High school teacher. TLDR a coworker recently lost her husband. He was in his early 50s and had an "extremely aggressive cancer". Months within diagnosis, he was dead.
Caught her completely off guard, etc etc etc, nothing to do, "ultra-fast spreading cancer," "he was in perfect health before," etc etc etc.
So anyway, funeral has just concluded last week-end, and she's telling her sob stories in the teacher lounge.
I turn around and ask:
"Did he get vaccinated against Covid?"
She replies right away: "Yes, he had all his doses, plus the boosters..."
Then... I smirk. Not smile, just a tiny, tiny smile on the bottom of my right lip. In my mind, I thought "mystery solved."
So anyway, she... I don't know, she completely flips out, starts screaming, "why are you asking me this, what is your problem" typical pre-menopause hysteria, etc.
Well apparently she filed a complaint with HR against me, and now I have to meet HR to discuss "something." Union rep will be with me LOL okay.
Did I really go too far? I mean, I just asked ONE question...
So you're a high school teacher. You know you're surrounded by die-hard NPCs. And you ask your coworker if her dead husband was vaccinated and then you smirk?
Honest question. Are you retarded or are you just larping?
We should applaud OP for showing the slightest about of resistance and not demonize him for not remaining silent.
OP should stay cool, play dumb, and if backed into a corner remind HR that she was the one who brought up her personal medical troubles to the workplace. “I will refrain from discussing personal medical issues at work and I would expect my colleagues to do the same.” No further explanation and details about your personal opinion. They are irrelevant. “I am here only to talk about the performance of my assigned duties.”
/Be the change you want to see in the world.
That post is written like a typical karma farming reddit story. Only AITA is missing from it.
You sound like a faggot taking the side of the triple vaxxed bitch widow.
Are you going to try to help the guy or not?
Go back to ConPro where you belong.
Help with what? Upvote farming?
first of all how dare yo u
Might be a perfect time to play dumb & Reverse Uno this situation.
I assume OP is a Leaf, and even worse a French one in Quebec. Which is commie Zero COVID central.
Being found out as an anti-vaxer in these parts is akin to being discovered to be a neonazi. Good chance his own union will ghost him for wrongthink.
The Reverse Uno in this case would be to pretend to be a Zero COVidiot himself. Claim to have asked the question innocently about the vax status of the deceased over concern with their possible Long COVID status and the fact that COVID is always lurking around every corner. And obviously can cause every fatal consequence known to man.
There's zero social cost to remaining a masked COVidian in 2026. In fact, if OP could pull if off, it may act as camouflage to save his ass as they won't want to single out one of their gay race communism own.
I disagree. She wasn't addressing the OP, she was talking to other people and OP overheard. Why did he feel like he had a right to say anything
Good men remaining silent is responsible for so many things wrong with this ClownWorld gynocracy.
I disagree that this is a "good men remaining silent" situation. There is nothing positive to be gained by smirking and implying that someone's death was their own fault because they took the vaccine, especially to their newly grieving widow.
OP's question and reaction could even be interpreted as OP suggesting the husband deserved to die for making the mistake of getting the shot. I don't think he should lose his job or anything, but I think those comments were unkind.
Really stupid take given the context.
That is a fair point. It is similar to asking if someone with lung cancer smoked or if someone with skin cancer would go to tanning beds. It is a coping mechanism we use to try to assign blame or cause in a complex world.
It can be viewed as insensitive, but nothing this rises to the level of disciplinary actions.
I am only addressing the problem at hand. The HR talk.
OP can work on his autism by developing his ability to suppress the questions everyone else chooses to leave as a thought.
...if said person, and society at large, were in complete denial of the link between the two and actively hiding correlations.
Not at all. It is an attempt to wake people up to the fact that blindly trusting authorities with your health can lead directly to your unnecessary death. Same as DDT, thalidomide, and yes, smoking. We know powerful interests intentionally hid those links and caused many more deaths than would have occured otherwise. We know they're doing it now. This is as much for her good as for OPs in that it just might make her reconsider doing such a foolish thing in the future.
The coworker introduced a personal issue in a professional environment; totally unnecessary. OP responded with his personal beliefs. Was that unprofessional? Sure, but she opened that door when she decided to force her coworkers to listen to her personal problems (something therapists get paid good money for).
Then she went crying to HR.
If I were OP, I'd inform HR that the discussion of turbo cancer triggered my own trauma around Covid and suggest that such a sensitive conversation is not appropriate to have in the break room. If they press, I'd suggest that OP going to HR over this matter suggests that she may be lashing out as a result of trauma and needs to take more berevement leave so she can leave her personal issues at home.
Are you Japanese?
I am not
Why did you feel you had the right to comment?
Because the comment is directed outward to everyone, not a conversation between a private group I happened to overhear. It's not comparable.
Well I won't mourn the next school shooting if the vaxxed widow is victimized by one of the kids she trannied.
It’s at a funeral of her husband you sociopathic fuck.
I’m hoping this is just a Reddit-style creative writing exercise..
It was after the funeral. He said she was talking about it in the teacher's lounge.
True, but it was pretty fresh though. With the funeral being "last week-end," the husband likely passed within the last two weeks. I don't think it's kind to ask questions like OP did given that context.
Correct. My bad. I was drunk.
Reading comprehension fail.
Good call out.
I guess im retarded.
I wont lie: a part of me really, really, REALLY hope I get fired.
I'd get like 30 weeks of paid home to do nothing. im sick to death of teaching.
When you go IMMEDIATELY tell the HR Karen you're glad for the meeting. She was screaming and you feel physically unsafe at your job because of her actions and that she may need some time off for grieving.
You're afraid she's going to shoot up the school / other or commit workplace violence based on her behavior at the time. She's recently gone through a lot of stress at the loss of a loved one and is looking to lash out at people, even being the one to initiate the confrontation by way of telling everyone.
Her behavior is clearly displaying a high potential for the workplace unsafe and you are afraid of serious death or injury due to workplace violence at her hand.
Make sure this is all written down and ASK FOR A PRINT COPY AND AN EMAIL COPY AND MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE BOTH WHILE YOU ARE THERE. DO NOT RELY ON PROMISES OF A LATER COPY.
Then, to be extra diligent, if/when you get fired, file an OSHA whistleblower complaint that a coworker was showing a high likelyhood for workplace violence, lashed out at you, tried to weaponize HR, and when you expressed your concerned about physical safety in the workplace *to* HR, you were retaliated against.
https://www.osha.gov/whistleblower/wbcomplaint
This. Do not rely on charity, understanding, or policy to defend yourself. Go nuclear on her, and make her defend her actions.
She would do the same to you.
The problem is that OP is like male.
The accusation game and benefit of the doubt rarely works in the opposite direction.
This should be higher. Repost it as a top level comment so it is more visible. This is how he can win
Just a followup, I did pretty much what you told me, and said I wanted to file a complaint for "singling me out and insulting me" in front of everyone. It.... didn't go the way the female teacher hoped.
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U arent retarded. Everybody complains about how everything gets worse but the second a guy says anything but gets on his knees and sucks dick all the cowards clown on him.
Cucks with no balls won't even ask a question. This is why everything sucks and our culture is surrounded by a bunch of faggots that just blame anybody for standing up for anything, even minutely like asking a question.
These dudes would sit there and watch their neighbors get executed while blaming them. "Should have just hid under the floor boards forever, retard"
They are spiritual boomers who will literally stand up for nothing and bitch about anybody that makes them face that reality.
What you call cowardice I call stupidity. He didn't stand up for his beliefs, he threw away an opportunity to stand up for his beliefs.
Yes ive heard this already. Anything but silence and grovelling is stupidity. Don't get involved. Don't have a family. Just stack money quietly, abdicate all authority and all power, and then hide in the woods with your supplies alone.
Based and welfareniggerpilled
The wellfare part is redundant.
Then I don't understand why you would ask us if you went too far.
"Just don't even speak or ask a question or breath. Lay so low you are literally a worm bro"
my immediate thought
larping
He embellished the history of being a teacher in Quebec from a previous legitimate user here (canada_is_communist or something similar) .