Courage is being fearful and still standing your ground anyway. Do you think the most fearsome of warriors in the past were completely without fear? They weren't - but they did what needed to be done, and used their fear to work for them, rather than letting their fear consume them. Be proud.
But here's the thing- I had been so fucking stressed out about that damned shot for MONTHS leading up to that. It's on your mind constantly- am I going to be able to work? Or is the federal government going to reach into my life EVEN MORE and fuck me again!? It wears you down over time.
I knew that a jab was gonna be a thing from probably about April 2020. It's why I started preparing more then, because in my industry I had a nasty feeling they'd make the jab mandatory and I needed a plan in the off chance that they did. It's why I could basically tell them to fuck off when they did pull their shit. I know of several people who live week to week who would have been completely fucked if they got fired, and they caved and got the jab. I don't judge those people negatively (I still think though that their decision was stupid, but I understand why they did it), but the ones who are spruiking the jab or being concernfags about it I rip them a new one and judge them with utter contempt.
I appreciate the compliment. It was very difficult. But I know how valuable I am- I knew that if I was suddenly terminated over not having the clot shot, it would be like slitting the throat of my division. Would've been absolute hell for my team- I'm in a sort of "lynchpin" role, where everything ultimately depends on me doing my thing.
If I'm not there, nobody is doing my thing, and my thing is the thing that makes us money and all that good stuff. Someone might try to remotely work with one of my team members and stumble them through the process, but it would be ridiculously difficult and time-consuming. I knew this. This was comforting- "They need me. I'm never sick. There's no reason to think I'd get covid. Everyone else has gotten it, and I've been around them while they had it, and I'm fine."
I applied for an exemption. Never got any kind of response back. I remember writing something like "It is very distressing to have to provide a reason to not take an experimental drug to my employer, as normally medical privacy is heavily respected and protected under law. Having to justify my personal health decision to an employer is, frankly, disgusting." Boy did that feel good...
I knew that if I was suddenly terminated over not having the clot shot, it would be like slitting the throat of my division. Would've been absolute hell for my team- I'm in a sort of "lynchpin" role, where everything ultimately depends on me doing my thing.
Precisely the same as myself. That's what I had no qualms whatsoever with diplomatically telling them to fuck off, knowing full well that they need me a lot more than I need them. I think that's part of the reason that the second they found a loophole to get out of this nonsense, they took it.
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