AaronTN

It was rough for a while. We were known as the only factory around that required it. We just operated short handed and went to 12 hour shifts until they dropped the requirements. We already had a large Hispanic workforce, but im not sure that increases during the time period.

I grew up right around Athens and didn't hear about it until a few years ago from a Youtube video.

Do a barrel roll!

When I started in 2011, the starting pay was $8.13 an hour for packaging in a plant. Now they start at $15 an hour.

I have been in my current position for about 5 years. It started out at $14 and I was just bumped up to $21.80 in September.

I was content with that, until I found out the new guy I was training was making $22. He was brought in while the company was ignoring my religious exemption request...so I'm assuming he was meant to replace me.

I had to handwrite a letter explaining my religious beliefs, and why they kept me from taking the vaccine. I wrote that it was because the use of aborted fetal cell lines....and invited them to my church.

They chose to ignore my request. I called a lawyer and they had my exemption letter very quickly. They took the lawsuit very seriously.

Only 2 of us at work are unvaccinated. They made it mandatory in April.

2 Mondays ago, one of my guys was feeling like crap. He went and got tested that evening....Negative. We had hearing tests last Monday. He was in my 4 person group in a tiny closed in trailer to test. Tuesday...I get called in the office by safety to tell me I have been exposed. They didn't bother testing anyone else that he had been around, just the people in the hearing test with him.

We have had several people teST positive after being vaccinated. We have had a few people sick, but they say they have been vaccinated so it's not the Rona.

My work set it up to say you are "voluntarily quitting" by not taking the vaccine.

I haven't seen anyone that was fired to talk to them about it. We lost maybe 20/70 people.

Part of the surge is vaccinated people being tested now. Before, to show how well vaccines worked, they weren't even testing vaccinated people. Partially due to vaccinated people thinking they couldn't get the Rona.

That's my opinion. I'm sure someone has some stat from some government agency showing 99.999% of positives are unvaccinated.

I actually submitted a religious exemption that was ignored. A lawyer got that fixed real quick....and charged me $0.

I just went through a similar situation, except ours was a written mandatory vaccination policy. You either show vaccination proof, or you "voluntarily resign" by refusing to show it.

Well we can't afford plywood.