My work has implemented a policy where only vaccinated employees can remove their masks. If you choose not to declare your vaccination status, or declare that you're unvaxed then you have to continue wearing the mask (and possibly stand out among the crowd), or face disciplinary action - possibly including termination.
My question is: do I wait it out, or risk speaking up and possibly losing my job? I don't want to lie about my status or circumvent the policy and feel like I'm watching over my shoulder at all times. I don't want to take part in the lies anymore and I shouldn't have to feel ostracized for that. I know AFLD has resources, but I think I should talk to someone within the company first.
I don't have tons of people I can talk to about this IRL, so I'm really hoping I can get some helpful words here.
You have to decide if you want to keep your job or not. If it is very important to you, then you have two choices.
If the job isn't worth either of those then tell them your vaccine status is none of their business, and it is nobody else's business either. You will not be wearing mask, and it is their choice to fire you or not.
This is my approach as well, do not give an inch, make them fire you.
Big risk for them knowingly firing for something that can’t be mandatory due to its status as emergency use only.
So no mask, no injection
Yep