welp got the word today. vaccine mandate at work has been announced and I have until Dec 8th to be fully vaccinated or face termination. I'm not vaccinated and I don't think a boomer on the other side of the country should be able to force it upon me, so I guess I'm gonna have an exxxtra-long Christmas vacation this year
I work in defense aerospace and we're already months behind schedule due to staffing shortages and supply chain issues. we've been on mandatory weekends since the beginning of July and still keep slipping behind. our workforce is lots of rednecks who don't like being bossed around, along with a lot of blue-collar black dudes who absolutely will not get the jab. we were all burned out before the announcement today and the mood was damn near mutinous as I packed up and left early. it's gonna be fun watching them fire skilled mechanics and try to replace them with clueless newbies on jobs that can take months to learn