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...
High schools are leftist territory. In order to survive, you will have to conceal any non-leftist opinions you may have. You almost certainly know this already.
Should what you asked and how you reacted result in some kind of HR sanction? No, it shouldn't, even though I think your question and reaction were indelicate and would probably be frowned on by most people.
Is it reasonable to expect that your behaviour would result in some kind of HR sanction given that you work in established leftist territory? Yes, I think so.
I do appreciate your pushback against covid nonsense, but it was undeniably risky given the context and timing and the gravity of the situation. You might say it's cowardly, but I'd encourage you to pick your battles, but also to be considerate even to those you think deserve their negative outcomes.
Everything is leftist territory. Its time to stand up a little for something or get rooted out and murdered anyway.
The woman lost her husband within the last two weeks. Smirking at his death and implying it was his own fault in a professional environment is not "standing up."
"No smiling"
"You should smile
moreless""Particularly in the weeks following some foid losing her beta buxx mealticket"
Neither is her bitching about it.
I want to eat my lunch without having to avoid breaking Janet's eggshells.
Stand up to women taking advantage of their professional colleages as emotional tampons.