Agreed! This is where the employees know they have the upper hand though… Many of the ones refusing to mask or get vaccinated have very specialized jobs; replacing them wouldn’t be quick or easy. And even though our parent company has loads of employees, our location is very small, so no department really has the ability to lose more than one or two employees without the others suffering from the excessive workload.
I live with my elderly, fully vaxxed (and soon to be boostered) Mom, and I occasionally need to help out my elderly neighbors, one of whom is in poor health (both fully vaxxed though). I still wear a mask – especially when I venture into the maskhole-filled production area.
In BC, a group of maskhole anti Vaxxers disrupted a rememberance day function, because they are assholes, and figure that disrespecting veterans is a great idea.
The complaint is that the employees are refusing the most basic of public safety measures.
If they “had the upper hand” and used that to decide that they no longer needed to use PPE when working with dangerous materials, or that the needed to properly secure their work area, would you continue to think that this is such a great win?
No, “we” (meaning we responsible liberals who defend employee rights) have always wanted a society where employees were protected from abuse and exploitation by employers. (And, ideally, one in which employees benefit more from employers’ profits.)
But requiring employees to comply with sensible public-health measures against an ongoing deadly pandemic is in no way exploiting or abusing them. To conflate deluded conspiracy theorists selfishly demanding exemptions from common-sense anti-COVID protocols with conscientious workers standing up for reasonable employee rights is both stupid and despicable.
He said that, and you mention it, like there’s something wrong with that. In these modern and inclusive times, why is there anything wrong with that? It shouldn’t be seen as the insult that it’s obviously intended to be.
Here’s a thought: If responsible and sensible employees, who get vaccinated and wear masks, are in the majority (as they seem to be), why shouldn’t they be the ones to take the upper hand. They should be the ones threatening to quit and find other, better jobs at responsible workplaces where mask and vax mandates are the rule.
And if they are those employees with skills, and other employers are begging for qualified and willing employees, then those employees should have an easy enough time finding and getting those jobs.
Let society segregate itself into a total apartheid of mask-and-vaxxers vs. maskholes-and-vaxholes.
Well, dude intended it to be an insult, and it was taken as one by the gay community. At least, that’s my reading of the LGBTQ Nation cite offered above.
If you want to reclaim the term or something, hey, I can get on board with that.
Yup. Until then, though, a bigot using a widely recognized slur against a member of the community that the slur traditionally denigrated should be assumed to be intending insult. And said bigot doesn’t get a pass on his bigoted offensive behavior just because the literal meaning of the term he was using as a slur is now considered a more socially acceptable phenomenon than it used to be.
There’s plenty of evidence that mask and vaccination requirements are part of sensible public-health measures that greatly reduce the dangers of COVID-19.
Just because many deluded maskholes embrace a bunch of irrational conspiracy theories for the ego boost of feeling smarter than the “experts” doesn’t mean that mainstream science and policy recommendations are wrong. It just means that there are a lot of deluded idiots who prefer easy ways of feeling smart (i.e., making up bullshit) to hard ones (i.e., knowing enough about complex scientific phenomena and techniques for modeling them to understand something about why scientists and policymakers are saying what they’re saying about them).