I can understand that it is annoying and I haven't been to the US for a while to understand how things became but I think you are missing that for minorities and women work was never just a place to get work done, but also a place to have to fear discrimination, sexual harassment, glass ceilings and power balances tilted to old white men.
I think your discomfort with corporate measures to somewhat balance this might be a tenth of the discomfort of the old days even when they didn't affect you.
I can fill you in. My workplace tried to get us to stop using "master branch", "blacklist/whitelist", "dummy value", and "sanity check" among others.
The doublethink involved with having mandatory third-party security training that uses "blacklist/whitelist" and then having to mince your words to discuss the curriculum in the office... it's lovely.
Maybe for some women minorities, but this is not a universal perspective. The most successful people I know are all women and/or minorities/immigrants.
Good on you! I dream of starting a home business with my wife.
If you don't mind sharing, what kind of business?
Just show respect for your fellow human beings and it works out. It's so much easier.
Also, with omicron, the point of vaccines becomes less about transmission, but also about personal health. Not sure why home workers should be treated differently here than the colleagues.
Disclaimer: I am from Germany, it would be impossible here for a company to require vaccinations. But if it were, I could understand that they would require vaccination from all employees.
If you're going into the military you're often required to get vaccinated.. nothing different.
I think it's pretty sad when you can be a huge rock star, and die anti-vax and anti-mask with covid, and that's all you'll ever be remembered for. (I'm talking about Meatloaf).
All because some people decided "science" is a political issue. No. It's not. The vaccines work. They save lives. It's stupid not to use them.
It felt really good to see Djokovic ejected from AO. What a complete fucking moron.
The GP's failure is a failure to perform their civic duty.
You don't see people expressing their freedom to do as they please when working with high voltage equipment, chemicals, or anything remotely hazardous. Even when it's only themselves who'd be affected.
Yesterday, the government removed all social distancing and hospitality restrictions.
It's not purely because of the vaccines but they are a major factor.
The risk of deaths and hospitalisations overwhelming the health services have been the primary driver of restrictions and vaccines help massively in preventing this.
This guy is on the "top of the food chain", yet to me he is not smart enough to get a vaccine. It's well deserved.
Those with allergies have valid reasons not to get vaccinated. Otherwise, it's good to dampen the first blow to the immune system with vaccine.
When it comes to health risks, efforts to curb them are hardly authoritarian. That’s why there are work safety laws.
Drug testing has _nothing_ to do with public health. A big store employee smoking pot on a day off is not putting anyone at risk in their place of work.
That said, as someone who has seen the effects of this virus . . which i do not believe everyone who refuses the shot appreciates, please, please consider getting vaccinated.
But in a way I'm happy you got fired. I'm sorry.
That's fair, but any sort of schadenfreude at anyone losing a job over it is in poor taste.
To see high income not getting vaccinated and losing their job because of it has a bit of a sweet taste. Not to mention the anti-woke and political sentiment which you often hear from conservatives.