So, I work in a nursing home, and like most of healthcare, they're going full on 'jab or job' and mandating the vaccine if you want to stay employed. I'm of course not budging, letting them fire me for this, but a fair few of my coworkers are going to capitulate.
So I figure, I'm going to make sure the other side loses even when it wins. I remember that awhile back, OSHA ruled that any side-effects from mandated vaccination had to be recorded as workplace injury, and had to be compensated as such. This would also require workplaces to sign a liability waiver, or else be faced with pretty vicious lawsuits. So I go searching to see if I can find this paperwork, print it out, pass it on to the people who are knuckling under... And what do I find...
https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#vaccine
"DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward."
Ain't been updated since then, and the major push for vaccine mandates started really gaining steam in the past few months... I'm guessing that their silence is being taken as tacit approval, or that they've given the go-ahead in the back rooms. So the high muckety-mucks know they can get away with it without even a ghost of resistance...
I don't remember seeing this circling around these parts, and I do a fair bit of lurking... Thought everybody should know that there's yet another area where worker protections from this bullshit have rotted through.
Also found this little bit of loveliness in my news: https://archive.is/uAN4z "Biden Tells Nursing Homes to Vaccinate Staffs to Keep Medicare, Medicaid Funds"
Do you have an option to become an in-home caregiver through a small provider with less stringent vaccine requirements? Can you go independent, or does the health department heavily regulate who can and cannot provide care to homebound infirmed? Curious to know what options are available to you at this point.
I work in the kitchen, so.... not likely :P
Right now I'm looking into helping out some friends who run a meat-rabbit ranch, possibly get myself some work with a place that doesn't cotton to this sort of bullshit. I'll be fine, don't worry about me.
You have a good attitude about it.
Hey there. This conversation randomly popped up in my head today, and I remembered you being concerned and curious about what I'd be doing... So I figured that since all the chaos has finally settled, and I'm properly out of that job now, I'd offer you an update:
My rancher friends don't really have any work they could pay me for or justify supporting me, and I have no intention of just being a leech... So I've looked at my savings and what I can do with it, and I have -just- enough money together to get a Class A license without need of a loan.
Truck driving, in other words.
I've got one of the better truck driving schools in the country right next to me, and a lot of the really big companies recruit from them. And a lot of these companies have outright stated they are going to refuse and defy mandates. With truck drivers being in critical shortage right now, I'll have no trouble picking up a career.
I still intend to keep up cooking as a hobby, of course, whole reason I had a shit job as a sous chef was a hope to get my foot in the culinary industry, because I've enjoyed it as a hobby... A lot of trucking companies offer really cushy sign-on bonuses, and what I don't spend on necessary gear, I intend to devote to putting together a good fold-away camp kitchen and some 12-volt fridge and freezer space. I'll be the travelling, trucking, portable gourmet chef of the road :P
I'll be starting on my classes next week, and I'm feeling optimistic about it~
Trucking. Nice. Good call. Hope it works out for you. We're under the gun here with some mandates that have come our way but we're finding our path forward. We're not going to let the bastards push us around and I'm a bit of a bastard myself and my wife is one tough customer. It'll be a bumpy ride but the destination is a good one.