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Residents of Saskatoon and Regina are flocking to social media after a digital scramble to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment.
Hours after the province expanded eligibility to allow everyone 44 and older, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said appointments in the province’s two largest cities were completely booked.
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Residents successful and otherwise said the online reservation system was a digital dash where users would click on recommended appointments only for them to be instantly booked by someone else.
Gen Xers in Saskatoon, Regina hit hurdles with booking vaccines
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Boss Says ‘No’ When Employee Asks for Reduced Hours During COVID: ‘You Can’t Sacrifice Your Career’
But as it turned out, he had her best interests at heart.
Aaron Genest, an applications engineer at Siemens, posted a tweet that went viral when one of his employees approached him asking to reduce her schedule to part-time during COVID. He explained how he didn’t feel right about granting her request. (servickuz/Shutterstock)
“An employee came to me last week and asked to move to 80% time,” he wrote on Jan. 11. “Her husband, she said, was taking on some extra responsibility and they were having trouble keeping the kids on track during remote learning.
The role the provincial government has played in the success of the tech sector warrants recognition.
Updated Jan 19, 2021 | 08:31 IST
A boss who refused to cut working hours for a struggling mother and encouraged her to try an alternate approach that would not result in salary loss while staying productive and happy has won hearts. Boss response to cut hours | Image: iStock Images/Twitter
Parents are having a tough time juggling with full-time work and home-schooling their children amid the coronavirus pandemic. A boss is being applauded for his response to a mother who asked to switch to cut her working hours.
Aaron Genest, an applications engineer manager at Siemens Software, posted on Twitter that an employee asked him to switch to 80% time. She told him that her husband was taking on some extra responsibility and they were having trouble keeping the kids on track during remote learning.
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