All I know is that whenever I order a Corona I'm going to tell the server to "hold the virus" and giggle like mad to myself. I refuse to let that joke die.
Fortunately for everyone, I basically only drink Corona once every two years.
For employment, it's probably one of three things: employers not bothering to adjust their policy, employers not understanding the long-term effectiveness of COVID vaccines without boosters, or they're keeping the requirement as a sort of screening tool to eliminate antivaxxers from the pool of applicants. And I actually think the latter is defensible even looking strictly in terms of health and the potential for spread in the workplace. Someone who hasn't gotten vaccinated yet likely never will, whereas if there are future disruptive variants that can be fixed by another vaccine dose, then someone who has already been vaccinated is likely to do it again. And that doesn't even get into the likely correlation between being an antivaxxer and lacking the traits/abilities that employers would be looking for (e.g. reason, logic, making smart evidence-based decisions, etc.).
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The mandate for all employees who work in federally regulated jobs be vaccinated is still in place IIRC, that is a significant amount of people too.
The mandate for all employees who work in federally regulated jobs be vaccinated is still in place IIRC, that is a significant amount of people too.
I don't think that ever happened, did it? They announced that they were going to consult with stakeholders in December, but I don't think anything ever actually went into force.
I don’t know if a new law was ever actually put into force, but the government was clear and many companies, including mine, followed the federal requirements. We have several people who lost their jobs based on it.
The mandate for all employees who work in federally regulated jobs be vaccinated is still in place IIRC, that is a significant amount of people too.
I think a lot of private companies are still enforcing it. I expect that enforcement will scale back but those employees might be required to work exclusively from home, which will be a problem for people who need to be customer-facing.
We're a public, Canadian wide company and we followed the vaccine requirements for employment when the government hammered on it last fall. Lost some employees and still have it as a requirement for those that apply today.
Some private companies are plain stupid, one of my clients who required vaccinations went too far and lost 2 long term valued employees because the company wouldn't give up the mask mandate. the 2 ladies walked into the bosses office on Friday and said, if you make us wear a mask like a government employee we want a pension like a government employee! the bossed laughed so they quit on the spot.
Absolutely ridiculous to force employees to wear a mask now.
Some private companies are plain stupid, one of my clients who required vaccinations went too far and lost 2 long term valued employees because the company wouldn't give up the mask mandate. the 2 ladies walked into the bosses office on Friday and said, if you make us wear a mask like a government employee we want a pension like a government employee! the bossed laughed so they quit on the spot.
Absolutely ridiculous to force employees to wear a mask now.
The bolded is one of the stupidest statements I’ve ever heard.
It would keep me up every night for the rest of my life if I embarrassed myself that badly in front of someone.
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Some private companies are plain stupid, one of my clients who required vaccinations went too far and lost 2 long term valued employees because the company wouldn't give up the mask mandate. the 2 ladies walked into the bosses office on Friday and said, if you make us wear a mask like a government employee we want a pension like a government employee! the bossed laughed so they quit on the spot.
Absolutely ridiculous to force employees to wear a mask now.
That's pretty embarrassing for those two employees. I'd imagine employees like them and so many others that got caught up in social media rage and decided to take a stand using the sacrifice of their livelihoods are feeling an insane amount of regret these days.
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That's pretty embarrassing for those two employees. I'd imagine employees like them and so many others that got caught up in social media rage and decided to take a stand using the sacrifice of their livelihoods are feeling an insane amount of regret these days.
I'm told both already had a job lined up for more money and a mask-less environment so I doubt there's any regret, as far as I'm concerned they did their part, they got vaccinated, wore a mask for about 2 years and I know one of them even missed work for a week by testing positive.
If someone told me to wear a mask 8 hours a day nowadays I'd be looking for a new job too.
I'm told both already had a job lined up for more money and a mask-less environment so I doubt there's any regret, as far as I'm concerned they did their part, they got vaccinated, wore a mask for about 2 years and I know one of them even missed work for a week by testing positive.
If someone told me to wear a mask 8 hours a day nowadays I'd be looking for a new job too.
When you bury the lede and in turn make your friends sound like childish morons instead of reasonable people who left a job for higher pay.
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I'm told both already had a job lined up for more money and a mask-less environment so I doubt there's any regret, as far as I'm concerned they did their part, they got vaccinated, wore a mask for about 2 years and I know one of them even missed work for a week by testing positive.
If someone told me to wear a mask 8 hours a day nowadays I'd be looking for a new job too.
Well that's a completely different scenario then. They had jobs lined up with better pay, I mean if the opportunity was promising then they should have been leaving for those jobs regardless of mask policy.
Weird story when the better jobs with better pay only comes up after the fact. You know who else leaves companies for better pay, besides people being made to wear masks still? Most people given the opportunity.
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I'm told both already had a job lined up for more money and a mask-less environment so I doubt there's any regret, as far as I'm concerned they did their part, they got vaccinated, wore a mask for about 2 years and I know one of them even missed work for a week by testing positive.
If someone told me to wear a mask 8 hours a day nowadays I'd be looking for a new job too.
Yeah that’s all fine… asking for a pension is mind numbingly stupid. Not to mention, the details kind of matter. If someone told you to wear a mask and you worked in a healthcare setting then that sounds completely reasonable.
Sounds to me like they wanted a “quit your job” story that reads well on Reddit and in your head in the shower…
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That's like the time I asked my ex-gf for a beej. She refused, so I dumped her because Scarlet Johannsen had already agreed to be my new gf. We're happily married, btw.
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Well that's a completely different scenario then. They had jobs lined up with better pay, I mean if the opportunity was promising then they should have been leaving for those jobs regardless of mask policy.
Weird story when the better jobs with better pay only comes up after the fact. You know who else leaves companies for better pay, besides people being made to wear masks still? Most people given the opportunity.
Haha, first of all, as if the story is true. But say it is, I love how they unnecessarily burned a bridge for no good reason whatsoever on their way out the door to their new job.
Well, our son-in-law has finally succumbed to COVID; he’s fully vaxed and is fine. He’s the last person in our immediate family to get it. My friend and I picked him up for the Oil Kings game last night but he had just taken a rapid test. His wife called to tell him his test a few minutes before was positive; I had just dropped off the test kits and we left thinking he was likely negative and we were in a rush.
If it was a comedian style poster I'd say he meant it, but Moneyguy is so straight forward and benign in his posting style, I think he literally just used the term "succumbed to Covid" to describe his son in law getting it, with a straight face and no comedic intention, lol.
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