I was told it was mandatory for my employment. My employer said those who needed medical / religious exemptions to submit them. During a management only meeting, “management” effectively stated the exemptions were just there for theatrics and a needed step but they would all get denied. As a manager, I was told to get any holdouts to understand that negative impacts were coming. Dumb azz management held the meeting via Teams and recorded it. Needles to say the recording disappeared in 10 days. I guess top management never thought some of the audience had exemptions in.
The intent was to coerce everyone possible and fire the holdouts. Why?
It was never voluntary at my employer. 50% said no. Then 30 gave up and complied eventually. Only 10-20% said never. 20% in my unit but lower in others.
Everything about this was just plain wrong/evil/incompetent. Take your choice. I saw just evil.
I’m sorry you were coerced against your will.
My son is in his 20s and was mandated to get the shot. He does construction-like work and all his jobs are at hospitals. He worked all through the pandemic while other crews were home due to lockdowns. He never got sick, but they expected him to get the jab. He refused. He got his resume ready to go. He was one of three employees who refused (out of 100).
He made his case, with a lot of research, that it was riskier for him to get the shot than to get Covid. They backed down. Not only did he keep his job, he has been promoted twice and now is a project manager.
Meanwhile, many of his coworkers are sick - he says they are “calling out sick all the time”. 2 have died, one young had a heart attack 6 hours after the shot.
It is criminal.