I’m not the type to make a post like this but for the first time I feel panicked.
My manager just told me corporate is probably going to make vaccines mandatory, and they’ve been suggesting it on her calls. (It’s a very liberal company.)
I can hold out for the plan but I’m terrified of this vaccine being forced on me. I’ll leave the job if I have to, but this is getting to be too much.
How are other people dealing with this? I can’t afford to not have a job even for even a month. I’m an independent and a student and work weekends so I’m paycheck to paycheck.
I’m all for respecting other people’s choice to get the shot, and I haven’t gotten any backlash from my friends for expressing my desire not to take it. I’m doing fine. But if it becomes a trend for jobs to require it I’ll be trapped. It would be a deep state check mate on me.
Can the plan really allow this?! It’s giving me doubt for the first time and my faith is shaken.
Edit: thank you all so much. This community gives me so much strength.
Sure. "They wanted to force me to take a vaccine." If your prospective employer doesn't sympathise, it's likely that they would also force a vaccine on you, so you wouldn't want to work there anyway.
BTW, can't you start your own business? I guess maybe you are a bit young for that. (I didn't even consider it till I was 45.) Life experience helps. Also photographing every potentially useful document that you have access to (without being caught). You'd be amazed at what you can do with information, later on. And I'm not suggesting anything nefarious - although I did "borrow" one employer's entire customer database before I left to set up my own rival business!
You weed them out fast that way. They either hire you or not, and if they don’t...it’s for good reason.