic and the protests. No i'm not going to answer any questions from SEA because we're over. I hope you all have a safe, secure, and highly-available day"

I no longer feel bad about being late to work yesterday.

I specifically asked my question referencing the tribe's own principles and how their lack of response was breaking them to force the leaders to at least acknowledge the question.

i never wanted to work for a tribe this big. there's too many overlays and stake holders to get sign-offs from. I'm constantly amazed /anything/ can get done down here.

Today's conference call was specifically about our local covid update. As expected, our questions, called "very pointed" questions by our over-chief were acknowledged, and yet again invalidated through lack of response and action.

No additional COVID compensation. "Our procedures are keeping us safe, and we have no additional demand at our data centers unlike our warehouses where we had to increase compensation as an market-driven incentive to draw labor" Basically, they only gave money to the warehouses so they could convince new employees to work for them.

So, now apparently all Essential Workers for the River Tribe are going to get actual hazard pay.

But not me. The River Tribe Web services make the tribe more than half of its profit, but we aren't considered worthy of care.

So a bunch of us are gonna just gonna be sick tomorrow.

Back at work after 2 days of being sick. We sent a message that has apparently been heard.

But I'm not holding my breath. Spend the start of yesterday kinda freaked out, thinking that if the RT sees me not being at work and not noticing much change in the numbers, then they might start questioning if they really need me around. That was a un-fun thing to think about. But I have just trained 3 new contractors in a 4 week period, and I got each one mostly ready to go.

So we'll see what happens. Meanwhile, I'm gonna keep doing my best.