I work in supply chain and do a lot of traveling for work. The companies I work with just assume that I'm fully vaxxed for some reason and I don't bother saying anything about it.
Today I was at a company that manages supplies for about 25% of hospitals in the US. I was having a conversation with the VP of Marketing for the company and she told me with major delight that they were going to be firing the anti-vaxxers a week from tomorrow. I asked her what percentage of the company that made up, and she said it was around 3% of employees - they employ several hundred thousand people nationwide.
I asked if they had a plan to replace that many people, it was thousands, and she said they have been quietly accepting applications and interviewing people and will be up and running with new hires within about 15 days.
I was kind of shocked by this, she said they'd been given names of people suspected of not being vaxxed weeks ago and were prepared. She said they've also been surveying employees and claim that the majority of them are more than happy that people will be getting cut.
I'm sure the surveying part is a total lie, you'd be clueing in those getting let go. But either way, I thought I'd share what I learned. I also emailed PV to see what they say.
They don't know the true numbers and even then they will not be ready when the vaxxed have multiple sick days.
Like I have been stating from the start it is a waiting game to see who blinks first.
Well, she was telling me they already have their names because they had to submit proof last week, the 3% are the ones who didn't submit proof. So, I do think she has the right number.
Agree. I would bet the 3% is in her department. I work in marketing and 3% would seem on par for my department as well if I were to venture a guess.
I only meet with her because she's the has been the acting CMO for the last year and oversees Marketing, Digital Acq, Paid Media, Integrated Sales, and Content - she is over about 150 people or so. But, she's currently senior leadership until they hire a new CMO so I'm not shocked she has the info at all, I'm more shocked they haven't hired a new CMO in a year because she's pretty awful.
When I had an executive dinner it was her, the head of HR, the CEO, the CFO, and the CTO - she's definitely in the know.
They haven’t replaced her because she’s doing 2 jobs for less than half pay.