Beautiful examples. Thank you for sharing. One of the things hardest for me was to watch the inclusion and diversity advocates, often under the HR umbrella, suddenly embrace that it was okay to exclude. My story- I am a lawyer supporting financial services. Highly skilled in a niche practice. I was sent home in March 2020 and performed my job well remotely. I got COVID in July 2020, by the grace and wisdom of God. My family recovered without severe illness or disease. God, through my conscience, made clear that COVID vaccination was not right for me or my family. We have been COVID free (to our knowledge) since that original infection, which included a six+ month period where my husband tested weekly. My employer (so proud to annually be recognized as one of the most ethical companies) imposed a mandate. They did it slowly, first, you could not participate in travel or optional return to office, so that a large percentage had complied by the time the mandate was effective. They told us frequently that few exceptions would be granted. Few exceptions were granted, and, despite a note from my doctor advising against vaccination and an incredibly sincere belief that God gave me clear direction that I was to rely on His natural immunity, it was deemed (no explanation) that I was not eligible. That means I was fired for cause, Severance was denied and significant deferred compensation was, in their words, forfeited. As I told them, God spoke to me before Biden or the company executive committee said mandate, and I chose to follow His instruction. I did not fear side effects, I just knew, per God's clear direction, that the natural immunity He had given me was the protection I needed and, when weighing the risk and benefit for me, I could see no benefit of any temporal significance and the risks were unknown. I followed God and not man. Thank you for speaking out.
I worked at the infamous NSA. I resisted the mandate until I realized that the whole place was not what it purports itself to be. When I was seeking religious accommodation I learned that religion is covered by the Civil Rights laws just as race, sexual orientation, etc. But when I appealed to the department which dealt with discrimination issues I was told to go to the office of Religious Affairs. I should have asked why they didn’t have an office for Racial Affairs or Homosexual Affairs. What used to be the Equal Employment and Opportunity office is now the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Office. I imagined that it was staffed by women with rainbow colored hair and advanced training in intersectionality. At Religious Affairs it was clear that the chaplains and staff were all vaccinated. They were there to “process” us but not to defend us.
Thanks for that insight. HR at Hubs company is just the arm of the President and does all his dirty letter writing for him and the powers that be. Shot mandates to be able to work, having their doctors go over hubs medical exemption request and saying it is not enough..even with a doctor's letter stating he should not get a jab. They forced out the previous HR girl, who had been there for years and had a relationship with all the employees and they now have a new robot-man who knows nobody. Mask mandate letter just came out, via him, this week. It is truly disturbing. I am sure all kinds of laws were broken by this company and reading this makes me see just how egregious it is. And it is NOT stopping. If hubs leaves, there are more lined up to take his place. The fleet is small enough that reputation is everything and if you are smeared by one HR person, you are a goner. I am afraid the world you worked in is far from the one Hubs works in today. We would love to sue their pants off.
Beautiful examples. Thank you for sharing. One of the things hardest for me was to watch the inclusion and diversity advocates, often under the HR umbrella, suddenly embrace that it was okay to exclude. My story- I am a lawyer supporting financial services. Highly skilled in a niche practice. I was sent home in March 2020 and performed my job well remotely. I got COVID in July 2020, by the grace and wisdom of God. My family recovered without severe illness or disease. God, through my conscience, made clear that COVID vaccination was not right for me or my family. We have been COVID free (to our knowledge) since that original infection, which included a six+ month period where my husband tested weekly. My employer (so proud to annually be recognized as one of the most ethical companies) imposed a mandate. They did it slowly, first, you could not participate in travel or optional return to office, so that a large percentage had complied by the time the mandate was effective. They told us frequently that few exceptions would be granted. Few exceptions were granted, and, despite a note from my doctor advising against vaccination and an incredibly sincere belief that God gave me clear direction that I was to rely on His natural immunity, it was deemed (no explanation) that I was not eligible. That means I was fired for cause, Severance was denied and significant deferred compensation was, in their words, forfeited. As I told them, God spoke to me before Biden or the company executive committee said mandate, and I chose to follow His instruction. I did not fear side effects, I just knew, per God's clear direction, that the natural immunity He had given me was the protection I needed and, when weighing the risk and benefit for me, I could see no benefit of any temporal significance and the risks were unknown. I followed God and not man. Thank you for speaking out.
I worked at the infamous NSA. I resisted the mandate until I realized that the whole place was not what it purports itself to be. When I was seeking religious accommodation I learned that religion is covered by the Civil Rights laws just as race, sexual orientation, etc. But when I appealed to the department which dealt with discrimination issues I was told to go to the office of Religious Affairs. I should have asked why they didn’t have an office for Racial Affairs or Homosexual Affairs. What used to be the Equal Employment and Opportunity office is now the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Office. I imagined that it was staffed by women with rainbow colored hair and advanced training in intersectionality. At Religious Affairs it was clear that the chaplains and staff were all vaccinated. They were there to “process” us but not to defend us.
Thanks for that insight. HR at Hubs company is just the arm of the President and does all his dirty letter writing for him and the powers that be. Shot mandates to be able to work, having their doctors go over hubs medical exemption request and saying it is not enough..even with a doctor's letter stating he should not get a jab. They forced out the previous HR girl, who had been there for years and had a relationship with all the employees and they now have a new robot-man who knows nobody. Mask mandate letter just came out, via him, this week. It is truly disturbing. I am sure all kinds of laws were broken by this company and reading this makes me see just how egregious it is. And it is NOT stopping. If hubs leaves, there are more lined up to take his place. The fleet is small enough that reputation is everything and if you are smeared by one HR person, you are a goner. I am afraid the world you worked in is far from the one Hubs works in today. We would love to sue their pants off.