Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

[jive turkey]

For those of you who have recognized your employer can terminate you for not taking the COVID vaccine and have decided on or are considering employment elsewhere please share your experiences here. How do you feel about having to make that choice? 

The purpose of this thread is not to condemn those making this decision or debate whether they should vaccinate or not. 

[jive turkey]

8 minutes ago, BostonFNP said:

They are in practice if they are against mitigation efforts. 

I disagree.  A pro disease person would be on a mission to purposely contract and spread disease.

This is just a way to label people in a derogatory fashion and doesn't have to do with people leaving their job over a mandate.  

[SmilingBluEyes]

12 minutes ago, BostonFNP said:

They are in practice if they are against mitigation efforts. 

By default!

[jive turkey]

1 hour ago, SmilingBluEyes said:

As you said, I will reply as I see fit.

 

Thank you!

Nobody told you not to?

You're welcome!

[litepath2]

OP,

I went thru this back in '09 with H1N1 and was none to happy about it. I admit I was blissfully unaware the H1N1 was such a big deal. I had taken care of at least one 3rd term-preggo gal and had worried about her and the child too, but as in SARS 03, and other things-ICU, I never gave myself much thought.

So, I took their vax and left in my own time 4 Months later never to return. That vax was easier to swallow simply due to it's being in the foundational foot print of the flu vax. This mRNA tech is too new for many folks. Me included. It has somewhere between no track record and/or a poor one.

It wasn't the vax that bothered me then. l It was having to make such a choice. 

[toomuchbaloney]

4 minutes ago, litepath2 said:

This mRNA tech is too new for many folks. Me included. It has somewhere between no track record and/or a poor one.

That belief is not supported by the evidence or facts.  If you believe that the mRNA vaccines have a poor track record, you ought to be able to support that with a credible source.  

[BostonFNP, APRN]

8 minutes ago, litepath2 said:

This mRNA tech is too new for many folks. Me included. It has somewhere between no track record and/or a poor one.

Lucky there is a non-mRNA option for you!

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

7 hours ago, Seda8OR said:

 I  know several harmed by the so called vaccine. 

personal anecdotes are not proof of anything and Pfizer vaccine will have full FDA approval by some time next week. 

People may have had some adverse or uncomfortable side effects but I have yet to read a scientifically proven case of harm from the vaccine.

You know a friend of mine asked if I seen the story about the 4 year old who died shortly after receiving the MMR vaccine.  When I asked for the circumstances my friend stated the child had been hit by a car and killed just hours after being vaccinated for MMR. We must always remember that correlation is not the same as causation.

but to answer the original question, it does not apply to me as I am vaccinated - however our facility will likely lose some otherwise decent employees due to this mandate. 

hppy

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

12 hours ago, jive turkey said:

I disagree.  A pro disease person would be on a mission to purposely contract and spread disease.

This is just a way to label people in a derogatory fashion and doesn't have to do with people leaving their job over a mandate.  

The actions of a couple of governors and other local politicians lead me to wonder how they would behave much differently if being pro-disease was actually their goal. I think based on actions and not words, they are actually pro-disease. It's one thing to be vaccine hesitant. It's another altogether to take actions to prevent other mitigation efforts. In my state, if you KNOW your child has had direct exposure to an infected person, you are STILL ALLOWED TO SEND THEM TO SCHOOL. What reason other than being pro-disease would there be for that policy?!?!!?!

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

There is a sizable group of people in my county that are pro-disease. They refuse to mask, refuse to vaccinate and feel that natural immunity is best. They see having COVID as a badge of honor and feel contracting the disease to be as innocuous as a cold. They are convinced that only old or fat people die from it, and that is just God's will. 

[ajdizzle43, LPN, LVN]

I was upset. I said nope...waited to take the shot and quit. I refused the shot, because I always refuse non mandated shots, I'm "really healthy". Then my $$$ dried up. Then I said f it and took the shot... and was hospitalized with Covid thereafter (I posted a while ago). I was tired, angry for going against my gut ( all the puns intended), and being forced to take (assumed) garbage...and still got sick...and broke to boot.

However, now I am grateful, well paid by my job, and have a testimony to coworkers and patients that I come in contact with. I meet them at their mental place, wherever it may be, because I was probably there. Our job as healthcare providers is give the facts and empathize. As a POC...it's alot to deal with, and we many of times feel like death is everywhere, anyways, so why be forced to do *something else?* So I understand.

Some people can't even afford to take time off to get the shot, let alone sick from the shot. It happens, and some people just can't afford to miss a day. I'm not paying your bills dear, you do you. You've gotten this far, who am I to judge.

We need to do more to make sure policies protect those who get sick from the shot, and not fire them for taking a sick day from the mandated shot. Lots and lots of workers are just scared.

Let's be kind to one another.

[jive turkey]

1 hour ago, ajdizzle43 said:

 Then my $$$ dried up. Then I said f it and took the shot... and was hospitalized with Covid thereafter (I posted a while ago). I 

However, now I am grateful, well paid by my job, 

We need to do more to make sure policies protect those who get sick from the shot, and not fire them for taking a sick day from the mandated shot. Lots and lots of workers are just scared.

Let's be kind to one another.

A couple points you made there I find interesting and would like to understand better. It sounds like you had a strong conviction to not take the vaccine but were compelled to do so because of the financial impact. The vaccine resolved this issue with the added benefit of better social acceptance.  

Did I misunderstand?

[ajdizzle43, LPN, LVN]

9 hours ago, jive turkey said:

A couple points you made there I find interesting and would like to understand better. It sounds like you had a strong conviction to not take the vaccine but were compelled to do so because of the financial impact. The vaccine resolved this issue with the added benefit of better social acceptance.  

Did I misunderstand?

No, not at all. However, the added benefit for me is not social acceptance, it is empathy for the folks that are not vaccinating for *reasons*. I still don't care about social acceptance because of a vaccine, it's just another way to reach folks in truth. This vaccine validated every apprehensive rationale I had for *not* getting it. I went to the hospital, still couldn't work, and went against my own convictions, for the greater good. I felt like I betrayed myself by taking this shot, it was that deep. I felt alone, misled, and angry. But I was vaccinated though...

But now..I'm here, I'm alive, I'm good. I can truly understand why people are so passionate on both sides. Empathize, and hopefully help folks feel at peace with their decision, one way or another. Many folks have few choices in life. Taking this vaccine is one. On Monday, more folks will lose that choice. But they held on this long right?

Take care