I'm currently unemployed and refusing to move on to in person interviews if they require mask. Ah the principled life, it's not an easy journey. Good luck.
I wouldnt even ask. Just show up without it and if they try and force you to wear one, just leave. Make them waste time on you just because of a mask. If everyone adopts the same philosophy, eventually places will get tired of reviewing apps just to lose a potential employee over a mask.
Too bad you couldn't get a few others in positions of importance to join you in leaving. It could have made an unmistakable impact. Replacing one person is a headache but not impossible. Replacing a group of key people could really impact a company negatively. They might have wanted to negotiate and possibly made masks optional? Good luck.
Well done, OP. (But the plural of "American" is "Americans".) Start your own business, as I did a couple of decades ago. It worked for me. Mail order can be good, since you don't deal deal with customers face-to-face. Service industries can be good (plumber, electrician) but not if the customers would rather deal with the problem themselves than allow you in without a mask.
When leaders, like yourself, leave a company many will follow. I did this back in 2000. Began consulting & later found out 2/3 of there managers left a week later & over half of the employees. A while later all the top leaders in that company were Federally indicted for most of the reasons I brought up before I left in a managers meeting & then more forcefully in a company wide meeting.
Found out about those indictments years later by a friend who worked there & todl me all about what happened. I had no idea it was such a powerful thing. It just took one guy that many in the company respected waking away to get a large portion to do it as well. I was told that they couldn't train their new hires fast enough to keep up the facade of honoring contracts well enough & that within a year of me leaving & the exodus that they were brought up on federal charges of fraud & a few other issues.
Almost every single employee & manager company that left during that time went on to build successful competitors or businesses that filled the niche for the problems that the previous company created.
I ended up one of 3 odd ducks that went a completely different direction within 5 years & love what I have created, wouldn't change it for anything.
With your work ethic, ability to communicate in a clear respectuful manner, & your willingness to give credit where it is due, you will end up in a better position soon.
I'm currently unemployed and refusing to move on to in person interviews if they require mask. Ah the principled life, it's not an easy journey. Good luck.
I wouldnt even ask. Just show up without it and if they try and force you to wear one, just leave. Make them waste time on you just because of a mask. If everyone adopts the same philosophy, eventually places will get tired of reviewing apps just to lose a potential employee over a mask.
Too bad you couldn't get a few others in positions of importance to join you in leaving. It could have made an unmistakable impact. Replacing one person is a headache but not impossible. Replacing a group of key people could really impact a company negatively. They might have wanted to negotiate and possibly made masks optional? Good luck.
Well done, OP. (But the plural of "American" is "Americans".) Start your own business, as I did a couple of decades ago. It worked for me. Mail order can be good, since you don't deal deal with customers face-to-face. Service industries can be good (plumber, electrician) but not if the customers would rather deal with the problem themselves than allow you in without a mask.
I like this. I will do it next time
When leaders, like yourself, leave a company many will follow. I did this back in 2000. Began consulting & later found out 2/3 of there managers left a week later & over half of the employees. A while later all the top leaders in that company were Federally indicted for most of the reasons I brought up before I left in a managers meeting & then more forcefully in a company wide meeting.
Found out about those indictments years later by a friend who worked there & todl me all about what happened. I had no idea it was such a powerful thing. It just took one guy that many in the company respected waking away to get a large portion to do it as well. I was told that they couldn't train their new hires fast enough to keep up the facade of honoring contracts well enough & that within a year of me leaving & the exodus that they were brought up on federal charges of fraud & a few other issues.
Almost every single employee & manager company that left during that time went on to build successful competitors or businesses that filled the niche for the problems that the previous company created.
I ended up one of 3 odd ducks that went a completely different direction within 5 years & love what I have created, wouldn't change it for anything.
With your work ethic, ability to communicate in a clear respectuful manner, & your willingness to give credit where it is due, you will end up in a better position soon.
Excellent point! Maybe OP can start his own competing business? Maybe his boss joins him?
Good for you! Let them see that there are consequences for their stupid mask rule.
As soon as Trump comes back, masks will be forbidden.
remind me of where I read this before