In June I left a good salaried managerial position at a start-up for an hourly position at a non-profit. This new position pays lower than what MIT determined to be the living wage in my city…. in 2019.
I purposely downgraded because I was burnt out on managerial challenges, and was not given the tools to succeed.
Anyway, two weeks into this new position, someone in direct vicinity and contact with the team I work with comes down with Covid. Company protocol states that if you are not fully vaccinated by CDC definition (full vax plus booster within the last 5 or 6 months) then the you have to be sent home for 5 days with pay. However, they cannot ask for you vax status, they can only ask if you are comfortable with sharing. Told them I haven’t had a Covid shot since Feb 2021.
My supervisor spends over an hour at work trying to find some loophole, because they don’t want to lose their whole staff for the week, but ultimately they can’t.
What do they do? They go and tell their boss that both myself and the entire team voluntarily disclosed that we are fully vaxxed. When they broke that news to the team, they had this almost smug, unapologetic tone to their voice.
Result: if wanted to go home for our own safety, we would have to do it on our own dime since we are “fully vaxxed”.