I ended up going the religious exemption route and even hired a lawyer to go over all my submissions. He would have gone after them if they hadn't approved it. They denied my medical exemption and he said I had enough documentation to go after them for ADA crap, but it would have been too expensive and they would have found a way to lay me off according to him, so it wasn't worth the risk, since I did get the religion.
The masking thing is entirely retarded. I have one made out of mesh that unless you look close, you can't tell is completely mesh and I can breathe okay through it - only used it when I had to get blood drawn and they'd outright refuse you service if you weren't wearing it.
When the same idiot director wanted us all in the office to entertain him when he was bored, I just made up excuses. I was not going to wear a mask and he doesn't need me there except to stare at me, anyway.
25% of IT at my org was granted religious exemptions. I've only found one other person, other than myself and my bf (he is on a different team), that has admitted to not taking it. I don't even remember how it came up but she said she was breastfeeding at the time and flipped out, so we started talking about how insane it all was.
I keep hoping the clot shot will take out a few of the assholes I work with. They keep bragging about getting boosters and flu shots. The same moronic director screaming that we need more AI applications than Mayo has, has a wife who stroked out after one of the boosters. I'm amazed at how blind they all are.
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