From the article:
he purpose of the deadline, 'most importantly, is to get people vaccinated and protected, not to punish them'
The purpose is to get people to do what we want and disregard their own safety. If they won't do what we want we'll punish them, but we just want them to jump into a fire when we say jump. The goal isn't punishment--it's compliance.
Workers don't work well when they facing firing in a month. You're not guaranteed to be fired. You'll have to take training that calls you a dumbass and doesn't address any of your concerns before being fired. We'll give your boss time to arrange for your replacement. He won't have to fire you on our timeline, so he can fire you when it's most convenient for the company. Clearly we should start referring to Obama's VP as "Biden the merciful".
I’m not saying they won’t eventually get fired just like the United employees who’ve been told they won’t be fired on December 8th, yeah they’ll wait until after the holidays when it’s slow.
For the contractors, not the mega ones but many smaller ones are finishing their current contracts then not bidding on any others which will fuck up a lot of shit. The paper work, bids etc will take forever. The mega ones have highly specialized workers they can’t afford to lose, they can get a new job within a week or two that doesn’t require a vax and that’s why his mandate is stupid and will keep changing.
Yup, the contractors will keep employee just long enough to do near term deliveries and then layoff employees afterward. Especially, now that they know who won't get the vax and who will. Anyone without the vax should recognize they have a target on their back and start planning an exit strategy. There will be a surge of new jobs and business in places like Texas and then all the other economic destruction will be blamed on covid and that will be blamed on the anti-vaxxers.
And I wasn’t saying they were firing their employees once the contract was over, they’re taking their business elsewhere. A lot of these companies don’t believe in mandates.
There’s a lot of contractors and subcontractors in the state of Oregon who will no longer work on any hospital or state property.
They don’t believe in the mandates and it’s screwing with hospital upkeep, maintenance and expansion. Things are falling apart and the people who they fired used to handle the paper work or manage the projects.
They were trying to make employees that were getting fired in less then a week find new contractors that were vaxxed and would be willing to replace the current ones that wouldn’t work on their premises any longer.
They wouldn’t do it, you had directors calling around trying to replace contractors for elevators, general repairs, exterminators etc etc and then begging the about to be fired employees to help them fill out stacks of paper work to allow them to bid on the newly opened positions.
The hospitals are going to look like something out of the Soviet Union in the next year or two.
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