I work for a major telecomm carrier top-15 Fortune 500 company (in an office role, not call center or in the field with customers) Our company incentivized vaccinations by:
- Granting up to four hours administrative leave for each vax shot (so essentially a full day off to get both shots if you were getting Pfizer or Moderna)
- Allowing liberal use of sick leave for any side effects from the vaccine
- Instituting "vaccine perks" of no longer having to wear a mask or 6' social distance after being fully vax'd, provided your proof of vax was uploaded to the company portal
My officemate, not vax'd (scared of needles
), has been running around the office for
weeks unmasked. I've raised this issue no less than four times in the past two weeks to our immediate supervisor with my ongoing concerns about the Delta variant escalating. No one has counseled my officemate nor written him up. (We have a corporate code of business conduct that officemate is currently violating by traversing the building and our office space maskless.)
Another company employee on our contract came into the office symptomatic, and tested positive 3 days later for Covid. Half-to-three-quarters of her team was put on quarantine protocols. We have unlimited sick leave as a company benefit. There was no reason whatsoever for the symptomatic employee to come into work to potentially infect countless others. No reason.
These are prime examples of how
no one gives two poops about incentivizing vaccines, doing the right thing to protect others, or "following the (company mandated) rules."
So to keep my unvaccinated 11-year-old safe from any Delta germs that these (and other) jackholes might be bringing into the office on a daily basis, I wear my mask. Still. And would gladly wear it in WDW.
There is no "honor system" when many people are simply not honorable personalities.