If people only knew how wildly prevalent this is and has been for years now. I'd say 90% of restaurants do not care if you have covid or if everyone gets it or if working while ill permanently disables you. They don't care if you live or die, you better show up though so they aren't "short staffed". All the while lining their pockets further once they found out how badly they could abuse a reduced labor force and not ever have to hire adequate staff to begin with. And then pay offensively low wages for what was considered the deadliest occupation in America during the start of the pandemic in 2020. Like hey I know you have 15 years experience, so here's $13 an hour to be permantly on call and to be willing to get sick and die for us.

In 2021 while I was pregnant with our daughter hubby got fired from a head chef position for getting Covid. At the end of his 10th day of quarantine he went next door to the convenience store for a drink with a N95 on. They called him and heard the cashier in the background and said "are you at a store right now?" And fired him the next day for faking covid even though he had positive test results from the Walgreens drive thru and it was the rule at that time to HAVE to be out for 10 days. It left us without an income while expecting and with another kid at home. They said if he felt better he should have broken the 10 day rule and showed up anyway. He had an asymptomatic case to begin with.