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 can replace my body at work but not my skill set. I take those with me. I know my worth and will move on to greener pastures.
Yes that's true, but I'm the person who does all the hiring for my part of the company, I typically hire 50-75 people a month and I have never had someone under me that wasn't replaceable in two weeks. Sure, you'll miss them and they may have a bit more experience, but a new body will take over and you have a chance that they may be even better. If they're worse, you try again. My company is setup so that if any one person fails or leaves, we don't lose money struggling to replace them - everything has backup plans.
For all of the people in my department, I know off the top of my head if one of them leaves, how we can all help out to right the ship. I know for a fact I can do everyone's job because I train them, and if we lose someone, I help out in their seat as needed. If your company doesn't have that, they aren't a good team.