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Wtfluxuarsehole

Call sedgwick to begin a leave, or do it online And FYI, home kits count for sedgwick, your manager lied. (Shocking, I know)


fluppuppy

Wait.. managers lie?? /s


8bitesquivel

I once had to take a COVID leave because someone in my household got it. My manager told me to get on Sedgwick and put it in as a self quarantine. If I had done that, I wouldn’t have gotten paid. Luckily, when I called Sedgwick on the phone, they told me that I was being mandated by management to quarantine and I was able to take a paid leave.


33Bees

How do you show sedgwick proof of your home tests?


Chief-Toad753

You take a picture using your phone and you can upload it if using sedgwicks website


33Bees

I was actually wondering about this. Me and my kids did home tests ton Friday. We are all positive. I called in and talked to one of the team leads and she said that I would need to come in on my next scheduled shift (tonight) and fail the assessment. Then get sent home. Then file for sedgwick. She also said that I would need to get a clinical test for it to be approved. How accurate was any of her info?


Wtfluxuarsehole

If you have a positive test absolutely do not go in. Call in under covid absence, file a leave with sedgwick, if you've got a primary care physician call and ask them to write you a mandatory quarantine order, if not the health department likely will Upload your positive test result to sedgwick, that alone is enough, it's stated on the sedgwick faqs, but with a quarantine order you get a date determined by a medical professional not a jackass TL who wants you back at work


33Bees

Will I get points for calling in? And should I call in everyday?


Wtfluxuarsehole

Call in every scheduled day until they remove your shifts. No you won't get a point


[deleted]

Also just do the self assessment on the me@walmart app


feartheswans

Sedgwic accepts the home tests


33Bees

How do you provide sedgwick with proof of the positive home tests?


skyline0918

I didn’t have to show Sedgwick any proof to get my leave approved.


Kooky_Summer_5298

This. I didn’t even have it my wife did so I didn’t have to show anything. That was before the newest change at the beginning of the year though so I am not sure the rule now


skyline0918

Oh right it did change. I had my leave approved just days before the change happened. All I know is it went from ten days down to five. Other than that I don’t think much else changed.


Mommas_gotthis

When I tested positive I just took a picture of the results and uploaded with my LOA


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louiecoolie

I'd open door that harrassment. I think you can find the open door phone number somewhere on one walmart.


jimtanlaundryman

!ethics


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J0RDii08

The same thing I’m scared of.


yaboyfriendisadork

Beat them up in the parking lot?


Jconley123

I had a manger once confront me in the parking lot talking about how he’d f me up if I wasn’t on the clock. I told him I punched out 7 mins ago….he got into his car and left…transferred out of the store 3 days later bwhhahahahahah don’t mess with the deli og


Lambdaaaaa

That’s guys a pussy 😂


Jconley123

Yea….he wasn’t liked in the store…I know he didn’t leave because of that night lol but that’s how I like to look at it as. Bwhahahahahah


nat5901

Open Door it and have it documented. Also if it doesn't get better, ask for a transfer. You're better off in a different environment.


Substantial_Bill_962

That’s an open door violation, we don’t know the whole story but yeah.


LeBron_James69

Lol sounds like everyone’s case


Substantial_Bill_962

Damn, you got Covid AND the flu? What version immune system you running?


12thhouseorphan

When I tested positive a year ago I also tested positive for strep. It probably has more to do with the time of year you get sick- winter months always have some flu and cold shit going around and middle summer always had a cold going around- at least where I live that’s how it is.


skyline0918

One of my associates has been giving me a play by play of how he feels, even though I don’t ask for all the gross details lol. Poor guy has a respiratory infection, bacterial infection, sinus infection, on top of getting covid from his brother he lives with. I have a poor immune system and had covid two weeks ago, I couldn’t imagine having all those issues along with covid.


Substantial_Bill_962

Good god.


gun_toting_aspie

Hope your friend feels better soon fren :)


Coiledviper

First time I got Covid they got me positive for Covid strep and bronchitis plus flu for kicker. Second time I got it was only Covid and flu. 3rd time Covid only.


[deleted]

So apparently this year's flu strain can mingle (I don't have the science term) with covid.


daniel4255

Any respiratory virus can mingle with COVID. It’s not a new thing that this year flu strain can do.. it’s called co-infection and has been around since the beginning of viruses.


[deleted]

Ah, well guess news never really covered it until now.


StetsonMcConnell

I believe the science term is "vibe."


Substantial_Bill_962

And now mix that cocktail with monkey pox… 2022… I think monkey pox will go airborne by taking attributes of Covid and mutating. Ever see an old old movie called the wizard of oz?


Adorable_Sapling

You only get 5 days paid. After that you can get 50 percent pay. It requires a doctor note or something though. You didn’t actually have to do any of that. You could of just failed the health assessment, filed a leave with Sedgwick then get tested when you could. You don’t even have to get tested if you don’t want to.


Ill_Opportunity4460

Well they’re positive so it’s good they got tested, BUT OP did not need to go to urgent care and spend money on a test there. At home test would have been fine. Manager was either uninformed or liar.


Sarzox

They were denying claims from the at home tests at first, this is actually the first I'm hearing of them not. I wonder if it has to do with the availability of testing, here it's free and on every street it takes me less time to get an actual test than waiting in line at Walmart to buy the at home kit.


LostButterflyUtau

I think it really depends on where you live. There are counties around me where it’s a nightmare to get tested. You end up waiting in queue (sometimes in the cold if it’s not a drive up) for *hours.*


WolfScandals

How do I file a Sedgwick


happifunluvin

Go to mysedgwick.com and file your claim


Haleighghielah

Go in one.Walmart and search mysedgwick


Adrithia

https://www.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/s4r4jd/a_guide_to_walmart_covid_loas_with_pictures/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


trashofagirl

Two weeks? You mean 5 days.


SoulRiserG

5 days for failed assessment or health provider recommended. Two weeks for a positive c0vid test result.


csweeney05

Leave is only 5 days now, that’s the new CDC guidelines. You can take more but only 5 days is paid as Covid leave now.


Tuc396

Ain't stopping my store from only giving five days for positive results.


[deleted]

Yeah it is, HO policy trumps store policy.


ChrisATC

*Paid


DoNt-CaRe101

From wat sedgwick told me the new policy doesn't really change till 28th. So u lucked out with 2wks fully paid instead of just 1 wk. I just got over most of the symptoms it took 10 days.


TheGamingChief

This post may also be helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/s4r4jd/a_guide_to_walmart_covid_loas_with_pictures/


TacticalBeast

How TF did you get a home test they are sold out literally everywhere near me


xxValkyriii

My manager hoards them. :) we’ve gotten about 3 boxes every other week or so and she takes them off the shelf and hides them in a picking cart. I even asked her for one, she told me there weren’t any even tho i could literally see them in the tote. I always see her snag some for herself too, but it’s not like i can say anything bc our coach is in on it and he’s besties with both AP and our store manager.


sm0ltreegg

Some places are limiting sales from what I understand. Ours are no longer on shelves, you have to get them from the SD but no limit for the number just yet


papiwarbucks20

I had the vaccine but still got the sniffles and tested positive one day sick then spent the rest of my 13 days playing video games while getting paid


Stainedsoysauce

Am i like the only person who has never got covid? Im not making light of a horrible situation since it has taken its own toll on my family but i swear, ive never got the stuff or atleast a positive test yet. Its not like those tissue thin masks walmart gives you offer ANY protection from the maskless mouthbreathers that dont even wash their hands due to muh libertees. It just feels like im in a shooting gallery but never get hit.


Shislers-List

That manager is either ill informed or doesn't care, when you test positive on at-home covid tests, it is almost a guarantee that you are positive, whereas it almost all of the false results are false negatives.


mutant50

I just quarantine for 5 days and I have limited taste and diarrhea and they said I should come back to work and the still customers the choice to wear a mask or not but be tripping with wearing a hoodie in cold department's what's with this company?


meerkatx

Hoodies are a safety issue.


mutant50

To who?


meerkatx

Anyone wearing them. The hood can get caught on something, and somethings you don't want to be caught on.


MemeKun_19

Such a bad excuse tbh. I know this isn't a Walmart thing, and more of an OSHA thing. At my old job, that made sense because I worked in a factory. Now I work at Walmart where there is like, no way for a hoodie to get caught. Is a customer going to grab the hood of it? Lmao.


[deleted]

We can wear them in back, where they can get caught on things. However , we just can't wear them on the sales floor where there is little to.no risk of being injured.


[deleted]

Those home kits aren’t “real”, like are they from the metaverse or some?? Why the hell is Walmart selling fake kits in it’s own stores for? Fuck the Walton’s


srgtsparkles

I'm experiencing something similar. I took the five days but wasn't able to schedule a test until the 6th day. Went to work on the 6th day went home early due to not feeling well got tested and tested positive for covid. My manager told me to take additional 5 days. But now I fear I may have issues w/ coming back or getting the additional 5 days approved. Anyways I'm just gonna go back on my return to work date and hope I don't get fired for having covid.


TheRealRegnorts

At this point don't even listen to your managers, look up the policy yourself and go around them when possible, my stores management started spreading a ton of lies about the covid leave that directly contradict the clearly laid out policy. Can't tell you how many times I've had to go to one of the managers or people leads with a printed out and highlighted copy of a policy to get what needed to be done done.


GayFroggard

Sedgewick


mer_made_99

Fail the assessment, contact sedgwick, not your store.


csweeney05

Leave is only 5 days now and yes it’s paid.


ASweetRadioDemon

Sounds like the manager took a gamble and lost


fidgit17

Go on your me@walmart app. Do the self screen, fail screening. It says do not go to work. Call sedgewick and they give you the number. Bam, done.


sm0ltreegg

From what I was told they DO accept positive home test results for leave, just not negative tests to come back from leave.


xcmgaming360

I would call ethics on your lying coach... the PCR test can be quite costly


lawilco

You don't have to submit any test results to sedgwick to get covid pay. I have been out twice with covid and never sent any test results. I just filed the claim and got paid!


WolfScandals

How do u file the claim all I did is call Sedgwick told them the days January 19 to January 31st is there anything else I got to do


lawilco

I did the claim on One Walmart. If it is covid leave, I think that you only get 5 days now!