I don’t know what kind of organization you work for, but that is the exact opposite of what I’ve seen here on FR. At least 90% of the Freepers I know who requested medical or religious exemptions from their employers’ vaccine mandates were successful — no questions asked. In fact, most of these employers (as I suspected) were so afraid of losing key employees that they would have accepted ANY half-assed “religious” statement as a legitimate reason to grant an exemption.
I just told my employer “I ain’t doin’ it.”
You are correct. Most companies went hard on mandates at first then backed off and granted the exemption. Some went in hard and then went silent in a wait and see. My employer did the second but I had other companies offer me an open invitation with an understanding that my exemption would be honored if I chose to make a move. Current status is the entire thing just died without it being brought up or being enforced. Still a BS event to try to force the world to get an experimental treatment. The entire thing was just very Orwellian as it occurred.
“Freepers I know who requested medical or religious exemptions from their employers’ vaccine mandates were successful”
The military is not a civilian workplace.