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Post by saveinla on Dec 3, 2021 10:24:19 GMT -5
If we need to go into the office, we need to upload vaccination cards. Only then you key card will work.
As of now, they have not mandated it, but I believe it will be coming soon.
Right now they are asking people to upload their vaccination cards within a certain date to get 4 extra days off during the holidays. We are usually closed between Christmas and NewYear, but if you are vaccinated and can show proof, you get 4 days extra which would mean 2 full weeks of vacation.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Dec 3, 2021 11:35:34 GMT -5
Wishful thinking on the requirement for masks and vaccinations. Neither required -- our jerk of a governor wants us to be free, even if it kills us...literally. Not that removing the mandates helped -- our state is still not finding enough workers to fill jobs, so it isn't about the mandates. It's about money, child care, personal safety and things the governor really doesn't care about.
We no longer work in an office environment, but I do know at least one coworker who claims she has not had the time to get a shot. OMFG, like, really? We don't work weekends and we have flex time, you moron. You don't live in the boonies -- there are literally a dozen Walgreens, CVS and Publix stores within 30 minutes of your damned house. I know where you lived and I checked. Personally, I want the mandates at work. If you work indoors, with the public, in enclosed spaces, why wouldn't you be vaccinated? Especially here, with so many people coming in as tourists and visitors? Who knows what they bring in?
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Post by bean29 on Dec 3, 2021 11:49:15 GMT -5
We used to have a sign on the door that customers coming in to the office had a mask requirement. We would wear masks in a public facing situation, but not in our offices, or moving around the office on a day to day basis. We have no Vaccine requirement. I am sure we will not have one. I think we may only have a few people that either are not vaccinated or have had Covid-19 at some point. The important thing to me is I am fully Vaccinated. DH, DD, Mom and I have our Boosters. Not sure about my in-laws, I will have to ask DH.
I was pissed that when I tried to schedule my Mammogram, they said I had to be at least 30 days out from when I received the Booster shot, just as a warning to anyone that my need to schedule Dr. Appts. I wanted to sneak it in before the end of the year so the deductible is 100% met. I know it should be covered, bu t if they find anything, they try to say it is diagnostic and the insurance will say my deductible has to be met before they will pay.
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Post by raeoflyte on Dec 3, 2021 15:44:45 GMT -5
If we need to go into the office, we need to upload vaccination cards. Only then you key card will work. As of now, they have not mandated it, but I believe it will be coming soon. Right now they are asking people to upload their vaccination cards within a certain date to get 4 extra days off during the holidays. We are usually closed between Christmas and NewYear, but if you are vaccinated and can show proof, you get 4 days extra which would mean 2 full weeks of vacation. That's an amazing incentive! Are you hiring?
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 3, 2021 23:42:21 GMT -5
We have one coming up in a few months. I was talking via email today with one admin who has decided to quit her job rather than get the vaccine. I replied back that I had three of them, and they were fine - she went off on how she had a right to decide what she wanted to do, and if something was so horrible they had to threaten you with losing your job if you wouldn’t get it then it certainly wasn’t something she wanted to do.
Plus she knew some guy who claims his doctor told him he got legionella from his covid vaccine. And three people who had the vaccine and still got covid.
I know she was wanting me to get outraged on her behalf. Instead I was thinking to my self ‘Well, glad that’s one less anti-vax person in the building.” Maybe we can get to the point where we don’t have to wear masks anymore.
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Post by stillmovingforward on Dec 4, 2021 1:48:23 GMT -5
I work for a private company and they require you to be fully vaccinated and wear a mask in the office when you are not at your desk AND not talking to someone. So if you come to my desk, you have to wear a mask and I have to put mine on. Since May. One person quit over it, one person refused a job we offered. Other than that, everyone complies.
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Post by trippypea on Dec 5, 2021 14:24:05 GMT -5
DH works from home, and I do require a vaccination in the workplace, lol.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Dec 6, 2021 11:29:26 GMT -5
Yep. Send a picture of my vaccination card to HR two weeks ago. Even though I am work from home and the office is in another state. They do allow waivers for people who have medical issues that prevent a vaccination.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2021 15:28:26 GMT -5
My company did not require it. But they did give anyone who sent in a copy of their vaccine card a $50 gift card for Amazon.
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Post by trimatty471 on Dec 30, 2021 23:27:19 GMT -5
No.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 11, 2022 14:28:37 GMT -5
we had a vaccine mandate as soon as it got FDA approval.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 11, 2022 14:29:51 GMT -5
Yep. Send a picture of my vaccination card to HR two weeks ago. Even though I am work from home and the office is in another state. They do allow waivers for people who have medical issues that prevent a vaccination. I have heard of that waiver before, but when does it apply?
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Post by haapai on Jan 11, 2022 14:55:42 GMT -5
Yep. Send a picture of my vaccination card to HR two weeks ago. Even though I am work from home and the office is in another state. They do allow waivers for people who have medical issues that prevent a vaccination. I have heard of that waiver before, but when does it apply? For a while, you couldn't get vaccinated until 30 days after you had a confirmed case of Covid and 90 days after receiving monoclonal antibodies. I don't know what the rules are now. Ergo, a (temporary) medical exemption.
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Post by Tiny on Jan 11, 2022 15:12:03 GMT -5
My employer is requesting vaccination info to be updated with Booster info. It's gonna be a requirement - but for now it's a polite nudge to update your info and a nudge reminder that having gotten a booster will be required at some point.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Jan 11, 2022 15:25:54 GMT -5
I have heard of that waiver before, but when does it apply? For a while, you couldn't get vaccinated until 30 days after you had a confirmed case of Covid and 90 days after receiving monoclonal antibodies. I don't know what the rules are now. Ergo, a (temporary) medical exemption. There’s also certain rare health conditions that make vaccinations dangerous. There was some band, I think it was offspring, that fired the drummer that had been with them for over 10 years because he had Gillion bar syndrome and couldn’t get vaccinated, which made Touring impossible due to the vaccination requirements in some cities.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 11, 2022 15:48:57 GMT -5
My employer is requesting vaccination info to be updated with Booster info. It's gonna be a requirement - but for now it's a polite nudge to update your info and a nudge reminder that having gotten a booster will be required at some point. my work requires all people who got J&J to get a booster.
edit: the way this happened is that the mandate is now for employees to have "at least two shots of vaccine". that policy went into effect when boosters were available to every adult.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 11, 2022 16:00:29 GMT -5
We just had a company email yesterday. They set up a vaccination registration with CareValidate. If you provide proof of vaccination they will give employees a 50.00 incentive. The company is NOT mandating vaccinations, but the incentive provides encouragement for employees to do so. A couple of hours after they sent the email with instructions to register and upload your vaccination card, they sent another indicating there may be delays before your information is logged. It sounds like the system got bogged down with many people registering and uploading. Our company has about 26000 employees.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jan 11, 2022 20:09:00 GMT -5
We just today received the request for proof of the booster.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 11, 2022 20:22:47 GMT -5
Nope. Not only that but now everything is on the honor system. They removed Covid pay so if you want to be out you must use your sick time.
Of which we get five days.
This is going to be bad. People are going to show up with all sorts of bugs to avoid losing sick time. There is now no incentive to test because you could end up going 10 days without pay.
If you are vaccinated and asymptomatic get your ass back to work. If your vaccinated and show symptoms 5 days or come back as soon as you feel better.
I'm not overly worried about myself I'm vaccinated and bolstered. My department is the only one at 100%
I'm more concerned about we have large swarths of unvaccinated employees and when the inevitable happens they are going to try to make us run the whole damn company.
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Post by stillmovingforward on Jan 11, 2022 22:31:16 GMT -5
Yes, we are required to get the booster to keep our jobs. We must submit proof by March. Everyone is already vaccinated (in order to stay employed). I'm very grateful as I'm the only one in the house working, I carry our medical, and I'm in some seriously high doses of immunosuppressants.
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Post by jeffreymo on Jan 13, 2022 13:57:00 GMT -5
They just announced they are going to require it to be in the office whenever the full return-to-office occurs which likely won’t be for a few more months.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jan 13, 2022 23:10:27 GMT -5
Yes, but I’m a public school employee.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 14, 2022 8:31:42 GMT -5
I am curious what may happen with my anti-vax SIL if her employer requires it. For the time being she has been able to get away with not being vaccinated because she can work from home 24/7. Now they are requiring everyone be back in the office.
Though this being Omaha it is unlikely she will face that challenge. Only the evil liberal companies like Google are making employees get vaccinated here. Everyone else fully supports our rights to drive the business into the dirt because there is nobody left to work.
That is the part I don't get. You'd think greedy corporations would be all for vaccinations because that means less sick workers so less money out of their pockets.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Jan 14, 2022 9:14:21 GMT -5
That is the part I don't get. You'd think greedy corporations would be all for vaccinations because that means less sick workers so less money out of their pockets. I don't know. We're at just shy of 90% vaccinated at my division (about 1100 people) and we are still dealing with a huge percentage being out with covid. The end of year push has started already in January with calls for office people to help fill in for production. Even if they're just sick for a day, the covid guidelines had them staying home for 10. Now, thankfully been reduced to 5.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jan 14, 2022 9:19:36 GMT -5
That is the part I don't get. You'd think greedy corporations would be all for vaccinations because that means less sick workers so less money out of their pockets. I don't know. We're at just shy of 90% vaccinated at my division (about 1100 people) and we are still dealing with a huge percentage being out with covid. The end of year push has started already in January with calls for office people to help fill in for production. Even if they're just sick for a day, the covid guidelines had them staying home for 10. Now, thankfully been reduced to 5. I know that's likely not reality, but you'd think that would be the corporate mindset. Vaccines = less sick =bully people into coming to work =more money for us! That's how it is with the encouragement to get the flu shot and there are plenty of employers here who require that one not just the hospitals. So I don't understand the resistance to the COVID vaccine.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 19, 2022 13:29:12 GMT -5
That is the part I don't get. You'd think greedy corporations would be all for vaccinations because that means less sick workers so less money out of their pockets. I don't know. We're at just shy of 90% vaccinated at my division (about 1100 people) and we are still dealing with a huge percentage being out with covid. The end of year push has started already in January with calls for office people to help fill in for production. Even if they're just sick for a day, the covid guidelines had them staying home for 10. Now, thankfully been reduced to 5. If the vaccine reduces your chances of getting Covid by 50%, and having been vaccinated reduces the length of your illness by two days on average, if nobody was vaccinated the number of people out on sick leave on any given day would be more than twice what you are dealing with. The financial impact to a company would be around twice what it is now.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 19, 2022 14:48:38 GMT -5
the vaccine reduces your chances of infection by 91%.
unless you are using one of the inferior vaccines, like Sinovac. that one is about 50%.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 19, 2022 15:08:42 GMT -5
I don't know. We're at just shy of 90% vaccinated at my division (about 1100 people) and we are still dealing with a huge percentage being out with covid. The end of year push has started already in January with calls for office people to help fill in for production. Even if they're just sick for a day, the covid guidelines had them staying home for 10. Now, thankfully been reduced to 5. I know that's likely not reality, but you'd think that would be the corporate mindset. Vaccines = less sick =bully people into coming to work =more money for us! That's how it is with the encouragement to get the flu shot and there are plenty of employers here who require that one not just the hospitals. So I don't understand the resistance to the COVID vaccine. Because a pandemic is political now and because "my body my choice". It would be interesting to know how many of the Covid anti-vaxxers line up for the flu shot every year.
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Post by haapai on Jan 19, 2022 15:44:18 GMT -5
An announcement recently went up at work. We are required to be briefed on the new Covid-19 policy and leave policy.. No copy of the new policy was attached but a signature sheet was.
Nobody has signed it yet.
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