Posted on 09/21/2021 4:01:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Craig Greeno, a Denver Sheriff Department deputy, worked his last shift on Thursday and left the job he held for 9 years, saying “It was the vaccine order that put me over the edge.”
Greeno, who guarded inmates at Denver Health Medical Center for the department, said leaving a job that paid him around $90,000 a year, including overtime, was bittersweet, but he said “I don’t like to be told I don’t have a choice. It’s a personal decision.”
In August, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced that all city employees would have to be vaccinated by the end of this month or face possible termination. As of Sept. 17, 70.1% of Denver Sheriff Department deputies had been vaccinated and 74.7% of Denver police officers were vaccinated. That’s far less than the 87% of city employees who have been been vaccinated. And it’s less than the vaccination rate for Denver’s general population — 80% of those eligible in Denver have received at least one shot.
Greeno, 45, a married father of five, said there had been other issues at work bothering him: mandatory overtime that kept him away from his family and a feeling that administrators didn’t support rank and file deputies. But he said the vaccine order rankled him to the point he walked away from the job.
Greeno told CBS4 many other deputies chafed under the vaccine order and would like to leave, but could not afford to make the move.
“A lot of people, I know, are like me,” he said. “They didn’t want to be forced to do it.”
After mulling over the vaccine mandate, Greeno said, “I just decided I was done.”
He says he will take some time off before looking for another job.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” he said during a phone interview with CBS4.
But one thing that won’t happen is he will not get vaccinated.
“I don’t plan on getting it,” he said, calling himself “anti-vaccine to an extent.”
“I don’t know what it’s going to do to me.”
He said some fellow deputies became ill after being vaccinated. Greeno explained his mother and father got vaccinated but after getting a COVID shot, his mother suffered a kidney infection and had to be hospitalized. And he said when one of his children was much younger, the infant got sick after receiving any vaccines.
Denver’s Deputy director of safety, Mary Dulacki, told CBS4 that her agency — which oversees the police and sheriff’s departments — is preparing for a possible wave of firings and resignations in law enforcement agencies that are already short-staffed. Dulacki said contingency staffing plans are being formulated for what may happen after the Sept. 30 deadline.
Craig Greeno appears to have no regrets about his decision noting that the pay was “really good but money isn’t everything.”
Any my husband is walking away from his job on Oct. 18, and the pension he was only 3 years away from. Screw the shot. Ain’t happening.
I quit my job 2 weeks ago.
I will not comply.
Don’t quit! Repeat. Don’t quit! Make them fire you.
It is better to force them to fire you or resign?
Good point
“Don’t quit! Repeat. Don’t quit! Make them fire you.”
Actually that is a misnomer....Failure to get a vaccine would technically mean they are firing you “with cause” and would essentially have the same legal ramifications as quitting with the additional negative of a ‘firing with cause” following you around for the entirety of your professional career.
I was thinking the same.
What if you moon your fellow employees?
Depends on the size of your arse and whether your a male or female.
Was part time, and I didn’t need the money.
No unemployment payments could happen.
I told them they were in violation of Nuremburg Code, 4th Amendment (right to be secure in your person) and HIPPA.
Dropped my badges on the HR desk and left,
They’d been imposing (illegal) mask rules for 18 months.
Enough.
Big company, way over 100 employees. If BiteEm’s clot shot thing happens they will do it.
A bunch of nazis, I should have quit a long time ago.
Why are people quitting? Don’t make it easy for them. Make them fire you and get it in writing why you are being terminated. This way you could at least possibly sue or collect unemployment.
My neighbor 3 doors down just died. He took the jab to keep his job. Perfectly healthy, late 40s, wife and 3 kids. Devastation ...
All we have
Is each other
And the strength God gives us.
Wake up brothers and sisters.
It’s coming.
I’d much rather set myself up with the best chance of being gainfully employed than aim to collect some kind of lawsuit payout in the undefined future when some undefined justice is served after some undefined body declares with force of law that terminations due to refusal to vaccinate were wrongful.
His decision. I wish him well.
All they have to do is say they're firing you for cause. No grounds to sue. No unemployment.
@ post 4. Agree with your comment - what is your angle on why not to quit?
I explained that in post #7.....Seems like some folks just refuse to be informed.
I understand your position. However, I am not too far away from retirement and just really don’t care.
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