“””My manager said he was blown away that I would risk ending a 42-year career on principle.”””
I am glad you stood your ground.
But, I have great empathy for the employees who are in their late 30’s and have worked hard to advance the corporate ladder in their 15 year career and now face the choice of starting over in a new career or taking the vaxx.
I am retired so these vaxx mandates do not impact me. However, the Totalitarians are probably scheming to restrict Medicare for unvaxxed retired people. Then what would I do?
Plan on it just like me and others.
I have no plan though.
Christian ministeries maybe?
Nobody wants to insure us though.
“I have great empathy for the employees who are in their late 30’s and have worked hard to advance the corporate ladder in their 15 year career and now face the choice of starting over in a new career or taking the vaxx.”
That’s where I’m at. Will turn 38 next month, almost 15.5 years in at the company, stay-at-home wife + 6 kids.
My company has thus far encouraged the vaccine but has not been pushy. They’ve stated they still prefer to allow employees to choose.
IF it ever comes to the point where testing, WFH, exemptions, etc. were fully exhausted and I HAD to have detailed conversations with HR, I plan to write a letter fully documenting the OSHA violations I have witnessed in my current role. And how I tried to prevent them. And how I raised them to management. And how management— through lack of funding or indifference— has continued to allow them. And how ironic it would be to fire me under the pretense of avoiding an OSHA fine, when I can detail load$ of fines which would come through one anonymous call.
Fortunately, I wrote an exhaustive document pre-Covid stating in no uncertain terms that our operation was in a state of non-compliance. I updated it this Spring and changed the wording to “our (software) system causes direct violations of federal and state law.”
I am certain dementia Joe’s strategy all along was to rattle the sabers for a few months before publishing the rule, so as to create a defacto mandate from employers. This gave them a few extra months of more vaccines, because they knew it would be shot down shortly after implementation.
I’m not too worried, but am prepared.