1554: I might die, but ok. 1555: Please don't. Not on my watch. I appreciate you getting back to me quick. Please help yourself to the Mando Mart [free food] over there. 1556: I just came back from covid for a month… I can barely walk or breathe. I will stay sitting :( The "Mando Mart" to which Cooper's supervisor refers is a collection of snacks put together by supervisors for when they "mandate" that employees stay past the end of their typical 10-hour shift. A regular occurrence in the understaffed dispatch center, a mandate is why Cooper, an asthmatic still recovering from six weeks of fighting the aftereffects of COVID-19, was required to work for more than 15 hours in late February, her first week back from sick leave. The 20-year 911 veteran told her mother that she feared discipline if she didn't comply.