[billorites]

How would a 20 y.o. looking to buy beer handle this problem?

[ArtDodger]

Many companies, when workers get close to retirement age, start thinking of ploys to get rid of them. Couple of friends of mine at Dominion Energy had to fight to keep their job long enough to collect their benefits. Disney wrote the book on this.
Could be that this mandate is a blessing for like-minded companies that want to get rid of their older, folks and start newbies with no time accrual.

[nascarnation]

Identify as black and join Calypso Louie for 20 bucks. Surely a black muslim has to be free from persecution.

[glorgau]

> I don’t want to be disingenuous.

IMHO, it’s OK to fling BS at those who do it to you first.

Tell them it is a key tenet of your deeply held beliefs of the sect that only has yourself as a believer.

[dynachrome]

Would your job skills translate to another company that doesn’t do DOD work?

[EasySt]

Lots of good examples and training at this site:

https://coffeeandcovid.com
like:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-coffee-and-covid-monday-october-4e1
and…
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-second-religious-accommodation-primera

~Easy

[Bob434]

Ask your boss if he or she is willing to be he,d responsible for any damage or long term health problems that might crop up from being forced to take a drug that hasn’t even been approved yet. If he isn’t willing to take that risk, then why should you have to take the risk of getting an unproven drug?

I know this isn’t a realistic response, but it sucks that they don’t have to take risks while forcing their emp,employees, to take the risk

[RummyChick]

Somebody is selling a fake arm for $1500 dollars. I laughed but it would probably work in one of those drive by shot clinics

[Huskrrrr]

Pfizer tried to hide the fact that their vaccine research used fetal tissue. I imagine most, if not all do.

[billorites]

I’m surprised that there isn’t some regular testing option in lieu of vaccination. That’s how the school I teach at has finessed the whole vaccination/mask thingy.

[MercyFlush]

I’d just start looking for another gig.

I was expecting to lose my job on 9/30 and so many people refused to cave in that the date came and went and now the mandate is effectively dead.

Maybe you need to organize your coworkers and stand together.

Hell, threaten to form a union.

[campaignPete R-CT]

If u quit, will they hire you back as an outside consultant ... at a pay cut?

May em an offer they can’t refuse

[mylife]

So work! In wish I could.

[EBH]

https://www.jdfarag.org/exemption

We now have an online resource for requesting Religious Exemption letters to support our local and online members facing vaccine mandates.

This might fit what you are looking for. There is a sample at the link after you click the request button.

[cmj328]

Here's the Catholic template.

If you don't identify as Catholic, you can convert (great choice) or replace Catholic with Christian, and exchange references to authorities for references to your personal belief, or favorite theologians, etc.

[logi_cal869]

Start here

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx

Then go here

https://www.sirillp.com/vaccine-exemptions/

and here

https://givingcompass.org/article/whats-the-law-on-vaccine-exemptions/?

Between the 3 you should be sufficiently armed to expand your own web search. If you’re not prepared to engage the services of a lawyer, I’d recommend retiring.

My own choices should the matter be brought to bear against me have already been cast in stone.

There is no one answer for an individual situation with inadequate information (e.g., state & company policies, coupled with exposure to federal matters).

[sloanrb]

Go to one of the clinics at Walgreens or CVS.

Slip the guy or girl a $100 bill if they will give you the card without the shot.

Best $100 you will spend.

[alexander_busek]

A medical exemption is out of the question because I have been in perfect health my entire life. Not even a prescription other than a 2-week antibiotic I was given for a sinus infection back in the 1990s. Decades before COVID, I was taking vitamins C, D3 and zinc daily. For the past 20 years, I've been eating almost nothing but natural foods, recently adding raw honeycomb to my diet (to put in my whole-fat yogurt). Over 30 years at this company and not a single sick day!

I grieve, reading these sentences, SamAdams76!

You seem to fail to realize that you are actually a very sick man!

I'm sure that there are any of a number of physicians who could surely find something wrong with you.

Further possible course of action: Remember how you once got a vaccination, and you couldn't get an erection for six months afterwards? Sure you do! So you obviously have suffered complications from vaccinations in the past - which explains your medical reason for having to decline getting vaccinated this time.

In short: You seem to be laboring under the misconception that the govt. / your company has the God-given right to demand that you submit to full disclosure regarding every aspect of your life, including personal medical histories which are none of their business and also that you take the witness stand and plead for them to accept your request for a religious exemption.

Regards,

[MtnClimber]

I quit when I was 59. My company started pulling woke crap and I quit. Having control over my 401k and not having only the crappy choices my company offered was a HUGE benefit. My stock market gains this year so far are about 7X my highest salary at the time I quit.

[vrwc1]

https://faith-freedom.com/covid19-resources